Nebraska men’s basketball finished the first two months of the 2025-26 season with a perfect 13-0 record. Friday night, the No. 13 Huskers host the highest-rated and likely the best team they have played this season to date, No. 9 Michigan State.
The game will be televised on Peacock with Noah Reed and Nick Bahe on the call.
There have been plenty of firsts or things that haven’t happened in a long time for the Huskers this season.they are riding a program record 17 straight wins. prior to the current win streak, Nebraska’s longest win streak under Fred Hoiberg was seven to start the 2023-24 season.
Nebraska comes into the Michigan State game averaging 83.5 points, which is the Huskers’ highest scoring average after 12 games since the 1995-96 season (89.5 per game).After the win Tuesday against New Hampshire, the Huskers won a school-record 22 straight nonconference games, the nation’s longest nonconference win streak.
All of the school records and winning streak talk is great, but in comes a Michigan State team that is 12-1, with its only loss to top-10 Duke (66-60 on Dec. 6).
This is a Michigan State program that hammered Nebraska 89-52 in East Lansing last season.
Ranked versus ranked
Friday will be the second ranked team Nebraska has faced this season,joining Illinois. It will also be the 11th time in program history the Huskers have faced a ranked team while being ranked themselves.
Friday’s game is the second ranked versus ranked home game in program history, and the first since 1991.It will be the first time as March 3, 1991, Nebraska has hosted a game with both teams ranked in the top 15 (no. 15 Nebraska 85, no. 10 Kansas 75).
Since March 1, 2023, Nebraska is 10-11 in the last 21 games against ranked teams. Last season, Nebraska went 4-4 against ranked teams, matching a school record for most wins over ranked opponents in a season.
Nebraska is 4-6 in those 10 games; nine of the 10 were away from Lincoln (seven road, two neutral).
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