Lincoln – Callin Hake tied a profession excessive with 17 factors, whereas including six assists to assist No. 24 Nebraska roll to an 87-35 girls’s basketball win over Omaha on Tuesday evening at Pinnacle Financial institution Area.
With the victory, the Huskers improved to 10-0 and tied the third-longest successful streak in class historical past by extending a school-record stretch of scoring 80 or extra factors for the tenth consecutive recreation.
Hake caught fired from lengthy vary within the second quarter with 14 factors, together with 4 three-pointers, as Nebraska surged to a 46-22 halftime lead. For the sport, Hake completed 6-of-10 from the ground, together with 5-of-9 from lengthy vary, whereas shelling out six assists with no turnovers and including two steals.
After the senior guard from Victoria, Minn., fueled Nebraska’s first half, junior Jessica Petrie carried the Huskers to an enormous third quarter. The 6-2 ahead from Gold Coast, Australia, scored 10 within the interval on her strategy to 14 within the recreation. She hit two three-pointers to open the quarter after getting a pair of blocked photographs on the defensive finish. She added seven rebounds on the evening to assist Nebraska outscore the Mavs 22-8 within the third.
Fellow ahead Amiah Hargrove rounded out three Huskers in double figures with 11 factors, whereas simply lacking a double-double with 9 rebounds. She added three assists, no turnovers and a pair of steals.
Three Huskers – Petra Bozan, Britt Prince and Logan Nissley – every contributed eight factors in a balanced effort for the Huge Purple, as 11 gamers discovered the scoring column and 10 grabbed not less than one rebound.
Nebraska tied a season excessive with 13 three-pointers whereas trying a school-record 40 threes on the evening in opposition to Omaha’s triangle-and-two and box-and-one defenses. The Huskers hit 46.1 p.c (35-76) of their photographs from the ground general and gained the rebounding battle, 41-36, whereas dominating in turnover margin, 31-11. The Huskers additionally matched their season excessive with 17 steals in opposition to the Mavs. Nebraska additionally shared the ball properly with 29 assists.
The Huge Purple held Omaha to 33.3 p.c (15-45) taking pictures, together with simply 1-of-18 threes (.056).
Nebraska’s halfcourt man-to-man protection locked down the Mavs within the second half, holding Omaha to only 13 second-half factors, together with 5 within the fourth quarter.
Omaha jumped to a fast 10-3 lead within the first 3:30, earlier than Nebraska answered with a 10-point run that included 4 factors from Hargrove and three-pointers by Hake and Kennadi Williams, who additionally completed the evening with six assists and no turnovers. Williams’ three-pointer gave NU its first lead at 13-10 with just below 4 minutes left within the opening quarter.
Nebraska took a 20-15 result in the second quarter and pushed the margin to double digits for the primary time on a Nissley three with six minutes left. Hake then sank three straight threes round a conventional three-point play by Eliza Maupin to present NU its first 20-point edge at 41-21 with 2:47 left within the half.
Nebraska returns to non-conference house motion on Sunday when the Huskers play host to Illinois State. Tip-off with the Redbirds is ready for 11 a.m. (CT) with tickets accessible now at Huskers.com. The Huskers Radio Community will present free stay audio on Huskers.com and the Huskers App, whereas a stay video stream can be accessible to subscribers of B1G+.
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