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The Britt Prince show continue to shine for the Nebraska women's basketball team.
Riding a game-high 24 points from the star point guard and Elkhorn native, the Cornhuskers easily dispatched North Carolina A&T by a score of 76-35 to mark three straight wins in the new season. Junior Amiah Hargrove recorded her first double-double of the season with a 13-point, 10-rebound performance. Highly-touted freshman Ashlyn Koupal nearly joined Hargrove by scoring 11 points and adding eight rebounds to put three Huskers in double digits for the game.
Nebraska defended the Aggies well all night long. North Carolina A&T finished 37.5% from the field thanks to a 14-for-45 showing, plus 18 turnovers and losing the rebounding battle 41-18.
The competition heats up in this next stretch for the Huskers, who are set to face a Kansas team Saturday afternoon at the Sioux Falls Sanford Pentagon.
Here's all you need to know.
Establishing himself as one of the top women's basketball coaches in NCAA Division II, Brandon Schneider found immediate success in his first coaching job at Emporia State. The Texas native finished his tenure leading the Lady Hornets with a 306-72 record, including the 2010 NCAA Division II National Championship in his final season. He went on to coach Stephen F. Austin in the Southland Conference, where he helped the program reach the postseason three times in his five seasons.
Prior to the 2015-2016 season, Schneider got the call to return to the state where he found his initial head coaching success. It wasn't pretty to start his tenure at KU. The Jayhawks suffered six consecutive losing seasons under Schneider as the program went 60-118 overall in that time. Kansas finished dead last in the Big 12 in five of those six years, and as a result, it put Schneider on the hot seat entering the 2021-2022 campaign.
The patience finally paid off as Schneider led the Jayhawks to a 21-10 record and a second-round appearance in the NCAA Tournament. It earned Schneider an extension and became the bedrock for what's turned into one of the best runs in program history. Kansas has posted a 107-62 record since that tide-turning season, which includes a WNIT Championship in 2023 and another NCAA Tournament appearance in 2024.
That success allowed Schneider to keep the local talent in-state, with five-star guard S'Mya Nichols marking the first sign of change. She earned her second-straight All-America award in 2025-2026 while being named to her third consecutive All-Big 12 First Team. She was able to peer recruit and help convince fellow five-star Jaliya Davis to join the Jayhawks. The Overland Park native enjoyed a historic freshman season last year when she averaged nearly 20 points per game. She was an All-America Honorable Mention and an unanimous pick as Big 12 Freshman of the Year.
In fact, KU's entire starting lineup is made up of recruits who initially started with the Jayhawks. A top-50 recruit from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guard Libby Fandel is averaging double digits in her first few games of the season. Forward Regan Williams ranked third on the team last year with 8.9 PPG and 5.0 RPG and leveraged that performance into a starting role this year. Plus, former Creighton transfer Brittany Harshaw is seeing a team-high 32.3 minutes per night after coming off the bench last season.
Wth Colorado transfer Anna Gooden and four-star recruit Brooklynn Renn coming off the bench, Kansas has a dangerous rotation. For Nebraska, it all starts with stopping the two five stars. Amiah Hargrove and Natalie Potts will be key in stopping the interior offense of Davis, who's putting up 22 points per game on a 74.3 shooting percentage. Britt Prince and Allison Weidner will need to limit how much Nichols gets to the free throw line while also creating turnovers.
This is a tough matchup for Nebraska, but they get the advantage of playing in Sioux Falls, which should have a heavy Husker crowd. This one could go either way, but give me Nebraska to pick up a big early-season win.