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Basketball Big Ten Women's Scores and Standings (12/15)

December 15
#5 USC 88, Elon 30
#17 Michigan State 68, #21 Iowa 66
#24 Nebraska 66, Chattanooga 42
Illinois 73, Southern Indiana 50
Rutgers 86, Wagner 48
Indiana 95, Bellarmine 61
Kansas 68, Penn State 65
Northwestern 67, Bradley 57

Standings
1. Nebraska (10-1, 1-0)

1. Indiana (8-3, 1-0)
1. Maryland (10-0, 1-0)
1. Michigan (9-1, 1-0)
1. Michigan State (10-0, 1-0)
1. Ohio State (10-0, 1-0)
1. UCLA (10-0, 1-0)
1. USC (10-1, 1-0)
1. Wisconsin (9-2, 1-0)
10. Illinois (9-2, 0-1)
10. Iowa (9-2, 0-1)
10. Minnesota (11-1, 0-1)
10. Northwestern (5-4, 0-1)
10. Oregon (7-3, 0-1)
10. Penn State (9-3, 0-1)
10. Purdue (5-5, 0-1)
10. Rutgers (7-4, 0-1)
10. Washington (7-4, 0-1)

Games for Monday, December 16
Cal Poly at #1 UCLA (9:00 PM - BTN+)

Next Nebraska Game - Saturday, December 21
#24 Nebraska at #25 Georgia Tech (4:30 PM - ACC Extra)
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Today in History - December 26

December 26
1492 - Christopher Columbus established the first Spanish settlement in the New World.

1776 - George Washington defeated the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War.

1865 - James H. Nason received a patent for a coffee percolator.

1941 - During World War II, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint session of Congress.

1966 - Kwanzaa is celebrated for the first time.

1972 - Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, died in Kansas City, Missouri.

1985- Zoologist Dian Fossey was found murdered in Rwanda.

1990 - Nancy Cruzan, a young woman in an irreversible vegetative state whose case led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the right to die, died at a Missouri hospital.

1991 - The United Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Union) was formally dissolved through a declaration by the Supreme Soviet.

1996 - JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home. (To this date, the case remains unsolved.)

2004 - A 9.1 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Indian Ocean, triggering a massive 100-foot-high tsunami that killed more than 280,000 people.

2006 - Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States, died in Rancho Mirage, California at age 93.

2021 - South African Nobel Pease Price winner Desmond Tutu died at age 90; the retired archbishop had been an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBTQ rights.

Birthdays
30 - Samantha Boscarino (actress)
32 - Jade Thirlwall (singer)
32- Daniella Karagach (dancer)
33 - Eden Sher (actress)
38 - Kit Harrington (actor)
39 - Beth Behrs (actress)
40 - Natalie Nunn (reality star)
45 - Chris Daughtry (singer)
53 - Jared Leto (actor)
61 - Lars Ulrich (musician)
70 - Ozzie Smith (baseball player)
77 - Carlton Fisk (baseball player)
79 - John Walsh (TV host)

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Today in Sports History - December 26
1908 - Jack Johnson became the first Black boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.

1917 - Harry Cameron (Toronto Maple Leafs) became the first defenseman to score four goals in a game.

1919 - The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox reach an agreement which would move future Hall of Famer Babe Ruth to New York.

1925 - The first East-West Shrine Bowl game of college football 'all-stars' played before 25,000 fans at Ewing Park, San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.

1927 - The East-West Shrine Football Game was the first to feature player numbers on both the front and backs of game jerseys.

1943 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins 41-21 to win the NFL Championship game and their sixth league title.

1954 - The Cleveland Browns rout the Detroit Lions 56-10 to win the NFL Championship Game.

1955 - The Cleveland Browns defeat the Los Angeles Rams 38-14 to win the NFL Championship Game.

1960 - The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Green Bay Packers 17-13 to win the NFL Championship Game.

1964 - The Buffalo Bills defeat the San Diego Chargers 20-7 to win the AFL Championship Game.

1965 - The Buffalo Bills defeat the San Diego Chargers 23-0 to win the AFL Championship Game.

1968 - Ted Green (Boston Bruins) set a National League Hockey (NHL) penalty record when he recorded 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts.

1986 - Doug Jarvis, age 31, set a National Hockey League (NHL) record as he skated in his 916th consecutive game. Jarvis eventually set the individual record for most consecutive games played with 964.

1991 - The Pittsburgh Penguins rout the Toronto Maple Leafs 12-1.

1991 - Chuck Noll announces his retirement as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, having served in that role since 1969.

2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first goalie to win 500 NHL games.

2023 - The Detroit Pistons suffer a 118-112 loss to the Brooklyn Nets to set an NBA single-season record with their 27th consecutive loss.

