Any guesses on quiet commitments over the weekend.

Call your shot early.

Best sports story of a boring week. Two young, innocent, semi-seductive co-eds conversing...until they pulled the NIL card!

From the looks of it, they were both in on the money-making gag.


Love it and shame on us if we fell for it like I did. Florida Student "Reporter" is smart young woman!

Cha-Ching!!!!

Because of the incoming weather, first pitch will be 2:30.

Brice Williams was his usual All-Big Ten self.

Connor Essegian scored all 17 of his points in the second half. Walk-on Cale Jacobsen, who played 74 minutes during the regular season, played 22 minutes Monday night and scored 2 points with five assists, three steals and two rebounds. He owned a plus-minus of plus-10, same as Williams.

Nebraska beat Arizona State 86-78 to advance to a quarterfinal of the College Basketball Crown Tournament in Las Vegas. Here's the recap:

Here's the full video of the DC's press conference this afternoon. Player videos will be posted ITT after they publish to our YouTube channel.

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Burger King has really been a tough hang for a while. Accept for that jingle, it rules.

He will also donate $1M to the program as part of the deal

Never a dull moment in college sports these days

We get rid if BB and go mens VB. We would dominate within 3 yrs

Granted this show hit it's peak about 4 seasons in (and ran 4 more too long) - but from the jump:

Eric "E" Murphy, Entourage

What a fantastic day yesterday! 8 All-Americans and 3 going for the title!! Right now, team is in a solid 2nd place.

Huskers have a total of 11 national champions so hope we can add 3 more tonight.

Once again, ESPN+ for session 5. Championships are at 6pm and will be on ESPN.

LFG!!!!!!

Coming off its biggest wins of the season – and first weekend series win – over #5 Oregon State, the Huskers roll into a two-game midweek set vs. Creighton and at Omaha:

Who you got?

...in car accident.
My condolences to David's family, friends, and former teammates.

Starting up the live game thread for Nebraska’s game against Arizona State in the first-round of the inaugural College Basketball Crown Tournament in Las Vegas.

Tip is slated for 7:30 p.m. on FS1.

Here’s Nebraska’s availability report. Rollie Worster is out (foot) while Gavin Griffiths is questionable after twisting an ankle at practice last week.

Huskers Blister Sun Devils With Second-Half Rally
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Brice Williams scored a game-high 30 points to lead three Huskers in double figures, as Nebraska rallied for an 86-78 win over Arizona State in the first round of the College Basketball Crown Monday evening.

While Williams posted his fourth 30-point game of the season, Nebraska (18-14) also got 18 points from Juwan Gary and 17 from Connor Essegian off the bench as the Huskers picked up their first postseason win since 2019.

Trailing 49-39 with just under 15 minutes left, the Huskers used a 14-5 spurt to cut the deficit to 54-53 after five straight points from Essegian with 10:08 left.

Essegian, who was held scoreless until the 10:30 mark, helped Nebraska regain the lead for good, scoring eight straight for the Huskers, who turned a 58-55 deficit into a 63-61 lead with 5:22 left. The Essegian basket started a 10-0 Husker run in less than two minutes as Nebraska built a 71-61 lead on a Sam Hoiberg 3-pointer with 3:29 left.

From there, the Huskers, kept attacking, building a 12—point lead before Williams capped his fourth 30-point night by scoring NU’s final seven points to seal the Huskers’ first postseason win since 2019.

Nebraska will play the winner of the matchup between Washington State and Georgetown on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. (CT)

A Nebraska mention in this week's chat:


Chandler: How bout them Huskers? I guess that's one way to try and turnaround their season. Hopefully that's what happens.

Aaron Fitt: Obviously Nebraska sorely needed that series win against the Beavers, and suddenly you look up and they've jumped 44 spots in the RPI. Potentially season-saving -- but only if they can stay red-hot. They're still just 12-15 overall. They've got a long way to go -- but again, we like the roster. There's a reason this was a preseason Top 25 team. Even without Mason McConaughey, they are capable of making a serious run and sneaking into a regional. Definitely still an uphill battle, but perhaps this weekend will be a springboard for them.

