Nebraska Cornhuskers (NET 12/AP 24/Coaches RV)
vs. Omaha Mavericks
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, 7 p.m. (CT)
Lincoln, Nebraska (Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment)
Particular Occasion: Tis The Season (Toys 4 Tots Assortment)
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Huskers Hunt tenth Straight Win In opposition to Omaha
• NCAA NET No. 12 Nebraska hunts for simply the fourth double-digit profitable streak in class historical past when the Huskers play host to Omaha Tuesday evening at Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment.
• Tip-off between the Huge Crimson (9-0) and Mavericks (1-8) in Lincoln is ready for 7 p.m. (CT) with tickets obtainable at Huskers.com. Free dwell audio from the Huskers Radio Community shall be obtainable on Huskers.com, the Huskers App, 107.3 FM in Lincoln and 1490 AM/97.3 FM/97.7 HD3 in Omaha with Nate Rohr and Jeff Griesch on the decision.
• A dwell video stream shall be obtainable to subscribers of B1G+.
• Nebraska improved to 9-0 with a record-setting 101-83 win at Penn State on Saturday afternoon. The Huskers set the varsity report with a 36-point fourth quarter on their strategy to 67 second-half factors – tying essentially the most in class historical past in any convention recreation.
• One of many nation’s prime offensive groups, the Huskers produced 80 factors for the school-record ninth consecutive recreation with their third 100-point efficiency of the season. The 101 factors towards the Girl Lions additionally matched the varsity report for many factors ever scored in a convention street contest.
• The Huskers are led by Nancy Lieberman Award candidate Britt Prince. The 5-11 sophomore level guard from Omaha ranks among the many prime scorers within the Huge Ten Convention at 21.2 factors whereas including 4.1 assists. The Elkhorn North grad and two-time Nebraska Excessive Faculty Participant of the Yr has produced double figures in 13 consecutive video games, together with 20 factors and 6 assists at Penn State. She owns a pair of 30-point efforts (ORU, Virginia) early this season. She is taking pictures 63.9 p.c.
• Prince leads an rising sophomore class for the Huskers that features Amiah Hargrove. The 6-2 ahead from Christopher, In poor health., erupted for a career-high 26 factors at Penn State. Hargrove poured in 19 within the second half alone on 8-of-9 taking pictures. She hit 10-of-14 pictures and 4-of-5 threes in one of the best recreation of her younger profession. Hargrove scored 39 factors in 35 recreation minutes final week for the Huge Crimson. She is averaging 12.4 factors and a team-leading 6.3 rebounds whereas hitting 61.5 p.c of her pictures.
• Sophomore Petra Bozan pitched in a profession excessive of her personal with 17 factors within the win at Penn State. Bozan scored Nebraska’s ultimate two factors of the third quarter and first 9 factors of the fourth quarter to assist Hargrove and Prince gas the Huge Crimson’s second-half scoring explosion. Bozan, a 6-3 ahead from Break up, Croatia, is averaging 9.0 factors and 4.4 rebounds in her first season as a starter changing four-time All-Huge Ten put up Alexis Markowski. Bozan additionally simply missed a double-double with 12 factors and 9 rebounds in final Wednesday’s house win over Bradley.
• Junior Jessica Petrie has been a mannequin of consistency as a starter inside alongside Bozan. The 6-2 ahead from Gold Coast, Australia, produced double figures for the eighth time in 9 video games with 10 factors at Penn State. She produced her first double-double of the season and second of her profession with 15 factors and 10 rebounds in NU’s final house win over Bradley. She is averaging 12.0- factors and 5.3 rebounds on the season.
• Senior Callin Hake provides a dynamic playmaker at each ends. The 5-8 guard from Victoria, Minn., is likely one of the Huge Ten’s prime defenders, main the Huskers in steals (15) and fees drawn. She provides a team-best 5.0 assists to go along with her 8.0 factors per recreation, together with a career-high eight assists at Penn State.
• Graduate guard Hailey Weaver rounds out NU’s beginning 5 as a pacesetter alongside Hake on the defensive finish. The Huge Crimson’s prime ball-pressuring guard (“Pirate” or “Hound”), Weaver ranks second on the workforce in steals and shares the workforce lead with Petrie in blocked pictures whereas including 4.7 factors and a pair of.9 rebounds.
• Nebraska’s rotation goes 10-12 deep, together with vital contributions from Eliza Maupin (8.3 ppg, 3.6 rpg), Logan Nissley (7.6 ppg, 2.9 rpg), Claire Johnson (6.0 ppg, 1.7 rpg) and Kennadi Williams (2.9 ppg), together with Emily Fisher and Alanna Neale.
