Wolverines to Head to Lincoln for First Battle With Cornhuskers

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's basketball team (8-15, 3-10 Big Ten) is off to Lincoln, Neb., for a Saturday (Feb. 10) contest with Nebraska (16-8, 6-7 Big Ten) at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 5 p.m. CST, and the game will be broadcast live on Big Ten Network.

Notes

• Saturday will mark the first of two games with Nebraska this season. The Cornhuskers will play a return contest in Ann Arbor to close the regular season on Sunday, March 10.

• This season, Nebraska is 14-1 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The Cornhuskers have had upset wins over Michigan State (77-70), No. 1 Purdue (88-72) and No. 6 Wisconsin (80-72). The lone loss was to No. 15 Creighton (89-60).

• Michigan has won its last three games inside Pinnacle Bank Arena. Since the Cornhuskers joined the Big Ten in 2012, the Wolverines have gone 7-1 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Overall, U-M is 7-3 in Lincoln.

• Michigan heads to Nebraska after winning its first game since Jan. 15 -- a 72-68 upset win over No. 11 Wisconsin on Wednesday (Feb. 7), snapping a five-game slide. The win over the Badgers was the first against a ranked opponent in nearly two years, the last coming March 13, 2022 against No. 5 Tennessee in the second round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament. Olivier Nkamhoua was a member of that Tennessee squad, but did not play due to injury.

• U-M is second in the Big Ten with 8.6 three-pointers per game. Nebraska leads the conference with 9.5 per game.

• Nkamhoua, who averages 15.5 points and a team-best 7.3 rebounds, is 10 points shy of 1,100 career points (1,090) and just six boards away from 600 rebounds (594).

• In his last three road games (with Dug McDaniel out due to his academic road suspension), Jaelin Llewellyn has filled in starting all three games and averaging 14.3 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists. He is shooting 56.3 percent (9-for-16) from long range in 32.2 minutes per game.

• Tarris Reed Jr. is just nine rebounds away from 300 (291). This season, he is averaging 6.9 per game, but in his last five games he is at 9.4 per game, including a career-best 15 against Rutgers (Feb. 3) -- his fifth 10-plus board game.

• Reed has recorded 10 blocks over his last three games. He leads U-M for the second straight season with 35 -- topping his 31 from a season ago.

• Will Tschetter has consistently shot 50-plus percent from long range all season. He enters Saturday's matchup with Nebraska at 56.4 percent (22-for-39) from beyond the arc. He averages seven points per game.

• Since the start of January (10 games), Terrance Williams II has shot 84.4 percent (27-for-32) at the free-throw line. With this stretch he now leads U-M shooting 80.3 percent for the season.