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No secret here: Lauren Betts creates problems! UCLA obviously has plenty of height, length and enough athleticism to be a difficult matchup for most any team. That said, I thought our execution more often than not was quite good. Probably needed to play near perfect basketball to beat them, which obviously is very difficult regardless of opponent. No shame in their game- I'm proud of their effort! Now on to the NCAAs. GBR!

Just a great win with contributions coming from so many- esp. with our inside players such as Bozon and Petrie contributing- making up for UI taking away Markowski in large part. Now we'll see what we have left in the tank for UCLA this evening. We'll see if perhaps the win last night affected our seedings in the NCAA tournament, projected as a 10 right now. GBR!

Really really good overall effort tonight! Really like how everybody was involved and how they contributed! Thought they did a really nice job of working the ball inside out on O. Hoping for revenge against Illinois tomorrow night. GBR!

Very pleased that we were able to take care of business today, esp. in the way that we did! Glad to have Prince back on the floor- she obviously helps the offense to flow better. AM is still out there ballin' (who would have guessed?). Hopefully we're focused on playing our best in the tournament and trying to string together wins! GBR!

This is huge! So many that needed to contribute did. Of course as Coatney said, Markowski carried us on her back! Anything less than that from her and we probably don't win tonight. Really proud of the women tonight - this one could have gotten away from us. I hope we get at least one of the next two, perhaps both! GBR!

Yeah as others noted we just needed production from other areas besides Markowski. The driving to the basket didn't work for us like it did against Maryland and we didn't try a whole lot to attack the basket with our guards. They were obviously quicker overall.

Honestly, we did well to get a split out of this road trip. That said, we played well enough in the 1st half to be in game, but we needed to play better in the 2nd half in order to pull off the upset. Illinois' play was a ways better in the first five or six minutes of the 2nd, and NU just wasn't able to get enough stops from there on out to even it up or get ahead. Now to find out the status of Prince's injury. GBR!

I don't think I've ever been more proud of this team than right now! We blew a top 20 team right out of their gym! Basically everything that wasn't working the last few games finally clicked tonight. The three-point shot returned especially, and Markowski was persistent inside getting 20 points after missing a few close range ones in the 1st Q. Oh let's bring this energy and execution to Illinois! GBR!

Way to go lady Huskers! The effort and execution overall has been tremendous! Let's finish this!

I should hope so. I see the next two games on the road for NU, and I don't think the bleeding stops with those two.

teams have figured out how to stop Nebraska - take away Prince and our shooters setting up for threes around the perimeter.

Iowa takes Britt Prince out of our offense yet Olsen scores frequently.

Olsen has as many points as Nebraska does as a team. Fortunately we're getting points at the line because offensive execution is suspect at best.

Obviously NU needs to get back on track with a "feel good" win against an Iowa team that seems to be finding their way. Hopefully everyone is feeling better health-wise for NU so we can compete at our best. I had the opportunity to see them last Thurs. against UM at the Vault up close and personal, and did not afterwards log in to opine on the matter. Hopefully we play a whole lot better tonight! GBR!

Tough loss today for the women but not unexpected. They played six days ago while we just played Thur. night. AM is under the weather and didn't play much. IU executed much quicker than we did most of the time, and when you are outdone by your opp. making 3s 13-3 then it is almost guaranteed to be fatal. Unless you are getting tons of close range shots which is hard still to overcome that kind of 3 pt. shooting. Hopefully AM recovers and we play a lot better Thur. night against UM. GBR!!!