Whatever Nebraska lost defensively in losses at Maryland and Iowa to drop to 1-3 in Big Ten play, the Huskers have spent the last two days trying to find.
For a team built on defense that has plummeted to the bottom of the league in a handful of defensive categories, that has meant getting back to the basics of its defensive principles.
"We started the year off a great defensive team, holding opponents to a great percentage and low scoring, and somehow we got away from that the past two games — the past four or five games, actually," senior forward Tanner Borchardt said Wednesday.