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Nebraska Cornhuskers
Game Notes: Game 3
2009-10 Record: 1-1
Head coach: Doc Sadler
Record at Nebraska: 56-41 (4th year)
Record at Division I: 104-59 (6th year)
Career Record: 224-98 (11th year)
TCU Horned Frogs
Game Notes: Game 4
2009-10 Record: 2-1
Head coach: Jim Christian
Record at TCU: 16-18 (2nd year)
Career Record: 154-76 (8th year)
Huskers on TV/Radio/Internet
Television: None
Radio: IMG Husker Sports Radio Network
Play-by-play: Kent Pavelka
Color: Andy Markowski
Internet Radio/Stats: Free on Huskers.com
Satellite Radio: TBD
Huskers Look to Rebound vs. Horned Frogs
The Nebraska basketball team returns to its home court looking to get back on track after its first loss of the season when it takes on TCU on Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The Cornhuskers and Horned Frogs will tip off at 1:06 p.m., a game time that was set after the announcement of the Nebraska-Kansas State football game time in Lincoln (6:45 p.m.; ESPN).
Saturday’s game will be heard in Lincoln on 105.3 FM and in Omaha on 93.3 FM as part of the IMG Husker Sports Radio Network. Other network stations that normally carry men’s basketball will likely carry the pregame football broadcast, but fans outside the Lincoln/Omaha areas can also catch the game for free on Huskers.com. Veteran play-by-play man Kent Pavelka will call the action while Andy Markowski serves as color analyst.
The Cornhuskers will be aiming to get back over .500 while searching for a milestone victory. Over the past 33 years, Nebraska has won 399 games in the Bob Devaney Sports Center, sporting a 399-125 record, including winning at least 10 games each of the past six seasons. Under coach Doc Sadler, the Huskers have earned a 43-11 record in the building, including a sparkling 28-1 record against non-conference opponents.
Nebraska will be looking for more offensive productivity as it shot just 40 percent from the floor, including only 1-of-7 from 3-point range, on Wednesday. The Huskers are not the only team to struggle from long range against SLU, as the Billikens ranked third nationally in 3-point defense last season.
Leading the charge for Nebraska this season has been guards Lance Jeter and Sek Henry as they have combined for 23.0 points and 5.5 assists per game while leading a balanced offense that has seen six players take 14 to 16 shots each. Through two games, NU’s averages are nearly the same as last year’s season-ending totals (64.5 ppg; 60.4 ppg allowed).
Nebraska’s Possible Starting Lineup 2009-10 stats
No. Name Yr. Ht. Wt. Pts. Rbs. Notes
5 Sek Henry Sr. 6-4 200 11.0 2.5 Nebraska active leader in games and assists
13 Brandon Ubel Fr. 6-10 220 7.0 3.0 True frosh from Kansas City
21 Jorge Brian Diaz RFr. 6-11 235 4.5 6.0 Redshirted with Huskers last season
34 Lance Jeter Jr. 6-3 225 12.0 4.5* JUCO honorable-mention All-American in 2009
44 Ryan Anderson Sr. 6-4 195 7.5 4.5 Nebraska active leader in pts., reb., 3-ptrs., stls.
*assists per game
At the Game
This weekend, the U.S. Marines will have their annual Toys for Tots collection boxes set up near each entrance to the Devaney Center. Fans are encouraged to bring a new unwrapped toy to donate, while monetary gifts will also be accepted.
Also Saturday, the Air Elite Dunk Team will be performing at halftime. The team will also peform at the Nebraska women’s basketball game on Sunday, Nov. 22.
Scouting the TCU Horned Frogs
Like the Cornhuskers, the TCU Horned Frogs come into Saturday’s game looking to get back on the winning track after suffering a setback in their last contest this week. Playing in the NIT Tip-Off, the Horned Frogs defeated Cal State Northridge, 83-65, on Monday before falling to host Arizona State, 52-49, on Tuesday. Overall, TCU is 2-1 this season after opening the year with a 74-69 victory over Mid-America Christian.
Against the Sun Devils, TCU hit just 36.2 percent from the floor, although it had control of the game late in the second half as it hit 45 percent (9-of-20) from the field after the intermission. The Horned Frogs led by eight at the final media timeout, 48-40, but were outscored 12-1 in the final stretch as ASU improved to 3-0 on the season and advanced to play Duke in Madison Square Garden on Monday.
Edvinas Ruzgas led the way for TCU, scoring 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting while fellow guard Ronnie Moss had 17 points (6-of-16 shooting) to go with seven rebounds and five assists. Last year, the pair combined to hit 2-of-9 from the field against the Huskers.
