Cameron Beck, then a student athletic trainer for the Nebraska men’s basketball team, was taping ankles before a January home game in 2013-14, the first season for the Huskers in Pinnacle Bank Arena, and that remarkable, unexpected run to the NCAA Tournament.
Turns out, that season – and that day, in particular – years later created more magic for Beck.
As he helped prepare the Huskers to play that day, Beck heard players talking about having their cheeks swabbed in the arena lobby as part of the Be the Match program, where volunteers can join the National Bone Marrow Registry and potentially become a bone marrow donor.