Lincoln – Britt Prince led four Huskers in double figures with a game-high 18 points and a team-high seven rebounds, as the Nebraska women’s basketball team flew past Creighton 84-50 Wednesday night at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Playing in front of more than 5,000 fans in the late national TV game on FS1, the Nancy Lieberman Award candidate set the tone for the 3-0 Huskers at both ends of the court by adding three assists while helping the Huskers force a shocking 25 Creighton turnovers. The Bluejays, who have ranked among the top teams in the nation in fewest turnovers committed for several seasons and entered the night averaging just 8.0 turnovers per game, committed 14 in the first half against the ball-hawking Big Red.
Nebraska’s defense was stifling in the first 20 minutes, holding the Jays to just 14 points on 4-of-25 shooting (.160), including 2-of-12 threes (.167).
The Huskers jumped out to a 10-3 lead in the first two minutes thanks to early threes from Callin Hake and Hailey Weaver. Nebraska pushed the lead to 17-9 at the end of the first quarter thanks to a 70-foot buzzer-beating heave from Jessica Petrie.
Petrie finished with 11 points, four rebounds, three assists, two steals and a blocked shot from her power forward position on the night. Hake, a senior guard from Victoria, Minn., closed out the first win over Creighton in her four-year Husker career with 13 points, three rebounds, a game-high four assists and a steal.
Neleigh Gessert cut the Nebraska margin back to 17-12 with a three-pointer for the Jays 1:15 into the second period, before Petrie hit a stepback jumper for the Big Red, and Prince scored on a driving layup to extend NU’s lead to 21-12.
Neleigh’s twin sister Norah Gessert sank a pair of free throws to trim the margin to 21-14 with 6:32 left, but that was the end of Creighton’s first-half scoring. The Husker defense flexed its muscles the rest of the quarter, closing the period on a 14-0 run, beginning with a three-pointer from Claire Johnson that gave Nebraska its first double-digit lead at 24-14 with 6:24 left. Johnson finished her night with 11 points to round out the four Huskers in double figures.
Sophomore Petra Bozan led Nebraska with five points during the run, including a three-pointer to extend the Husker margin to 33-14 with 1:11 left in the half. Bozan, a 6-3 forward from Split, Croatia, finished with nine points, three rebounds and two steals.
Prince, who scored four points during the run, capped Nebraska’s first-half scoring on two free throws with 18 seconds left. The five points scored by Creighton in the period tied for the fourth fewest points allowed by the Huskers in a second quarter since the start of the quarter system in 2015-16.
In the history of the Nebraska-Creighton series, few 20-point leads have ever felt safe, but the Huskers made sure to put together two halves of basketball on Wednesday night. Hailey Weaver’s second three-pointer opened the third quarter scoring just 32 seconds into the half. Weaver finished with six points while playing lock-down defense on the perimeter.
Hake added two more three-pointers early in the third quarter, while Petrie pitched in another, as Nebraska carried a 59-31 lead to the final period.
Freshman Alanna Neale capped Nebraska’s night from long range by hitting a three-pointer in the fourth – the 10th of the game for the Big Red to help the Huskers put the finishing touches on the 34-point win. It marked the first time in series history that Nebraska hit double-digit threes against the Jays.
All 10 Huskers who played in the game found the scoring column, including the first five points of graduate forward Eliza Maupin’s Nebraska career. The 6-3 transfer from Kansas State missed NU’s first two games with a lower leg injury. She added four rebounds and two blocks in 17 minutes off the bench.
Sophomore forward Amiah Hargrove provided another solid effort with six points, five rebounds and an assist, while Kennadi Williams contributed two points, two boards and an assist in 22 minutes of work behind Weaver and Hake in the backcourt.
As a team, Nebraska hit 46.8 percent (29-62) of its shots from the floor, including 35.7 percent (10-28) of its threes, while sinking 80 percent (16-20) of its free throws. The Huskers dominated the turnover battle, 25-15, while also winning on the boards, 39-36.
The Big Red held Creighton to just 29.4 percent (15-51) shooting, including just 26.1 percent (6-23) from three. CU did manage 73.7 percent (14-19) at the line.
Ava Zedicker led Creighton with 14 points, while Elizabeth Gentry added 11 points and nine rebounds.
Nebraska hits the road for the first time in the 2025-26 regular season when the Huskers travel to the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., to take on North Dakota State on Sunday, Nov. 16, at noon (CT). The game will be televised live on the Big Ten Network and can be heard across the Huskers Radio Network and Huskers.com.
Nebraska Cornhuskers forward Jessica Petrie
Nebraska Cornhuskers guard Callin Hake