On the season, Moss is averaging 20.0 points per game while hitting 45.5 percent from the floor. His 11 3-pointers are a team high, as are his 16 assists and four steals. Ruzgas is second on the squad with 14.7 points per game through three contests. Zvonko Buljan is the Horned Frogs’ third double-figure scorer with 12.0 points per contest despite being held scoreless against the Sun Devils. Buljan has added 13.0 rebounds per game as TCU holds a 38.3-35.3 advantage on the glass.
As a team, TCU has hit just 41.5 percent from the floor this season, although opponents have fared worse by hitting just 40.4 percent. The Horned Frogs hold a 68.7 to 62.0 scoring advantage.
TCU is coached by Jim Christian (Rhode Island, 1988), who is in his second season guiding the Horned Frogs. Christian owns a 16-18 record with TCU and a 154-76 overall record in his eighth season as a head coach. He previously spent six years at Kent State where he won at least 20 games each season.
TCU’s Possible Starting Lineup 2009-10 stats
No. Name Yr. Ht. Wt. Pts. Rbs. Hometown (Last School)
15 Zvonko Buljan Sr. 6-9 235 12.0 13.0 Split, Croatia (Vincennes University)
24 Kevin Butler So. 6-5 210 6.3 8.3 Duncanville, Texas (Duncanville)
5 Ronnie Moss So. 6-2 210 20.0 4.7 Fort Worth, Texas (Christian Life Academy)
13 Edvinas Ruzgas Sr. 6-6 215 14.7 2.3 Vilnius, Lithuania (Weatherford College)
22 Keion Mitchem Sr. 5-10 175 4.7 1.3 Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester East)
The Last Meeting ? Nebraska 62, TCU 50
The Huskers and Horned Frogs met for the first time in a decade when they faced off on Nov. 19, 2008, in Fort Worth, Texas. Nebraska came away with a 62-50 victory in the second game of the season, snapping a streak of 12 straight losses in a true road opener during the Big 12 era.
The Huskers powered to an early double-figure lead as Nebraska’s defense held the Horned Frogs to just 19 percent shooting in the opening period, limiting TCU to just 4-of-21 from the field, including 0-of-10 from 3-point range. TCU finished the game hitting 27 percent while making only 3-of-19 (15.8 percent) from 3-point range.
While the Husker defense was in full gear, the offense was up and down, as NU hit 52 percent from the floor in the first half before connecting on only 31.6 percent after the intermission. Only one Husker finished in double figures with Paul Velander coming off the bench to score 11 points. Six other Huskers had between six and nine points.
Board Support
So far this season, one area that has jumped out on the box score, especially in comparison to last year, is the rebound column. During exhibition play, Nebraska held a 45.5-28.5 advantage on the glass against Arkansas-Fort Smith and Hastings College, and once it finally started to count, NU has continued the solid play on the boards.
Nebraska held a 39-27 rebounding advantage in the season opener against South Carolina Upstate and in its first road game, matched Saint Louis on the boards, 35-35. The total against USCU was the best for the Huskers since last season’s opener when NU had 42 rebounds vs. San Jose State and the +12 advantage was also better than all but one game last year (+14 vs. Florida A&M). With the 35 boards against SLU, the Huskers posted back-to-back games of at least 35 rebounds for the first time since 2008.
Leading the way in the exhibition slate was redshirt-freshman Jorge Brian Diaz, who had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds against Arkansas-Fort Smith and added eight points and nine rebounds vs. Hastings. In the regular-season opener, he had 11 rebounds to go with nine points in his first career game. NU did not have a player with a double-double last season as Ryan Anderson had the team’s high for single-game rebounds with 10 boards against Missouri on Jan. 10, when he had just eight points.
Against Saint Louis, Diaz left in the first minute of the game after he was hit in the mouth while going for a rebound. He has two severely loosened teeth and a cut inside his mouth, keeping him out until the 8:21 mark of the second half. He only played a total of four minutes and had one rebound. Sophomore guard Toney McCray helped pick up the slack as he had eight rebounds, one off his career high, while newcomer Quincy Hankins-Cole added six, including three offensive boards.
Versatile Anderson in Elite Company
Ryan Anderson joined an elite club last year as he became just the seventh Husker to record at least 100 3-pointers, 100 assists and 100 steals in a career. Among that short list are Eric Piatkowski, Tyronn Lue, Erick Strickland, Cookie Belcher, Cary Cochran and Jaron Boone, along with Anderson.
