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Huskers shoot out lights during victory over Coyotes in Sioux Falls – University of Nebraska
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Huskers shoot out lights during victory over Coyotes in Sioux Falls – University of Nebraska

Sioux Falls, S.D – Nebraska broke a school record with 20 3-pointers en route to one of the five highest-scoring performances in school history as the No. 21 Huskers rolled to a 113-70 women’s basketball victory over South Dakota before a sellout Saturday night crowd at the Sanford Pentagon.

Nebraska, 4-0, hit 63.1 percent (41-65) from the field – the seventh-best percentage in school history, including 58.8 percent (20-34) from three-point range, while shooting a perfect 11-for-1 11 was from the free throw line en route to just the sixth game with 113 or more points in Husker history.

Freshman point guard Britt Prince led the Big Red with a career-high 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting while dishing out four assists, and sophomore forward Natalie Potts added a career-high 22 points on 8-of- 10 shooting from the floor. Both Potts and Prince hit a pair of 3-pointers, while Potts pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.

Seniors Kendall Moriarty (13) and Kendall Coley (12) added career highs in both points and three-pointers. Moriarty went 3-for-4 from long range, while Coley went a perfect 4-for-4 from beyond the arc – all in the fourth quarter.

All-America candidate Alexis Markowski also did plenty of damage with 14 points while dishing out a career-high seven assists. Markowski led 10 Huskers in producing two or more assists on the night, en route to 33 assists as a team – the fourth-highest total in school history. Markowski also joined in the Big Red three-point barrage by burying 2-of-3 from beyond the arc.

Nine different Huskers hit at least one three in the game, including sophomore Logan Nissley, who finished with nine points on a trio of three-pointers while making her first start of the season. Alberte Rimdal finished with seven points, including a three, making her second start, while freshman Amiah Hargrove added a pair of threes to finish with eight points.

Nebraska also posted a whopping plus-22 rebound margin that night (41-19), limiting South Dakota to just two offensive rebounds.

The Huskers got off to a fast start and quickly jumped to a 7-0 lead, but South Dakota rallied to take a 15-13 lead midway through the first quarter. The Big Red answered to hold the Coyotes without a field goal for the final 5:25 of the quarter, ending the period with a 16-3 surge and a 29-18 lead heading into the second.

Nebraska did everything short of put the game away in the second quarter, going up 14-3 early in the second half en route to a 60-33 halftime lead. The 60 points marked the third-highest first-half total at school and marked the second-most points the Huskers had ever scored in a half on the road – trailing just 61 points at Idaho in 1993.

The Big Red defeated the Coyotes, 24-19 in the third and 29-18 in the fourth, to complete the 113-70 victory.

USD’s Grace Larkins led all scorers with 28 points to go with five rebounds and six assists, while Alexi Hempe added 14 points, including four 3-pointers. Carley Duffney added 10 points on 3-for-3 shooting from long range as the two teams combined to hit 30-for-64 threes. The 30 combined threes were the most in a Nebraska game in school history, surpassing the 27 hits by Nebraska and Iowa earlier this year during the Big Ten Championship Game in Minneapolis on March 10.

Nebraska makes a quick turnaround and returns home to take on North Alabama (2-1) at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Tuesday night. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 PM (CT) and tickets are available now at Huskers.com. The game against the Lions will be streamed live for B1G+ subscribers, with live audio also available on Huskers.com from the Huskers Radio Network.