NU @ MINNESOTA, Game #26 (L, 92-95), Wed, 2/15/23 @ 7 pm CST on BTN+ (Subscription) (Game/Recap Thread)

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Huskers Set for Scuffle with Young Gophers
The Nebraska women's basketball team hunts for a crucial Big Ten road win when the Huskers travel to Minneapolis to meet Minnesota on Wednesday.

Nebraska is hungry for a win after suffering a narrow 80-75 loss at No. 12 Michigan on Sunday.

Huskers Set for Scuffle with Gophers - University of Nebraska

The Nebraska women's basketball team hunts for a crucial Big Ten road win when the Huskers travel to Minneapolis to meet Minnesota on Wednesday. Tip-off between

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Nebraska Cornhuskers (14-11, 6-8 Big Ten)
at Minnesota Golden Gophers (9-16, 2-12 Big Ten)
Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 7 p.m. (CT)
Williams Arena - Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Live Radio: Huskers Radio Network (6:45 p.m.)
Matt Coatney (PBP), Jeff Griesch (Analyst)

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Scouting The Minnesota Golden Gophers
Lindsay Whalen leads a young group of Gophers in her fifth year as Minnesota's head coach. In a season when teams are loaded with experience across the conference, Minnesota features a starting five loaded with freshmen and sophomores.

Some Players to Watch
True freshman Mallory Heyer joins sophomore Alanna Micheaux as the only Gophers to start all 25 games this season. Micheaux, a 6-2 forward, is averaging 14.1 points and a team-best 8.3 rebounds, while Heyer, a 6-1 forward, has contributed 11.9 points and 7.2 boards. Heyer, who was the No. 55 recruit in the nation according to ESPN out of Chaska, Minn., also has hit 32 three-pointers.

Another true freshman, 6-0 guard Mara Braun, (Think we tried to recruit her ) leads the Gophers with 14.8 points per game while connecting on a team-best 49 threes (.336). Braun, who was the No. 28 player in the nation by ESPN out of Wayzata, Minn., has added 2.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.7 steals.

Sophomore guard Maggie Czinano, (you may have heard of her older sister, plays for Iowa ) recently joined Minnesota's starting five. She is averaging 5.3 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. She ranks fifth on the team in scoring with 8.5 points per contest and a team-best 1.9 steals.

Another graduate guard, Mi'Cole Cayton, is in her seventh collegiate season after spending two years at Nebraska.

League Play
In Big Ten play, Minnesota is averaging 66.6 points per game, but opponents have dissected the Gopher defense for 80.2 points per contest. Minnesota has produced one of the top rebounding totals in the conference (41.5 rpg) but they have averaged 19.9 turnovers per league game and carry a minus-6.5 turnover margin.

Minnesota is shooting just 27.1 percent from three-point range in the league, and 38 percent overall from the field, while Big Ten opponents are hitting 45.4 percent of their field goals including 33.6 percent of their threes.

A Little History
Although women's basketball was not a full varsity sport at Nebraska until 1975-76, a women's team from Nebraska suffered its first defeat at Minnesota in 1904 after going unbeaten in 1897 and 1903. Two weeks after the first meeting with Minnesota, Nebraska beat the same team in Lincoln.

 

[BGRed]

A website called OmniRankings is one of the few non-ESPN sites that regularly follows women's brackeology. They only update the site about once per week. It happened to be updated overnight. It still has Nebraska as one of the last teams in.

Remaining games - tonight is almost a must-win, in my opinion.

I don't think the committee would put Florida State and Notre Dame together in the bracket...

 

[Red Don]

I don't understand why there seems to be so many missed lay-ups (Issie has missed two so far this game).

Is it excitement, or the heat of the moment (I know some are contested shots but a lot are uncontested). But even looking at those that go in more than half the time they bounce around on the rim a lot indicating they're not hitting the 'sweet spot.'

 

[Red Don]

Huskers by one point at the end of the first Quarter. (Braun with a bucket to end the quarter).

Stats:

 

[Red Don]

Minnesota by seven at the Half (29-38) (Minny's Mara Braun with another Buzzer-Beater to end the Half)
(Minnesota's Largest Lead was Twelve Points)

Minnesota not looking that impressive, but is executing better than Huskers.

Halftime Stats:

 

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Lady Huskers come on strong to start the 2nd Half, cut Minny's lead to One Point (37-38)

 

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Back-and-forth, See-Saw 3-Point Game at the end of Q3. Minny (in foul trouble) by 3 pts. (64-67)

 

[Red Don]

Play where Issie gets wiped out is under review.

Intentional foul on Micheaux, her 4th foul. Minny with FOUR players with 4 fouls.

 

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Huskers have had trouble finishing at the rim all game (seems like all season)

 

[Red Don]

Disappointing Loss 92-95

 

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Collapsed again.

 

[Red Don]

Husker's Treys kept us in the game, but couldn't bail us out at the end!

Final Stats:

 

[BGRed]

Collapsed again.

Not really collapsed as we trailed most of the game. We actually came back from 6 down and had the ball in a tie game with under 20 seconds. Cayton's foul may not have been planned, but it won the game for Minnesota. Haiby did not have the magic down the stretch with missed layups and the free throws.

 

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(Game Recap)

Shelley's 37 Not Enough at Minnesota - University of Nebraska

Jaz Shelley scored 28 of her career-high 37 points in the second half, but Minnesota got a three-pointer in the corner with 1.1 seconds left to escape with a 95-92

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The Huskers (14-12, 6-9 Big Ten) suffered their third straight loss, while Minnesota (10-16, 3-12 Big Ten) got its first home victory of 2023 thanks to a game-winning three-pointer from Isabelle Gradwell, off the bench with 1.1 seconds left in regulation.

Nebraska had to fight back from a 38-31 halftime deficit, after Minnesota outscored the Huskers 24-16 in the second period. NU led 15-14 at the end of the first quarter after getting eight big points from Bourne. The Huskers had fallen behind by as much as 32-20 midway through the second quarter. The Huskers cut the Minnesota margin back to 36-31 in the closing seconds of the half, before Hammond scored on a putback with two seconds left to send the Golden Gophers to halftime with a seven-point lead.

The Huskers trailed 67-64 after three quarters, and Gradwell opened the fourth with a bucket to push the lead to five, before Shelley completed a rare five-point play with 8:49 left to tie the score at 69.

Both teams then scored on nearly every possession the rest of the way. Nebraska outscored Minnesota 61-57 in the highest scoring second half (118 combined points) in school history, but it was not enough to overcome a 38-31 halftime deficit.