For the second game in a row, Nebraska played the role of the windshield for a change in Big Ten Conference play, and not the bug.
Senior forward Shavon Shields scored 24 points, and Nebraska used a 29-4 first-half run to bury Minnesota 84-59 on Tuesday night at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Shields, making his 100th consecutive start, had 19 points in the first half, when Nebraska (10-8, 2-3 Big Ten Conference) built a 47-26 halftime lead.
Shields is only the second player in Nebraska history to make 100 consecutive starts. The other is Dave Hoppen, the program’s all-time leading scorer, who started all 111 games he played from 1982-86.