Three reflections from the NEBRASKA wild victory at the victory in Northwestern
What epic disaster in Evanston.
Until it is not.
The Nebraska dragged by 20 points at the start of the second period against Northwestern on Sunday, but behind a wild return, the Huskers ended up beating the Wildcats 68-64 inside the Welsh-ryan jar, a building that, until ‘To today, Nebraska had not won any basketball game since February 2014.
The victory brings back the Nebraska in the column of victories after last Thursday’s backwards at home against n ° 25 in Maryland. The Huskers file improves at 17-9, 7-8 B1G. Northwestern fell at 13-13, 4-11.
Here are three quick reflections on Husker’s victory.
It was an epic-bad start for the Nebraska
For such an important match against an opponent of Quad 1 on the road which has dropped two runners for end -of -season injuries, in a half -empty arena with an almost nonexistent student section, it is astounding how the Huskers have played Sunday.
At one point, the northwest goalkeeper, Ty Berry, ahead of team 10-9 of Nebraska. But Berry is not the story of this first thought – the effort of first half of the Huskers in painting and on the boards. They simply did not show up where it was most important in the first 20 minutes.
Keywords being: “The first 20 minutes.”
Nebraska immediately put himself in a deep hole due to his inability to implement and grasp rebounds. In the first half, the Huskers were exceeded from 29-11 in total and, even more catchy, 14-2 in the offensive boards. This contributed to the Wildcats to hold an advantage of 12-4 in the second chance points.
The Nebraska dragged 36-21 at halftime. It was the least points of the Huskers scored in the first half this season.
New half, new team? The Huskers remained enough in the tank to finish an improbable return
Credit at Nebraska – for such a terrible and, would say, embarrassing, the first half, the Huskers were a different team in the second.
The Fred Hoiberg team outlined the team of Chris Collins 47-28 in the second half. It was a 54-year equality at 6: 05-Mark and Nebraska won his first lead in the match, 59-58, after a 3-point game from the oldest of whom Braxton Meah with 3:56 on the left .
The last 14 points of the Nebraska were scored by Meah and Brice Williams, who scored the last five points of the Launche Francs line to seal the victory.
This had to be a noisy and emotional locker room at halftime judging by Hoiberg’s hand
There is little room to hide these days with television cameras everywhere. First, the publisher Northwestern of Rivals, Louie Vacher, saw him of Fred Hoiberg during a dead time in the first half:
Then, leaving half-time, Hoiberg seemed to have his right hand wrapped. Obviously, the Nebraska locker room was probably filled with emotions and, let’s call it motivation.
After the victory, the team’s X account had fun with:
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