C. Vivian Stringer became the winningest coach in Big Ten history when Betnjiah Laney had 16 points and 14 rebounds to help No. 21 Rutgers beat 19th-ranked Nebraska 46-43 on Thursday night.
Stringer earned her 177th career Big Ten win, passing former Penn State coach Rene Portland for No. 1 on the conference’s victory list. Stringer won 169 of those games when she was coaching at Iowa.
Rutgers (17-5, 8-3 Big Ten) led 26-17 at the half before Nebraska (17-5, 7-4) closed to 28-26 with 14:33 left in the game. Then the Scarlet Knights took control scoring 10 of the next 12 points, including six by Tyler Scaife.
Her layup made it 38-28 with 9:22 left. Nebraska cut it to 44-41 with 31.8 left on a free throw by Tear’a Laudermill.
Laney hit two free throws two seconds later to make it a five-point game and Nebraska couldn’t close the gap.
