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Fred Hoiberg gives injury update, game against Rutgers

Nebraska Men's Basketball is headed to Piscataway, New Jersey to take on the Rutgers Scarlett Knights. Tip off is at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The game will be broadcasted on BTN.

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Nebraska Men’s Basketball Head Coach Fred Hoiberg addressed the media’s questions today, including the status of Lithuanian senior forward Ugnius Jarusevicius.Jarusevicius will “likely be out for the rest of the season”, Coach Hoiberg confirmed to the media in his morning press conference.The senior transfer forward from Central Michigan only played in one game for 10 minutes this year, against New Hampshire on December 30th. He had seven points and two rebounds from the bench.The former Chippewa had played in 26 games for Central Michigan last year, averaging 16.2 points a game and 7.3 rebounds, earning first-team All Mid-American Conference honors.Hoiberg also addressed the media about the last two games, against Michigan and Illinois, which resulted in the first two losses of the season, saying:”You lose a couple games and sometimes you think the sky’s falling in. And you know, at the end of the day you lost the two top five teams. But there’s a lot of things that they did. And there’s a lot of things that we did that, that could have prevented that and got us on the other side of it.”Nebraska Men’s Basketball is headed to Piscataway, New Jersey to take on the Rutgers Scarlett Knights. Tip off is at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The game will be broadcasted on BTN.Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google Search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |

Nebraska Men’s Basketball Head Coach Fred Hoiberg addressed the media’s questions today, including the status of Lithuanian senior forward Ugnius Jarusevicius.

Jarusevicius will “likely be out for the rest of the season”, Coach Hoiberg confirmed to the media in his morning press conference.

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The senior transfer forward from Central Michigan only played in one game for 10 minutes this year, against New Hampshire on December 30th. He had seven points and two rebounds from the bench.

The former Chippewa had played in 26 games for Central Michigan last year, averaging 16.2 points a game and 7.3 rebounds, earning first-team All Mid-American Conference honors.

Hoiberg also addressed the media about the last two games, against Michigan and Illinois, which resulted in the first two losses of the season, saying:

“You lose a couple games and sometimes you think the sky’s falling in. And you know, at the end of the day you lost the two top five teams. But there’s a lot of things that they did. And there’s a lot of things that we did that, that could have prevented that and got us on the other side of it.”

Nebraska Men’s Basketball is headed to Piscataway, New Jersey to take on the Rutgers Scarlett Knights. Tip off is at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The game will be broadcasted on BTN.

Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google Search.

NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |

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