Shields scores 25, but Husker rally falls short

Shavon Shields nearly put a big exclamation point on his already triumphant return to the Nebraska men’s basketball team.

Shields, a senior forward who’d missed the previous four games with a concussion, scored a game-high 25 points but fell short on a game-winning shot at the buzzer in Nebraska’s 56-55 loss to Penn State on Thursday night at University Park, Pennsylvania.

Nebraska (14-15, 6-10 Big Ten Conference) trailed by 18 points with 14:16 remaining.

That comeback, combined with the return of Shields, gave Nebraska coach Tim Miles some solace despite another frustrating, heartbreaking loss.

“This is going to be good if we let it be good,” Miles said on his postgame radio show. “We haven’t…