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    WBB: Game #8 vs Evansville

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    Huskers Close Home Stand with Purple Aces Tuesday

     

    The Nebraska women’s basketball team wraps up its three-game home stand by taking on Evansville on Tuesday night at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Tip-off between the Big Red and the Purple Aces is set for 7 p.m.

     

    After opening the home stand with an 88-67 run past NC State, the Huskers produced the largest comeback in the Connie Yori coaching era at Nebraska with a 65-63 win over Creighton on Sunday. NU rallied from 21 points down in the second quarter to claim its 17th straight home non-conference win. The Huskers try to improve to 7-0 at home this year when they face Evansville.

     

    Senior All-America point guard Rachel Theriot has been spectacular in the first two games of the stand, averaging 18.5 points and 9.5 assists to improve her season averages to 12.0 points and 6.0 assists per game. Theriot hit the game-winning three with 1:35 left to cap the comeback against Creighton.

     

    Jessica Shepard pitched in 19 points and seven rebounds against the Jays to continue leading the Huskers with 19.4 points per game. She has added 7.9 boards per contest. Natalie Romeo gives the Huskers three players averaging double figures with 15.9 points per contest while leading NU with 21 threes and 15 steals on the season.

     

    Coach Oties Epps brings his Purple Aces to Pinnacle Bank Arena for the first-ever meeting between Evansville and Nebraska in women’s basketball. Evansville has struggled to a 1-6 start in Epps’ fifth season at the helm of the program.

     

    Evansville has managed 60.4 points but has surrendered 72.7 points per contest as a team. With no player taller than 6-1 on their roster, the Purple Aces also carry a minus-9.6 team rebounding margin on the season. The Purple Aces are shooting just 36.1 percent from the field, including 31.9 percent from three-point range. They have hit 69 percent of their free throws and own a plus-0.1 team turnover margin through seven contests.

     

    Last season, Evansville finished with a 13-19 overall record that included a 6-12 record for a seventh-place finish in the Missouri Valley Conference.

     


    Probable Starters:
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    43 - Rachel Blackburn - 6-3 - Fr. - F - 5.0 ppg
    32 - Jessica Shepard - 6-4 - Fr. - F - 19.4
    4 - Kyndal Clark - 5-7 - RSr. - G - 2.7
    5 - Natalie Romeo - 5-7 - So. - G - 15.9
    33 - Rachel Theriot - 6-0 - Sr. - G - 12.0

     

    Evansville Purple Aces

     

    33 - Ashley Hawkins - 6-1 - Jr. - F - 4.9 ppg
    4 - Camille Coleman - 5-7 - Fr. - G - 8.7
    13 - Laura Friday - 5-6 - Sr. - G - 5.4
    15 - Kenyia Johnson - 5-8 - So. - G - 2.3
    24 - Sara Dickey - 5-11 - Jr. - G - 16.0

     

    Nebraska is 6-0 at Pinnacle Bank Arena this season to stretch its home non-conference winning streak to 17 games. The Huskers have not lost a non-conference home game since a 76-72 loss to Washington State in 2013. The Huskers are 22-1 all-time in home non-conference games at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

     

    Rachel Theriot needs just nine points to move into the top 20 in school history on the all-time scoring list. She enters Tuesday’s game with 1,107 points.

     

    Rachel Theriot needs 14 assists to become the fifth player in Nebraska history to reach 500 in her career.

     

    Through seven games this season, Natalie Romeo has set new career highs for points (30, UAPB), assists (6, NCCU), and steals (4, at UConn, vs. Southern). She needs just seven more assists (34) and two more steals (17) to match her season totals from a year ago. She also leads the Huskers with 21 threes on 42 percent shooting from long range.

     

    Rachel Blackburn leads the Big Red with 8.4 rebounds through the first seven games.

     

    Nebraska ranks in the top 25 nationally in scoring (23rd, 80.4 ppg), scoring margin (15th, 24.0 ppg), field goal percentage (13th, .481), assists per game (5th, 21.0 apg) and assist-to-turnover ratio (3rd, 1.63).

     

    Allie Havers is turning up her production with 5.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and a team-leading 1.1 blocks through seven games as a junior.

     

    Nebraska’s 21-point comeback against Creighton marked the largest rally in Coach Connie Yori’s 14-year career at Nebraska. It is the third time in the last 13 months the Huskers have rallied from a 14-point or greater deficit to win. That had happened just four times in Coach Yori’s first 12 seasons.

     

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    Washington must be so far back in the doghouse she can't see out.  

     

    Sometimes these things take time. I suspect she'll do what is necessary to get back on the court. Who could stand not playing with this team...so much fun.

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    Havers had a great game.  Earned her first double double with 14 points and 12 rebounds.  Congrats for a game well played.  Clark went 5 for 11 on three point shots.  Great to see her get her touch back especially with the injury to Simon.  Great to see 43 score 14 points.  If 43 and Jess can become a double scoring threat, they will be hard to stop. 

