Huskers Tip Exhibition Play with Mount Marty Friday Night
Nebraska tips off its 2025-26 women's basketball season by playing host to Mount Marty University in an exhibition game on Friday night at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Tip-off between the Huskers and the NAIA Lancers is set for 8 p.m. (CT) following Nebraska's volleyball match with Northwestern at the Bob Devaney Sports Center at 6 p.m. Doors at PBA open 90 minutes prior to tip-off.
Fans can purchase season tickets, Starting 5 Mini Plans and single-game tickets now by visiting Huskers.com.
Live audio will be available on Huskers.com and the Huskers App from the Huskers Radio Network with Matt Coatney and Jeff Griesch on the call together for their 25th consecutive season. Over the air, fans can find Friday's radio broadcast on 105.3 FM in Lincoln and 660 and 1490 AM in Omaha.
A live video stream of Friday night's game will be available to subscribers of B1G+ with a Student U broadcast featuring announcers from the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Nebraska enters the 2025-26 campaign following back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances and 20-win seasons in 2024 and 2025. The Huskers posted a 21-12 overall record that included a 10-8 Big Ten regular-season mark a year ago, tying for eighth in the final 18-team conference standings. NU also advanced to the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals, going 2-1 in the 15-team tournament.
The Huskers, who must replace four-time All-Big Ten center Alexis Markowski and fellow 2025 seniors Kendall Coley, Kendall Moriarty and Alberte Rimdal, return a young and talented group led by Britt Prince. The 5-11 point guard from Omaha earned Big Ten All-Freshman honors a year ago after averaging 13.4 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.7 steals. A two-time Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year at Elkhorn North High School, Prince is Nebraska's top returner in scoring, assists and steals.
Prince is rejoined by returning starters Callin Hake, Logan Nissley and Jessica Petrie in the Husker lineup, along with top reserves Petra Bozan and Amiah Hargrove. The Big Red also hope to benefit from the return of 2024 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Natalie Potts later in the season. Potts was Nebraska's leading scorer and rebounder through the first four games of 2024-25, before suffering a season-ending knee injury against North Alabama (Nov. 19).
Nebraska Cornhuskers (21-12, 10-8 Big Ten)
4 - Petra Bozan - 6-3 - So. - F - 5.3 ppg, 2.8 rpg
12 - Jessica Petrie - 6-2 - Jr. - F - 6.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg
2 - Logan Nissley - 6-0 - Jr. - G - 7.0 ppg, 2.7 rpg
14 - Callin Hake - 5-8 - Sr. - G - 6.4 ppg, 3.0 rpg
23 - Britt Prince - 5-11 - So. - G - 13.4 ppg, 4.0 rpg
Off the Bench
1 - Hailey Weaver - 6-0 - Gr. - G - Redshirt
3 - Allison Weidner [Out] - 5-10 - Gr. - G - 3.8 ppg, 3.0 rpg
5 - Claire Johnson - 5-9 - So. - G - 12.2 ppg, 2.5 rpg
15 - Kennadi Williams - 5-4 - RFr. - G - Redshirt
21 - Eliza Maupin - 6-3 - Sr. - F - 3.9 ppg, 2.8 rpg
22 - Natalie Potts - 6-2 - RSo. - F - 14.4 ppg, 7.4 rpg
33 - Amiah Hargrove - 6-2 - Fr. - F - 4.7 ppg, 3.7 rpg
34 - Emily Fisher - 6-0 - Jr. - G/F - 1.7 ppg, 1.4 rpg
Head Coach: Amy Williams (Nebraska, 1998)
10th Season at Nebraska (158-123); 19th Season Overall (351-232)
Mount Marty Lancers (12-16, 6-16 GPAC)
44 - Lacey Sprakel - 5-10 - Sr. - F - 6.3 ppg, 2.5 rpg
1 - Alexis Folkers - 5-6 - Sr. - G - 6.8 ppg, 3.3 rpg
3 - Kaela Martinez - 5-8 - Sr. - G - 11.4 ppg, 3.0 rpg
23 - Alexus Motley - 5-8 - Jr. - G - 9.7 ppg, 3.8 rpg
33 - Signe Bang - 6-1 - Sr. - G - 3.5 ppg, 2.8 rpg
Off the Bench
2 - Maci Nemetz - 5-9 - Jr. - G - 0.9 ppg, 0.3 rpg
4 - Kyra Griese - 5-5 - Sr. - G - 4.5 ppg, 1.7 rpg
10 - Claire Tereshinski - 5-5 - So. - G - 1.4 ppg, 0.6 rpg
11 - Leah Williams - 5-7 - Jr. - G - 5.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg
20 - Alyssa Moschell - 5-10 - So. - G - 1.7 ppg, 0.6 rpg
24 - Kaylee Whatley - 5-10 - Sr. - F - 1.3 ppg, 2.0 rpg
30 - Brielle Bussinger - 5-6 - Sr. - G - 0.5 ppg, 0.7 rpg
Head Coach: Allan Bertram (Huron College)
Fourth Season at Mount Marty (25-59); Fourth Season Overall (25-59)
Scouting the Mount Marty Lancers
• Fourth-year coach Allan Bertram leads Mount Marty into the 2025-26 season with an experienced lineup following a 12-16 campaign that included a 6-16 mark in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.
