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INDIANAPOLIS — They left the court with heads drooped, low gazes, broken spirits.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tenth-ranked Wisconsin lost leading scorer Johnny Davis when he was injured on a flagrant foul early in the second half, and the Badgers missed a chance to clinch the Big Ten title outright by falling to Nebraska 74-73 Sunday.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sophomore Keegan Murray scored a career-high 37 points to power Iowa to a 98-75 romp over Nebraska on Sunday.
IOWA CITY — The Huskers say they want to run. They sell “pace and space” to recruits.
LINCOLN — The crowd stood and cheered for the final 30 seconds. The band played a victory tune. And for the first time in two months, the Huskers left the court smiling.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Alonzo Verge Jr. scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half and Nebraska picked up its first Big Ten Conference win of the season with a 78-65 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday night.
LINCOLN — The Husker legends filed in at halftime.
Michigan’s big man came back to the court and toppled all the strong work Nebraska basketball had done to win a Big Ten game. Above all else, that was the thing. A 7-foot-1 center like Hunter Dickinson does something to an opponent whose top post player openly wishes he was a little bit taller.
LINCOLN — Kobe Webster buried his face in his jersey and kept it there.
LINCOLN — The ball sticks. The offense stagnates. Good results rarely follow.
LINCOLN – The margins between Big Ten opponents remain threadbare. And for whatever reason, Nebraska remains unable to account for the difference.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue coach Matt Painter sat Jaden Ivey for a good with eight minutes left. He called for the walk-ons at the 1:24 mark. He could’ve done both even earlier against Nebraska.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Once again Illinois got all it could handle during a visit to Nebraska.
LINCOLN — For the second time in as many home games, Nebraska showed spunk against a ranked opponent. But for the second time in as many home games, it crumbled during crunch time.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg thought these habits were behind his team. He thought he could pin last month’s pair of 30-point losses more on a viral infection than a fundamental flaw. And after respectable losses to Ohio State and Michigan State, Hoiberg believed the Husker…
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska built some of the best basketball facilities in the nation. The Cornhuskers have ranked among the top 10 in attendance for nearly a decade. They made one of the biggest splash hires in 2019 when they landed Fred Hoiberg.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Just when Nebraska thought it had left its scoring struggles behind, they re-emerged late on the road.
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Freshman Max Christie scored a season-high 21 points and Gabe Brown added 14 to help No. 10 Michigan State pull away and beat Nebraska 79-67 Wednesday night for its eighth win in a row.
LINCOLN — The Husker fans refused to sit in their seats. Nebraska’s bench prepared to spill onto the floor in jubilation.
ATLANTA — Auburn players gathered at half court before heading to the locker room. They waved to the fans clad in orange and blue, and the pro-Tiger crowd answered with a standing ovation.
LINCOLN — Fred Hoiberg sat with a blank stare at the interview table inside Pinnacle Bank Arena, shaking his head as a reporter recounted forward Derrick Walker’s characterization of Nebraska’s 102-67 loss to Michigan.
