Kazan, Russia – Nebraska’s Jordan Hooper scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds to help the USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team roll to a 120-32 victory over Mali in the first game of Pool B play on Monday.

Hooper, a 6-2 senior forward from Alliance, Neb., added an assist and two blocked shots in 16 minutes of action for the United States. She scored six points to help spark a 25-3 U.S. run. The two-time All-American converted a traditional three-point play to put the United States up 35-17 with 6:23 left in the first half to open the surge. She added a three-pointer with 1:06 remaining in the half to give the U.S. team a 55-20 cushion. Hooper contributed her final points of the game off an assist from Odyssey Sims (Baylor) with 2:53 left to give the United States a 111-30 lead.

Mali jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead, before the United States answered with an 18-0 run that included eight straight points by Tricia Liston (Duke). Mali responded with seven straight points to cut the margin to 18-12 with 3:49 left in the first quarter, before Bria Hartley (UConn), Cassie Harberts (USC) and Ariel Massengale (Tennessee) combined to score the final nine points of the quarter.

The United States led 28-12 at the end of the first quarter, before building a 57-20 halftime edge. The margin grew to 94-28 after three quarters.

Hartley led six U.S. players in double figures with 17 points, including 12 in the first half, while Harberts (USC) added 14 points in the first three quarters. Liston pitched in 13 points, including 11 in the first half. Shoni Schimmel (Louisville) added 13 points of her own, including 11 in the second half. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis contributed 12 points, including 10 points in the final four minutes. Aaryn Ellenberg (Oklahoma) rounded out the six U.S. players in double figures with 11 points.

Reshanda Gray (Cal) added eight points, while Sims and Crystal Bradford (Central Michigan) and Massengale contributed six points apiece. Theresa Plaisance (LSU) pitched in five points to round out the scoring.

As a team, the United States hit 66.2 percent of its shots from the field, including 36-of-48 two-point attempts (75 percent) and 11-of-23 three-pointers (47.8 percent). The U.S. squad was also 15-of-16 (93.8 percent) from the free throw line. Team USA outrebounded Mali, 54-21, and dished out 34 assists on its 47 made baskets while committing just 13 turnovers on the day.

Aminata Mariko led Mali with 15 points, while Farima Toure added five points. Mali went 12-of-62 (19.4 percent) from the field, including 2-of-12 (16.7 percent) from three-point range. Mali was 6-for-8 at the free throw line, but committed 21 turnovers.

The USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team continues play in Pool B on Tuesday by taking on the Czech Republic. Tip-off is set for 11:30 a.m.

Lincoln — Nebraska will kick off the start of preseason practice by meeting and greeting fans for its annual Fan Day on Friday, Aug. 2, at Memorial Stadium. Fan Day represents the best opportunity to meet the Husker players and coaching staff before the start of practice the following day.

Fan Day will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m. inside Memorial Stadium with all Husker players and coaches that will be part of preseason camp in attendance and available to fans. Fans will also have the opportunity to be among the first to step foot on the new Memorial Stadium FieldTurf that is currently being installed at the stadium.

Huskers Authentic will be open on Fan Day and will have their usual wide selection of adidas products, as well as this year’s media guide and schedule posters. More information on Fan Day, including parking and gate information and a Fan Day map will be available on Huskers.com as the event draws near.

Nebraska will open practice on Saturday, Aug. 3, as it prepares for the Aug. 31 season opener against Wyoming at Memorial Stadium.

The North Platte First Nationals split a double header on Saturday at Sherman, before dropping a Sunday contest in Lincoln.

The First Nationals played U Stop in game one on Saturday and lost 5-0. U Stop didn’t waste any time in getting on the board with two runs in the first and second innings and their final run in the third.

North Platte only had two hits in the game. Drew Beyer and Jack Kenny each singled and Kenny added  a stolen base.

Ty Brockmoller pitched the complete game for the First Nationals and gave up the five runs with four of them earned on seven hits while striking out five batters.

In the second game on Saturday North Platte earned a shutout of its own with a 4-0 win over Millard South.

The game was scoreless going to the fifth inning when the First Nationals scored three runs to take the lead. North Platte scored its fourth run in the seventh inning and had 12 hits in the game. The team was led by Kenny and Alex Harms with three hits each. Harms had a double and an RBI while Kenny added another stolen base for his 13th of the season.

On the mound it was Ben Sukraw who got the job done with the complete game shutout. Sukraw only allowed five hits, all of them singles, in the game. He also helped out his own cause with a two-hit day at the plate, including a double and an RBI.

In the final game of the weekend North Platte lost to Lincoln Northeast 8-2 in a Sunday contest.

The First Nationals struck first with two runs in the top of the first inning, but Lincoln NE countered with four runs in the bottom half and never looked back.

Sukraw and Kenny each had two singles for North Platte’s only hits in the game. Luke Volz started on the mound and exited after giving up eight runs, seven of them earned, in three and two-thirds innings worked. Riley Vierya came in for the final two and a third innings and didn’t give up a run.

Nebraska senior quarterback Taylor Martinez and junior I-back Ameer Abdullah have been named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award as announced on Monday morning.