The Nebraska women’s basketball team looked like it might give the UCLA Bruins — the No. 1 ranked team in the country — a serious fight early on Sunday afternoon. Instead, the Big Red was dominated in the second half to make it a lopsided game, 91-54.
The Huskers started really strong, scoring the first bucket of the game and hanging with UCLA throughout the entire first half. Even when the Bruins looked like they were pulling away, Nebraska responded to bring it back to single digits before halftime.
Nebraska got contributions from up and down the lineup, played solid defense and actually out-shot the Bruins to keep the game tight.
The second half was a completely different story, however.
UCLA outscored the Huskers 31-13 in the third quarter alone after Nebraska held the Bruins to just 37 points in the entire first half. That broke the game wide open and the margin only expanded in the fourth quarter.
The Bruins shot a whopping 73.1% from the floor in the second half after hitting just 42.4% of their field goals in the first two quarters. Nebraska, meanwhile, shot just 23.5% from the field in the second half, including 0-11 from three.