Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Nebraska Cornhuskers
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Basketball=== ;Men {{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball}} Prior to the creation of the [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA tournament]], Nebraska was a [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] power under head coaches Raymond G. Clapp and [[Ewald O. Stiehm]].<ref name=Jumbo>{{cite web|url=https://247sports.com/college/nebraska/Article/Mike-Babcock-on-Ewald-Stiehm-62289/|title=How It Was: The first great coach|author=Mike Babcock|publisher=[[247Sports]]|date=21 February 2012|access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref> NU struggled through the post-[[World War II]] years, which included a stretch of twenty-eight years with just two winning seasons that stretched into the 1960s. Much of the team's modest modern-day success came during the fourteen-year tenure of [[Danny Nee]], Nebraska's winningest head coach. Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their eight NCAA Division I tournament appearances and won the [[1996 National Invitation Tournament]], NU's first national postseason title. Nebraska has reached the NCAA tournament just twice since Nee was fired in 2000. In 2019, NU hired former [[Chicago Bulls]] head coach [[Fred Hoiberg]], who led the Cornhuskers to the inaugural [[College Basketball Crown]] championship in 2025. Nebraska's men's and women's basketball teams have played at [[Pinnacle Bank Arena|West Haymarket Arena]] (known as Pinnacle Bank Arena for sponsorship purposes) since its construction in 2013. *Conference championships (6): 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1949, 1950 *Conference tournament championships (1): 1994 ;Women {{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball}} [[File:Yori285 Yori9x12.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Connie Yori]] is Nebraska's all-time winningest women's basketball coach]] Nebraska's women's basketball history began with a short-lived club team in the early 1900; the program was shuttered until the 1972 enactment of [[Title IX]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/doc_publications_NH1983LPound.pdf|title=Nebraska's Scholarly Athlete: Louise Pound, 1872-1958|author=Nellie Snyder Yost|journal=[[History Nebraska]]|date=1983|access-date=10 March 2025|format=PDF}}</ref> Angela Beck took Nebraska to its first [[1988 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|NCAA Division I tournament]] and won the 1988 [[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]] championship. Under Beck, [[Karen Jennings]] won the [[Wade Trophy]] as the country's best player in 1992β93. [[Connie Yori]], hired from [[Creighton Bluejays women's basketball|Creighton]] in 2002, steadily built a national contender, culminating in a 2009β10 season that was the best in school history β NU started 30β0 and became the first Big 12 team to complete an undefeated regular season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/2009-10-team-reunion-brings-back-memories-for-nebraska-women-s-basketball/article_c0d9e2ba-0cca-11ea-85c5-c363ed97c078.html|title=2009-10 team reunion brings back memories for Nebraska women's basketball|author=Austin Knippelmeir|publisher=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=22 November 2019|access-date=11 March 2025}}</ref> [[Kelsey Griffin]] was a national player of the year finalist and Yori was named national coach of the year. Forward [[Jordan Hooper]] led Nebraska into the Big Ten and earned first-team All-America honors in 2013β14, the same season NU won its first conference tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://huskerextra.com/news/basketball/womans-basketball/amie-just-why-the-timing-was-finally-right-to-honor-nebraska-womens-star-jordan-hooper/article_d42844f8-ada5-11ee-9548-3386535672d5.html|title=Why the timing was finally right to honor Nebraska women's star Jordan Hooper|author=Amie Just|publisher=[[Lincoln Journal Star]]|date=7 January 2024|access-date=11 March 2025}}</ref> Yori was forced to resign after an administrative investigation in 2016, and Nebraska turned to former player [[Amy Williams (basketball)|Amy Williams]] to lead the program.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/15184093/south-dakota-amy-williams-new-women-coach-nebraska|title=Nebraska hires Amy Williams as head coach|publisher=[[ESPN]]|date=11 April 2016|access-date=11 March 2025}}</ref> *Conference championships (2): 1988, 2010 *Conference tournament championships (1): 2014
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Nebraska Cornhuskers
(section)
Add topic