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Blessed to write about sports. Covering Nebraska baseball and football for The Omaha World-Herald. Email: evan.bland @owh .com
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Nebraska's defense in the last four games has now allowed third-down conversions on just 13 of 53 tries (25.5%). That's, like, best-in-the-country level success from the Blackshirts.
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Nebraska QB Luke McCaffrey: "We're one inch away and we can feel it. If we have a good offseason, hopefully we can get this thing rolling."
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#Huskers
flip four-star WR Janiran Bonner live on ESPN2: "I've decided to take my talents to Nebraska. Go Big Red."
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Adrian Martinez is the new spokesperson for all of Nebraska.
"I'm just hoping this weather gets better soon."
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"Go Big Red" chants echoing through Baum-Walker. Quite the scene as the fans file out.
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#Huskers
running back Dedrick Mills said he ran like thunder while Maurice Washington provided the lightning against Illinois. What does that leave Wan'Dale Robinson?
Mills: "He brightened the game up for us, you feel me? I look at him as the sun right now."
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Nebraska QB Adrian Martinez said a prime-time TV window and big game is the sort of thing he envisioned when he committed.
Martinez: "This is Nebraska. This is big-time college football."
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2024 QB Dylan Raiola and his brother, 2026 QB Dayton, in the house today.
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For the first time in 709 days, Nebraska is playing a regular-season nonconference baseball game today.
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Fun fact about Nebraska starting QB Chubba Purdy: His given name is Preston, but “Chubba” caught on as a nickname from his dad when he reached 38 pounds as a 1-year-old.
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Nebraska TE Austin Allen: “We went stride for stride with the No. 3 team in the country. Our team is ready to turn a corner. It’s just gotta be no more saying we can do it; it’s gotta be go out and do it. I’m excited to see how we prepare for Michigan State.”
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Nebraska's eight sacks against Colorado are the most by a
#Huskers
defense since Ndamukong Suh and the gang piled up nine against Texas in the 2009 Big 12 title game.
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Frost on social media stuff: “You shouldn’t pay any attention to the rumors that I’m not sleeping or eating. I’m going to go to dinner with my wife when I’m done here and probably have a steak and go home and go to sleep. Football is really important – football’s not life.”
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Joseph on the toughness of
#Huskers
QB Casey Thompson: “He was on the ground (at Rutgers), he said it was his left shoulder. I asked him, I said, ‘You throw with your right shoulder, right? Ok, get up.' And he got up. Casey’s tough.”
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Frost says he has yet to come across Nebraska fans who have said anything negative to him.
"I can't tell you how appreciative I am of those people that are behind us." Adds that he hopes people see the progress, and things will continue to improve.
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Sixty-nine days away from Nebraska baseball's season opener.
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"Everybody’s favorite player on the team." Joe Burrow's words about former
#Huskers
record-setting WR Stanley Morgan. But Stan is a new man from his Lincoln days, blocking and tackling(!) his way onto the Bengals roster. Now he's on a Super stage:
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Nebraska coach Scott Frost said the team got out into the snow for a while to start practice. A few players have only seen it once or twice, he said.
Frost: "We rolled around in it a little bit, then got our work done."
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Thirteen days, five hours and a few minutes until first pitch of the season for Nebraska baseball.
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Nebraska baseball coach Darin Erstad asked today whether he bought into rivalries when he was an athlete.
"To be completely honest with you, I hated everybody. So it didn't really matter."
Is that still the same? "Yes. I don't play favorites."
#Huskers
at Iowa this weekend.
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Adrian Martinez takes a knee in Norman and screams to the sky. After coming so close so many times, he has his signature win.
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Bolt asked about how confident he is he and his staff can recruit players who can make Nebraska competitive nationally:
"Most of them live in the state right now."
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Nebraska defensive back Cam Taylor-Britt:
"People don't realize this was one of the biggest games of our year. It's tough when you lose to Iowa, man. I hate it."
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Garrett Nelson says he won't be walking on Senior Day. Does that mean he'll be back at Nebraska next year? "I don't know," he says with a smile.
