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Nebraska Postgame Notes
*-Nebraska improved to 11-0 on the season, marking the program’s best start in school history. The 2025-26 team was tied with the 1977-78 team for the best start in school history.
*- Nebraska won its 15th straight game, breaking the school record of 14 set two other times (1990-91 season and a 14-game span from Jan. 17, 1912, and Jan. 25, 1913.)
*-The 15-game win streak is the longest active streak in the nation
*- Nebraska’s win in Champaign is the program’s first since a 78-67 win over the Illini on Jan. 16, 2016. It snapped NU’s six-game losing streak in Champaign. NU is now 3-14 all-time in Champaign, with the other wins coming in 1921 and 2016.
*- It marks Nebraska’s first 2-0 start in Big Ten play since 2016-17.
*- Today’s win, combined with last year’s OT win in Lincoln, marks the first time in school history that NU has consecutive wins over the Illini,
*- Nebraska improves to 10-11 in its last 21 games against ranked teams dating back to March 1, 2022.
*-Pryce Sandfort’s 32 points is a career high, topping his previous best of 28 vs. Oklahoma on Nov. 15. His 32-point effort is a season high by any Husker (31 by Rienk Mast vs. Winthrop on Nov. 25.
*-Pryce Sandfort’s 26-point first half was two off the school record for points in a half (28, Teddy Allen vs. Penn State, 2021)
*-Nebraska had its 14th double-figure run of the season with a 11-0 run in the first half, all by Sandfort. This marked the second time this season that Sandfort had a double-digit run by himself (also vs. KSU)
*-It was Sandfort’s fifth 20-point game of the season and sixth of his career
*-Sandfort six 3-pointers tied his career high set two other times.
*-Jared Garcia had 10 points off the bench, all in the second half. It marked the 12th double-figure effort by a Husker reserve this season.
*-Nebraska improved to 8-0 this season when scoring 80+ points and 5-0 when shooting at least 50 percent.
*-Nebraska finished with 20 assists and just six turnovers in the win. It is the seventh time NU has dished out at least 20 assists and the seventh time with 10 or fewer turnover.
*-Nebraska had 12 3-pointers, the eighth time this season Nebraska has had at least 10 3-pointers in a game this season.