The fate of suspended Nebraska football player Andy Christensen is now in hands of the jurors.

The 22-year-old man is charged with first-degree sexual assault for allegedly molesting a 23-year-old Lincoln woman in a downtown Lincoln bar on March 8.

The most significant part of the proceedings Friday morning was the closing arguments from the state and the defense. Deputy Lancaster county attorney Krista Hendrick told the jury that an intoxicated Christensen committed the crime in an act of what she called "liquid courage" after he had been drinking rum and cokes for several hours.

Hendrick went on to tell the six men and six women of the jury, "he's a football player. The whole state looks up to him. He thinks that makes him above the rules and he can get away with it."

Hendrick said Andy Christensen did something stupid when he was drunk, and sometimes good people do bad things.

Christensen did not take the stand in his own defense but his attorney Bob Creager told jurors that they should not believe the woman because she was full of "liquid courage" herself.

"It just amazes me that that woman has the audacity to say she was in control of her mind and body," he said.

Creager suggested there was no way she could have known who in the crowded bar committed the act and that this is a circumstantial evidence case, it wasn't "two people in an elevator."

Creager told the jury that in the woman's mind Christensen was guilty and nothing was going to change that.

But there wasn't any DNA or witness to corroborate what she said.

Christensen could get up to 50 years in prison if he's convicted.

The judge told jurors if they had not reached a unanimous decision by 5:00 Friday afternoon they would reconvene Tuesday morning at 9:00.