• The Lancers will be led by junior guard Kaela Martinez, who averaged 11.4 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.8 assists while hitting a team-best 49 three-pointers (.292). Martinez, who attended Sioux Falls Roosevelt High School, will be rejoined in the starting lineup by former rival Alexus Motley. The 5-8 junior out of Sioux Falls Washington averaged 9.7 points and 6.1 rebounds per game a year ago.
• Signe Bang, a 6-1 senior from Copenhagen, Denmark, returns to the starting lineup after managing 3.5 points and 2.8 rebounds in 17 starts a year ago. Bang played at Roane State CC in Tennessee and Snow College in Utah before joining the Lancers last season.
• Part-time starter Alexis Folkers also returns after averaging 6.8 points and 3.3 rebounds for the Lancers last season. The Hastings College transfer played her high school basketball at Crofton alongside teammate Lacey Sprakel. A newcomer to the Lancers in 2025-26, Sprakel started for Dakota Wesleyan against the Huskers in Nebraska's exhibition game to open the 2023-24 season. Sprakel had three points and four rebounds in 22 minutes against the Big Red.
• Although the Lancers must replace two of their top-three scorers in Sidney Thue (11.5 ppg, 6.6 rpg) and Emma Jarovski (9.7 ppg, 4.2 rpg), Mount Marty has returning depth from Leah Williams (5.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg), Kyra Griese (4.5 ppg, 2.0 rpg), Alyssa Moschell (1.7 ppg, 1.6 rpg), Claire Tereshinski (1.4 ppg), Kaylee Whatley (1.3 ppg), Maci Nemetz and Brielle Bussinger.
• The Lancers also expect to get help from junior transfers Kaitlyn Tendal (Iowa Central CC) and Lucia Gonzales De Las Cuevas (Wheeling University) and freshman Lennix DuPris (Pierre HS), who averaged 17.1 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists as a high school senior for the Governors. DuPris was also a two-time South Dakota all-state selection.
• Nebraska and Mount Marty have never met in either regular season or exhibition play in women's basketball.
Husker Hot Takes
• Nebraska earned its 17th all-time NCAA Tournament bid in 2025, including its 11th trip since 2007 (19 seasons). The Huskers also recorded their 20th 20-win campaign in program history including the third in the past four seasons under Head Coach Amy Williams.
• Nebraska earned its third NCAA Tournament bid in the last four years despite playing the final 28 games without 2024 Big Ten Freshman-of-the-Year Natalie Potts, who suffered a season-ending knee injury against North Alabama (Nov. 19). Potts was averaging team bests of 17.5 points and 8.0 rebounds through the first four games prior to her injury. The Huskers also played the final 17 games without fourth-year guard Allison Weidner, who was a starter as a freshman on Nebraska's 2022 NCAA Tournament team and at the start of her sophomore season in 2022-23.
• Britt Prince claimed a spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team and honorable-mention All-Big Ten recognition from both the coaches and the media when awards were announced by the conference on March 4. Prince ranked second among the Huskers in scoring (13.4 ppg), while leading the Big Red in assists (3.8 apg) and steals (1.7 spg), which ranked 13th in the Big Ten. All six of her 20-point performances came on the road, while two of her three career-high eight-rebound efforts and both of her career-best eight-assist performances happened away from PBA.
