{"id":543687,"date":"2026-01-17T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:19:17","slug":"no-8-nebraska-stays-unbeaten-with-a-dominant-77-58-win-over-northwestern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543687\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 8 Nebraska stays unbeaten with a dominant 77-58 win over Northwestern"},"content":{"rendered":"

EVANSTON, Ill. \u2014 Braden Frager and Pryce Sandfort each scored 20 points and No. 8 Nebraska stayed unbeaten with a 77-58 victory at Northwestern on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Sam Hoiberg had 12 points and seven rebounds to help the Cornhuskers (18-0, 7-0 Big Ten) add another win to the best start in school history.<\/p>\n

Nebraska led 34-29 at halftime and stretched the advantage to 41-32 minutes into the second half after Hoiberg capped a 7-0 spurt with a 3-pointer. The Wildcats (8-10, 0-7) got as close as 46-41 a few minutes later but the Cornhuskers answered with a 17-3 run to turn the game into a rout.<\/p>\n

The Cornhuskers turned 11 Wildcat miscues into a dozen points as they retained at least a share of the conference lead.<\/p>\n

Northwestern\u2019s Nick Martinelli, who started the day as the nation\u2019s second leading scorer, led the hosts with 22 points and 10 rebounds, but managed just seven points after the break.<\/p>\n

Tre Singleton added 14 points as the Wildcats dropped their fifth straight.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Nebraska: Welcomes Washington on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\"Nebraska<\/p>\n

Nebraska forward Berke Buyuktuncel, top left, blocks a shot by Northwestern forward Tre Singleton, top right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Evanston, Ill., Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. Credit: AP\/Nam Y. Huh<\/p>\n

Northwestern: Visits Southern California the same evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVANSTON, Ill. \u2014 Braden Frager and Pryce Sandfort each scored 20 points and No. 8 Nebraska stayed unbeaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-543687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115913005347146204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}