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Nebraska's Britt Prince Earns Big Ten Freshman of the Week

After a stellar performance at Iowa, Britt Prince is the league's freshman of the week.

Kaleb Henry

Nebraska guard Britt Prince shoots against Tarleton State.
Nebraska guard Britt Prince shoots against Tarleton State. / Nebraska Athletics
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The top freshman in the Big Ten Conference last week plays for Nebraska.

Britt Prince earned the league's Freshman-of-the-Week award for the first time. She shared the honor Ohio State's Jaloni Cambridge.

The dynamic Husker is the first to take the honor since Natalie Potts last season. Potts would go on to be named Big Ten Freshman of the Year.

Prince, a 5-11 point guard from Omaha, Neb., led the Huskers with a game-high 22 points on a career-high five three-pointers in an 87-84 overtime win at Iowa on Thursday night. In the first win for the program in Iowa City since 2018, she added a career-high six steals to go along with seven rebounds and five assists.

Not only did Prince play an all-around game for the Big Red, she also came up big in crunch time. She hit a step back 3 with 50 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the game.

Prince is averaging 13.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and team bests 3.2 assists and 1.9 steals on the year. Earlier this month, she was named the inaugural Jordan Larson Award winner from the Jet Award Foundation as the most outstanding high school girls athlete in the state for her final year at Elkhorn North.

The Huskers are on a four-game Big Ten winning streak ahead of tonight's home contest against Wisconsin. Tip from Pinnacle Bank Arena is set for 7 p.m. CST on the Big Ten Network.

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Kaleb Henry
KALEB HENRY

Kaleb Henry is an award-winning sports reporter, covering collegiate athletics since 2014 via radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. His experience with Big Ten Conference teams goes back more than a decade, including time covering programs such as the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks, and USC Trojans. He has contributed to Sports Illustrated since 2021. Kaleb has won multiple awards for his sports coverage from the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Prior to working in sports journalism, Kaleb was a Division I athlete on the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Track and Field team where he discussed NCAA legislation as SIUE's representative to the Ohio Valley Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. 

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