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'Emotional' meeting helps Husker hoops get over the hump in the islands

Generally, the overriding emotion when you're on a tropical vacation is squarely in the area of relaxed.

The Nebraska men's basketball team, though, needed to find a different emotion after a Tuesday performance that looked more like the team at the beginning of the season than the one that has made steady progress in the games since.

So there was a team meeting Wednesday morning, hours before the Huskers took on South Florida in their final game at the Cayman Islands Classic. And whatever was said did the trick.

"It was very important for us (to bounce back).