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Frost says he and DC Erik Chinander, a former Iowa player, used to argue about Iowa and Nebraska a lot.
Frost: "He's finally on the good side."
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2024 four-star OL Grant Brix at midfield as Nebraska warmups continue. The 6-5, 280-pounder puts a shoulder into an unsuspecting Carter Nelson as Nelson walks past. Big grin from the
#Huskers
tight end commit.
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Nebraska senior DE Ben Stille on the finale against Iowa next week: “Us old guys haven’t had a ton of success. It would mean the world to me to go out on top and have a good memory here going out on top.”
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It's not about football or basketball tonight. Nebraska volleyball is national champion. An amazing run continues by John Cook and this program.
As the TV announcer just said: "There is no rebuilding at Nebraska."
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Incoming Nebraska OL Grant Brix settled in on signing day from Logan, Iowa.
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So the Nebraska sports schedule Saturday includes volleyball playing for the national title, men's basketball at home for a sellout against Kansas and a big football recruiting weekend with early signing day looming. Big time.
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special teams coordinator Ed Foley with a strong statement on
@HuskersRadio
on recruiting in-state talent.
Foley: “There have been some other schools that have gotten in here and made some headway recruiting Nebraska. That’s over. We’re coming in now."
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Major haul of All-Big Ten honors for Nebraska today:
Player of the Year: Spencer Schwellenbach
Freshman of the Year: Max Anderson
Coach of the Year: Will Bolt
All-B1G first-team
#Huskers
: Luke Roskam, Jaxon Hallmark, Cade Povich and Schwellenbach.
All-B1G second team: Anderson
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That's 6-foot-1, 195-pound DB Omar Brown lugging the 6-10, 320-pound OL Teddy Prochazka.
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Nebraska QB Dylan Raiola getting some warmup throws in on Pro Day. Malachi Coleman on the receiving end of this one.
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Who in Nebraska football history has a name on par with Decoldest Crawford? A few off the top: I.M. Hipp, Wonder Monds, Thunder Collins.
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Nebraska coach Matt Rhule says the
#Huskers
will play a traditional game Saturday. QBs live. Quarters at 15 minutes with NFL clock timing. A couple special teams modifications and O-linemen in gray jerseys the tweaks.
Rhule: "We're just going to play a game."
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Nebraska is playing a nonconference baseball game today. First time in 450 days.
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Nebraska freshman OLB Garrett Nelson: "A lot of former Blackshirts are probably putting some holes through some walls. I don't blame them."
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Elite Eight for Nebraska women's soccer. Outright Big Ten title for undefeated Nebraska volleyball. Solid Sunday for the
#Huskers
.
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Per a Nebraska release, four current/former
#Huskers
football players among the 18 NU student-athletes to receive their undergraduate degrees this weekend. Always cool to see.
Marquel Dismuke
Lamar Jackson
Tanner Lee
Jonathan Rose
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Patrick O'Brien, Mo Barry, Stanley Morgan and Devine Ozigbo among the players who talked about the meeting leaving the stadium.
The consensus: This is going to be fun.
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Frost says OLB JoJo Domann was advised by medical personnel not to play in the Ohio State game with a torn ligament in his hand. He did anyway, and Frost said he admired the senior for the way he went out.
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After 638 days, Nebraska is playing a football game today with fans in attendance.
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Alex Henwood had his shoulder popped back into place after he dove on the liner late. Darin Erstad said he almost shed a tear on the field as Henwood insisted on staying in the game.
Erstad: "I just kind of smiled and walked away. .. These are my kind of guys."
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Nebraska coach Darin Erstad says Huskers will go with Kyle Perry, Chad Luensmann, Nate Fisher and Colby Gomes for the rotation against Oregon State. Perry is a true frosh from Millard South set to make his first career start.
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Nebraska's Max Anderson is a freshman All-American according to Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. Honors continue to roll in for the Millard West grad and Big Ten Freshman of the Year, who hit .332 with seven homers this spring.
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Nebraska tight end Thomas Fidone will dress this weekend against Purdue, tight ends coach Sean Beckton says on Sports Nightly. Fidone coming back from spring ACL injury.