• Prince, who was the USBWA National Freshman of the Week (Jan. 21), is the most recent of four 2024-25 Huskers to earn Big Ten All-Freshman honors, including Alexis Markowski (2022 Freshman of the Year), Natalie Potts (2024 Freshman of the Year) and Logan Nissley (2024).
• Nebraska posted six NET Top 50 wins over No. 21 Michigan State, at No. 24 Iowa, at No. 26 Maryland, over No. 29 Illinois, No. 37 Minnesota and over No. 41 Oregon.
• All 12 of NU's losses came to NET Top 50 teams, including seven away from home - at No. 5 UCLA (twice), at No. 6 USC, at No. 29 Illinois, at No. 30 Creighton, at No. 31 Georgia Tech, at No. 34 Indiana and vs. No. 35 Louisville (NCAA) - along with home losses to No. 18 Ohio State, No. 24 Iowa, No. 25 Michigan and No. 44 Washington.
• Alexis Markowski closed her outstanding Nebraska career with team bests of 16.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game in 2024-25. The four-time All-Big Ten center set Nebraska's career double-doubles record (53) and finished second in rebounds (1,220) while ranking seventh at NU in career points (1,902).
Nebraska By The Numbers
• Britt Prince (403/120) produced 403 points and 120 rebounds as a true freshman point guard for the Huskers. Nebraska's WNBA first-round draft picks Lindsey Moore and Nicole Kubik did not achieve either 300 points or 100 rebounds as true freshmen starting point guards for the Huskers.
• Prince (113) finished fourth on Nebraska's freshman assist list with 113. She is one of only six freshman point guards in Husker history to distribute 100 or more assists.
• Prince (51) recorded her 51st steal of the season against Louisville in the NCAA Tournament. She became the first Husker freshman since Nicole Kubik (1996-97) to record 50 steals.
• Callin Hake (102) dished out 102 assists on the season, joining Britt Prince as teammates distributing 100 or more assists.
• Hake (98) enters the season with 98 career games played as a Husker.
Prince Captures Big Ten All-Freshman Honors
• Britt Prince produced one of the best freshman seasons in Husker history in 2024-25. The 5-11 point guard from Omaha ranked second among the Huskers with 13.4 points, while adding 4.0 rebounds and team bests of 3.8 assists and 1.7 steals.
• Prince became the fourth Husker in the last four years to earn a spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team when she was selected by both the coaches and the media to the five-player team on March 4. Prince also captured honorable-mention All-Big Ten accolades.
• She led the Huskers with game highs of 14 points and six assists in the NCAA Tournament first round against Louisville (March 21).
• Prince led Nebraska with 17.0 points and 5.3 assists per game at the Big Ten Tournament, capped by a career-high-tying 24 points to go with six assists against tournament champion and NCAA Tournament No. 1 seed UCLA (March 7).
• She led Nebraska with 17 points and five assists in a second-round Big Ten Tournament win over Illinois (March 6). Prince opened the tournament with 10 points, five assists and two steals in a win over Rutgers (March 5). Prince became the first Husker freshman since Nicole Kubik (1996-97) to record 50 steals in a season.
• Prince was the USBWA National Freshman of the Week (Jan. 21) after going for 22 points, seven rebounds, five assists and a career-high six steals at Iowa (Jan. 16). She also hit a career-high five threes while playing a career-high 41 minutes against the Hawkeyes. The national award followed her first Big Ten Freshman-of-the-Week honor (Jan. 20), which she shared with Ohio State freshman Jaloni Cambridge.
• Prince ranked fifth among Big Ten freshmen in scoring (13.4 ppg).
• Prince, a two-time Gatorade and MaxPreps Player of the Year, scored double figures 23 times, including a career-high 24 points on 8-of-15 shooting in a road win at Rutgers (Jan. 12). She added six rebounds and three assists. Prince scored 10 points in the decisive fourth quarter.
• Her performance at Rutgers surpassed her 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting in Nebraska’s record-setting 113-70 win over South Dakota (Nov. 16). She added four assists and two steals in front of a sellout crowd at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls.
• She also pumped in a game-high 23 points in an important Husker road win at Purdue (Jan. 30).
• She added 20 points and six rebounds at Creighton (Nov. 22).
