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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:
Nebraska Cornhuskers
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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