Nebraska wins $300,000 prize in College Basketball Crown tournament

The Nebraska Cornhuskers won't regret their travel to Las Vegas.

Despite staying successful confederate Nevada for a agelong 3 weeks aft not making the NCAA tournament, the Cornhuskers made it each the worthwhile by taking location the first-ever College Basketball Crown.

Nebraska took down the UCF Knights, 77-66, to assertion the $300,000 prize.

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Connor Essegian of the Nebraska Cornhuskers celebrates successful the archetypal fractional of the title crippled of the College Basketball Crown tourney against the UCF Knights astatine T-Mobile Arena connected April 6, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (Ian Maule/Getty Images)

The crippled was tied astatine 35 a portion astatine the half, and the 2nd fractional was each UCF to begin. But it appears that Nebraska took immoderate notes from Houston's comeback against Duke successful the Final Four.

The Knights got retired to a 14-0 tally to unfastened up the 2nd half, but the Cornhuskers responded with a 24-3 tally to pb by six with 7:27 to go.

UCF chopped it to 4 conscionable implicit a infinitesimal later, but that's arsenic adjacent arsenic UCF got arsenic Nebraska began to proceed their takeover and abstracted themselves.

Juwan Gary of the Nebraska Cornhuskers is shown successful the archetypal fractional of the title crippled of the College Basketball Crown tourney astatine T-Mobile Arena connected April 6, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (Louis Grasse/Getty Images)

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In the last 14:36, Nebraska outscored UCF, 42-17.

Juwan Gary, the tournament's MVP, dropped 20 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. Brice Williams and Connor Essegian each scored 21 points, with the second doing it disconnected the bench.

Jordan Ivy-Curry's 29 points were not capable successful UCF's losing effort.

This is the wearable trophy for the College Basketball Brown. (AP News)

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It was a deep-shooting session for Nebraska arsenic they went 9-for-21 (42.9%) from three. UCF, connected the different hand, went 7-for-29, a 24.1% clip.

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