He showed exactly that versatility when he had an uncommon stat line that included five points, five rebounds, five assists and six steals in 27 minutes of action in the season opener against USC Upstate. The six steals were a career high for Anderson and were the most by a Husker since 2001 (Cookie Belcher had season high of eight that year).
For his career, Anderson now has 132 3-pointers, 121 steals and 167 assists and needs 18 treys and 29 steals to join Strickland as the only two Huskers ever with at least 150 in each category.
Fresh Faces
Nebraska has an inexperienced roster entering 2009-10, as the Huskers return only four scholarship players from last season’s 18-win campaign. Among the veterans on the squad this season are seniors Ryan Anderson and Sek Henry, along with sophomores Toney McCray and Brandon Richardson.
When NU hit the court for its season opener last weekend, it had two freshmen ? forward Brandon Ubel (true frosh) and center Jorge Brian Diaz (redshirt frosh) ? in the starting lineup, marking the second time in coach Doc Sadler’s tenure that NU had two freshman start a season opener. The last time it happened was Sadler’s first year at Nebraska when Anderson and Henry opened the campaign in the starting lineup.
That season, they started 14 games together including the first nine of the year. Along with Anderson and Henry, former Husker Jay-R Strowbridge made it three freshmen in the same starting lineup on Dec. 23, 2006, in a 70-56 win over Houston in the Rainbow Classic in Hawaii.
Ubel and Diaz became the fourth set of freshmen in the Big 12 era to start games together for the Huskers, including:
? 2009-10 with Diaz (1 start) and Ubel (1)
? 2006-07 with Anderson (25), Henry (18) and Strowbridge (13)
? 2004-05 with Joe McCray (24) and Aleks Maric (10)
? 2001-02 with Jake Muhleisen (27) and John Turek (15)
Ubel and Diaz were the seventh and eighth freshmen to start a season opener for Nebraska in the Big 12 era. However, they were only the second and third freshmen who stood over 6-4 to start for the Huskers in a season opener during that span, joining 6-11 Brian Conklin, who started six games as a redshirt freshman in 2000-01, including the opener at Oral Roberts. The full list of Nebraska’s frosh starters in an opener since 1996-97 includes:
? Jorge Brian Diaz, 6-11, C, 2009-10
? Brandon Ubel, 6-10, F, 2009-10
? Cookie Miller, 5-7, PG, 2007-08
? Sek Henry, 6-3, G, 2006-07
? Ryan Anderson, 6-4, G, 2006-07
? Marcus Walker, 6-2, PG, 2005-06
? Jake Muhleisen, 6-4, PG, 2001-02
? Brian Conklin, 6-11, F, 2000-01
? Cookie Belcher, 6-3, G, 1996-97
Overall, Nebraska has now had 20 freshmen start games during the Big 12 era. That list includes:
Jorge Brian Diaz, 2009-10 (1 start); Brandon Ubel, 2009-10 (1); Toney McCray, 2008-09 (3); Alonzo Edwards, 2008-09 (1); Cookie Miller, 2007-08 (24); Ryan Anderson, 2006-07 (25); Sek Henry, 2006-07 (18); Jay-R Strowbridge, 2006-07 (13); Jamel White, 2005-06 (13); Marcus Walker, 2005-06 (12); Joe McCray, 2004-05 (24); Aleks Maric, 2004-05 (10); Charles Richardson Jr., 2003-04 (10); Jason Dourisseau, 2002-03 (3); Wes Wilkinson, 2002-03 (2); Jake Muhleisen, 2001-02 (27); John Turek, 2001-02 (15); Brian Conklin, 2000-01 (6); Chad Johnson, 1997-98 (10); Cookie Belcher, 1996-97 (33).
Youth Movement
While Nebraska entered the season knowing it will have a number of young players in the lineup on any given night, it did not realize it would have two of the youngest players in their respective classes.
Freshman Brandon Ubel is the third-youngest player overall in the Big 12 Conference this season. Born on Aug. 29, 1991, only Jaye Crockett of Texas Tech (Oct. 16, 1991) and Tyler Stone of Missouri (Sept. 8, 1991) are younger than Ubel.
While Ubel is one of the youngest in the league, another Husker is the youngest for his class. Junior college transfer Quincy Hankins-Cole, who graduated high school when he was 16 and played the past two years at Polk (Fla.) CC, will not turn 20 years old until Feb. 18, 2010. The next youngest junior in the Big 12 is Kansas State’s Jacob Pullen, who turned 20 on Nov. 10. In fact, Hankins-Cole is three months younger than redshirt-freshman Jorge Brian Diaz, who turned 20 on Friday, Nov. 13.
