Keisei Tominaga had a 21-point effort in his final game as a University of Nebraska basketball player.

The senior shooting guard sank five 3-pointers in the Cornhuskers’ NCAA first-round defeat by a 98-83 margin to the Texas A&M Aggies in Memphis on March 22.

After the game, Tominaga spoke with raw emotion about the end of his college career.

“Of course it’s sad that we lost,” Tominaga told reporters at FedEx Forum, the home of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. “But it’s also sad that I can’t play for Coach [Fred] Hoiberg anymore or play with my teammates. That’s the [saddest] thing right now.”

Hoiberg, who led the Cornhuskers to their first NCAA Tournament berth in a decade, spoke highly of Tominaga and the impact that he made in the game and for the program over the past three seasons.

“Keisei got us off to a great start,” Hoiberg said in the postgame news conference, speaking specifically about Tominaga’s 11-point effort in the first half. “[Senior forward] Josiah [Allick] was all over the place on the glass, flying in there. Really proud of these two guys for everything that they accomplished this year. But at the end of the day it was a very tough matchup.”

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Read my report on Tominaga’s final college game, including Hoiberg’s detailed remarks on Tominaga’s impact on the program, on JAPAN Forward’s SportsLook.