Brice Williams' school record of 43 points in double loss in the state of Ohio not enough

Brice Williams owed the cargo when his team needed him the most.

With their back against the wall and a victory to keep their NCAA chances alive, the Nebraska Cornhuskers were in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday evening, in the penultimate games of the regular season in the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Williams, NUS 6-foot 7-star Guard, achieved a single game record of career height and Nebraska 43 points, but it wasn't enough. OSU had too many answers and the defense of NUS too few stops.

Behind four buckeyes, who scored at least 20 points, the OSU escaped with a win from 116-114 in the two overtime in the Value City Arena.

The loss extends the defeat of NU to four games and sets up a situation of the must-win in Lincoln on Sunday in Lincoln.

“We fought, we fought. Although we dug ourselves early in the game in the game, we didn't hurt each other,” Nu head coach Fred Hoiberg told Huskers Radio Network after the game. “We have to end this thing in the right way. We obviously have a big one that occurs on Sunday. Everything can happen with these conference tournaments.”

Hoiberg said that the changing room had a positive tone after the loss.

“Our boys, their heads were high in the changing room after the game,” said Hoiberg. “Now we have to go on.”

Due to the storms in the Nebraska area on Tuesday evening, the NU stays in Columbus for the night before flying back to Lincoln.

It was a thriller of a game that was overshadowed by controversial calls to the incumbent crew by Brian Dorsey, Randy Richardson and Kelly Pfeifer, who had a few no-calls in the second overtime period against NU.

“They hit the ball onto the floor and he goes over the basket, no call,” said Hoiberg. “It just bothers me. And I don't think it's allowed.”

Nu, a team that a short turn after playing Minnesota after playing on Saturday, just didn't have enough firepower to achieve the victory. Williams, who makes a strong case for the first team for all-bikes, almost wanted the left Huskers to win, but had good help from Juwan Gary, who added 24 points.

While Williams and Gary 67 of the 114 points scored, the Huskers did not get enough of everyone else who together scored 47 points and 44% (16-von-36) from the field and 4 out of 13 out of 3 points.

Connor Essegian, who finished 16 points, fought a slow start before heating himself in the second half and making three 3s.

With the two additional 5-minute periods, the NU stood with depth problems when fouls started. Three Huskers fouled at night, including Rollie, Sam Hoiberg and Berke Büyüktuncel, who had again struggled with his shot by walking 0: 2 of 3 and 2 of 4 from the Free Wurfine.

On Tuesday there was another of these patented slow starts for the NU. At some point, the OSU, who hadn't played since Wednesday, had increased its lead to 11 points, 19-8, at 12:52 p.m. in the first half.

But Nu replied with a 17: 8 run, which contained five points from Gary and Essegian, which contributed to removing the Huskers with 27-25 only 2 points from the lead of Buckeye. Gary and Williams each scored 12 points in the first half – Essegian added 7 points – to keep the Huskers in the game.

Thanks to a deep 3 from Osu Point John Mobley Jr., his third at that time, Nebraska went into half time at that time.

The OSU scored 11 points again in the second half, but the trio of Williams, Gary and Andrew Morgan, who scored 11 points in the second stanza, attributed Nu. Williams had the chance to give his team the lead with a 8 -second lead over the free -wire line, but he split the two options and Osu could not score a goal and sent the game into the first extension.

“Unfortunately, his last rolled out,” said Hoiberg about Williams' second free throw. “But they didn't hang their heads in the Huwdle. They continued to go out and swang and claws and fight and fight, and they need that from their team and we need that on Sunday.”

Of the 25 points that NU achieved in the extension, Williams had 20 of them and went from 3 out of 3.

“It hurts, there is no doubt,” said Hoiberg about the loss. “This was a victory we had had to get, so it hurts like hell.”

Williams '42 points was his sixth 30-point game. His earlier high was 32. The school record that Williams broke on Tuesday evening was Eric Piatkowskis. Piatkowski scored 42 against Oklahoma in the Big Eight tournament from 1994.

“He was incredible,” said Hoiberg about Williams. “This is all-big first team. If that doesn't block it, I don't know what else you can do. He was just so consistent for us, our contact person as a scorer. I thought he was also rocks tonight, and he has us to win this year and hopefully he has another big run in front of him.”

Nebraska's regular final is Sunday at 11:30 a.m. against the Iowa Hawkeyes in Lincoln.

It is a remaining from January 7, when the Huskers traveled to Iowa City and were still in the lead for 15 minutes in the second half to lose 97-87 in extension.

This could be a game in which the winner qualified for the 15-team Big Ten tournament. The Hawkeyes, who are a game behind Nebraska with six league victories, will be organized in Michigan State on Thursday evening.

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