#895/896 ASA TOP PLAY ON 10* Over 161.5 Points – Iowa vs Nebraska, Friday at 9 PM ET - These are the 2 fastest paced teams in the Big 10 and that lead a boatload of shot attempts in this game. They met in Iowa City just 11 days ago and put up 173 points on 138 shot attempts! The teams combined to shoot well but it wasn’t one of those games where both teams hit 60% or anything like that. Iowa & Nebraska combined to make 47% of their attempts and just 32% of their triples. They also made 24 FT’s which again is not an inordinate amount considering both teams foul a lot. Iowa scored 98 points on 1.23 PPP which is just slightly above their season average of 1.20 (5th best nationally). Nebraska actually averaged below 1.00 PPP in that game putting up 75 points on 0.94 PPP which is below their season average of 1.02 PPP. So you can see, despite the high scoring game, nothing was really out of the ordinary for these 2 teams. When facing the top 4 offensive efficiency teams (5 games) in the conference (Iowa, Purdue, Ohio State, and Michigan) the Huskers have allowed 102, 98, 92, 87, and 85 points. They rank dead last in the Big 10 (conference games) in efficiency, eFG% allowed, 2-point % allowed, and 13th in 3 point % allowed. Iowa’s defense ranks 7th or lower in the conference in each of those categories. Iowa leads the Big 10 in scoring averaging 83 PPP and they’ve been even better as of late averaging 89 PPG over their last 5 games. They’ve only played 3 games this year vs teams inside the top 5 in the conference in tempo (fast paced teams) and totaled 173, 170, and 165 in those games. Nebraska ranks 6th in the conference in scoring at 73 PPG so they are solid offenisvely. Defensively these two teams rank 13th and 14th (out of 14) in scoring defense. Everything sets up for another shootout here and we’ll grab the OVER.