Teams take many paths to greatness. What Nebraska did at Minnesota on Saturday afternoon is how a good team — a very good team — becomes great.
When a team defeats a quality opponent at a tough venue like Williams Arena, without one of their main players and three others with three fouls, and comes from behind to do it, you have a team taking their own gilded path to greatness.
The seventh-ranked Huskers, an astounding 20-0 on the season, showed all of this and more in their 76-57 win over the Golden Gophers. Nebraska trailed, 36-30, at the half, then outscored the stunned Gophers, 46-21…