Nebraska All-Time Win Streaks
1. 2009-10 (1-30) 30
2. 2021-22 (1-12) 12
3. 2012-13 (19-28) 10
4. 2025-26 (1-9, lively) 9
2013-14 (19-27) 9
2011-12 (8-16) 9
1997-97 (1-9) 9
No. 24 Nebraska Cornhuskers (NET 12) (9-0, 0-0 Huge Ten)
4 – Petra Bozan – 6-3 – So. – F – 9.0 ppg, 4.4 rpg
12 – Jessica Petrie – 6-2 – Jr. – F – 12.0 ppg, 5.3 rpg
1 – Hailey Weaver – 6-0 – Gr. – G – 4.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg
14 – Callin Hake – 5-8 – Sr. – G – 8.0 ppg, 2.9 rpg
23 – Britt Prince – 5-11 – So. – G – 21.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg
Off the Bench
33 – Amiah Hargrove – 6-2 – So. – F – 12.4 ppg, 6.3 rpg
21 – Eliza Maupin – 6-3 – Sr. – F – 8.3 ppg, 3.6 rpg
5 – Claire Johnson – 5-9 – So. – G – 6.0 ppg, 1.7 rpg
2 – Logan Nissley – 6-0 – Jr. – G – 7.6 ppg, 2.9 rpg
15 – Kennadi Williams – 5-4 – RFr. – G – 2.9 ppg, 0.8 rpg
34 – Emily Fisher – 6-0 – Jr. – G/F – 2.8 ppg, 1.3 rpg
00 – Alanna Neale – 5-10 – Fr. – G – 1.6 ppg, 0.4 rpg
22 – Natalie Potts – 6-2 – RSo. – F – 0.0 ppg, 0.0 rpg
3 – Allison Weidner [Out] – 5-10 – Gr. – G – Redshirt
Head Coach: Amy Williams (Nebraska, 1998)
tenth Season at Nebraska (167-123); nineteenth Season Total (360-232)
11 – Ali Stephens – 5-11 – Fr. – F – 5.8 ppg, 4.7 rpg
14 – Avril Smith – 6-0 – Fr. – F – 2.3 ppg, 9.9 rpg
2 – Leekaya Burke Perryman – 5-3 – Fr. – G – 4.7 ppg, 2.4 rpg
4 – Daria Shelby – 5-8 – So. – G – 3.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
5 – Sarai Estupinan – 5-5 – Gr. – G – 15.6 ppg, 2.1 rpg
Off the Bench
22 – Cora Olsen – 5-9 – Jr. – F – 17.3 ppg, 4.8 rpg
24 – Regan Juenemann – 5-9 – Fr. – G – 7.8 ppg, 1.1 rpg
33 – Lillian Merow – 6-2 – Fr. – C – 4.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg
12 – Elsa Vedral – 5-10 – Fr. – G – 3.6 ppg, 1.7 rpg
7 – Esra Kurban – 5-8 – Fr. – G – 0.7 ppg, 0.2 rpg
23 – Erikka Gooden – 5-11 – Fr. – F – 0.0 ppg, 1.0 rpg
Head Coach: Jamie Carey (Texas, 2004)
First Season at Omaha (1-8); First Season Total (1-8)
Huskers Gather for U.S. Marines Toys 4 Tots
• The Nebraska ladies’s basketball program will take part within the annual U.S. Marines Toys 4 Tots drive throughout its recreation with Omaha on Tuesday at Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment.
• Followers are inspired to donate new, unwrapped toys or money, which shall be collected by U.S. Marines positioned at each of the primary entrances to Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment.
Nebraska 1 of three Unbeaten Basketball Faculties
• Nebraska is one in every of simply three remaining NCAA Division I faculties with undefeated males’s and girls’s basketball applications.
• The Husker males’s workforce coached by Fred Hoiberg (9-0) and the ladies’s workforce coached by Amy Williams (9-0) be part of Iowa State and Vanderbilt as the one unbeaten basketball faculties remaining in NCAA Division I.
• It’s the first time the NU males’s and girls’s basketball groups have began 9-0 the identical season.
• The Husker males, who personal the nation’s longest lively profitable streak (13 video games), play host to Wisconsin at Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment on Wednesday at 8 p.m. within the Huge Crimson’s Huge Ten opener.
