The Nebraska Cornhuskers, currently enjoying their longest stretch of days off since returning from a 27-day pause, including 20 days with the program completely shut down, return to Pinnacle Bank Arena to face off against the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday afternoon. There was no game on either Thursday or Friday after having played back-to-back days in Maryland and seven games across 12 days. So two days off.
This will be the Huskers’ only game versus Purdue this season. On Friday, the Big Ten announced the final update to Nebraska’s schedule. Minnesota and Iowa games postponed during the Covid pause have been reinserted into these final two weeks of the regular season, leaving the NU-Purdue contest from January 5th in West Lafayette as the only one of 20 Big Ten games Nebraska will not make up.