The women’s basketball team kicked off a busy Saturday for Nebraska sports with a 98-35 takedown of the Western Illinois Leathernecks at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The 63-point win is the seventh-largest margin of victory in program history and moves the Huskers to 2-0 on the season.
Read on for some key observations following the win for the Huskers.
Britt Prince Hits Career Milestone as Offense Comes to Life
Prince only needed two points to cross the 1,000 career point mark and she wasted no time, hitting the opening jumper at 9:46 in the first quarter. She’d go on to account for 19 of the Husker’s 98 points, the best of both teams.
But she wasn’t alone in scoring double digits in Saturday afternoon’s game. Amiah Hargrove had 17 and freshman five-star Ashlyn Koupal put up 16. Allison Weidner and Emily Fisher both contributed 10 (a career high for Fisher) and Natalie Potts added 9 of her own in her first start in nearly two years. Every Husker who played, which was every Husker except Logan Nissley, who is still day-to-day and is expected back next week, contributed points on the team’s route of Western Illinois…