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On Tuesday night, halfway between the Huskers’ domination against Minnesota, Nebraska basketball fans saw a unique halftime show take center stage at Pinnacle Bank Arena. In a grand total of seven minutes, David Garibaldi, a performance painter from Sacramento, Calif., began and finished a distinctive portrait of Nebraska basketball icon Eric Piatkowski (pictured above far right with Marc Boehm).

The intermission became a bit of a spectacle and a fitting source of proof to honor Eric Todd Piatkowski, a.