Nebraska beats Purdue

[basketball nut]

Nebraska just beat Purdue 88-72 with Mast getting 18 points and 4 rebounds.

[Da Coach]

Box scorer- Nebraska 88 #1 ranked Purdue 72 - https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...meId/401600321

Rienk Mast was terrific. He had 18 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists playing against Purdue's 7'4" center Zach Edey, a certain NBA lottery pick in the 2024 NBA draft.
Rienk also helped hold Edey, Purdue's top scorer and rebounder (22.3 ppg & 10.2 rpg) under his average at 15 points and 7 rebounds.


#2 ranked Houston also lost tonight 57-53 to Iowa State in a Big 12 game.
It was Houston's first loss of the season, they are now 14-1.- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...meId/401603407

[Classof77]

That's a monster upset.

[Stryker]

Box scorer- Nebraska 88 #1 ranked Purdue 72 - https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...meId/401600321

Rienk Mast was terrific. He had 18 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists playing against Purdue's 7'4" center Zach Edey, a certain NBA lottery pick in the 2024 NBA draft.
Rienk also helped hold Edey, Purdue's top scorer and rebounder (22.3 ppg & 10.2 rpg) under his average at 15 points and 7 rebounds.


#2 ranked Houston also lost tonight 57-53 to Iowa State in a Big 12 game.
It was Houston's first loss of the season, they are now 14-1.- https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...meId/401603407

Great game by Mast!

Also, no way Edey is an NBA lottery pick. He is waaaay too slow, will not be able to defend in the NBA, and can't shoot from outside. He will be lucky to be drafted at all.

[Da Coach]

Great game by Mast!

Also, no way Edey is an NBA lottery pick. He is waaaay too slow, will not be able to defend in the NBA, and can't shoot from outside. He will be lucky to be drafted at all.

OK, maybe drop the word "lottery", though he will get drafted.
Edey was last season's Big Ten Player of the Year, and this season's Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year. He currently leads the Big Ten in scoring, rebounding, and field goal percentage.
He was also last season's consensus National Player of the Year (by Naismith, Associated Press, John Wooden, Oscar Robinson, NABC, and Sporting News)

Here are some Rienk Mast highlights from last night- https://twitter.com/CBB_Europe/status/1745083068593893551
Post-game press conference- https://twitter.com/MattFosterTV/sta...77719106953322

[Bradley8792]

When Mast left many here (including myself) thought he would be a bench warmer. Nice to see he proved us wrong. I’d say he’s accomplishing his goal of competing at a higher level.

[bradleyfan124]

When is Nebraska going to do what the professional teams do... compensation or a player to be named later for Rienk Mast?

[ManMythLegend]

Sounds like Mast has been playing well. Makes it sting even more than he's not here. Go BU!

[MidMajorFan11]

All of the MVC transfers to B1G are doing well (Mast, Domask, Krikke, Jones). Has to hurt 2x as bad for SIU...

[yoda]

Belmont's 6-10 Even Brauns was also a key player there at Belmont...
and he also transferred to Iowa thinking he'd maybe get a chance for the kind of playing time
Krikke is getting. But, not so - he is DEEP on the bench, getting only a couple minutes of garbage time
every now & then... less time even than some walk-ons, while Iowa Freshman Owen Freeman is now a starter.
Brauns only has one year left, so it'll be interesting to see if he stays there at Iowa.

[Bradley3342]

Great game by Mast!

Also, no way Edey is an NBA lottery pick. He is waaaay too slow, will not be able to defend in the NBA, and can't shoot from outside. He will be lucky to be drafted at all.

If Edey isn’t a lottery pick he will definitely be drafted early…

[Stryker]

If Edey isn’t a lottery pick he will definitely be drafted early…

If he was going to get drafted early he would have went into the draft last year. He knew he doesn't translate to the NBA, that's why he came back. The NLI at Purdue was better than going pro.