• Prince produced a 13-point effort in an upset of No. 17 Maryland in College Park (Feb. 13) that included a career-high eight assists. She matched her career best with eight assists while scoring nine points at Illinois (Feb. 16). Prince suffered a right lower leg injury in the closing minutes against the Illini when she was fouled on a three-point attempt in the corner. She missed the next two games (Oregon, Washington) with the injury.
• Prince, who won four consecutive Nebraska Class B state high school championships at PBA while playing for her mother, Ann Prince at Elkhorn North (2021-22-23-24), was the No. 16 recruit in the country according to Prospects Nation and No. 28 according to ESPN. She led the state in both scoring (27.0 ppg) and assists (6.3 apg) while adding 10.3 rebounds per game as a senior in 2023-24. She finished with a Nebraska Class B record 2,491, surpassing Husker first-team All-American Jordan Hooper's previous mark of 2,078.)
• In addition to being a four-time Super-State selection in basketball, Prince was a six-time gold medalist and two-time silver medalist at the Nebraska State Track & Field Championships.
• Prince was the 2024 Nebraska Girls Athlete of the Year across all sports.
Husker History of Home-Opening Success
• Nebraska owns a history of season-opening success on the Huskers’ home court. NU improved to 48-3 in home season openers with its 88-48 win over Omaha on Nov. 4, 2024.
• NU is 11-1 at Pinnacle Bank Arena in season openers, including a 100-36 victory over Omaha (Nov. 7, 2022). Nebraska’s lone loss came on Nov. 7, 2018, with an 83-77 setback to Drake. In the first regular-season game in the history of Pinnacle Bank Arena, Nebraska powered its way to a 77-49 win over UCLA on Nov. 8, 2013, in front of a Husker opening-day record crowd of 9,750 in the first Nebraska Life Skills Sportsmanship Pep Rally associated with women’s basketball.
• Nebraska’s only season-opening home losses have come to Drake (2018), South Dakota State (Nov. 19, 2005) and Kansas (Nov. 21, 1980).
• Nebraska is 178-26 (.873) over 51 seasons in its first four home contests, including 44-7 in Game No. 2, 41-10 in Game No. 3 and 45-6 in Game No. 4.
Huskers Set for Sizemore Sportsmanship Pep Rally
• Nebraska's Sizemore Sportsmanship Pep Rally will be held at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Monday, Nov. 3 ahead of the Husker women's basketball season opener with Northwestern State. The event promises to be the largest rally associated with the Husker women’s basketball season opener since the event helped open the doors to Pinnacle Bank Arena in 2013.
• A record 80 schools from around the state are registered to participate with nearly 3,900 students and accompanying adults planning to attend the event.
• Last season, the pep rally featured just over 3,800 students and accompanying adults from 75 schools around Nebraska. The crowd of 8,106, which included a group from Hemingford (6-hour drive, 385 miles) watched the Huskers roll to an 88-48 win over Omaha. It was the second-largest season-opening crowd in school history.
• In 2023-24, the pep rally welcomed more than 3,300 students and accompanying adults from 62 middle grades schools from across the state of Nebraska.
• The pep rally helped the Huskers attract the third-largest opening-day crowd in program history with 7,065 fans on hand at PBA, trailing only the 9,750 fans on hand for the opening game in the history of the building against UCLA in 2013.
• The event, which is co-sponsored by the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame, features positive messages from Husker student-athletes, coaches and athletic administrators. The 2025 Sizemore Sportsmanship Pep Rally marks the seventh time since 2013 (also 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) the event has been paired with Nebraska’s season-opening women’s basketball game.
• The 2022 Nebraska Life Skills Sportsmanship Pep Rally included 2,200 students and more than 200 accompanying staff members from 42 schools across Nebraska for the opener with Omaha.
• The Life Skills Sportsmanship Pep Rally, which is focused on 4th through 8th grade students across the state of Nebraska, not only includes inspiring messages from current and former Nebraska student-athletes and staff members, it also includes complimentary pizza from Nebraska Athletics through generous support from the Sizemore family and water provided by Pepsi for students and accompanying school staff members.
