COLLEGE PARK — Alexis Markowski had 20 points and 11 rebounds for her ninth double-double, Alberte Rimdal added 15 points off the bench and Nebraska women’s basketball beat No. 17 Maryland, 91-71, on Thursday night to end a three-game losing streak.

Nebraska (17-8, 8-6 Big Ten) beat an AP top-17 team on the road for the first time since 2013.

Nebraska trailed by as many as 14 points in the first quarter before going on a 17-2 run to take the lead at 39-36. The game was tied at 45 at the break.

The Cornhuskers made four 3-pointers in the third quarter and closed the frame on a 9-2 run for a 73-59 lead. Britt Prince made a 3-pointer with 3:28 remaining in the fourth for a 28-point lead.

Nebraska finished 12 of 21 from 3-point range and shot 51% overall.

The Cornhuskers also outrebounded Maryland 42-25.

“I thought the better, tougher team won tonight for the last 40 minutes,” Maryland coach Brenda Frese said. “Disappointed we weren’t able to build on our two great games on the West Coast. … I thought we lost our focus in the second quarter, and that can’t happen against a good team like Nebraska. Minus-17 on the glass, that’s about as bad as it can possibly get.”

Prince finished with 13 points and eight assists for Nebraska, which has won four of the past five meetings with Maryland. Jessica Petrie and Logan Nissley each scored 11 and Callin Hake added 10.

“It’s got to start to be a player-led team, and it hasn’t been up to this point,” Frese said. “We’ve got a lot of great leaders in our locker room. I know they’re very competitive, and it’s a prideful locker room. But we just got embarrassed. Now is the moment of truth of how you’re going to respond.”

Shyanne Sellers was the lone double-digit scorer for Maryland (19-6, 9-5) with 23 points, including 19 in the first half. Former Rutgers star Kaylene Smikle, averaging a team-high 18.3 points per game, was held to eight points on 2 of 10 shooting as the Terps suffered their fifth loss in the past eight games.

Smikle was named the Big Ten Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 28.5 points and 8.5 rebounds, including 36 points against Washington on Sunday.

“Defensively, we had a lot of mistakes tonight that cost us,” Sellers said. “We can’t have both the offense struggle and defense struggle, and that was the biggest part. I couldn’t care less about my offense.”

Nebraska stays on the road to play Illinois on Sunday. Maryland is off until Monday when it hosts Michigan.

“Time is winding down. We have four more league games, then one guaranteed Big Ten Tournament game. And then the NCAA Tournament in March, hopefully. We gotta make a choice,” Sellers said when asked how the team will try to bounce back. “The locker room is full of competitors, so I know we’ll respond, but we gotta make a choice.”

Baltimore Sun staff contributed to this article.