South Carolina Upstate Spartans at Nebraska Cornhuskers

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South Carolina Upstate Spartans

4-4, 1-3 Away

Nebraska Cornhuskers

7-0, 4-0 Home

Nebraska hosts South Carolina Upstate after Mast's 31-point performance

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South Carolina Upstate Spartans (4-4) at Nebraska Cornhuskers (7-0)

Lincoln, Nebraska; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

Cornhuskers -25.5; over/under is 158.5

BOTTOM LINE: Nebraska hosts South Carolina Upstate after Rienk Mast scored 31 points in Nebraska's 80-73 win against the Winthrop Eagles.

The Cornhuskers have gone 4-0 at home. Nebraska is seventh in the Big Ten in rebounding averaging 35.9 rebounds. Mast leads the Cornhuskers with 6.3 boards.

The Spartans are 1/3 on the road. South Carolina Upstate ranks third in the Big South with 14.5 assists per game led by Tyler Smith averaging 3.6.

Nebraska makes 48.9% of its shots from the field this season, which is 8.3 percentage points higher than South Carolina Upstate has allowed to its opponents (40.6%). South Carolina Upstate averages 7.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 fewer made shots on average than the 9.9 per game Nebraska gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: Mast is scoring 18.3 points per game and averaging 6.3 rebounds for the Cornhuskers. Pryce Sandfort is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers.

Carmelo Adkins is scoring 15.4 points per game and averaging 5.0 rebounds for the Spartans. Mason Bendinger is averaging 15.3 points and 2.4 rebounds.

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Nebraska: 98.2%

South Carolina Upstate: 1.8%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Statistics

UPST		NEB
W1	Streak	W7
69.0	Points Against	71.1
81.4	Points Per Game	86.6
47	Field Goal %	49
34	Three Point %	36
38.5	Rebounds Per Game	37.6
14.8	Assists Per Game	20.0
5.6	Blocks Per Game	2.0
7.9	Steals Per Game	7.3
0.9	Team Turnovers Per Game	0.0
13.4	Total Turnovers Per Game	10.1
69.0	Points Against	71.1

Game Information

Pinnacle Bank Arena

Location: Lincoln, NE
Capacity:

2025-26 Big South Conference Standings

TEAM	CONF	GB	OVER
High Point	0-0	-	6-1
Charleston Southern	0-0	-	5-4
South Carolina Upstate	0-0	-	4-4
Presbyterian	0-0	-	4-5
Longwood	0-0	-	3-4
Winthrop	0-0	-	3-4
UNC Asheville	0-0	-	2-4
Radford	0-0	-	2-6
Gardner-Webb	0-0	-	0-8

2025-26 Big Ten Conference Standings

TEAM	CONF	GB	OVER
Iowa	0-0	-	7-0
Michigan	0-0	-	7-0
Michigan State	0-0	-	7-0
Nebraska	0-0	-	7-0
Purdue	0-0	-	7-0
USC	0-0	-	7-0
Indiana	0-0	-	6-0
Ohio State	0-0	-	6-1
Penn State	0-0	-	6-1
Illinois	0-0	-	6-2
Northwestern	0-0	-	5-2
UCLA	0-0	-	5-2
Washington	0-0	-	5-2
Wisconsin	0-0	-	5-2
Maryland	0-0	-	5-3
Rutgers	0-0	-	5-3
Oregon	0-0	-	4-3
Minnesota	0-0	-	4-4