Postgame Notes

• Nebraska has now won 25 straight regular-season non-conference games dating back to 2024.
• NU has won 17 straight home games against non-conference opposition dating back to 2023.
• Nebraska’s 61 first-half points is the Huskers’ highest first half total since at least the 2001-02 season, as the previous best was 58 on two previous occasions, most recently against Le Moyne in the season opener.
• Nebraska’s 61 points in any half is its highest total since also scoring 61 in the second half against Oklahoma on Nov. 15, 2025.
• Pryce Sandfort finished with 22 points, his third straight 20-point game to open the season. He is the first Husker to have 20+ points in his first three games of the season since at least 1990-91.
• Damon Wilkinson had a season-high 19 points off the bench on 7-of-8 shooting. He also hit the first two 3-pointers of his career on Wednesday.
• Nebraska had five double-figure runs on the season following a 12-0 first-half run.

Nebraska Head Coach Fred Hoiberg

On message coming off the last game
“That was the biggest thing I said to them, Robin (Washut), after that game was that I told them that I learned a lot about them with toughness and grit and determination to find a way in a really hard environment to walk out with a big win. I also think with the next few days with our preparation, they prepared the right way. You get home at three in the morning and find a way to put some adversity behind us. I thought we had two really good days of practice. That's where it started. I thought we got out of the gates really well today. I thought our pace was outstanding. I thought our attention to detail and scouting report was exactly where it needed to be and it goes back to the prep that we had. We rebounded well early and the pace was about the best it’s been in this building in a long time. We’re sharing it, we're getting the ball up the floor before the defense got set and we accomplished a lot really without calling a play all night and we built the lead. I thought we got stagnant at the end of the first half and loved how we finished it. Put them on the free-throw line too much. It took away our rhythm, took away our flow and I thought that carried over into the second half. I thought we were 9/18 at half time from three and two of seventeen in the second half, found a way to win the half. It’s not always easy, human nature is to take your foot off the gas a little bit which I don’t love. But we did a lot of really good things out there tonight.”

On the last ten minutes
“Again, we had some good looks. We had some wide open shots that didn’t go in and that’s going to happen but again I just didn’t think our flow was what it was early in that game and we fouled too much that’s not what we do. We got a little sloppy with some forced turnovers and they got some second chance opportunities off the glass but you know again I’m pleased with the start. That was what we were really looking for. You build almost a forty point lead in the first half. I would've liked to continue to push that up and give Lindenwood credit for continuing to battle.”

Senior forward Pryce Sandfort

On starting fast
“We talked about it at halftime. We had a great start, great pace in the first half.  Deflections on defense, wall ups, all that. And I thought that we finished the half kinda poor and that bled into the second half.  So we talked about the importance of that in later games. But that should’ve been a bigger win than what it was. It is something that we would have to focus on.”

On staying locked into the game
“I think it is mentality. When we get a lead like that when we are up twenty right away.  It’s kinda easy to take your foot off the gas and it’s something we talk about every game so we just need to do better at executing that.”

Senior forward Damon Wilkinson

On his performance tonight
“I just kinda do it every day, I guess. I mean, just take the open shot, make the play. When you've got guys like Pryce (Sandfort), Braden (Frager), Sam (Orme) that can shoot the ball really well, and then Cale (Jacobsen), Trev (Leonhardt), and Taj (DeGourville) that can make plays for you. It's pretty easy to shoot the open shots when they have all the pressure on them, I felt pretty good. It was my first two threes I've ever made in college, so I loved it a lot. I mean, I was pretty hot in warm ups, I mean I kind of had a good feeling I was going in.”

Senior forward Sam Orme

On coming back to play
“It's definitely been a long, slow process. I'd say the first two weeks where it was just kind of hard to kind of stay a little bit locked in and just, it's just been a really long, slow process and just getting out there and getting into the feel of things and then just getting confidence back. I feel that'll all come as you just keep playing hard.”