Sunday, December 4
Omaha, Neb.
3:30 PM
Creighton University
6-3,0-0Big East
53
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63
Nebraska
6-3,0-0Big Ten
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2
F
Nebraska
25
38
63
#7 Creighton
23
30
53
Photo by: Sullivan Lawrence
Nebraska Upsets #7 Men's Basketball, 63-53
12/4/2022 6:39:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Bluejays head to Las Vegas for two games next weekend
OMAHA, Neb. -- Nebraska won a regular-season game at Creighton for the first time since 1995 with a 63-53 victory over the seventh-ranked Bluejays on Sunday afternoon before a sellout crowd of 17,352 at CHI Health Center Omaha.
Derrick Walker (22) and Sam Griesel (18) combined for 40 points for Nebraska (6-3), helping to offset a season-high 16 points from Bluejay guard Francisco Farabello. Ryan Kalkbrenner (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Baylor Scheierman (10 points, 11 rebounds) both posted double-doubles for Creighton (6-3), which lost its third straight after a 6-0 start.
Back-to-back three-pointers by Trey Alexander and Scheierman gave Creighton a 12-8 lead after six minutes,, but that would end up being CU's largest lead of the afternoon. Nebraska took the lead for good at 21-20 on a Griesel three-pointer and led 25-23 at the break.
Walker and Griesel scored all the points in a 6-0 Cornhusker run to open the second half. CU's lone fast break points of the day got CU within one at 31-30 with 13:19 to play, but NU responded with an 11-3 run that included six Griesel points to build a 42-33 lead.
A four-point play by Farabello got CU within five at 44-39 with 6:31 remaining, but Griesel's dunk plus free throw stemmed the hosts' momentum and CU would not get any closer than six the rest of the way.
Griesel finished with 18 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists while Walker made 11-of-16 field goal attempts and recorded 22 points and eight rebounds in 23 minutes of action. The Cornhuskers shot 47.5 percent from the field and outscored CU 46-16 in the paint.
Creighton shot a season-low 30.8 percent from the field and made just 10 of a school-record 40 three-point attempts from downtown. Farabello's 16 points came on 5-for-9 shooting from three-point range after the TCU transfer had started the season 5-for-25 from long-range.
Creighton returns to the court on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 9 p.m. Central when it meets BYU as part of the Jack Jones Hoopfest in Las Vegas, Nev. The contest will be televised on FS1 and can be heard on 1620 The Zone and 101.9 The Keg.
NOTES: Creighton had won 13 straight regular-season home games over Nebraska ... Baylor Scheierman now owns five double-doubles this season and 30 in his collegiate career following his third straight double-double... Scheierman is the first Bluejay with three straight double-doubles since Ryan Hawkins (Feb. 12-17, 2022) ... Scheierman has now made multiple three-pointers in 16 straight games ... Ryan Kalkbrenner had two dunks and now owns more dunks under Greg McDermott (122) than any other Creighton player, one more than Martin Krampelj (121) ... Creighton has made a three-pointer in 957 straight contests.
Derrick Walker (22) and Sam Griesel (18) combined for 40 points for Nebraska (6-3), helping to offset a season-high 16 points from Bluejay guard Francisco Farabello. Ryan Kalkbrenner (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Baylor Scheierman (10 points, 11 rebounds) both posted double-doubles for Creighton (6-3), which lost its third straight after a 6-0 start.
Back-to-back three-pointers by Trey Alexander and Scheierman gave Creighton a 12-8 lead after six minutes,, but that would end up being CU's largest lead of the afternoon. Nebraska took the lead for good at 21-20 on a Griesel three-pointer and led 25-23 at the break.
Walker and Griesel scored all the points in a 6-0 Cornhusker run to open the second half. CU's lone fast break points of the day got CU within one at 31-30 with 13:19 to play, but NU responded with an 11-3 run that included six Griesel points to build a 42-33 lead.
A four-point play by Farabello got CU within five at 44-39 with 6:31 remaining, but Griesel's dunk plus free throw stemmed the hosts' momentum and CU would not get any closer than six the rest of the way.
Griesel finished with 18 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists while Walker made 11-of-16 field goal attempts and recorded 22 points and eight rebounds in 23 minutes of action. The Cornhuskers shot 47.5 percent from the field and outscored CU 46-16 in the paint.
Creighton shot a season-low 30.8 percent from the field and made just 10 of a school-record 40 three-point attempts from downtown. Farabello's 16 points came on 5-for-9 shooting from three-point range after the TCU transfer had started the season 5-for-25 from long-range.
Creighton returns to the court on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 9 p.m. Central when it meets BYU as part of the Jack Jones Hoopfest in Las Vegas, Nev. The contest will be televised on FS1 and can be heard on 1620 The Zone and 101.9 The Keg.
NOTES: Creighton had won 13 straight regular-season home games over Nebraska ... Baylor Scheierman now owns five double-doubles this season and 30 in his collegiate career following his third straight double-double... Scheierman is the first Bluejay with three straight double-doubles since Ryan Hawkins (Feb. 12-17, 2022) ... Scheierman has now made multiple three-pointers in 16 straight games ... Ryan Kalkbrenner had two dunks and now owns more dunks under Greg McDermott (122) than any other Creighton player, one more than Martin Krampelj (121) ... Creighton has made a three-pointer in 957 straight contests.
Team Stats
NEB
CU
FG%
.475
.308
3FG%
.250
.250
FT%
.571
.600
RB
42
37
TO
13
15
STL
8
9
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
16
FGM
5
3FGM
5
FTM
1
Pts
10
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
3
FTM
0
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