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Nebraska Cornhuskers
School Name: University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, NE
Arena: Bob Devaney Sports Center
Capacity: 13,595
Conference: Big 12
Head coach: Barry Collier
2007-08 record: 14-14 (7-9)


The Nebraska Cornhuskers represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in college basketball. The program saw its first game in 1896 playing 7-on-7 basketball. The first collegiate game was against Nebraska Wesleyan University. As of March 20, 2008, the program had 1,335 wins and 1,188 losses (.550) with 6 NCAA appearances and 15 NIT appearances.

Doc Sadler is the current Nebraska men's basketball head coach.

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[edit] History

While the University of Nebraska has experienced varying amounts of success for their intercollegiate athletic programs, men's basketball has been an exception. NU hasn't won a conference title since sharing the Big Seven Conference with Kansas and Kansas State in 1950, and they haven't won an outright conference title since going a perfect 12-0 through the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletics Association in 1916.

Nebraska has a distinction of one of the few major conference programs never to win a single game in the NCAA Tournament. In fact, in the over 90 years of varsity competition at the University, the first trip to the NCAA Tournament for Nebraska did not come until 1986. Much of the team's success came under the tenure of Danny Nee, head coach from 1987 to 2000. Nee is the team's all-time winningest head coach with a record of 254-190. Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their six NCAA Tournament appearances, six bids to the National Invitation Tournament, including the 1996 NIT Championship.

Barry Collier, who led Nebraska from 2000 to August 2006, left to become athletic director at Butler University. He previously had been Butler's head coach from 1989 to 2000.

Nebraska hired Doc Sadler from UTEP as men's basketball head coach following the departure of Collier.


[edit] Team honors


[edit] 2005-06 schedule and results (men)

Date Opponent Result Score Record Conf.
John Thompson Foundation Basketball Challenge (@ Lincoln, NE)
11/18/2005 Longwood W 80-65 1-0
11/19/2005 Yale W 73-64 2-0
11/20/2005 Louisiana Tech W 59-56 3-0
11/27/2005 Southeast Missouri State W 69-54 4-0
11/30/2005 Marquette W 84-74 5-0
12/3/2005 Alabama - Birmingham L 72-73 5-1
12/8/2005 South Dakota State W 76-67 6-1
12/11/2005 @ Creighton L 44-70 6-2
12/17/2005 Chicago State W 76-65 7-2
12/19/2005 North Carolina A&T W 107-57 8-2
12/21/2005 Alabama A&M W 67-60 9-2
Orange Bowl Basketball Classic (@ Sunrise, FL)
12/31/2005 vs. Florida State L 60-74 9-3
1/3/2006 Northern Colorado W 60-50 10-3
1/7/2006 Oklahoma W 59-58 11-3 1-0
1/11/2006 @ Kansas State W 57-42 12-3 2-0
1/17/2006 Iowa State L 75-88 12-4 2-1
1/21/2006 @ Kansas L 54-96 12-5 2-2
1/25/2006 @ Colorado L 59-81 12-6 2-3
1/28/2006 Missouri W 65-52 13-6 3-3
1/31/2006 @ Oklahoma State W 59-57 14-6 4-3
2/4/2006 Baylor W 60-45 15-6 5-3
2/8/2006 Kansas L 48-69 15-7 5-4
2/11/2006 @ Texas L 59-78 15-8 5-5
2/15/2006 @ Iowa State W 73-63 16-8 6-5
2/18/2006 Texas Tech L 64-70 16-9 6-6
2/22/2006 Colorado W 93-77 17-9 7-6
2/25/2006 @ Texas A&M L 55-66 17-10 7-7
3/1/2006 Kansas State L 64-66 17-11 7-8
3/5/2006 @ Missouri L 63-64 17-12 7-9
Big 12 Tournament (@ Dallas, TX)
3/9/2006 vs. Missouri W 71-64 18-12
3/10/2006 vs. Oklahoma W 69-63 19-12
3/11/2006 vs. Kansas


[edit] 2005-06 schedule and results (women)

Date Opponent Result Score Record Conf.
11/19/2005 South Dakota State L 49-68 0-1
11/21/2005 Creighton W 84-50 1-1
Miami Thanksgiving Classic (@ Miami, FL)
11/25/2005 vs. Louisiana State L 55-74 1-2
11/27/2005 vs. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi W 76-64 2-2
12/3/2005 @ Minnesota L 70-78 2-3
12/7/2005 Texas Southern W 93-68 3-3
12/10/2005 @ Northwestern W 80-50 4-3
12/17/2005 @ Michigan W 69-49 5-3
12/20/2005 Texas State W 96-47 6-3
12/29/2005 Grambling State W 69-40 7-3
12/31/2005 Northern Arizona W 70-56 8-3
1/4/2006 @ Colorado W 80-62 9-3 1-0
1/7/2006 Kansas W 73-61 10-3 2-0
1/11/2006 Missouri L 58-64 10-4 2-1
1/14/2006 @ Iowa State L 57-79 10-5 2-2
1/18/2006 Texas L 62-70 10-6 2-3
1/21/2006 @ Texas Tech L 59-61 10-7 2-4
1/28/2006 Colorado W 70-54 11-7 3-4
2/1/2006 Iowa State W 54-42 12-7 4-4
2/4/2006 @ Kansas State L 64-71 12-8 4-5
2/8/2006 @ Baylor L 69-91 12-9 4-6
2/11/2006 Texas A&M L 50-69 12-10 4-7
2/15/2006 @ Kansas W 65-57 13-10 5-7
2/18/2006 Kansas State (OT) W 64-62 14-10 6-7
2/21/2006 Oklahoma State W 81-56 15-10 6-8
2/26/2006 @ Oklahoma L 45-73 15-11 6-9
3/1/2006 @ Missouri W 75-62 16-11 7-9
Big 12 Tournament (@ Dallas, TX)
3/7/2006 vs. Colorado W 67-59 17-11
3/8/2006 vs. Texas A&M L 64-73 17-12


[edit] Conference membership history

[edit] All-time records

[edit] External links

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