The Huskers played a shaky first quarter, but got rolling after that and Purdue never seriously challenged the Huskers. Purdue, which had only suffered home losses to the Big Ten’s top teams Ohio State (71-68), Indiana (74-68) and Iowa (96-71), slipped to 11-14 overall and 4-10 in the league.
Nebraska improved to 17-9 overall and remained in fourth place in the conference standings.
Alexis Markowski produced a huge effort with 20 points and a career-high 21 rebounds to lead a trio of outstanding performances. Markowski hit 9-of-18 shots from the field while tying the fourth-best rebounding total in school history to help Nebraska overwhelm Purdue on the boards over the last three periods (35-16).