On Monday, Missouri coach Mike Anderson suspended five players for a weekend brawl at a bar that broke starting point guard and leading scorer Stefhon Hannah’s jaw ultimately ending his season.  Three of those players are starters who help contribute to the Tigers relentless full court pressure D.  I am going out on a limb here and predicting an NU win.  If they do not win this game, then there are major problems with this program.

Well, after tape delay, the game finally started at 8:30 CST and it looked like NU was going to jump quickly on a depleted MU squad.   Nebraska jumped out to leads of  9-3 and 15-8 only to have the Tigers, who were relentless all night, get right back in it  at 15-14.   The Huskers went on a run  and led 21-14, but again, Mizzou closed the gap to two going into the half only down 32-30.

The second half started alot like the first half ended with NU going up and the Tigers clawing their way back.  Sek Henry scored 12 points in the first half but could only muster 2 in the second.  With the score bouncing back and forth, Steve Harley and Ade Dagunduro stepped up for the Huskers.  Ade had a key put-back off a Sek Henry miss and Harley just kept driving and shooting in the soft spots of Missouri’s zone, ultimately helping NU to it’s first conference win of the 2007-08 season,  66-62.

 Harley led four Huskers in double digits with 15 followed by 14 from Sek.  Alecs Maric and Ryan Anderson both had double doubles, Maric with 13 points and 13 boards and Anderson with 11 points and 10 rebounds.  The Huskers played well enough against a depleted Mizzou team, but that’s what they are supposed to do.  I have to give credit to the Tigers.  They came out swinging and had this “not in my house” attitude all night, but with only 7 players getting in, fatigue had to have played a factor when some players played more minutes tonight than they have combined all season.  Up next for the Huskers is Iowa St this Saturday for a  3 P.M. tipoff. 

One down……and only nine more to go!!!!

[See the box score courtesy of Huskers.com]