{"id":24326,"date":"2026-03-19T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=24326"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:46:40","slug":"nebraska-cornhuskers-play-the-troy-trojans-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=24326","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Cornhuskers play the Troy Trojans in first round of NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><!--[--><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/troy-trojans-team\" class=\"entity\">Troy Trojans<\/a> (22-11, 14-6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/sun-belt\" class=\"entity\">Sun Belt<\/a>) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/nebraska-cornhuskers-team\" class=\"entity\">Nebraska Cornhuskers<\/a> (26-6, 15-6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/big-ten\" class=\"entity\">Big Ten<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Oklahoma City; Thursday, 12:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cornhuskers -12.5; over\/under is 137.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: No. 15 Nebraska plays in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Troy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Cornhuskers have gone 15-6 against Big Ten opponents, with an 11-0 record in non-conference play. Nebraska ranks second in the Big Ten at limiting opponent scoring, giving up 66.2 points while holding opponents to 40.4% shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Trojans&#8217; record in Sun Belt action is 14-6. Troy is fourth in the Sun Belt scoring 80.3 points per game and is shooting 44.9%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Nebraska scores 77.3 points per game, 4.2 more points than the 73.1 Troy allows. Troy scores 14.1 more points per game (80.3) than Nebraska gives up to opponents (66.2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/pryce-sandfort-player\" class=\"entity\">Pryce Sandfort<\/a> is scoring 17.8 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Cornhuskers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/rienk-mast-player\" class=\"entity\">Rienk Mast<\/a> is averaging 12.3 points and 5.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/thomas-dowd-player\" class=\"entity\">Thomas Dowd<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points and 10.1 rebounds for the Trojans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/cooper-campbell-player\" class=\"entity\">Cooper Campbell<\/a> is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Cornhuskers: 6-4, averaging 71.4 points, 31.2 rebounds, 17.1 assists, 7.7 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Trojans: 7-3, averaging 72.4 points, 32.8 rebounds, 15.0 assists, 5.7 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.1 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/articles\/cbk\/nebraska-cornhuskers-play-the-troy-trojans-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Trojans (22-11, 14-6 Sun Belt) vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers (26-6, 15-6 Big Ten) Oklahoma City; Thursday, 12:40 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cornhuskers -12.5; over\/under is 137.5 BOTTOM LINE: No. 15 Nebraska plays in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Troy. The Cornhuskers have gone 15-6 against Big Ten opponents, with an 11-0 &#8230; <a title=\"Nebraska Cornhuskers play the Troy Trojans in first round of NCAA Tournament\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=24326\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nebraska Cornhuskers play the Troy Trojans in first round of NCAA Tournament\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Iona-Gaels-and-the-Green-Bay-Phoenix-square-off-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24327,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions\/24327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}