Basketball Big Ten Women's Scores and Standings (12/18)

December 18
Northwestern 79, UNLV 76 (OT)
Washington 64, North Dakota State 51

Standings
1. Nebraska (10-1, 1-0)

1. Indiana (8-3, 1-0)
1. Maryland (10-0, 1-0)
1. Michigan (9-2, 1-0)
1. Michigan State (10-0, 1-0)
1. Ohio State (11-0, 1-0)
1. UCLA (11-0, 1-0)
1. USC (10-1, 1-0)
1. Wisconsin (9-2, 1-0)
10. Illinois (9-2, 0-1)
10. Iowa (9-2, 0-1)
10. Minnesota (11-1, 0-1)
10. Northwestern (6-4, 0-1)
10. Oregon (8-3, 0-1)
10. Penn State (9-3, 0-1)
10. Purdue (6-5, 0-1)
10. Rutgers (7-4, 0-1)
10. Washington (8-4, 0-1)

Games for Thursday, December 19
William & Mary at #8 Maryland (10:00 AM - BTN+)
#15 Michigan State vs. Montana (at Fort Lauderdale, FL) (11:00 AM)
Furman at Washington (4:00 PM - BTN+)
UC-Irvine at Oregon (8:00 PM - BTN+)

Next Nebraska Game - Saturday, December 21
#23 Nebraska at #17 Georgia Tech (4:30 PM - ACC Extra)
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Basketball Women's Top 25 Polls (12/16)

AP Top 25 (12/16)
1. UCLA (30) (10-0)

2. South Carolina (1) (10-1)
3. Notre Dame (1) (9-2)
4. Connecticut (9-1)
5. LSU (12-0)
6. Texas (10-1)
7. USC (10-1)
8. Maryland (10-0)

9. Duke (9-2)
10. Oklahoma (9-1)
11. Ohio State (10-0)
12. TCU (10-1)
13. Kansas State (11-1)
14. West Virginia (10-1)
15. Michigan State (10-0)
16. Kentucky (9-1)
17. Georgia Tech (11-0)
18. Tennessee (8-0)
19. North Carolina (10-2)
20. Michigan (9-1)
21. North Carolina State (8-3)
22. Iowa (9-2)
23. Nebraska (10-1)

24. California (11-1)
25. Mississippi (7-3)

Others Receiving Votes
Alabama, Iowa State, Illinois, Utah, Vanderbilt, South Dakota State, Richmond, Creighton, Oklahoma State, Harvard, Mississippi State

Dropped From Rankings
Iowa State (#18)

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Coaches Top 25
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Today in History - December 24

December 24
1524 - Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama died in Cochin, India.

1814 - The War of 1812 between the United States and Britain came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.

1818 - "Silent Night" was composed by Franz Joseph Gruber.

1851 - Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. destroying some 35,000 volumes (about two-thirds of the library's collection).

1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, which became the original version of the Ku Klux Klan.

1871 - Guiseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" premiered in Cairo, Egypt at the opening of the Suez Canal.

1913 - Seventy-three people, most of them children, died in a crush of panic after a false cry of "Fire!" during a Christmas party for striking miners and their families at the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan.

1941 - During World War I, impromptu Christmas truces began to take hold along parts of the Western Front between British and German soldiers.

1943 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.

1992 - President George H.W. Bush pardoned former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.

2013 - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II granted a posthumous pardon to code-breaker Alan Turing, who was criminally convicted of homosexual behavior in the 1950s.

Birthdays
26 - Corinna Brown (actress)
32 - Davante Adams (football player)
33 - Louis Tomlinson (singer)
38 - Ana Brenda Conteras (actress)
50 - Ryan Seacrest (TV/radio host)
51 - Stephanie Meyer (author)
53 - Ricky Martin (singer)
58 - Diedrich Bader (actor)
63 - Jay Wright (basketball coach)
64 - Carol Vorderman (TV host)

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Today in Sports History - December 24

1950 - The Cleveland Browns defeat the Los Angeles Rams 30-28 in the NFL Championship Game.

1961 - The Houston Oilers defeat the San Diego Chargers 10-3 in the AFL Championship Game.

1967 - Joe Namath (New York Jets) became the first pro football quarterback to pass for 4,000 yards.

1981 - Reggie Jackson announced that he would join Gene Autry’s California Angels for the 1982 season.

1982 - Chaminade, with an enrollment of just 850 students, upsets top-ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic.

2000 - More than 36 minutes after the game ended, both the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins were called back to the playing field; the teams had to play the final three seconds of the game, which the Dolphins had won 27-24.

Volleyball Quotebook: Nebraska and Wisconsin VB coaches + players preview Elite Eight

Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Wisconsin Badgers for a right to play in the Final Four.

With approx. 3 hours to start time, here’s a quick Quotebook on what the ‘Skers and ‘Gers said about the matchup:

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FULL REPLAY: Nebraska beats Wisconsin in 3 sets to clinch Final 4 Berth!

Particularly EXCEPTIONAL in the 2nd set were the ladies yesterday ... while also being CLUTCH in the 1st and 3rd sets to keep the match opening and right and then slamming the door shut on the Badgers for the 3rd time this year (all SWEEPs). GREAT stuff ladies & Coach's Cook, Reyes, Hunter & Larson. Watch the FULL REPLAY below in HD format.

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Video WATCH: John Cook, Lexi Rodriguez & Harper Murray NEB-WISC postgame presser

Tap the link for all of our post-match press conference videos with Nebraska and Wisconsin.

HC John Cook and stars Lexi Rodriguez + Harper Murray made available for the Huskers.

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