Despite the record night of Brice Williams, Huskers lose a heartbreaker in double overtime

Brice Williams was Brillant-Wie in a Husker scoring record brilliant, but Nebraska exceeded 116-114 in a game in a game that was dripping with drama and debate.

In the end, 43 points from Williams were not enough when the state of Ohio hit its own clutch shots, including two critical 3 points in the first extension when just a stop in Nebraska had put the large red on the driver's seat.

The Huskers were strong and reached 53 percent from the field and 12 out of 28 beyond the bow. In addition to Williams, Juwan Gary had 24 out of 29 for his career evening, Connor Essegian had 16 and Andrew Morgan 14.

The Buckeyes countered with 29 points and nine templates from the cool and collected Bruce Thornton, 22 by Micah Parrish and Devin Royal, and 20 by John Mabley.

A loss in a row in Nebraska falls in the big ten in Nebraska on 17-13.

The importance of the game only added the tension in relation to some calls in important moments.

“I thought we did a lot of really good things at this end of the floor,” said Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg in the Huskers Radio Network Postgame show with Kent Pavelka and Jake Muhleisen. “I didn't like the flagrant on Brice. I thought it was an accidental game and then they had two options. They hit the ball on the floor and it goes over the basket. No call. I don't know. It doesn't bother me. And I don't run on the sidelines.”

The flagrant 1 came to Williams after Nebraska cut it to 66-62 and was on a 7-0 run. Nu had just secured a defensive stop without the pipes haven't blown at first, but it was decided to check the contact between Williams and Devin Royal in the state of Ohio.

After the evaluation, Williams was called for the flagrant. Instead of Nebraska, which had reduced the ball four, the Buckeyes made two bad shots and then achieved the following property to push it to 70-62 in eight minutes.

However, the Huskers cramped in the last few minutes. Down 87-80 with 2:13 left Essegian hit a large 3 pointer. Nebraska chopped it from there to 88-85 and Morgan scored a basket and a 42 second lead at 88.

A wild finish was ahead of us. Mobley seemed to be in trouble the next time you possess OSU, but was able to draw the bad call on Sam Hoiberg. Before it was over Hoiberg, Rollie was the most successful and Berke Buyuktuncel for Nebraska. Mobley met a free throw to do it 89-88. Williams pulled a foul for a 8 second lead at the other end. He hit the first, but missed the second in an otherwise masterful performance.

The game switched to extension and Nebraska seemed to have the greatest victory of the season when Williams kept giving shots and achieved the first seven OT for the Huskers to build a 96-91 lead. The game was about to tip over to the Huskers, but the buckeyes met two massive shots. A Thornton 3-pointer got the buckeyes within 97-95. Williams replied for NU with a smooth shot to do it 99-95. But then Parrish hit another 3 pointer to close to 99-98 with 46 seconds.

Williams missed a shot on the other end and then Royal made a foul for the Buceyes with a seven second lead. He hit the first free throw and missed the second. A Williams Miss for Nebraska sent the game 99 to a second extension.

As with the first overtime, Williams started the additional frame with a 3 pointer. It is a performance, as Hoiberg said in the postgame that Williams is an all-Big ten of the first team.

Buckeyes went back and forth a lead of 104-103. Then came a decisive sequence.

Nu had the ball and after Connor Essegian blocked a shot with 1:40 left, he was ruled by the Buckeyes. After several minutes of the review, the call was lifted. Thornton hit a 3 pointer at the next possession of the ball to do it 107-103.

The Huskers played from there, although there is no controversial Nebraska, should have had one chance with the ball to bind it with a 3.2 second lead and the score 114-111. A player in the state of Ohio traveled with the inbounds, which in this case was not after a made basket, but he was not called.

Instead, the Buckeyes came to the line and encouraged the game, although Williams reached a 3 pointer in the summer to set up a record record at NU and record the previous high of 42 by Eric Piatkowski.

In the first half, some moments will give that could have contributed to changing the result. Nebraska fell 19-8 early and a long-term 3 pointer from Mobley in the state of Ohio in Summer, to do it until the end of 45-39.

Undoubtedly the fourth loss in a row for Nebraska, despite the spirited efforts, hopes for Husker NCAA tournaments in a game in which two teams were projected onto the bladder. Although Hoiberg was proud of how his team always resisted and was never emptied.

“This was a victory we had that we had to get, so it hurts hell,” said Hoiberg in the radio show. “You now have three games in a row that have come to a last property. We have our best guy on the line. Brice is not only a great free thrower, he is also a free-throw shooter. And unfortunately his last.