Projections for the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament should still fall in the way-too-early-to-know category, but Nebraska is back in the conversation. That wasn’t the case three weeks ago, after the Huskers lost their first three conference games.
Now Nebraska has won six straight games going into Saturday’s contest at Rutgers, matching the fourth-longest conference winning streak in school history.
Two weeks into the conference season, NU was tied for 10th, but now halfway through the league schedule, is in a four-way tie for third with a 6-3 record.
In ESPN's projections for the NCAA Tournament, Nebraska is listed as a No.