For a period Tuesday night, Nebraska basketball fans seemed most interested in why some Huskers were wearing aqua-colored shoes.
It seemed like a harmless storyline on a sleepy weeknight around the holidays with a winless team in town.
Then, almost akin to Mom asking to empty the dishwasher or take out the trash, they had to turn their attention elsewhere, namely a close, competitive game.
Such a chore wasn’t expected any more than Nebraska’s one-point deficit early in the second half, or Prairie View A&M’s 16-0 run in the first half.
Nebraska, with the colorful shoes as part of the adidas Christmas collection the NBA players will wear on Christmas Day, finally went to work, too, and posted an 81-50 victory before 10,091 fans at Pinnacle Bank Arena.