A total of 12 current and former Nebraska football players make up half of Nebraska's 24 student-athletes across all sports who will receive degrees during UNL December Commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Graduate commencement will occur on Friday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m., before undergraduate commencement on Saturday, Dec. 17, at 9 a.m.
The events also will be streamed live at http://www.commencement.unl.edu.
Brian Buschini, Braxton Clark, Tyreke Johnson, Matt Masker, Darius Moore, Simon Otte, Lawrence Pete, Phalen Sanford, Ryan Schommer and Markese Stepp make up the 10 Husker football players earning undergraduate degrees on Saturday, while quarterback Casey Thompson (Applied Science) and linebacker Chris Kolarevic (Business) will earn their master's degrees on Friday.