Nebrasketball Posts Record-Setting Night Against Lindenwood

The No. 25/24 Nebraska men's basketball team hosted Lindenwood at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, securing a dominant 94-60 victory. According to huskers.com, the game tipped off at 8:05 p.m. central time and was televised on FS1 with Jack Rinaldi and Nick Bahe on the call, while also airing on the Huskers Radio Network with Kent Pavelka and Jeff Smith. The victory followed Nebraska's 67-58 win over Providence on Saturday evening in the Hall of Fame Tip-off, where Pryce Sandfort earned game MVP honors with a game-high 25 points after hitting 9-of-14 shots.

Coming into the matchup, Lindenwood held a 2-1 record following a 115-44 win over East-West University on Saturday, a game where Makhan Diouf scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Nebraska entered the contest ranked 25th in the Nov. 9 poll after being just outside the preseason poll. The Huskers had spent a school-record 15 weeks in the AP poll during the 2025-26 season, breaking the previous mark of 13 weeks set in 1990-91. Fred Hoiberg's squad also brought a school-record 24 straight regular-season non-conference win streak into the contest, dating back to Nov. 22, 2024, alongside 16 straight home wins against non-conference foes from the 2023-24 season onward.

In the previous win against Providence, Nebraska leaned on its defense, holding the Friars to 30.6 percent shooting and forcing 18 turnovers that translated into 20 points. Braden Frager recorded four steals and Cale Jacobsen added three steals in that defensive effort. Offensively, Sandfort continued his strong form after averaging 22.5 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 59 percent from the field early in the season. Cale Jacobsen also emerged as a key contributor, averaging 13.5 points on 82 percent shooting alongside 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game through the opening stretch.

Nebraska's background numbers included a school-record 373 three-pointers during the 2025-26 season, eclipsing the 319 hit in 2023-24. The program also finished sixth nationally with a 1.86-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio in 2025-26. Fred Hoiberg held a 53-10 record when his teams scored 80 or more points, and the team had won its previous 18 games when reaching the 80-point threshold. Following the matchup with Lindenwood, the Huskers' schedule includes upcoming neutral-site and away games, such as a Sunday matchup against Boise State in Sioux Falls, a trip to Chicago to face Butler on Nov. 22, and a game against Missouri in Kansas City on Dec. 12.