Gophers Finish Road Stint at Nebraska Saturday

BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV: BTN (Connor Onion - play by play, Shon Morris - color)
Tip Time: 2:31 p.m. CT
Radio: Learfield IMG: KFAN 100.3 FM
Mike Grimm (Play-by-Play)
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SERIES INFORMATION
78th Meeting (54-23 all time)
Minnesota at Nebraska: 15-14
Gophers All-Time vs. Big Ten: 785-898*
* - excludes vacated games

STARTING FIVE
• The University of Minnesota men's basketball team is back in action for the fourth time in eight days when it plays at Nebraska Saturday. Minnesota is in the midst of four games in a week, three of which are on the road. The Feb 20 game vs. Illinois was rescheduled due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols with Minnesota and originally scheduled for Feb. 7. Minnesota played at Maryland on Wednesday and play at Nebraska Saturday.
• The Gophers are 15-14 on the Huskers' home court. Minnesota is looking for its first win at Nebraska since February 5, 2012. The Gophers won that game, 69-61 that season under then head coach Tubby Smith.
• Minnesota dropped an 88-70 contest to Maryland on Wednesday night in College Park, Md. Pharrel Payne led Minnesota with 17 points, Dawson Garcia had 15 points and a team-high eight rebounds, and Jaden Henley added 14 points. Payne was 7-of-11 from the field, scoring 13 points in the second half, and finished with 17 points in 17 minutes. Payne has scored double digits in three of his past five games. Jaden Henley had a career-high three steals and reached double-figures in the scoring column for the third time this season and the second time in the past four games. Henley has started returned to the starting lineup during the Iowa game.
• Minnesota made 3-of-5 (.600) from three-point range in the first half against Maryland and finished the game at 7-of-10, which ranked fourth in school history and is the best effort since making 11-of-15 (733) versus Franklin Pierce on Nov. 20, 2014. It marked the ninth time the Gophers have had more than seven threes in a game this season and first since their Ohio State win on Jan. 12.
• Jamison Battle added 31 points against Illinois Monday, his second 30-point production game of his Gopher career. In fact, Battle scored 22 of his 31 points in the second half of the Illinois game. The last time a Gopher player had 20 points in a half was also Battle when he had 21 against Michigan on Dec. 11, 2021. Battle has had five 20-plus point games this season and scored double figures now in 42 games as a Gopher and 14 this season.

ABOUT NEBRASKA
• Nebraska is seeing its first action since Sunday when it defeated Maryland at home, 70-66 in overtime. The Huskers are 14-14 this season and 7-10 in Big Ten play. The Huskers have won four of the past five games.
• Derrick Walker leads the team in points and rebounds as he averages 14.0 and 7.2 per game. Arguably one of the hottest shooters in the Big Ten is Keisei Tominaga, who averages 12.7 ppg, but 23.6 ppg in the past five games and shooting 45.5 percent. Sam Griesel averages 11.4 ppg and holds a team-best 103 assists.
• As a team, Nebraska is scoring 66.9 points per game, while allowing 69.1 They are shooting 45.1 percent as a team and 31.9 past the arc. The Huskers also average 35 rebounds and are shooting 63.6 percent from free throws.

THE LAST TIME
• Minnesota dropped an 81-79 overtime loss at Williams Arena on Jan. 7 against the Huskers. Jamison Battle led Minnesota with 20 points and Dawson Garcia recorded his first double-double of the season with 19 points and 15 rebounds, but the Gophers came up just short in overtime.

BATTLE RECEIVES ACADEMIC RECOGNITION
• Jamison Battle has been named to the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Men's Basketball Team. Recognizing the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at their current institution in order to be nominated.
• Battle is a sports management major and holds a 3.5 cumulative grade point average.

ON THE DOCKET
• Minnesota returns to Williams Arena when it hosts Rutgers, March 2 at 6 p.m. on FS1.
• Mike Grimm and Spencer Tollackson will also be on the radio call on KFAN 100.3 FM.

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Players Mentioned

Jamison Battle

Dawson Garcia

Jaden Henley

Pharrel Payne