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Looking for one play that symbolized Nebraska's disarray during Sunday's 67-61 loss at Creighton?

Try the very first time the Huskers touched the ball.

Ryan Anderson rebounded a miss by CU's Kenny Lawson 11 seconds into the game. The uncovered Anderson took a dribble and tried to pass the ball in the backcourt to point guard Lance Jeter.

But Jeter wasn't looking, and the ball sailed out of bounds for the first of NU's season-high 20 turnovers.

“It was just miscommunication,'' Anderson said. “That's the way it was all night. The chemistry of the team, I don't know. Everybody was on a different page. Everybody was trying to do their own thing, and it wasn't working.

“Twenty turnovers, missed assignments — you can't win doing that, especially at somebody else's house.''

Anderson, a senior, had one of his uglier games. He was 1 of 7 from the field, scored five points, committed four turnovers and fouled out with 3:43 to play.

But he was far from alone in having a tough day.

Nebraska's three post players — 6-foot-11 Jorge Brian Diaz, 6-10 Brandon Ubel and 6-8 Quincy Hankins-Cole — combined for one rebound in 51 minutes. Meanwhile, CU's Lawson went off for 25 points and 10 rebounds in 28 minutes.

Nebraska coach Doc Sadler, asked if he saw more mental errors than usual, cut loose with:

“Woo! Did I? Just things we don't do. When you've got as many young guys as both teams have, it's not going to be a pretty game.

“Both teams played hard. But the mental mistakes by both teams were bad, but moreso on ours.''

One thing Nebraska did extremely well was stop Creighton's 3-point shooting.

The Jays, shooting 34.2 percent while averaging 25 3s a game, went 1 for 10. But defending the 3, Jeter said, led to unexpected problems in the Huskers' covering the pick and roll.

“It was something Coach got us ready for that we didn't execute,'' Jeter said. “That's all mental. We've got to pay more attention to the scouting report and in practice.''

Compounding the Huskers' woes, they shot more 3s (18) than the team with the 3-point reputation.