     

    Washington must have done something serious.  It will be a wasted season for her if she doesn't get in on some of these easier teams.

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    Can Simon even get a medical red shirt for a non sport injury? If Washington is still in the dog house when Ostrander starts maybe she will pick up Washington's minutes. Does anybody know what the injury to Esther was?

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    Wow! Losing Simon hurts, I imagine that is a season ending injury. Probably has played too many games to Redshirt.

    Yes, it does hurt not having Simon learning on the court.

    I know all injuries/broken bones are different, but generally bones take 6 weeks to heal and if you add a couple more weeks for being a major joint it would be 8 weeks- that would be the 1st of February. At least it is her non shooting elbow.

     

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    With Simon out for awhile besides Cincore's minutes going up we will see a little more of Emily.  She can shoot the 3 but also has a nice command of the floor.  With backup posts playing so well may see a little of Rachel B. at the 3 position for defense when required.

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    Can Simon even get a medical red shirt for a non sport injury? If Washington is still in the dog house when Ostrander starts maybe she will pick up Washington's minutes. Does anybody know what the injury to Esther was?

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    She missed Nebraska’s win over NC State with a concussion.

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    With Simon out for awhile besides Cincore's minutes going up we will see a little more of Emily.  She can shoot the 3 but also has a nice command of the floor.  With backup posts playing so well may see a little of Rachel B. at the 3 position for defense when required.

     

    We're really short on guards now.

     

    Where might we be if Clark wasn't here this year?

     

    She's finally gotten comfortable enough to start shooting, and not worrying about her place on the team. (She & Connie kind of said that in the videos:)

     

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    I thought it was really hard to gauge just how well the Huskers played because we played a really bad team. The damage was done by our big girls as evidence by the huge stat lines of our 4 regular post players. The game plan was get the ball inside Evansville doesn't have the size to stop anything we threw at them. Rachel T didn't score but as bad as Evansville was she didn't have to. What they shoot like 6 or 7 air-balls? We did to them what we were supposed to do to under-matched teams.

     

    Good to see Kyndal nailing some treys. Allie with a big double/double and Little Emily Wood making her presence known tonight hitting a triple and dishing out 5 dimes in 23 minutes. Quite the change in atmosphere at PBA after the last time we were in there. Saw quite a few leaving at the end of the 3rd quarter.

     

    Natalie and Darrian go home this weekend, hope to God Darrian gets to see some time on the court especially since her whole family will be in attendance. 

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    Can Simon even get a medical red shirt for a non sport injury? If Washington is still in the dog house when Ostrander starts maybe she will pick up Washington's minutes. Does anybody know what the injury to Esther was?

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    She missed Nebraska’s win over NC State with a concussion.
    Simon played against NC St. Do you mean Esther?

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    one of the best plays of the evening (imo): the bounce pass from emily wood to rb43 on the running break. just a real good pass and maybe even a better catch for the layup. shows me just how good the hands of rb43 are. in fact, woody had 2 or 3 bounce passes that were really impressive. 

     

    let's hope simon is a fast healer.  :(

     

    wondering if Washington's situation isn't classroom related?

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    Speculation elsewhere on this board that Maddie Simon may be able to get a Medical RS.  Sure hope they are right!  nod.gif

     

    (Darn, I'll miss her at the Cal Game.)

    The deal is we don't know how long she is out .  I asked Julie Tuttle, the team trainer how long?  She said you will just have to go by what you hear in the media, on the Internet and the person in the seat behind you.  They all may or may not know what they are talking about.  I have heard anywhere from three to eight weeks.  If it's three she will be back, if its eight then who knows.  We will just have to see how it plays out.  

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    Speculation elsewhere on this board that Maddie Simon may be able to get a Medical RS.  Sure hope they are right!  nod.gif

     

    (Darn, I'll miss her at the Cal Game.)

    The deal is we don't know how long she is out .  I asked Julie Tuttle, the team trainer how long?  She said you will just have to go by what you hear in the media, on the Internet and the person in the seat behind you.  They all may or may not know what they are talking about.  I have heard anywhere from three to eight weeks.  If it's three she will be back, if its eight then who knows.  We will just have to see how it plays out.  

     

     

    Yori almost always, won't tell much about injuries, or suspensions, or anything related the players. She just chooses not too.

     

    Some coaches do, some do not..not just at UNL, but anywhere.

     

    Watching the game, Maddies arm was in a sling. So it wasn't her leg/foot for sure. That's all we'll hear about it.

     

    In Yori's interview she said Maddie had an elbow injury, and she didn't know when Maddie will be OK. That's all you'll get out of Yori or her staff. So we'll just have to wait.

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