Date: Friday, January 2nd, 2026
Tipoff: 8:02 p.m. (central)
Location: Pinnacle Bank Arena (Lincoln, Neb.)
TV/Online:
Friday’s game will be available online on Peacock with Noah Reed and Nick Bahe on the call. To watch or to sign up, visit peacocktv.com. For YouTube TV subscribers, the game is also available on the NBC
Sports Network.
Radio:
Friday’s game will be carried on the Huskers Radio Network with Kent Pavelka and Jeff Smith on the call, including KLIN (1400 AM) in Lincoln, KCRO (660 AM) and KIBM (1490 AM) in Omaha and KRVN (880 AM) in Lexington. The pregame show begins an hour before tipoff and will also be available on Huskers.com and the Huskers app.
Preview: Courtesy of Huskers.com
The No. 13 Nebraska men’s basketball team returns to Big Ten Conference action on Friday night, as the Huskers welcome No. 9 Michigan State to a sold-out Pinnacle Bank Arena. Tipoff is set for 8:02 p.m. (central) and the game will be carried on Peacock, broadcast on the Huskers Radio Network, as well as on Huskers. com and on the official Huskers app. In addition, YouTube TV subscribers can also find the game on the NBC Sports Network.
Michigan State (12-1, 2-0) has won four straight following a 114-97 win over Cornell on Monday. In that game, Jeremy Fears Jr. had a career-high 21 points and 11 assists to lead six Spartans in double figures. MSU led 55-53 at the break, but shot 57 percent, including 7-of-12 from 3-point range, to put the game away. Coen Carr had 19 points, while Jaxon Kohler had 11 points and 10 rebounds.
Friday’s game between No. 13 Nebraska and No. 9 Michigan State marks the first time that Nebraska has hosted a top-15 matchup since the No. 15 Huskers downed No. 10 Kansas, 85-75, on March 3, 1991.
Friday’s game is only the second time in school history Nebraska has hosted a ranked vs. ranked matchup and the first men’s ranked vs. ranked game at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Nebraska is now 4-6 all-time in ranked vs. ranked games following the 83-80 win at No. 13 Illinois on Dec. 13. Of NU’s 10 ranked vs. ranked games in program history, seven were road games and two were at neutral sites.
With a 13-0 mark, Nebraska enters the month of January unbeaten for the first time since the 1928-29 season. The 2028-29 team was 1-0 with a win over South Dakota State. Since the end of WWI, NU has entered January unbeaten only two other times (1919-20, 2-0; 1928-29, 1-0).
Nebraska completed its non-conference slated with a perfect 11-0 record, marking the first time since the 1928-29 season where NU posted an unblemished non-conference mark (6-0). The Huskers are 31-2 in regular-season non-conference play since the start of the 2023-24 season (10-1 in 2023-24; 10-1 in 2024-25).
Nebraska enters the weekend as one of six unbeaten teams in Division I, joining Michigan, Arizona, Iowa State, Vanderbilt and Miami (Ohio).