Reaching Higher
According to statistics provided by kenpom.com, Nebraska was the shortest team in Division I basketball (344 teams) last season. The Huskers’ active roster in 2008-09 had just two scholarship players who stood at least 6-7, while the average height of the 20 players on the full roster was just over 6-4.
This season, Nebraska has a taller lineup across the board as the average height for all 18 players on the roster is 6-5 1/2. NU has four active players available in the non-conference slate who stand at least 6-8, with another ? Christian Standhardinger ? who will be eligible at the start of the Big 12 season.
Standhardinger Sitting Down
Although it was expected all along, Nebraska is in the unenviable position to have to replace the scoring punch provided during the exhibition season by freshman forward Christian Standhardinger.
After leading the Cornhuskers with 17.5 points per game in the exhibition season, Standhardinger must sit out 50 percent of the Huskers’ games this season ? a total of 15 games, equalling all of the non-conference schedule ? because of a ruling by the NCAA regarding his amateur status when he played with a club team in his native Germany. He will be allowed to practice with the Huskers during the non-conference slate but will not be able to travel with the team until he is eligible for competition on Jan. 9 at Texas A&M.
Standhardinger came from the same school and club team that produced sophomore center Christopher Niemann, who was forced to sit out all of his first season with the Huskers.
Niemann Out for Season
After making what looked to be a successful return from a torn ACL suffered in the final week of the regular season last year, 6-10, 265-pound sophomore center Christopher Niemann had a major setback as he tore the same ACL for a second time in late August. After surgery to repair the damage that occurred during a non-basketball conditioning workout, Niemann will be out for all of the 2009-10 campaign.
Niemann is currently making good progress through rehab again, and is on pace to join the team for offseason workouts in late spring. He will have three years remaining on his original eligibility clock to play three seasons with the Huskers.
Nebraska Receives Rare Waiver
Nebraska petitioned the NCAA with a waiver that was granted in early September, allowing the Huskers to have 14 players on scholarship for the 2009-10 season. The rare allowance given to NU is only for this season and Nebraska will be required to return to 13 scholarships for the 2010-11 season.
New Faces Line Husker Roster
While the Huskers will rely on their four returning scholarship players for leadership early in the season, most of the eyes will be focused on the faces of several newcomers who will dot the NU roster in 2009-10.
Among those scholarship newcomers looking for playing time are two juniors (Lance Jeter and Quincy Hankins-Cole), a sophomore (Myles Holley), a redshirt freshman (Jorge Brian Diaz) and four freshmen (Adrien Coleman, Ray Gallegos, Christian Standhardinger {eligible Jan. 9}, Brandon Ubel). Also back this season is another “newcomer” in Eshaunte Jones, who played four games as a true freshman last year before undergoing foot surgery and redshirting the season.
2009-10 Scholarship Breakdown
Seniors: 2
Juniors: 2
Sophomores: 4
Freshmen and Redshirt Freshmen: 6
NU Looking for Fifth Postseason Berth in Seven Years
Despite their lack of experience entering the year, the 2009-10 Huskers will be shooting for the program’s fifth postseason berth in seven years and third straight under coach Doc Sadler. Overall, Nebraska’s NIT bid at the end of the 2008-09 campaign was the Huskers’ 22nd all-time postseason appearance. NU has 16 appearances in the NIT, including the 1996 title, and six berths in the NCAA Tournament.
Huskers Look to Build on 8-8 League Mark
While the Huskers have more than two months before they start league action, Nebraska will have one thing in mind while it prepares for facing arguably the nation’s toughest conference: continuing its upward momentum against Big 12 foes.
Last year, the Huskers finished with an 8-8 record in Big 12 Conference play, their best mark in a decade and just the third time since the formation of the league that NU has finished at .500 or better. That mark came as the Huskers won each of their last two regular-season games, giving Nebraska its third straight season with a better league mark. NU had six league wins in 2007 and seven in 2008.
Since the start of the 2007 conference season, only three teams in the Big 12 have improved their win total in league play each of the past three years. That small group includes Nebraska, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
This year, Nebraska will try to do something done only once before in program history as the only other time the Huskers improved their conference win total for four straight years was from 1952 to 1955.
Sadler Setting New Marks
Nebraska coach Doc Sadler has said from the beginning that he hopes to do something at Nebraska that’s never been accomplished before: get to the NCAA Tournament and win a game. Since he’s been at NU, his record has spoken volumes as he has reached marks never before seen in Lincoln.
