It may only be February, but Nebraska gave college basketball fans a taste of March with a stunning 80–72 comeback victory over Wisconsin, ranked sixth in the nation, at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln on Thursday night.
Powered by a team-high 22 points off the bench by guard C.J. Wilcher, the Cornhuskers erased an 18-point deficit in the second half, needing just one overtime period to pull off the massive upset , which resulted in a swarming of the court by the team’s fans.
Check out multiple angles of the scene in Lincoln after Nebraska’s big win, per the team’s account on X, formerly Twitter.
And here’s another angle of the wild celebration.
But the team’s account perhaps best summed up the victory with one perfect tweet , captioned with the halftime score.
While the post is funny, program history actually shows that Wisconsin really did seemingly have Nebraska beaten at the half, as they had been 120–0 when leading by 15 or more points at the half since 2000, per Badgers.com .