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Boise St v Nebraska

Sunday, November 15, 2026, 1:00 PM ET at Sanford Pentagon. Boise St our rank 61 · 3-0; Nebraska AP 25, our rank 18 · 3-0.

Who will win Boise St vs Nebraska?

From this morning's ratings; logged before tip-off.

The model gives Nebraska a 75% chance to beat Boise State, with a projected score of Nebraska 81, Boise St 74.

To winNebraska 75%Boise St 25%
Projected score74–81Boise St, then Nebraska
Margin7.6Nebraska · no line posted
Total155.1no line posted
First half34–38Nebraska ahead 65%
Boise St by 20by 10Evenby 10by 20by 30Nebraska by 40Model: Nebraska by 7.6Boise St by 20Evenby 20Nebraska by 40Model: Nebraska by 7.6

Half of games like thisFour in five

Calls of 70–80% have been right 74.5% of the time in 14,414 past games, and the typical miss on the margin is 8.8 points. After the final, the result is pinned to this strip. As of 2:23 AM ET on November 13, 2026. Updated three times a day until tip-off.

Players to watch

our projection, not a sportsbook's
PlayerPtsRebAstLast gamesChance of
Nebraska
SandfortF · 30 min19.44.42.420+ 46%
FragerF · 26 min11.53.71.410+ 58%
WilkinsonF · 17 min10.44.20.810+ 51%
KapkeF · 18 min8.94.10.710+ 40%
Boise St
Wheeler-ThomasG · 29 min14.32.63.015+ 45%
ButkaF · 29 min13.57.92.015+ 39%
NetoG · 30 min13.22.63.615+ 38%
AhrensF · 26 min11.24.41.310+ 57%

Bars: points in the player's latest games this season. Blue line: tonight's projection. Every regular's line

The game without one player

Pick a regular to sit him

Without Pryce Sandfort: Boise St 41%Nebraska 59%

The white mark is the call with him: Nebraska 75%.

PlayerPoints a game he addsNebraska without himChangeProjected score
Nebraska
Pryce Sandfort4.959%−1676–79
Braden Frager3.963%−1276–79
Cale Jacobsen3.265%−1075–80
Trevan Leonhardt2.368%−775–80
Boise St
Spencer Ahrens2.581%+673–83
Dovydas Butka2.481%+673–83
Damari Wheeler-Thomas2.481%+673–83
Pearson Carmichael2.080%+573–82

Change is in Nebraska's win chance, in points. Scores read Boise St, then Nebraska. A player's value is what the team is better by with him than with a replacement, from the player ratings.

Play-by-play

    Team numbers

    Form

    Each team's last five before this game

    Boise St 3-0WWW

    1. Nov 11W 111-79vs OaklandCovered −16.5 · Over 160.5
    2. Nov 8W 100-81vs ButlerCovered −2.5 · Over 159.5
    3. Nov 4W 132-53vs West Coast Baptist
    Last 3
    3–0, scoring 114.3 and allowing 71.0
    Against the spread, this season
    2–0
    Totals, this season
    2 over, 0 under

    Nebraska 3-0WWW

    1. Nov 11W 94-60vs LindenwoodDidn't cover −34.5 · Over 152.5
    2. Nov 7W 67-58vs ProvidenceCovered −2.5 · Under 158.5
    3. Nov 2W 106-64vs Le Moyne
    Last 3
    3–0, scoring 89.0 and allowing 60.7
    Against the spread, this season
    1–1
    Totals, this season
    1 over, 1 under

    The spread and the total are the lines logged with each prediction. Form is what happened; the ratings above already count recent games more.

    Offense against defense

    Adjusted for opponents · rank of 365
    Boise StNebraska
    Points scored per 100 possessions116.1 38th118.2 19th
    Points allowed per 100102.4 89th94.6 21st
    Possessions a game71.4 111th70.4 222nd
    Shooting (effective field-goal %)52.5% 60th52.8% 48th
    Opponents' shooting51.0% 222nd47.8% 28th
    Turnovers, share of possessions16.4% 24th17.1% 76th
    Offensive rebounds, share of misses31.4% 201st31.1% 226th
    Free throws per shot0.25 221st0.28 105th

    The widest gap: Nebraska's offense (19th) against Boise St's defense (89th), of 365 teams.

    First half

    Projected from the full-game numbers

    Ahead at halftime

    Projected halftime score
    Boise St 34, Nebraska 38
    First-half margin
    Nebraska by 4.1
    First-half points, both teams
    72.8
    Projected second half
    Boise St 39, Nebraska 43
    Second-half points, both teams
    82.3
    Tied at the half
    4%
    Boise St, first halves so far
    Led 3 of 3 · 57.3 scored, 33.0 allowed
    Nebraska, first halves so far
    Led 3 of 3 · 49.7 scored, 29.7 allowed

    Our own projection, not a sportsbook's first-half line. On 11,516 past games it had not seen, the halftime leader was right 67.2% of the time and the first-half total was off by 8.1 points on average. This season: 366 of 476 halftime leaders right. Scorecard

    Player projections

    Each player's projected line for this game

    Boise St

    PlayerMinPtsRebAst3s
    Aginaldo NetoG3013.22.63.60.9
    15+ pts 38% · 3+ reb 46% · 4+ ast 46%
    Dovydas ButkaF2913.57.92.00.2
    15+ pts 39% · 8+ reb 51% · 2+ ast 57%
    Damari Wheeler-ThomasG2914.32.63.02.1
    15+ pts 45% · 3+ reb 44% · 3+ ast 55%
    Spencer AhrensF2611.24.41.31.7
    10+ pts 57% · 5+ reb 43% · 2+ threes 46%
    Pearson CarmichaelF219.03.11.01.7
    10+ pts 41% · 3+ reb 55% · 2+ threes 46%
    Julian BowieG174.81.80.81.0
    5+ pts 44% · 2+ reb 49% · 1+ threes 60%
    Jerquarius StanbackF146.44.20.90.2
    5+ pts 59% · 4+ reb 56% · 2+ ast 21%
    Rayzhon BergersenG123.11.10.80.6
    5+ pts 26% · 2+ reb 30% · 1+ threes 43%

    Nebraska

    PlayerMinPtsRebAst3s
    Pryce SandfortF3019.44.42.43.2
    20+ pts 46% · 5+ reb 44% · 3+ threes 56%
    Braden FragerF2611.53.71.41.9
    10+ pts 58% · 4+ reb 48% · 2+ threes 51%
    Cale JacobsenG268.73.32.30.6
    10+ pts 39% · 3+ reb 58% · 1+ threes 45%
    Trevan LeonhardtG204.82.93.00.5
    5+ pts 44% · 3+ reb 51% · 3+ ast 56%
    Boden KapkeF188.94.10.70.6
    10+ pts 40% · 4+ reb 54% · 1+ threes 42%
    Taj DeGourvilleG184.72.42.90.5
    5+ pts 43% · 3+ reb 41% · 3+ ast 53%
    Damon WilkinsonF1710.44.20.80.3
    10+ pts 51% · 4+ reb 55% · 1+ threes 24%
    Jacob LanierG154.42.31.30.7
    5+ pts 40% · 3+ reb 39% · 1+ threes 46%

    Our own projections from each player's minutes and production, this opponent and the game's pace: not a sportsbook's lines. Under each name, the round numbers the player is about as likely as not to reach. How they have done

    Why the model sees it this way

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