Huskers Hitting 80 at Historic Charge
• Nebraska has scored not less than 80 factors in every of its 9 video games to open 2025-26, together with three 100-point scoring efforts.
• The one different time Nebraska produced 80 or extra factors in eight consecutive video games got here from the 1987-88 Huge Eight Champion Huskers in an eight-game span from Jan. 6 at Maine (L, 82-89) by a 94-82 win at Oklahoma (Jan. 27). The 1987-88 Huskers went 7-1 through the stretch – beforehand the longest streak of scoring 80 or extra factors in class historical past.
Huskers Cling 100 on Girl Lions, Tie Faculty Season Report
• Nebraska’s 101-point effort at Penn State not solely tied the varsity scoring report in a convention street recreation, it additionally tied a faculty season report with NU’s third 100-point peformance in 2025-26.
• The final time Nebraska put up three 100-point video games in a season got here in 2021-22, when the Huskers crossed the century mark in three of NU’s first 5 video games towards Maine (108, Nov. 9), Prairie View A&M (102, Nov. 11) and North Carolina Central (113, Nov. 20). The one different time the Huskers have produced three 100-point video games in the identical season got here in 1982-83.
• Nebraska has by no means scored 100 factors in 4 video games in the identical season.
Environment friendly Huge Crimson Unfold Wealth, Share Rock
• As a workforce, NU ranks ninth nationally in scoring offense (90.7 ppg), whereas rating second in subject purpose proportion (.539), twelfth in scoring margin (30.1 ppg) and twenty first in three-point proportion (.378).
• NU ranks sixth nationally in assists per recreation (21.1 apg) and tenth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.62). Three Huskers rank within the prime 75 nationally in assist-to-turnover – Callin Hake (thirty third, 2.65), Logan Nissley (53rd, 2.33) and Britt Prince (seventy fifth, 2.06) – however don’t lead the workforce within the class. Redshirt freshman Kennadi Williams leads the Huskers with 22 assists to five turnovers (4.40) however doesn’t make the nationwide minimal of three.0 assists per recreation.
• Nebraska’s early season depth has been outstanding, particularly contemplating the Huskers have been enjoying with out injured Katrina McClain Award candidate Natalie Potts and Allison Weidner, a graduate guard redshirting in 2025-26 with an harm. In 1,800 recreation minutes, Nebraska’s 5 starters have mixed for roughly 1,030 minutes, whereas the reserves have performed roughly 770.
• Nebraska ranks fourth nationally in bench scoring (35.8 ppg), together with 45 factors within the Huge Ten-opening street win at Penn State.
• As a workforce, Nebraska leads the Huge Ten and ranks second nationally by taking pictures 53.9 p.c from the sphere by 9 video games. Solely two Husker groups have ever hit 50 p.c or higher from the sphere – 1991-92 (.503) and 1987-88 (.500).
Scouting the Omaha Mavericks
• Omaha involves Lincoln in Coach Jamie Carey’s first season main the Mavs. The previous Texas and Stanford level guard has seen her workforce wrestle to a 1-8 begin, together with a 71-60 house loss to Northern Colorado on Saturday.
• The Mavericks, who completed 14-17 general and 5-11 within the Summit League final season, misplaced final yr’s main scorers Grace Cave (16.2 ppg) and Ja Harvey (15.0 ppg) to commencement.
• Cora Olsen is again because the Mavs’ prime returning scorer (9.4 ppg) from a yr in the past. The 5-9 junior ahead out of Millard South is averaging a team-best 17.3 factors however has missed the final three video games. Olsen had 23 level and 7 rebounds in 39 minutes in an 82-73 loss to Cal State Bakersfield at Baxter Enviornment in Omaha (Nov. 20). It was her third 20-point scoring effort of the season. Olsen had three factors and 4 rebounds towards Nebraska final season.
• Sophomore Daria Shelby has stepped into the beginning 5 rather than Olsen, however is averaging simply 3.0 factors and a pair of.0 rebounds early within the yr.
• Graduate guard Saria Estupinan led the Mavs with 23 factors and 5 assists within the loss to the Bears. The 5-5 switch from Outdated Dominion is averaging 15.6 factors and a team-best 3.4 assists per recreation, whereas additionally main Omaha with 19 three-pointers (.339). Estupinan, who can be taking pictures practically 90 p.c (35-39) on the free throw line, additionally owns 41 turnovers (4.6 pg). The fifth-year collegian who’s competing at her fifth faculty, appeared in 15 video games with two begins at ODU final yr. She was a walk-on who redshirted at UTSA in 2023-24. She began her profession at St. Mary’s (Texas) earlier than transferring to Tallahassee CC.
