Jack McVeigh, a junior on the Nebraska men’s basketball team, entered this season figuring he might not earn a starting role, what with the influx of talent recruited by coach Tim Miles and staff.
So the shooting guard from Australia set a personal goal. He wanted to earn the Big Ten Conference’s Sixth Man of the Year Award as the league’s top player off the bench.
Entering Nebraska’s regular-season finale Sunday against Penn State, McVeigh has played in a grand total of three Big Ten games, and only one since Jan. 12, the last time the Huskers played Penn State.