• The 2025 Pep Rally will begin at 9:30 a.m., and is expected to include messages from Coach Amy Williams, Huskers Jessica Petrie and Logan Nissley, along with volleyball players Taylor Landfair and Teraya Sigler, football players Derek Branch and Aidan Flege, 2025 NCAA Champion Ridge Lovett and All-American Caleb Smith from the Husker wrestling team, and softball Coach Rhonda Revelle and National Player of the Year Jordyn Bahl. The rally will conclude at 10:45 a.m., prior to Nebraska and Northwestern State taking the court for pregame warm-ups ahead of their noon tip-off.
Nebraska Life Skills Sportsmanship Pep Rallies at Women’s Basketball
2024 - 8,106 (attendance) / 3,800 (students/staff - 75 schools) vs. Omaha
2023 - 7,065 (attendance) / 3,300 (students/staff - 62 schools) vs. Northwestern State
2022 - 6,233 (attendance) / 2,500 (students/staff - 40 schools) vs. Omaha
2021 - 4,476 (attendance) / 1,600 (students/staff - 30 schools) vs. Maine
2019 - 5,250 (attendance) / 2,000 (students/staff - 27 schools) vs. Alabama A&M
2013 - 9,750 (attendance) / 4,000 (students/staff - 45 schools) vs. UCLA
Nebraska Ticket Sales on the Rise
• Season ticket sales have been on the rise for Nebraska women’s basketball with an increase of nearly 200 from a year ago. The Huskers entered the week of Oct. 20 with 3,935 season tickets sold. Season tickets are available for $198 (18 games/$11 per ticket).
• Nebraska’s popular Starting 5 Mini Plans, which give Husker fans the chance to enjoy the excitement of five games for just $65 ($13 per ticket), also have been available for purchase through Huskers.com since Sept. 25, and will continue during the regular season.
• Single-game tickets for the 2025-26 Nebraska women’s basketball season went on sale Oct. 14.
• Adult reserved tickets for each of Nebraska’s 18 home games at Pinnacle Bank Arena can be purchased for $16, while general admission adult tickets are $11. General admission tickets for youth and seniors are $6, while children age 1 and under are $1 for GA seating. UNL students with ID are admitted free to Husker women’s basketball games.
• Fans can purchase tickets now at Huskers.com or by calling the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office at 1-800-8-BIG-RED during regular business hours, Monday through Friday.
Hake Leads Big Ten as SAIC Chair; NU SAAC President
• Callin Hake has proven herself a leader on and off the court in her four seasons at Nebraska, and the junior from Victoria, Minn., was elected President of the Nebraska Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for 2024-25 and will serve in that role again in 2025-26.
• Hake, who was Nebraska's Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner for women's basketball in 2025, was also the Big Ten Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winner across all Husker women's sports in 2024-25.
• In 2025-26, Hake has taken on additional responsibilities across the conference as the chair of the Big Ten Student-Athlete Issues Commission (SAIC).
• On the court, Hake earned 30 starts in 2024-25, averaging career bests of 6.4 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.3 steals, while scoring in double figures nine times.
• Hake produced her best performance with career highs of 17 points and seven assists, while knocking down back-to-back three-pointers in overtime in a 94-90 OT win over Oregon (Feb. 19).
• Hake established her career high with 17 points to go with five rebounds, two assists and two steals in a win over North Alabama (Nov. 19).
• Hake was NU's leading scorer with 16 points, six rebounds and four assists in Nebraska's win over Penn State (Jan. 5).
• She followed with 16 points on a career-high five three-pointers to go with four rebounds, four assists and two steals in a win over Kansas City (Nov. 26).
• She produced a 12-point effort that included three threes for the second straight game against No. 12 Ohio State (Jan. 26).
• She put up 11 points on 3-of-5 three-point shooting in a Big Ten win over Minnesota (Dec. 8), after a strong 12-point, six-rebound effort that included three assists and a career-high four steals in a win over Lindenwood (Dec. 3).
• Hake added 10 points and four assists in Nebraska's 91-71 victory at No. 17 Maryland (Feb. 13).
• She had 10 points, five rebounds and three assists in a win over Chattanooga (Dec. 15).
• The 5-8 guard averaged 6.1 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists while competing in all 35 games with five starts to help the Huskers advance to the Big Ten Championship Game and the second round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
• Hake was also the Nebraska women’s basketball Lifter of the Year in 2023 and 2025.
