Husker Big Red Daily: Brutal injury report for Nebraska vs. Rutgers; volleyball eyes outright title

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Nebraska football needs some good news, but it didn’t get it on the injury report ahead of the Rutgers game.

Owen Chambliss and Andrew Marshall, the two best players on the Nebraska football defense, have already been ruled out of the game. Rutgers will be without KJ Duff, one of the top wideouts in the Big Ten. The Scarlet Knights are also going to play backup quarterback AJ Surace once again.

This team scored 21 points against Michigan. The Scarlet Knights are the only team to score more than 20 against the Wolverines. The defense is terrible, but without two defenders, Nebraska needs some players to step up, or the offense needs to put up 40 points, which should happen.

Rutgers has only held one team under 30 points at home this season, and that was Michigan, which is ranked 132nd in total offense out of 138 teams.

Nebraska basketball looks strong in a blowout win

The Huskers made 11 3-pointers and got 22 points from Pryce Sandfort, who knocked down six 3-pointers. Braden Frager added 14 points. Damon Wilkinson also had an impressive performance coming off the bench, scoring 19 points in 18 minutes.

Here are our three takeaways from the 94-60 win.

Nebraska volleyball is aiming to win the Big Ten outright

The Huskers will attempt to lock down a third consecutive outright Big Ten championship, which they can accomplish with a win over No. 25 Illinois.

It’s the fourth straight game for Nebraska volleyball against a ranked team. Nebraska is hitting .346 while limiting teams to .116. Illinois will challenge that. The Fighting Illini are hitting .270 on the season.

Paityn Chapman has 320 kills. She’s hitting .235 on the season, but that’s more kills than any other Nebraska attacker. Harper Murray has 272 kills with a .282 hitting percentage. Andi Jackson, who recently went over 1,000 career kills, has 210 kills and is doing it at a .464 clip.

The match in Lincoln gets underway at 6 p.m. CST on BTN+ or Nebraska Public Media.

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