Taylor Edwards

Taylor Edwards enters her second season as an assistant coach and the assistant director of scouting and operations at Nebraska in 2026-27.

Edwards, who is in her fourth season overall in Lincoln after spending her first two years as a graduate assistant manager for the Huskers, has helped Nebraska to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (2024, 2025, 2026).

The 2025-26 Huskers recorded their second NCAA Tournament victory in the past three years with a 75-56 win over Richmond in Durham, N.C. (March 18). It was Nebraska's sixth consecutive postseason tournament appearance, including its fourth NCAA bid in the past five years.

Nebraska finished with a 19-13 record that included a 12-0 start. The Big Red was ranked for seven straight weeks in the AP Top 25, before a Big Ten schedule that featured 12 NCAA Tournament teams chipped away at the Huskers.  Despite a 7-11 conference record, the Huskers entered the NCAA Tournament at No. 28 in the NCAA NET rankings. Nebraska was led by first-team All-Big Ten point guard Britt Prince in 2025-26. The Nancy Lieberman Midseason Top 10 candidate averaged team bests of 17.9 points, 4.4 assists and 1.5 steals while adding 4.1 rebounds per game. One of the nation's most versatile and efficient guards, Prince hit 53.5 percent of her field goals, including 45.7 percent of her threes, while ranking among the top free throw shooters in the nation at 91.2 percent.

Fellow sophomore Amiah Hargrove ranked second among the Huskers with 12.7 points and a team-best 5.5 rebounds per game. The 6-2 forward was also a model of efficiency, hitting 53.2 percent of her shots, including 40.7 percent of her threes, while sinking 80.3 percent of her free throws.

In the stands, Nebraska ranked 15th nationally with 5,701 fans per game, continuing a streak of 16 consecutive years among the nation's top-25 teams in average home attendance.

Off the court, Nebraska continued to feature a 100 percent Graduation Success Rate in women's basketball, while 10 Huskers earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in 2026.

Edwards was part of a 2023-24 Nebraska team that secured a first-round NCAA Tournament victory over Texas A&M and made a four-game run to the Big Ten Championship Game - both firsts for the program since 2014.

Nebraska finished with a 23-12 overall record that included 17 wins over postseason tournament qualifiers (8 NCAA, 3 WBIT, 6 WNIT). The Huskers also notched a regular-season win over No. 2 Iowa - matching the highest ranked opponent the Huskers had ever defeated. The victory came in front of the first sellout crowd for a women's basketball game in the history at Pinnacle Bank Arena with well over 15,000 on hand to watch Nebraska complete a 14-point fourth-quarter comeback for an 82-79 win over the eventual NCAA runner-up Hawkeyes.

Nebraska's 2023-24 roster featured first-team All-Big Ten center Alexis Markowski and second-team All-Big Ten guard Jaz Shelley, who went on to be the No. 29 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft. The Huskers also showcased 2024 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Natalie Potts at forward and Big Ten All-Freshman selection Logan Nissley at guard.

Edwards helped the Huskers to a second straight NCAA bid in 2024-25, as Nebraska finished with a 21-12 overall record that included a 10-8 Big Ten mark. The Huskers also won two more games in the Big Ten Tournament to secure their NCAA berth.

Markowski captured first-team All-Big Ten honors for the second straight season, while becoming Nebraska's career leader with 53 double-doubles. Markowski also finished No. 2 all-time at Nebraska with 1,220 rebounds and No. 7 in points (1,902).

The Huskers returned to the NCAA Tournament despite the loss of Shelley to graduation and professional basketball, while Potts was injured in the fifth game of the 2024-25 campaign.

However, Nebraska's toughness, togetherness and determination showed throughout the season. Fueled by the emergence of Big Ten All-Freshman pick Britt Prince, who averaged 13.4 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.7 steals at point guard, Nebraska knocked off No. 17 Maryland on the road and No. 20 Michigan State during the season. The Huskers also got a crucial overtime win at Iowa and late-season wins over NCAA Tournament-bound Oregon and Illinois.

Prince, who was an honorable-mention All-Big Ten pick, also was named Nebraska's Female Freshman Athlete of the Year across all sports.

A four-year contributor at Montana State-Billings from 2015-16 through 2018-19, Edwards spent one season as an assistant at MSU-Billings in 2019-20, before spending three seasons at Carroll College as an assistant coach.

In 2022-23, Carroll College finished with a 27-6 record as one of the top NAIA teams in the nation. It followed a 27-8 campaign for the Fighting Saints in 2021-22. The Helena, Mont., school also advanced to the 2021 NAIA Tournament with a 21-3 record.

Edwards earned her bachelor's degree as a health and human performance major at MSU-Billings in 2019. A graduate of Charles M. Russell High School in Great Falls, Mont., Edwards was a three-time Academic All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference selection at Montana State-Billings. The 5-9 guard played in 92 games during her college career, despite missing much of her sophomore season with an injury. She started her first 11 games as a sophomore before the injury and made nine starts as a senior.

As a junior in 2017-18, Edwards helped MSUB to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight after helping the Yellowjackets capture the West Regional championship. She also helped Montana State-Billings to the 2018 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament title.