Brice Williams Season 2024-25

Honors and Awards

• Second-Team All-Conference USA (2023)
• College Basketball Invitational Tournament Most Valuable Player (2023)
• USBWA National Player of the Week (1/3/2023)
• Two-time Conference USA Player of the Week (2/27/23, 1/2/23)
• UNL Bronze Academic Medallion (2024)
• NU Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall, 2023)

2023-24 (Junior)
Brice Williams was the only Husker to start all 34 contests, averaging 13.4 points, 5.5 points, 2.5 assists and 1.1 steals per game. He was among the team leaders in most categories, ranking second on the team in scoring, steals and blocked shots and third in both rebounds and assists per game. Williams shot a team-best 39 percent from 3-point range and was seventh in the Big Ten in free throw percentage (.844). He reached double figures a team-high 25 times, including a season-high 25-point effort in the win over Oregon State. Williams shined during the Huskers' postseason run, averaging 23.3 ppg on 50 per-cent shooting, including 47 percent from 3-point range, in Nebraska’s three postseason games. He topped NU with 24 points and four assists in the Huskers' NCAA Tournament game against Texas A&M. He had 23 points, along with five boards and three assists in the Big Ten Tournament loss to No. 13 Illinois and 23 points, including a career-high four 3-pointers, against Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament opener.  During Big Ten action, he reached double figures 13 times, including a 22-point effort with six rebounds and three steals in an overtime loss at Rutgers. He also had 18-point efforts at both Minnesota and at Indiana.  He posted his first double-double as a Husker at Northwestern with 13 points and 10 boards, while his best performance in Big Ten play may have been in NU's win over No. 1 Purdue as he nearly posted a triple-double with a career-high nine assists, a season high 11 rebounds, nine points and three steals. He also keyed NU's overtime win over No. 6 Wisconsin with 17 points, including six points in OT, and nine rebounds. Williams also scored all 14 of his points in the second half against Michigan State, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:10 remaining. He also nearly recorded a double-double at Kansas State with 10 points and nine boards while also totaling 17 points and nine caroms against Stony Brook. 

Before Nebraska
Williams played three seasons at Charlotte, totaling 801 points and 329 rebounds in 88 career games.  He played in all 36 games for the 49ers in 2023-23, averaging a team-high 13.8 points per game as Charlotte went 22-14 and won the 2023 College Basketball Invitational. A second-team All-Conference USA pick, Williams ranked among C-USA leaders in scoring (eighth), rebounding (15th), free throw percentage (.843, fifth) and 3-pointers per game (1.6, 14th). He was named the MVP of the CBI after averaging 16.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game in Charlotte’s tournament run. He posted a pair of double-doubles in the event, including a 14-point, 11-rebound effort in the semifinals. Williams, who missed the 2021-22 season with a knee injury, was a two-time C-USA player of the Week and earned USBWA National Player of the Week in early January after averaging 31.0 points on 78 percent shooting, 5.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game in a pair of wins. In all, Williams had a trio of 30-point games and 23 double-figure efforts in 2022-23.  He earned his second weekly honor in late February by averaging 19.5 points and 9.0 rebounds per game in wins over North Texas and Rice. 

Williams saw significant action in 2020-21, averaging 9.7 points per game while shooting 47 percent from the field and 43 percent from 3-point range. He totaled 14 double-figure efforts, including a season-high 22 points on 7-of-11 shooting in a win over UAB. Williams played in 27 games as a true freshman in 2019-20 and had two double-figure games, including 11 points on 3-of-5 from 3-point range in his collegiate debut against James Madison.  

He was one of the top 20 seniors in the state of North Carolina at Hopewell High School. As a senior, he was a second-team Charlotte Observer All-Mecklenburg County pick after averaging 21.2 points and 5.3 rebounds as a senior. A two-time All-District 9 and I-Meck All-Conference honoree, he totaled over 1,000 points in his high school career. He averaged 18 points per game as a junior to garner all-district and all-conference honors for the first time. He played AAU ball with Team Loaded 704 for Coach Ed Addie, winning the Adidas Classic Finale Silver Division Championship in 2018.

Personal
Brice is the son of Katrina and the late Henry Williams and was born July 5, 2001 in Charlotte, N.C. He has two older siblings (Kristen and Lauren). Brice graduated from Charlotte with a degree in mass communication studies in July of 2023 and is in NU's graduate program.  Williams is the first Husker basketball player from North Carolina since 2018-19 (Isaac Copeland Jr. and Thomas Allen). Brice's father, Henry, is Charlotte’s all-time leading scorer with 2,383 points and had his No. 34 jersey retired in 1992. A second-round pick of the San Antonio Spurs in 1992, he played a decade overseas and was the Italian League MVP in 1995-96.