It began a couple of years ago, mostly unnoticed, when Malcolm Laws and Johnny Trueblood started doing celebrations on the sideline when their teammates made big plays.
It's been a big week for the gang of Nebraska reserves known as the Bench Mob. They've blown up on social media, videos of their celebrations piling up millions of views. As the Husker men's basketball team heads into Sunday's regular-season finale against Penn State at Pinnacle Bank Arena, the guys on the sideline are getting some of the same love normally reserved for their teammates on the court.
The celebrations range from the sublime — a re-enactment of WWE superstar Randy Orton's RKO during the Indiana game was particularly well-done — to the ridiculous: a less-than-enthusiastic macarena that left NU head coach Tim Miles unimpressed.