March 12

Big Ten Tournament

First Round
Northwestern 72, Minnesota 64
Iowa 77, Ohio State 70
USC 97, Rutgers 89 (2OT)

Standings
1. Michigan State (26-5, 17-3)
2. Maryland (24-7, 14-6)
2. Michigan (22-9, 14-6)
4. Purdue (21-10, 13-7)
4. UCLA (22-9, 13-7)
4. Wisconsin (23-8, 13-7)
7. Illinois (20-11, 12-8)
7. Oregon (23-8, 12-8)
9. Indiana (19-12, 10-10)
10. Ohio State (17-15, 9-11)
11. Rutgers (15-17, 8-12)
12. Nebraska (17-14, 7-13)
12. Iowa (17-15, 7-13)
12. Minnesota (15-17, 7-13)
12. Northwestern (17-15, 7-13)
12. USC (16-16, 7-13)
17. Penn State (16-15, 6-14)
18. Washington (13-18, 4-16)

Michigan State has won the 2024-25 Big Ten regular season championship

Big Ten Tournament - Indianapolis, Indiana

Second Round - Thursday, March 13
#8 Oregon vs. #9 Indiana (11:00 AM - BTN)
#5 Wisconsin vs. #13 Northwestern (1:30 PM - BTN)
#7 Illinois vs. #15 Iowa (5:30 PM - BTN)
#6 Purdue vs. #14 USC (8:00 PM - BTN)

Quarterfinals - Friday, March 14
#1 Michigan State vs. IU/ORE (11:00 AM - BTN)
#4 UCLA vs. WIS/NW (1:30 PM - BTN)
#2 Maryland vs. ILL/IA (5:30 PM - BTN)
#3 Michigan vs. PUR/USC (8:00 PM - BTN)

If I run into more interesting videos such as this as the two teams explore the country I will post them. Admittedly be prepared for more Cubs than Dodgers because well ya'll know me. Here is something fun for the first, Seiya Suzuki having a little batting cage fun.

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curious what people think

also don't be mean they're just kids

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GBR!

We're prepping for spring preview content and I'm in the midst of a move (staying in Omaha don't worry), what's on your mind this week?

March 11
Rutgers 3, Pennsylvania 2 (11 inn)
Ohio State 13, Eastern Michigan 7
Indiana 9, Indiana State 4
Georgetown 14, Penn State 10
Michigan 6, Toledo 4
Iowa 16, Augustana (IL) 1
#9 Virginia 7, Maryland 6
Minnesota 10, Kansas 6
Washington 11, Portland 6
Illinois 11, Western Illinois 4
Nebraska 10, Wichita State 1
Grand Canyon 4, #10 Oregon 2
UCLA 11, UC-Irvine 4

Late
USC at Cal State-Fullerton

Canceled
Illinois State at Northwestern

Standings
1. Oregon (14-3, 3-0)
2. Iowa (8-7, 2-1)
2. Michigan (9-6, 2-1)
2. Penn State (11-3, 2-1)
2. Purdue (14-2, 2-1)
2. UCLA (13-4, 2-1)
2. Washington (8-9, 2-1)
8. Nebraska (6-8, 1-2)
8. Illinois (8-6, 1-2)
8. Indiana (8-9, 1-2)
8. Maryland (8-8, 1-2)
8. Minnesota (7-7, 1-2)
8. Rutgers (7-9, 1-2)
14. Michigan State (12-3, 0-0)
14. Northwestern (7-7, 0-0)
14. Ohio State (5-9, 0-0)
17. USC (9-6, 0-3)

Games for Wednesday, March 12
Kansas at Minnesota
Penn State at Georgetown
Wagner at Rutgers
Butler at Purdue
Mount St. Mary's at Maryland
Michigan at Michigan State
Wichita State at Nebraska (6:00 PM - BTN+)
Grand Canyon at #10 Oregon

@HBK4life - you doing ok buddy ?

Will it make the big leap forward?
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“I was looking for a trust in my position coach and the head coach, and where I can get to the next level, where I can help them now, and this was the best place for it.”

