Nebraska Postgame Notes/Quotes vs. Northwestern

Nebraska Postgame Notes vs. Northwestern
*-Nebraska drops its third straight Big Ten Tournament opener following tonight’s 71-69 loss to Northwestern.
*-Tonight marked the fourth time in the last six meetings with Northwestern that the contest was decided by five points or less. NU is 0-4 on those contests
*-Alonzo Verge Jr. posted his seventh 20-point game of the season and 19^th of his career with 21 points. It marked the 20^th time this season where a Husker had at least 20 points.
*-Alonzo Verge Jr. finished with nine assists tonight and finished the season in fifth place on NU’s single-season assist list. He passed Brian Carr (166, 1986-87) for fifth place tonight. Verge leads the Big Ten with 5.45 assists per game, an average that ranked fifth in school history. Verge has dished out five-or-more assists in seven of the past eight games.
*-Verge averaged 8.6 assists per game in NU’s final three games of the season
*-Nebraska finished with 11 steals, the seventh time with at least 10 steals. Both Trey McGowens and Alonzo Verge Jr. had four steals, matching their highest single-game total of their Husker career
*-Derrick Walker tied a career high with 16 points, as he set two previous times, the last at Michigan State on Jan. 5. It marked his 18^th double figure game of the season. Walker went 4-of-5 from the floor and finished the year shooting 68.3 percent. It broke NU’s single-season record of 67.2 percent by Larry Cox in 1975-76.
*-Walker is the first Husker to shoot at least 60 percent (5 att/gm) since Kamani Ffriend and Steffon Bradford in 2000-01
*-Walker went a career-best 8-of-9 from the foul line and finished the season shooting 72.6 percent from the line
*-Nebraska went 22-of-27 from the line, the seventh time in the last eight games that Nebraska shot at least 80 percent from the line. NU finished the year shooting 73.1 percent from the line, its highest percentage since shooting a school-record 76.6 percent in 2011-12.
*-Bryce McGowens was held to six points, his lowest output since Nov. 19, and snapped a school freshman record streak of 12 games in double figures.
*-Bryce McGowens finished the year with a 16.8 scoring average, breaking NU’s single-season freshman record of 15.5 by Joe McCray in 2004-05, as his 522 points is the most by any Husker since James Palmer Jr. scored a school-record 708 points in 2018-19.
• In addition to holding the NU freshman scoring mark, McGowens finished in the top-10 on NU’s freshman chart in free throws made (162, first), free throws attempted (195, first), field goals (160, second), rebounds (161, t-fourth) and 3-pointers (40, sixth).
*-Trey McGowens averaged 3.5 steals per game over NU’s last four game and finished the year averaging 1.6 steals per game.
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