Matt Painter put it pretty bluntly Sunday when talking about the Nebraska basketball team he saw on film at the start of this season.
"They were awful," the Purdue coach said.
Guess who isn't awful anymore?
Cam Mack had Nebraska's first-ever triple-double, the Huskers started the game with a 12-2 run and led for the last 25 minutes, and about 40 hours after losing an overtime heart-breaker on the road NU knocked off one of the Big Ten's flagship programs 70-56 Sunday afternoon at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
In a program-building win, Fred Hoiberg's first Big Ten victory as Nebraska's head coach, the Huskers nearly flawlessly executed a game plan that was put in place about 24 hours before Sunday's 3 p.