Nebraska ties program record for wins at home in blowout victory vs. Minnesota

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have been one of the most dominant teams in college basketball on their home floor. And they came out and showed that again on Sunday when they laced them up against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. They’ve now got 20 regular season wins for just the seventh time in program history. That includes a remarkably dominant 17-1 record on their home floor. They tied the school record for the most home wins in a single season. The Huskers had no problems with the Golden Gophers, throttling them to the tune of a 73-55 beatdown.

Juwan Gary stuffed the stat sheet with 22 points and eight rebounds for Nebraska in fueling his team to the easy win. The Huskers had three other players finish in double figures on Sunday night (Jamarques Lawrence, Rienk Mast, and Brice Williams).

Keisei Tominaga had a very cold night shooting, scoring six points, but going 0-for-4 from beyond-the-arc. When he’s on, he’s one of the better three-point shooters in America. Tominaga has connected on 38% of his three-pointers this year and he’s currently averaging 14.4 points per game.

The biggest win of this season for Nebraska came on January 9th, when they took down then top-ranked Purdue Boilermakers. Not only did Nebraska take them down, but they handled them by double digits, prevailing 88-72 in one of the biggest wins in school history. Nebraska shot 60.9 percent from three-point range, including a season-high five threes from Keisei Tominaga. He led all Huskers in that one with 19 points.

Nebraska limited Zach Edey to just 15 points and seven rebounds in that one. He’s a leading candidate to become the first player to win back-to-back National Player of the Year honors since Virginia’s Ralph Sampson did it in 1980.

The win was just the fourth time the Huskers have defeated the No. 1 team, and it was the first time they’d done it since Feb. 6, 1982. That’s more than four decades. Purdue was the first No. 1 team to come to Lincoln since 2002.

Nebraska will have three more games to finish the regular season: Ohio State (February 29th), Rutgers (March 3rd), Michigan (March 10th). It’ll be fascinating to see if they end up in the NCAA Tournament. After Saturday’s games on February 24th, ESPN’s Bracketology expert Joe Lunardi had Nebraska projected as a No. 10 seed.