• Freshmen Ali Stephens (5.8 ppg, 4.7 rpg), Leekaya Burke Perryman (4.7 ppg) and Avril Smith (2.3 ppg) have began each recreation early of their Mav careers. Smith, a 6-0 ahead from Millard North is Omaha’s prime rebounder, averaging 9.9 boards per recreation. Stephens is coming off a 14-points, seven-rebound effort towards Northern Colorado.
• A fourth freshman, Regan Juenemann comes off the bench as Omaha’s third-leading scorer at 7.8 factors per recreation. She is taking pictures a team-best 43.3 p.c (13-30) from three-point vary. She had 9 factors Saturday towards Northern Colorado.
• Freshmen Lillian Merow (4.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg) – the tallest lively Mav at 6-2 – had eight factors and three rebounds Saturday towards Northern Colorado. Elsa Vedral (3.6 ppg, 1.7 rpg) offers the Mavs six vital first-year freshman contributors. Vedral, who was an all-stater at Omaha Marian, is the daughter of former Nebraska soccer participant Mike Vedral. Her brother Noah was the beginning quarterback at Rutgers, whereas her brother Ezra performs soccer at Kansas. Her sister Anna is a pole vaulter at Kansas and her brother Eli was a cross nation and monitor athlete at Creighton.
• As a workforce, Omaha is taking pictures simply 34.2 p.c from the sphere, together with 30.7 p.c from three-point vary. The Mavs have hit 67.3 p.c of their free throws. Omaha has been outscored 78.0-56.9 by 9 video games and carries a minus-6.9 rebound margin and a minus-7.2 turnover margin.
Nebraska vs. Omaha Sequence Historical past
• Nebraska leads the all-time collection with Omaha, 18-9, together with 4 consecutive wins. In the latest assembly, the Huskers rolled to an 88-48 victory over the Mavs within the 2024-25 season opener at Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment on Nov. 4, 2024. Alexis Markowski and Natalie Potts every scored 14 factors to steer six Huskers in double figures. Allison Weidner added 11 factors and Britt Prince pitched in 10 in her collegiate debut. Logan Nissley and Petra Bozan every contributed 12 factors off the bench for the Huge Crimson in entrance of 8,106 followers at Nebraska’s Annual Life Expertise Sportsmanship Pep Rally recreation.
• The Huskers additionally rolled to a 100-36 win over the Mavs at Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment within the 2022-23 season opener, as a part of the Sportsmanship Pep Rally (Nov. 7, 2022).
• Nebraska was ranked within the prime 25 nationally for every of the 2 earlier conferences, together with No. 22 in 2022 and No. 23 in 2024.
• Within the first assembly between the colleges as Division I groups, Nebraska labored its strategy to a 66-58 win over the Mavs in Coach Amy Williams‘ fourth recreation as NU’s head coach on Nov. 22, 2016 at PBA.
• In 2010-11, the Huskers defeated the Division II Mavs, 80-44 on the Devaney Middle, as freshman Jordan Hooper scored 25 factors on 12-of-14 taking pictures from the sphere. The 2010 assembly (Nov. 26) was the primary between the colleges since UNO defeated the Huskers, 76-74, in Omaha on Dec. 20, 1986.
• Nebraska owns six straight collection wins in Lincoln, courting again to a 66-62 loss on Jan. 30, 1980.
• Total, Nebraska is 11-3 towards Omaha in Lincoln, courting again to the first-ever assembly between the colleges on Dec. 4, 1974 – a 47-41 win by the Mavericks.
Prince Named to Nancy Lieberman Watch Record
• Fan voting for the Nancy Lieberman Level Guard Award is open at http://www.hoophallawards.com.
• Prince, a 5-11 sophomore from Omaha, Neb., returns for her second season at Nebraska after averaging 13.4 factors, 4.0 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.7 steals as a real freshman.
• Prince was the MVP of the Emerald Coast Traditional Seaside Bracket (Nov. 24-25) after main the Huskers to a event title with 30 factors on 12-of-17 taking pictures in a 91-82 win over Virginia. She averaged 24.0 factors and 6.5 assists within the event, together with 18 factors and a season-high seven assists in a win over Purdue Fort Wayne.
• Prince established her profession excessive with 30 factors on 13-of-18 taking pictures in a win over Oral Roberts (Nov. 19).