Beckton: “He’s one of the hardest-working individuals I’ve been around as a coach.”
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Frost said Nebraska gave out its last open scholarship for this fall to senior RB Wyatt Mazour.
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Final: Nebraska 8, Northeastern 6.
#Huskers
rally for their second-largest postseason comeback win in school history. Koty Frank saves the day in relief and Cam Chick's three-run shot sparks the offense.
Nebraska (32-12) will meet No. 1 overall seed Arkansas at 8 pm Saturday.
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Scott Frost asked about why Isaac Armstrong was elevated to starting punter.
"Isaac punted it where he was supposed to punt it."
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Not all home visits are epic. This one with 2020 commit and D-lineman Nash Hutmacher looked like it was.
Had an epic home visit with
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, and
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#limited
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Nebraska DC Bill Busch to anyone who will listen: "That's going to be a flight home! Fly with us!"
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Nebraska's title defense comes up a few points short. But wow, what a season for the young Huskers. This won't be the last time Big Red is on the big stage.
And where does Mikaela Foecke rank among all-time great Nebraska athletes?
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Nebraska picks up a transfer from Texas A&M in the right-hander. Ornelas was a workhorse out of the bullpen for the Aggies in the spring with 42 Ks and 12 walks across 37 innings. Has three years of eligibility left.
#Huskers
restocking arms.
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The last year Nebraska didn't play a football season: 1889.
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Final: Nebraska 8, Northwestern 7 (10 inn.).
#Huskers
tie it in the 9th and take it in extras on a Cole Evans sac fly. That's 10 straight for NU, its second longest win streak in the Big Ten era.
Nebraska (20-5) should be ranked next week.
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Nebraska coach Will Bolt said the
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did indeed put in a bid to host an NCAA baseball regional this season. Says NU has the administration, facilities and fan base to do it.
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Haymarket Park crowd announced at 7,650. That's the 23rd-largest group to see a Nebraska game in park history and the most in the Big Ten era.
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Just off the phone with new Nebraska WR transfer Jahmal Banks. Lots of checks for the
#Huskers
, including a throwing session with Dylan Raiola.
"I haven't see anybody warm up like him. Maybe Sam Hartman (at Wake), how quickly he gets depth and his arm strength."
More to come.
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Nebraska AD Bill Moos just gave a 400-level lesson in how to handle big-time fires/hires. Told Riley, staff and players within an hour of each other before public announcement last week. Players informed of Frost hire today before official release.
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Colorado native JoJo Domann says he was recruited by the Buffs out of high school and took a visit there before ultimately committing to Nebraska.
Domann: "Thank God I came here."
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Nebraska coach Matt Rhule on the Pat McAfee Show says the
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will aim to be 90% high school recruiting and development. Portal adds will be supplemental.
Rhule: “When the time comes and you can get a difference maker, you better go get him.”
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Half an hour after the game ended, a couple Nebraska natives still signing autographs for and taking photos with kids by the left-field berm. Cade Povich (Bellevue West) and Griffin Everitt (Lincoln Southwest) definitely get it.
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Major props to Nebraska kicker Connor Culp for chatting with reporters after the game. Didn't have to.
Culp: “You’re going to have bad days. No one wants them. I want to make the kick more than anyone else in that stadium. Sometimes things just don’t go your way."
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Transfer running back Dante Dowdell flying high on his ongoing visit to Nebraska. A certain quarterback signee is part of the action too.
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An ultimate "don't care" game from Nebraska. Riding a starter returning from injury. Without the B1G Freshman of the Year. Playing its second game in an afternoon. In an *intimidating* environment.
And yet.
#Huskers
topple No. 1. And a chance for a super Monday.
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Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn says it was frustrating that the strike zone was "jumping all around" in the game. Pitchers and hitters didn't know what to expect from at-bat to at-bat, he said.
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Final: Nebraska 7, Michigan 3.
#Huskers
get monster pitching nights from Kyle Perry and Robbie Palkert while Spencer Schwellenbach (3 RBIs) and the offense back them.
NU into the B1G tourney title game for first time in five years. Meets Minnesota/Ohio State on Sunday afternoon.
