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Opening Night Introduces Latest Nebraska Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams
As September rolls to an finish, basketball season inches ever nearer.
Each the Nebraska males’s and girls’s basketball groups had their annual Opening Evening festivities Friday, fully with a musical visitor to cap off the evening. This yr’s leisure was Waka Flocka Flame, which feels extra in keeping with my very own school days than these at the moment however nonetheless, loads have been in attendance after the basketball.
Rapper Waka Flocka Flame poses with followers throughout Opening Evening for Nebraska males’s and girls’s basketball. (Nebraska Athletics photograph)
On the court docket, Amy Williams had her group go first with a scrimmage. Over two 12 minutes halves, the Nebraska staff practically double-up their male scout staff counterparts.
No official stats have been taken so here’s what I used to be in a position to seize.
Jaz Shelley led the staff with 10 factors, including three assists and a pair of rebounds.
Alexis Markowski added seven factors and Allison Weidner six. Markowski tied Maddie Krull for the staff lead with three rebounds.
Shelley, Markowski, and Weidner have been joined by Trinity Brady and Isabelle Bourne as starters. That is the primary time since 2017 that Sam Haiby received’t be on the ground. Haiby is out for the season with a leg damage.
Kendall Coley and Alexis Markowski have a good time after a basket. (Kenny Larabee photograph)
Even with out one in every of their leaders on the court docket, the Husker girls ought to nonetheless contend for a return journey to the NCAA Match.
Fred Hoiberg, after a disorganized try at a scrimmage a yr in the past, opted to place the boys’s staff by means of numerous drills this time.
The drills ranged from full court docket five-man-weave to a drive-and-kick three-point drill to even defensive work through closing out to the elbow earlier than a defensive shuffle to the nook.
Are you able to gauge a lot from a number of minutes of drills? Would now we have gleaned a lot from a scrimmage that may have almost definitely ended up like an NBA All-Star Recreation with no protection and gamers trying spotlight performs?
Keisei Tominaga shoots through the three-point contest whereas CJ Wilcher seems on. (Kenny Larabee photograph)
This yr’s staff does look extra athletic than any within the Hoiberg period. They’re additionally larger, with 4 guys 6’9 or taller.
We’ll know far more Oct. 23 when Nebraska hosts Chadron State for an exhibition.
The 2 squads squared off in a three-point contest earlier than the live performance. The boys received two of the three matchups. Keisei Tominaga had probably the most threes made with 17.