For better or worse — and let’s be honest, the latter outweighed the former by more than what your scale will say Monday morning — last year’s Cincinnati-Nebraska men’s basketball game was memorable.
In hindsight, Nebraska’s 56-55 double-overtime victory against a team that finished 23-11 and reached the third round of the NCAA Tournament was certainly a season highlight.
How the Huskers got the job done, though, resembled a root canal.
The game lasted 2 hours, 45 minutes and featured a combined 40 turnovers and 42 fouls. Nebraska shot 32.7 percent from the field. Cincinnati shot 31.