Christian Standhardinger is on a mission.

"My dream is to play professional basketball and to get rich and to make my mother happy by buying her a house and giving her the key,’’ he said with a big smile.

"But,’’ he added in a serious tone, "there always has to be a Plan B.’’

Which is why the 6-foot-8, 210-pounder from Munich, Germany, is on scholarship at Nebraska instead of playing for pay somewhere overseas.

From the time Husker coach Doc Sadler began recruiting Standhardinger, turning pro was in the mix.