Hoooly crap! We just took game one 6-3 in 16 innings! Two top 10 teams playing for a conference championship is exciting. Add 16 innings and you get "holy crap"-exciting. NU tied it at 3s in the 9th after we beaned and walked their first two batters. Seven innings later Dane Carter steped up to the plate for the eighth time sporting 5 strikeouts and 1 hit; bases loaded; two out; Carter doubles to right center; three runs. Nebraska answers by stranding a runner at second. Ball game.

When I see a game one of a series go 16 innings I think, crap, we just burned through all of our pitchers. But not today. Thanks to Travis Starling and his 8 innings of relief pitching (8!), we only used three pitchers, while NU used 5.