NCAA Basketball: Top 10 players to wear jersey No. 30 in 2023-24 season
By Joey Loose
3. Keisei Tominaga (Nebraska)
It’s not often that a sharpshooter can create basketball excitement at Nebraska, let alone someone with a background like Tominaga. A native of Japan, he came to the U. S. to play at Ranger College in Texas back in 2019. After those two years at the junior college level, he attracted plenty of D1 attention and found a home in Lincoln under Fred Hoiberg. Tominaga was already quite successful in his second season with the Cornhuskers but year three was even more profound.
Tominaga put up 15.1 points and 2.3 rebounds a game while making 38% of his 3-pointers and nearly 58% from inside the arc. He earned Second Team All-Big Ten honors as one of the league’s best 3-pointer shooters. More importantly, he was the leading scorer on a Nebraska team that reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a decade.
A number of special performance really etched Tominaga’s importance into stone. He scored 28 points in a win over Indiana a week before helped lead a massive upset against Purdue, scoring 19 points against the Boilermakers. Weeks later he tortured Illinois with a 31-point effort and did the same with 30 points at Ann Arbor to end the regular season. He’d score at least 18 points in his final five collegiate games, including 21 points in Nebraska’s NCAA Tournament loss against Texas A&M.