WBB: Game #19 @ Minnesota

[Row6Seat10]

Nebraska Cornhuskers (12-6, 2-3 Big Ten) at Minnesota Golden Gophers (13-5, 2-2 Big Ten)

Sunday, Jan. 20, 5 p.m.
 

Williams Arena (Minneapolis, Minn.)
National TV: BTN
(PBP-Eric Collins; Analyst-Stephanie White)
Radio: 25-Station IMG College Husker Sports Network (PBP-Matt Coatney; Analyst-Jeff Griesch)
(KBBK 107.3 FM, Lincoln; KFFF 93.3 FM, Omaha; KRVN 880 AM, Lexington; KLIQ 94.5 FM, Hastings; KNEB 94.1 FM, Scottsbluff; KWBE 1450 AM, Beatrice; KCOW 1400 AM, Alliance)
Free Internet Audio: Huskers.com

 

 

Huskers Head to the Barn to Battle Gophers at Minnesota Sunday
The Nebraska women's basketball team hits the road for the third time in the past four games to face Minnesota in Minneapolis on Sunday, Jan. 20. Tip-off between the Huskers and the Golden Gophers is set for 5 p.m.

 

The Huskers will shoot for their first weekend win in Big Ten road play while trying to secure their first-ever win against Minnesota on the Gophers' homecourt.

 

Getting a win this weekend at Minnesota won't be easy. The Gophers, who are 13-5 and 2-2 in the Big Ten, are 10-1 at Williams Arena this season. Both the Huskers and the Gophers, who are coming off a loss at Purdue, will be hungry for a win.

 

The Gophers are one of the conference's most improved teams after finishing 6-10 in the league last season and 19-17 overall. Led by sophomore guard Rachel Banham and junior forward Micaëlla Riché, the Gophers are among the nation's top 60 RPI teams and are in the hunt for their first NCAA Tournament berth since 2009. Last year, Minnesota claimed the Women's Basketball Invitational title.

 

As a team, Minnesota ranks as one of the Big Ten's top offensive units. The Gophers are averaging 72.7 points per game (2nd), while shooting 45.1 percent from the field (4th) and 32.3 percent from long range. They have also hit 75.2 percent of their free throws (4th). Minnesota is also one of the Big Ten's most complete teams, as the Gophers own a plus-5.1 rebound margin (6th) and plus-2.2 team turnover margin (3rd).

Nebraska and Minnesota are tied in the all-time series at six wins apiece, after splitting home games in their first-ever Big Ten season series last season.

 

Probable Starters:

 

Nebraska Cornhuskers
3 - Hailie Sample - 6-1 - So. - F
23 - Emily Cady - 6-2 - So. - F
35 - Jordan Hooper - 6-2 - Jr. - F
00 - Lindsey Moore - 5-9 - Sr. - G
24 - Rachel Theriot - 6-0 - Fr. - G

 

Minnesota Golden Gophers
5 - Kionna Kellogg - 6-1 - Jr. - F
15 - Micaëlla Riché - 6-2 - Jr. - F
1 - Rachel Banham - 5-9 - So. - G
3 - Shayne Mullaney - 5-10 - Fr. - G
21 - Sari Noga - 5-10 - Jr. - G

 

Lindsey Moore became just the second Husker in history to reach the 600-career assist mark against Illinois. Lindsey crossed the 600-career assist plateau and became the first Husker in history with 1,400 and 600 assists. She enters the Minnesota game with 1,428 points and 601 assists.

 

Jordan Hooper is one of only eight Huskers in history with 1,400 points and 600 career rebounds and has pushed her career totals to 1,400 points and 671 rebounds. Nebraska's distinguished 1,400/600 list includes first-team All-Americans Karen Jennings (2,405 points/1,000 rebounds) and Kelsey Griffin (2,033/1,019), along with 1988 Big Eight Player-of-the-Year Maurtice Ivy (2,131/778). Two-time WNBA All-Star Anna DeForge (1,859/804), Debra Powell (1,843/750), Kathy Hagerstrom (1,778/874) and Angie Miller (1,541/661). Hooper has climbed to No. 9 on NU's all-time rebounding list and is 10 rebounds away from Jan Crouch (681)

 

Huskers Hit Road to Face Gophers Sunday                        huskers.com

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[Row6Seat10]

Huskers start out on a 10-0 run and let Minnesota back into the game in just a couple of minutes. The Gophers go on a 17-5 run. It's now 25-23 Huskers up. 7 minutes left in the half.

[Row6Seat10]

Gotta find your girl on defense. Minnesota scores 9 points from behind the arc with no Husker within 10 feet to defend it on each shot.

[Row6Seat10]

41-38 Huskers up at the half. Theriot and Cady both having good games. Theriot has 10 pts and 5 assists. As a team they're shooting 43% from behind the arc. Need to buckle down on defense.

[Bugeaters1]

I like the ball movement from the huskers so far haven't seen that in while. Also getting inside and going to the line.

[Row6Seat10]

In other B1G games Northwestern has just a couple of days to prepare for the Illinois buzz defense and goes into Champaign and knocks off the Illini 62-58

[Noah121]

In other B1G games Northwestern has just a couple of days to prepare for the Illinois buzz defense and goes into Champaign and knocks off the Illini 62-58

That was an incredibly pleasant surprise for me, to say the least.  It helped that the refs appeared to call a lot more fouls on Illinois.

 

Huskers are up, 56-44 with ??:?? in the game.

[Row6Seat10]

Huskers playing some good ball now up 12......... 54-42 10+ minutes to go.

[Bugeaters1]

Coach Yori finally heard row 6 and played zone tonight and palyed a well rounded game.

[Bugeaters1]

Do you suppose that Yori scraped the princeton offense ? the team looked alot more in sync than in past games.

[Row6Seat10]

84 - 63 final. Arguably the best offensive showing of the year!! Did we find our mojo? Let's hope so. When you have everyone contributing the way they did tonight we are one of the top 20 teams in the country no question.  Really pleased with what we saw this evening! Only 11 turnovers.

 

Lindsey "ironwoman" proved again why she is the best point guard in the conference! 26 pts 7 assists, and 7 rebounds 3 steals 38 minutes.

 

And Rachel Theriot played most likely her best game of the year to go with it.   13 pts, 8 asts, 39 minutes

Emily with another double/double 12 points could have been a lot more to go along with 10 rebounds

JHoop threw in 17 and grabbed 8 boards.

[Cazzie22]

Nice win tonight. Our hot shooting covered up some continuing flaws. Next stretch of games could be crucial. Next 4 are winnable if the team plays and shoots like they did tonight. Shot selection was much better. It would be nice if Williams could score a few buckets a game. Depth is really lacking currently. Conference seems to be much better this year than last. Could be as deep as this year's Big XII, which after Baylor, doesn't really have any strong teams.

[longtimefan]

I really liked seeing Theriot take the shot when she was open.  She didn't hesitate like she usually does.  ANd the bonus was she made them.  Also liked seeing Hooper not force shots as much as she usually does.