Nebraska's Brice Williams impresses to cap 2025 NBA Combine
After a record-breaking two-year run at Nebraska, Brice Williams became the first Husker since Bryce McGowens in 2022 to be invited to the NBA Draft combine in Chicago.
It was an up-and-down week for the first-team All-Big Ten guard, but Williams capped his opportunity with a breakout showing in his second team scrimmage on Thursday. He scored a game-high 24 points on 7-of-12 shooting, including hitting 4-of-9 3-pointers and 6-of-6 free throws.
The performance came after a rough first scrimmage on Wednesday, where Williams finished 0-for-8 from the field but hauled in seven rebounds.
“I love playing against high-level competition and competing,” Williams told reporters during Combine interviews this week. “It’s been a lot this week, just with all the people and all the media and all the spectators. But it’s been fun. It’s been a great experience.”
The Huntersville, N.C., measured 6 feet, 5.25 inches without shoes and weighed in at 205.8 pounds. Most notably, with an impressive wingspan of 6-10.75, Williams posted the fifth-largest wingspan differential (5-5) of any player at the combine.
With his first taste of the NBA stage now in the books, Williams is ready for the next step in his basketball journey.
“There’s a little bit of pressure,” Williams said of his NBA Combine experience, “but you’ve got to get used to that. Playing at this level, you’ve got to deal with that night in and night out.”
“I really don’t try to get ahead of myself,” Williams added. “It would be nice for any team to pick me and any team to believe in me. But I’m taking it day by day.”
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Williams felt he took ‘major leaps and bounds’ at Nebraska
A month ago, Williams became Nebraska’s all-time single-season scoring leader with a team-high 21 points in a College Basketball Crown championship win over UCF. He also helped the Huskers clinch their first postseason title since 1996.
In the process, Williams solidified his place among the best players in program history.
The former sixth man at Charlotte had one of the most productive two-year stretches the program has ever seen. Along with breaking James Palmer Jr.’s season points mark, he also passed Eric Piatkowski’s 31-year-old single-game scoring record (42 in 1994) with 43 at Ohio State.
Last season, he helped lead Nebraska to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2014. This year, he guided the Huskers to their first postseason title since the 1996 NIT.
Williams credited his time as a Husker for helping him vault closer to achieving his basketball dreams.
“I definitely got out of it what I was hoping for, and I definitely got out of it what I put in,” Williams said. “It was a lot of hard work, but it wasn’t without the help of my coaches at Charlotte and at Nebraska. But I felt like when I got to Nebraska, I took major leaps and bounds in my development, and also what the scouts saw in me. It was a good, educated move for me, and it turned out to work in my favor.”
“As a player and a person, I’m a winner,” Williams added. “I’m a hard-working guy, I’m a loyal guy. I ride for the people who ride with me wherever I play at.”