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Nebraska coach Darin Erstad in the wake of the season-ending loss:
"I've loved a lot of teams we've had here. I've loved this team the most as far as the single fight that they have. ... You look at our numbers, we have no business being here where we're at."
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An extra on-field nod at the Nebraska spring game to Frank Solich, who wore No. 45 as a
#Huskers
fullback in the early 1960s.
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Nebraska's Matt Rhule closes his brief media chat at Pro Day by congratulating men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg on his contract extension.
Rhule with a grin: "I'm going to make him buy me a nice bottle of wine."
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One of the biggest roars of the night is for punter William Przystup, who boots an 84-yard punt. Because of course.
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Will Bolt confirms Nebraska RHP Chance Hroch will get the start Saturday against Arkansas.
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Will Bolt on his postgame radio interview: “One weekend is not going to define the season unless we let it.”
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Final: Nebraska 5, Arkansas 3. Kyle Perry and Spencer Schwellenbach shackle the powerful lineup of the SEC champs. Griffin Everitt's 2-run single in the 5th holds up as Big Red overcomes multiple baserunning gaffes.
#Huskers
a win from the supers. A winner-take-all-game Monday.
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Nebraska shortstop and closer Spencer Schwellenbach honored as the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year in college baseball. The awards keep coming for the Big Ten Player of the Year ahead of next month's MLB draft.
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Nebraska is into the Big Ten tourney by virtue of Illinois (which is now done in league play) losing to Rutgers.
#Huskers
can't fall out of the eight-team field and remain two games behind co-leaders Indiana and Maryland with three games left.
NU in tie for third right now.
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Asked about Blackshirts, Fisher says "They said they was handing those things out like candy last year. ... That's over."
Adds that Barrett Ruud has helped school the assistants on that defensive tradition.
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Nebraska LHP Cade Povich goes to the Twins in the third round at No. 98 overall (and one pick ahead of Arkansas's Kevin Kopps).
#Huskers
ace from this spring will have a decision to make with two years of eligibility remaining.
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Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn: “Nebraska, they outplayed us. No doubt.”
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Nebraska baseball starts at No. 22 in the first batch of Perfect Game rankings released today. Only Big Ten team among the top 25.
The
#Huskers
' second weekend opponent, TCU, opens at No. 8.
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Cade Povich: “It’s a brotherhood. It’s going to hurt for a little bit because this team is so special.
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If Volleyball Day in Memorial Stadium confirmed Nebraska's legacy, the
#Huskers
win at No. 5 Stanford declares this group is on the short list of national title contenders right now.
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"Sam Keller ruined my life" among the signs generating the most buzz in the GameDay crowd.
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Nebraska coach Scott Frost says Ohio State is No. 1 on his voting ballot.
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Rhule says Nebraska will be more of an "old-school" type of team. "I don't believe you can win if you don't win the line of scrimmage."
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Anyone recognize the guy with a sign and wearing the skull necklace?
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Frost asked the biggest difference between his 3-4 defense and last year's at Nebraska:
"The biggest difference is hopefully we can get some stops."
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Frank Solich is giving a press conference in Memorial Stadium.
"It makes sense to be back... It's great to be back," Solich says.
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Updated Big Ten standings:
Nebraska 28-11
Michigan 26-14 2.5 GB
Maryland 25-15 3.5 GB
Indiana 24-15 4 GB
Incredibly, a
#Hukers
win over Ohio State on Sunday coupled with a Michigan loss to Maryland would clinch the Big Ten title.
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Former Nebraska QB Casey Thompson with a day against Monmouth: 20-of-25 passing for 280 yards and 5 TDs (one INT). Owls win 42-20.
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Overhead from Fordham fan on the concourse: "No beer!?!?"
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WR Zavier Betts says the shovel play he scored on was put in early in the week. It looked familiar to the Bellevue West grad.
Betts: “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, we ran that in high school.’”
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Nebraska's rotation for opening weekend:
Friday: LHP Kyle Perry
Saturday 1: RHP Shay Schanaman
Saturday 2: RHP Dawson McCarville
Sunday: RHP Braxton Bragg
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