• She added 20 factors in a Huge Ten win at Penn State (Dec. 6).
• She opened 2025-26 with 19 factors, 5 rebounds, an help and a steal in a win over Northwestern State (Nov. 3).
• Prince adopted with 23 factors, two assists and two steals in a win over Samford (Nov. 8), earlier than getting 18 factors and a season-high seven rebounds in a win over Creighton (Nov. 12).
• She added 16 factors, two rebounds and three assists in a win over North Dakota State in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Nov. 16).
• Prince had 17 factors, 4 rebounds and 5 assists within the win over Bradley (Dec. 3).
• Prince, a two-time Gatorade and MaxPreps Nebraska Excessive Faculty Participant of the Yr at Elkhorn North, earned Huge Ten All-Freshman honors whereas main the Huskers to the 2025 NCAA Event.
• Within the NCAA Event, Prince led the Huge Crimson with 14 factors and 6 assists towards Louisville, after powering Nebraska to 2 wins on the Huge Ten Event by averaging 17.0 factors and 5.3 assists over three video games, together with a season-high-tying 24 factors towards Huge Ten Event champion and NCAA No. 1 seed UCLA.
• Prince was the USBWA Nationwide Freshman of the Week (Jan. 21) after going for 22 factors, seven rebounds, 5 assists and a career-high six steals in a street win at Iowa (Jan. 16), when she hit a career-high 5 three-pointers.
Potts Earns Spot on Katrina McClain Watch Record
• Fan voting for the Katrina McClain Energy Ahead Award is open at http://www.hoophallawards.com.
• Potts, a 6-2 redshirt sophomore from O’Fallon, Mo., returns for her third season at Nebraska in 2025-26. She was the 2023-24 Huge Ten Freshman of the Yr, earlier than struggling a season-ending knee harm within the fifth recreation of the 2024-25 marketing campaign. Potts was averaging workforce bests of 17.5 factors and eight.0 rebounds by the primary 4 video games previous to her harm. She was taking pictures 69.4 p.c from the sphere, together with 72.7 p.c (8-11) from three-point vary to steer the Huge Crimson to a No. 19 nationwide rating and a 4-0 begin.
• In 40-minute manufacturing, Potts put up eye-popping numbers of 28.6 factors and 13.1 rebounds per 40 to rank among the many greatest gamers within the Huge Ten by the primary 4 video games final season.
• In 2023-24, Potts led all Huge Ten freshmen in rebounding (5.2 rpg) and subject purpose proportion (.489), whereas rating second amongst league freshmen in scoring (10.2 ppg) and free throw proportion (.829) in 2023-24. She began all 35 video games for the 23-12 Huskers, who superior to the Huge Ten Championship Recreation and the second spherical of the NCAA Event.
• Potts, who received 8-of-15 Huge Ten Freshman-of-the-Week awards through the common season, was essentially the most constant freshman within the convention from begin to end. She received the inaugural weekly honor on Nov. 13, 2023, earlier than claiming the ultimate two freshman awards on Feb. 26 and March 4. She received not less than one weekly honor throughout all 5 months of the season. Her eight weekly awards matched the entire of fellow Nebraska Huge Ten Freshman of the Yr Alexis Markowski in 2022.
• Potts, who additionally claimed an honorable-mention All-Huge Ten award from the convention media, was a unanimous alternative on the Huge Ten All-Freshman Group by the convention coaches.
• After sustaining her knee harm towards North Alabama (Nov. 19, 2024), Potts underwent knee surgical procedure (Dec. 4). She continues to rehab with hopes of returning to the court docket mid-season.
Nebraska By The Numbers
• Britt Prince (.639) ranks seventh nationally and 2nd within the Huge Ten in subject purpose proportion.
• Amiah Hargrove (.616) ranks twelfth nationally and 4th within the Huge Ten in subject purpose proportion.
• Nebraska (.539 FG%) leads the Huge Ten and ranks 2nd nationally in workforce subject purpose proportion.
• Nebraska (90.7 ppg) ranks ninth nationally and third within the Huge Ten in scoring offense.
• Nebraska (35.8 ppg) ranks 4th nationally and 2nd within the Huge Ten in bench scoring.
• Nebraska (21.1 apg) ranks sixth nationally and third within the Huge Ten in assists per recreation.
• Nebraska (+30.1 ppg) ranks twelfth nationally and third within the Huge Ten in scoring margin.
• Nebraska (1.62) ranks tenth nationally and 4th within the Huge Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio.
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