• Hake is a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection while double-majoring in management and marketing at Nebraska. She is also a two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District VII choice (2024, 2025).
• She earned a prestigious Nebraska Sam Foltz 27 Hero Leadership Award in 2024. She is a three-time member of the Tom Osborne Citizenship Team.
Nissley, Petrie Return to Husker Starting Five
• Juniors Logan Nissley and Jessica Petrie return to Nebraska's starting lineup alongside senior Callin Hake and sophomore Britt Prince in 2025-26.
• Nissley, a 6-0 guard from Bismarck, N.D., averaged 7.0 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists while making 26 starts over 32 games as a sophomore. One of the Big Ten's most dangerous three-point threats, Nissley drained 55 threes on 36.2 percent shooting on the year.
• In 2023-24, Nissley helped the Huskers to the NCAA Tournament and the Big Ten Championship Game by making 10 starts down the stretch. The Big Ten All-Freshman selection averaged 7.0 points while hitting 39.9 percent (59-148) over her three-point attempts over 35 games.
• Petrie, a 6-2 forward from Gold Coast, Australia, started 23 games a year ago after the injury to fellow power forward Natalie Potts. Petrie averaged 6.4 points and 4.4 rebounds to help the Huskers to a second straight NCAA bid. Petrie, who has appeared in all 68 games for the Big Red over the past two seasons, averaged 8.7 points and 3.7 rebounds in the Big Ten Tournament while hitting 12-of-19 shots (.632) from the field.
• In a closed scrimmage with Missouri in Kansas City (Oct. 18), Petrie led Nebraska with 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting against the Tigers.
Sophomores Ready to Make Major Contributions
• Britt Prince was the leader of a talented freshman trio for Nebraska in 2024-25. While Prince earned headlines by starting at point guard and putting up some of the best numbers in history by a Big Red rookie, fellow freshmen Amiah Hargrove and Petra Bozan were dynamic inside.
• Bozan, a 6-3 forward from Split, Croatia, is set to replace four-time All-Big Ten center Alexis Markowski inside for the Huskers in 2025-26. She averaged 5.3 points and 2.8 rebounds while playing in all 33 games off the bench for the Big Red last season. Bozan produced six double-digit scoring efforts, including 11 points in Nebraska's second-round Big Ten Tournament win over Illinois (March 6). She tied her career high with 12 points - all in the fourth quarter - at Indiana (Feb. 2). It matched her 12 points in an opening-day win over Omaha (Nov. 4). She also had 11 against Southeastern Louisiana (Nov. 9). She had her first double-digit effort in Big Ten play with 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting in a win over Wisconsin (Jan. 20).
• She closed the regular season with nine points in a win over Northwestern (March 2), before opening the Big Ten Tournament with nine points in a win over Rutgers (March 5). She combined to go 8-for-9 from the field in those two wins, including 4-for-4 in the conference tournament.
• Bozan produced per 40-minute averages of 19.3 points and 10.4 rebounds while hitting 51.8 percent of her shots from the field, including 37.5 percent (9-24) of her threes in 2024-25.
• Hargrove, a 6-2 forward from Christopher, Ill., capped her freshman season with 10 points and nine rebounds in less than 17 minutes of action off the bench in Nebraska's first-round NCAA Tournament game with Louisville (March 21). It was her eighth double-figure scoring effort of the season.
• Hargrove, who averaged 4.7 points and 3.7 rebounds in 14 minutes per game on the year, opened the Big Ten Tournament by tying her career high with 13 points to go with four rebounds while tying a career high with two threes in 23 minutes off the bench in a win over Rutgers (March 5).
• She produced her first career double-double with 10 points and a career-high 11 rebounds in a career-high 28 minutes in an overtime win at Iowa (Jan. 16). She hit 3-of-4 shots including 2-of-3 threes and both free throws against the Hawkeyes while adding a career-high two blocks.
• Hargrove added a double-figure scoring effort with 11 points at Indiana (Feb. 2).
• She erupted for a career-high 13 points in a win over Tarleton State (Dec. 11). She hit 5-of-6 shots, including a three-pointer, while adding three rebounds and a steal. She also led Nebraska with 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting at No. 1 UCLA (Dec. 29). She had 10 points and eight rebounds in a Big Ten-opening win over previously unbeaten Minnesota (Dec. 8).