Trust. Belief.

Rocco Spindler searched for both in the portal.

Enter Donovan Raiola.

…. thought i saw something…

Nebraska (5-8) vs. Wichita State (6-9) just got underway in Lincoln. Game info below:

Pitching: Nebraska RHP Carson Jasa (0-1, 9.00 ERA) vs. Wichita State LHP Jace Miner (1-1, 5.11 ERA)
TV/Streaming: B1G+
Radio: Huskers Radio Network, Huskers.com, Huskers App

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A link to all four videos from today's presser with Matt Rhule, OL Rocco Spindler, WR Dane Key + LB Dasan McCullough:

I'm ready. GREAT show. Right @BeaverSlayerReincarnated69 ?

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🤣🤣

I hope they can pull out a win.

Nebraska officially announced Pat Stewart as its new General Manager:

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Here's the press release from Nebraska Athletics:

Stewart Joins Nebraska Football as General Manager

The University of Nebraska has hired Pat Stewart as the General Manager for the Husker football program. Stewart joins Coach Matt Rhule’s staff after spending the past two seasons as the director of pro personnel for the New England Patriots.

Stewart has a long history in personnel and scouting in the National Football League, including working with the Carolina Panthers from 2020 to 2022, while Rhule served as head coach. The majority of Stewart’s time in the NFL has been spent in the Patriots organization, where he was a part of two Super Bowl Championship teams.

In his role at Nebraska, Stewart will lead the Huskers’ roster management and player acquisition, including high school and transfer portal recruiting, evaluation, and retention.

“We are moving into an era in college football where roster management and retention more closely resembles the National Football League model,” Rhule said. “Pat Stewart will help us manage our roster and operate in a way that will help give Nebraska the opportunity to compete as one of the elite programs in the country. Pat and I have experience working together in the past, and I look forward to him joining our Nebraska Football family.”

In addition to his experience at the professional level, Stewart also worked in college football early in his career working on the same staff as Rhule at both Western Carolina and Temple.

“There are few, if any, institutions as capable of transitioning to this new era of roster construction as Nebraska,” Stewart said. “That is a testament to Director of Athletics Troy Dannen, Coach Rhule and the rest of the administration for their commitment to continuing the build on the proud and storied legacy of Nebraska Football. I’m honored to work with Coach again, as well as the staff he has assembled, and offer my experience in personnel as we build and maintain a roster that the Greatest Fans in College Football will be proud of. The energy and culture of the program has been evident in the short time I have been here, and this is an exciting time for my family and I to join the Nebraska Football Family.”

In his time with the Panthers, Stewart served as the Director of Player Personnel in 2020 before being elevated to Vice President of Player Personnel for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Stewart was a national scout for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2018 and 2019.

Prior to joining the Eagles scouting staff, Stewart held multiple positions with the Patriots from 2007-17. He was originally hired by New England as a scouting assistant in 2007 and went on to serve as both an area scout (2009, 2013-17) and pro scout (2010-12).

Before entering the NFL, Stewart worked as an assistant director of football operations at Temple University (2006) under head coach Al Golden and was a graduate assistant coach at Western Carolina in 2005.

From 2000-04, he worked for Jim Tressel at Ohio State as a student manager while earning his bachelor’s degree in political science, which he received in 2005.

The hiring of Stewart as general manager is a key part of a re-organization of the Huskers’ front office staff. As part of that process, Sean Padden will move into the role of Assistant Athletic Director for Strategic Intelligence. His focus will be on cap analysis and compensation trends, stakeholder engagement, contract negotiations, data analytics leadership, collaboration and implementations and project management.

2027 St. Joseph (Ill.) Ogden four-star offensive tackle Cameron Wagner will make a return trip to Nebraska next month. He last visited during the fall for a game and was offered last month after EJ Barthel stopped through his high school

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Matt Rhule is set to talk at 10 a.m. A few selected players afterward.