Over his first three years, Sadler had more victories than any Husker coach to open a career. Through his first three years, Salder owned a 55-40 mark, two more wins than Moe Iba had in his first three years and four more than Danny Nee. Sadler also had the most wins in the first two years at NU (37) and is the first coach in school history to win at least 17 games in each of his first three years guiding the Cornhuskers.
The Huskers’ win over Texas Tech on the road on Jan. 31, 2009, marked Sadler’s 50th victory at Nebraska. He was the fourth-fastest coach to reach 50 wins at NU in program history and among the three who reached the mark faster at NU, two of those men coached in Lincoln before World War I.
Coaching Wins at Nebraska (first three seasons only)
No. Coach, First Three Years Wins Record
1. Doc Sadler, 2007-09 55 55-40
2. Moe Iba, 1981-83 53 53-34
3. Danny Nee, 1987-89 51 51-46
NU Looks for Defensive 3-peat
In 2009-10, Nebraska looks to continue its dominance on the defensive end under coach Doc Sadler. Each of the past two seasons, the Huskers have led the Big 12 Conference in scoring defense and ranked among the national leaders.
The Huskers started this year in solid fashion, allowing just 49 points on 19-of-49 shooting (38.8 percent) in the season opener against South Carolina Upstate. In their first road game of the season, the Huskers allowed Saint Louis to score 69 points. Through two games, opponents are hitting 40.8 percent from the field, including 37.1 percent from 3-point range.
Last year, Nebraska allowed just 60.4 points per game to rank 22nd nationally while a year earlier, it gave up 60.7 ppg to rank No. 18 in the nation. Nebraska also led the league in conference-only defense in 2009 by giving up just 62.5 ppg to league teams. NU finished as one of only two teams (also Kansas, 65.4 ppg) that allowed less than 69.0 points per game in Big 12 play.
The Huskers’ top-ranked defense last year marked the first time NU had led the league in scoring defense in the Big 12 era. Dating to the 2007-08 season, Nebraska has held seven of its last 10 Big 12 Conference opponents in the Devaney Center to 57 or fewer points, including three times under 50 points. NU held five teams to less than 57 points in Big 12 play last year, including Missouri (51), Kansas State (51), at Colorado (53), Texas (55) and vs. Colorado (41).
Huskers Face Difficult Schedule
Nebraska faces a rugged schedule as it will play 16 of its 31 regular-season games against teams that reached the 2009 postseason. Among the Huskers’ opponents that reached last year’s NCAA Tournament were: Elite Eight participants Missouri (twice) and Oklahoma, Sweet 16 participant Kansas (twice), NCAA second-round qualifiers Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and USC. NU will also 2009 postseason NIT qualifiers Baylor (runner-up), Creighton, Kansas State (twice) and Tulsa, along with CBI champion Oregon State. At the Las Vegas Classic, NU will also face either BYU or Nevada, which played in the NCAA and NIT, respectively, last year.
? The Huskers are set to play 18 regular-season games at the Bob Devaney Sports Center for the third straight season. Last year, the Huskers went 14-4 in the building and NU is now 43-11 at home under coach Doc Sadler.
? Nebraska will look to keep an outstanding home winning streak alive in 2009-10 as the Huskers’ look for their 34th straight winning season at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The Huskers have never had a losing season in the Devaney Center since the building opened for the 1976-77 campaign.
? Nebraska’s second home win of the season will mark it’s 400th all-time win in the Devaney Center. After picking up a season-opening win over USC Upstate, the Huskers now own a 399-125 record at home in the building since 1976-77 campaign.
? For the third straight season, the Huskers will have at least 21 games televised regionally or nationally, including three games set to be seen around the country on the ESPN family of networks. The Huskers have averaged more than 13 televised contests (national, regional and local) each of the past eight years.
? Nebraska will play five games away from the Devaney Center in non-conference action for the first time since Doc Sadler’s first season when the Huskers went 3-3 away from Lincoln in 2006-07. It is the second straight season NU has played three true road games in non-conference play, the most by the Huskers since playing four true road games in 1997-98.
? The Huskers will face USC in the third annual Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Classic on Nov. 29. Nebraska will start the series with USC on the road, with the Trojans returning the game to Lincoln in 2010-11.
? Nebraska will face Tulsa and either BYU or Nevada at the Las Vegas Classic on Dec. 22-23. It will be NU’s first regular-season tournament since competing in the 2006 Rainbow Classic, where the Huskers went 2-1.