• Hargrove added 10 points and seven rebounds in a win over Kansas City (Nov. 26). She made back-to-back starts against Chattanooga (Dec. 15) and No. 17 Georgia Tech (Dec. 21). Hargrove also played a major role in NU's win over No. 20 Michigan State (Jan. 8) with seven points and six rebounds in 15 minutes off the bench.
• In 2024-25, Hargrove produced per 40-minute averages of 13.6 points and 10.5 rebounds while hitting 48.6 percent of her shots from the field, including 50 percent of her threes (17-34).
Four Transfers Prepare for Instant Impacts
• Head coach Amy Williams upgraded Nebraska's talent and depth with the addition of four NCAA Division I transfers following the 2024-25 season.
• Big Ten Conference transfers Hailey Weaver (Northwestern) and Emily Fisher (Maryland) joined Kansas State transfer Eliza Maupin and Samford transfer Claire Johnson in solidifying an already strong set of returning players for the Huskers for the 2025-26 campaign.
• Weaver, a 6-0 graduate guard from Solon, Ohio, started 14 games as a junior in 2023-24 before taking a redshirt season while attending Northwestern in 2024-25. She averaged 7.9 points and 3.1 rebounds for the Wildcats as a junior. Weaver brings length and defensive pressure to the Husker backcourt, while also supplying proven ability as a three-point shooter by hitting 36 percent (32-89) of her long-range attempts as a junior at Northwestern. Weaver was No. 35 in the ESPN Top 100 player rankings coming out of Solon High School.
• Fisher, a 6-0 guard/forward from Libertyville, Ill., appeared in 52 games over the past two seasons at Maryland. An ESPN Top 100 player out of Libertyville High School, Fisher brings toughness and rebounding ability to the small forward position for the Big Red.
• Maupin adds extreme athleticism to the Husker roster. The 6-3 forward from Webster Groves, Mo., averaged 4.0 points and 2.7 rebounds over 98 games at Kansas State the past three seasons, while playing a supporting role to K-State All-American Ayoka Lee. Maupin, who was a two-time Missouri state high jump champion, finished at better than a 62 percent rate from the field during her Wildcat career.
• Although the smallest of the Husker transfers, Johnson may provide the largest long-term impact to the Nebraska roster. The 5-9 guard from Paducah, Ky., earned second-team All-Southern Conference honors as a freshman at Samford in 2024-25. A member of the SoCon All-Tournament Team as well, Johnson averaged 12.2 points, 2.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.0 steal for the Bulldogs while starting 14 of the team's 30 games. Johnson demonstrated her explosiveness and high basketball IQ late in the season, erupting for 30 points against UNC Wilmington (Feb. 1). It followed a 26-point effort against Western Carolina (Jan. 30). The performances earned her SoCon Player-of-the-Week honors (Feb. 4) after averaging 28.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in the two-game stretch. A knock-down three-point shooter, Johnson hit 40.4 percent (61-151) of her three-point attempts as a freshman.
• In Nebraska's closed scrimmage against Missouri in Kansas City (Oct. 18), Johnson buried four of the Big Red's 15 three-pointers. She finished the day with 12 points.
Huskers Earn Votes in Preseason AP Top 25
• Nebraska earned two votes in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25 released on Tuesday, Oct. 14. The Huskers matched Big Ten counterpart Illinois at the equivalent of No. 35 in the preseason rankings.
• Nebraska is one of 11 Big Ten teams to receive votes in the AP Preseason Top 25, joining No. 3 UCLA, No. 10 Maryland, No. 13 Michigan, No. 18 USC, No. 21 Iowa, No. 23 Michigan State, No. 26 Washington, No. 27 Ohio State and No. 30 Minnesota.
• The Huskers were ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 for seven consecutive weeks to open the 2024-25 season, before slipping out of the rankings Dec. 23, following a 72-61 road loss at then-No. 17 Georgia Tech (Dec. 21).
• The Huskers received votes in the Dec. 30, Jan. 13 and Jan. 20 AP polls, before returning to the USA Today/WBCA Top 25 (Jan. 21). NU received votes in the Jan. 27/28 polls.
• In 2023-24, Nebraska finished No. 25 in the final NCAA NET rankings.