Following the excitement of Saturday’s homecoming game against the Purdue Boilermakers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln freshman Andre Becker proclaimed he is already excited for prom.

“I’m so stoked that I’ve already started looking for my tux,” Becker, a first year history major, explained. “I’m definitely wearing a bright red tie, that’s for sure. I might even get one with the UNL logo on it.”

Though the spring semester doesn’t start for another four months, the eighteen year old recent high school graduate expressed his barely contained excitement at the prospect of dressing up, going to dinner downtown with his friends and their dates, and dancing the night away in the romantic atmosphere of UNL’s City Campus.

“I’m thinking of asking that cute girl from my psych class,” the freshman continued, referring to Jennie Webster, one of his three hundred classmates in section 002 of PSYC 181: Introduction to Psychology. “I’ll bet she’s been waiting her whole life for a gutsy guy like me to ask her to her first college prom.”

Despite the fact that the fall semester is not even half over, Becker spent a considerable portion of the evening after the game searching online for “Husker-themed tuxedos” and “How to get a girlfriend in college”.

“I’ll take her to the Dairy Store someday after class. That’s the perfect time to take Jennie’s hand, look her in the eye, and ask her to be my prom date! No girl could possibly turn that down,” Becker eagerly explained to reporters.

Though the university has not announced a prom theme, Becker asserted his confidence that whatever theme the senior class chose, prom night would be a memorable occasion.

“I don’t care if the theme is ‘Big Red Ball’, ‘Scott Frost Romp’, or even ‘The Grit and Glory Gala’, my freshman prom will be a night to remember,” Becker reported.

At press time, Becker was overheard musing with his roommate how the university would fit all twenty thousand undergraduates into the Mabel Lee North Gym.