We'll provide any notable updates from the head coach in this thread. Live link to the presser:

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Such an odd number why isn't it 16? Wouldn't have added another day, just 4 games on day 1 instead of 3 games. Thought it was stupid when they did it that way. Had no idea that it would immediately affect Nebraska. Seems like you would want the most teams involved possible.

March 11

1861 - The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution.

1888 - A torrential rain storm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day, becoming the "Blizzard of 1888," the most famous snowstorm in American history, resulting in more than 400 deaths.

1918 - What were believed to be the first confirmed cases of a deadly global flu pandemic were reported among U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 soldiers would die. (The influenza outbreak would ultimately kill an estimated 20 to 40 million people worldwide.)

1930 - William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act, which provided war supplies to Allied countries during World War II.

1942 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur leaves the Philippines saying, "I shall return."

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At age 54, Gorbachev was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.

1990 - A newly elected parliament in Lithuania declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

1993 - Janet Reno was unanimous Senate confirmation to become the nation's first female attorney general.

2004 - Over 200 people were killed and 1,400 injured when bombs exploded in Madrid train stations; al-Qaeda took responsibility for the attacks.

2006 - Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead at age 64 of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Netherlands, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial.

2010 - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency.

2011 - Japan is hit by an enormous 9.0 magnitude earthquake that triggers a deadly 23-foot tsunami in the country's north, about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo. Cooling systems in one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station fail shortly after the quake, causing a nuclear crisis. Nearly 20,000 people were killed in the quake and tsunami.

2012 - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales shot and killed 16 Afghan villagers -- mostly women and children -- as they slept. (Bales later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.)

2021 - President Joe Biden signed into law a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that he said would help defeat the virus and nurse the economy back to health. Lower-income Americans would receive up to $1,400 in direct payments, along with extended unemployment benefits.

Birthdays
21 - Madison Brydges (actress)
22 - Lexi Rodriguez (volleyball player)
32 - Jodie Comer (actress)
32 - Anthony Davis (basketball player)
33 - Jude Demorest (actress)
43 - Thora Birch (actress)
44 - LeToya Luckett (singer)
46 - Joel Madden (singer)
46 - Benji Madden (singer)
48 - Becky Hammon (basketball player)
54 - Johnny Knoxville (actor)
56 - Terrence Howard (actor)
57 - Lisa Loeb (singer)
58 - John Barrowman (actor)
62 - Alex Kingston (actor)
64 - Elias Koteas (actor)
75 - Bobby McFerrin (singer)
91 - Sam Donaldson (broadcast journalist)
94 - Rupert Murdoch (media mogul)

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Today in Sports History - March 11

1892 - The first organized basketball game was played. The game was at Smith College in Springfield, Massachusetts between students and faculty members.

1909 - The first gold medal to a perfect-score bowler was awarded to A.C. Jellison by the American Bowling Congress.

1978 - Bobby Hull (Winnipeg Jets) joined Gordie Howe by getting his 1,000th career goal.

1979 - Randy Holt (Los Angeles Kings) was penalized nine times for 67 minutes in the first period of a game against the Philadelphia Flyers.

1990 - Jennifer Capriati, 13 years old, played her first professional tennis match.

1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 consecutive weeks as the #1 ranked women's tennis player in the world.

2004 - odd Bertuzzi (Vancouver Canucks) was suspended by the NHL for hitting Steve Moore (Colorado Avalanche) in the side of the head from behind and driving his head into the ice in a game on March 8. Moore landed face-first with Bertuzzi on top of him. Moore suffered a broken neck, a concussion and deep cuts on his face. The NHL suspended Bertuzzi for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs and announced that his eligibility would be assessed the following season and would take into account Moore's health and the progression of his recovery. The Canucks organization was also fined $250,000.

2004 - Major league baseball banned THG. The health policy advisory committee of management and the players' association unanimously determined that THG builds muscle mass.

2020 - The NBA suspends the 2019-2020 season until further notice after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19.

A look at the mid-week matchups between the Huskers (5-8) and Shockers (6-9) today and tomorrow: