(Lincoln, NE) – Former Husker men’s basketball player Keisei Tominaga is now the second Nebraska men’s basketball player selected to the 2024 Paris Olympics after Japan announced its 12-man team on Monday morning.
Tominaga will participate in his second Olympic Games, after playing in the 3×3 team for Japan in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Tominaga recently signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Indiana Pacers. He has been in and out of the Japan Senior National Team for around three years and was a big part of Japan’s qualifying for the Paris Olympics at the 2023 FIBA World Cup. Tominaga averaged 11.4 points per game on 45 percent shooting from the field and 38 percent from deep. Japan went 3-2 in the FIBA World Cup and qualified for Paris.
In Tominaga’s three years at Nebraska, he scored 1,074 points and ranks 30th all-time in Husker scoring, and seventh in all-time 3-pointers made. He played his best season a year ago, averaging 15.1 points per game, and posted career highs in multiple offensive categories, earning second-team All-Big Ten, his second Big Ten honor. Tominaga posted a career-high 31 points at Illinois, one of three 30-point games throughout his career, and led Nebraska to a 23-11 record, third-place Big Ten finish, and Nebraska’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2014.
Keisei Tominaga joins Jack McVeigh (Australia) as the second Nebraska men’s basketball player participating in the 2024 Olympics.