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Basketball Huskers take down Rutgers, league's top defense with poise, lethal shooting

Zack Carpenter

Graduate Assistant
Staff
May 19, 2022
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Rutgers had the country's seventh-best scoring defense and was No. 1 in the Big Ten (59.1 ppg), in addition to having the sixth-best opponent field goal percentage (38.2%) in the nation.

Nebraska tore that defense apart with its second-best shooting (58.2%, including 42.9% from three) and second-best scoring performance of the season en route to an 82-72 upset win over Rutgers on the road on Tuesday night.

Takeaways from the Huskers' pulling off back-to-back wins for the first time since December and how they are getting it all done:

 
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