Well, as outlined in my previous post, I was all psyched up for Nebraska vs. Creighton. Sure enough, when I went to leave the dorm at just before 5:00 (for a 7:00 game), people heckled me. “Minda,” they said. “Why are you leaving Michigan/Ohio State so early? Who cares where you sit, because Nebraska is just going to get stomped?”
We went anyway. The Devany Center was sold out, and by tipoff the place was ROCKIN’. Many, many, many Creighton fans filled the seats, but they were nowhere near me, as I was in the exact middle of the Red Zone. The atmosphere was exactly as a college basketball game should be: Electric.
And guess what! Nebraska beat Creighton. Read that again, and again and again. I could never say it enough. Here’s the thing: Nebraska is a football school, a volleyball school, a baseball school, a soccer, wrestling, track school. We’re NOT generally thought of as a basketball school.
Creighton, on the other hand, has been a mainstay in the top 25 for the last couple of years. They routinely make appearances in the Big Dance, and they were by all acounts supposed to absolutely embarrass my Huskers tonight.
NOPE!
Because it’s 3:30 in the morning, I won’t go into too much detail. But basically, every man in a Husker uniform brought his A-game tonight. Maric was quite quiet in the first half but it was fine because everyone else stepped up. As for the Bluejays…Nate Funk is exciting to watch, despite his somewhat douchey hairstyle. And he was solid tonight, scoring somewhere around 28 points. But his teammates couldn’t really sink much. Hence the result.
Nebrasketball is back. Same ball, new game.
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