Thoughts on Dylan Raiola, his pocket mobility and what improved footwork and short-area burst could do for the young QB this fall.

Three of the sacks he took in 2024 came to mind when listening to Matt Rhule talk about his QB1 last week:

Purdue 6, Nebraska 2
Indiana 13, #21 Ohio State 7

Standings
1. Northwestern (18-11, 7-0)
2. UCLA (32-5, 7-1)
3. Michigan (27-9, 6-1)
3. Oregon (31-3, 6-1)
5. Nebraska (26-9, 6-2)
5. Ohio State (29-7-1, 6-2)
7. Washington (26-9, 4-2)
8. Wisconsin (22-12, 6-4)
9. Iowa (21-12, 3-4)
10. Indiana (23-10, 3-5)
11. Maryland (15-18, 3-7)
11. Purdue (18-16, 3-7)
13. Penn State (14-18, 2-5)
14. Michigan State (10-18, 2-8)
14. Minnesota (13-21, 2-8)
16. Illinois (13-17, 1-5)
17. Rutgers (16-21, 1-6)

Next Nebraska Game - Friday, April 4
Nebraska at Iowa (5:00 PM - BTN+)

Long ways out but A bunch of us are going to Nashville over Labor Day for VB. We are staying at a hotel 2 blocks from the Bridgestone Arena downtown. Anybody know of a good and close Husker football watch place?

Also, any recs for food? There is a Martin's BBQ right across the street from our hotel that we are possibly gonna try unless better suggestions (but it looks really good). We will be there Friday afternoon through Monday late morning. TIA!

Hey Nate,
in your 'conversations with Clouse' from yesterday, you'd written:

"The back end of the defense was being asked to do things that didn't always make sense last year. Guys like Gifford took the brunt of the criticism even though he was doing what he was told and often put in situations that were "no-win" at best."

the context here is that we had two coaches with non-complimentary schemes.
is this a fairly common/accepted opinion held by several/many in the know?
is this just your take?

i find this an amazing situation for us to have operational in our schemes. how the hell is it possible? this is disturbing to me.
guess i'd rather think our poor play was the result of missed assignments or just extraordinary effort by the enemy team - with more talent or desire.
to have it be a result of coaches building into the equation incompatible approaches is something else entirely. how the hell can that happen and why wouldn't HCMR notice this and correct it in like, 2 plays?

if you prefer to keep Sunday conversations in the Sunday conversations thread, then i'll wait for your reply this weekend. but dayum. that is nuts. but then, often our play was nuts - so . . .
@Nate Clouse
GBR!!!

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Seemingly a lot of people been pining for Swansen to come back in the lineup every day and for Frost to sit (not as much here, but elsewhere).

Frost's overall average is not great (but OBP is still respectable...4th on the team at .378) and oh by the way, he's tied for the team lead (with Carey) with 5 homers...hasn't committed an error and 2/2 on stolen bases. He's 2nd on the team in walks as well.

But he gets slack mainly because he started out the season 0 for freaking 16.

Since then he's only been one of the best hitters on the team...kinda high K numbers sure, but everything else is great:
.300 AVG, .444 OBP, .620 SLG, 5 HR, 1 2B, 14 RBI, 10 BB, 3 HBP, 17 Ks

Frost is actually having a pretty decent year since his early drought.

He needs to be in the lineup EVERY SINGLE DAY (In an offense that's anemic, he's been way better than Swansen)

Swansen's season OBP .225 2 HR Same number of ABs (66)

Take out Vanderbilt...
.145 average, .194 OBP, 1 HR, 3 BB (62 ABs)

Let's not hear any more comments about how we're "done with Frost" or how Gabe should be in the lineup. The only reason Gabe should be in RF over Frost is if we're playing UNO....even then maybe not.