Husker Nation Blog

So who’s ready for football season to start? The annual Spring Game is coming up on April 18th. They’ve been selling tickets for awhile now (sorry I didn’t make a post about that at the time) but there’s still time to get seats to the game so don’t worry.

After the disappointing run by the men’s basketball team it’ll be nice to see the football team take the field with some kind of measured level of anticipated success. The doldrums of underperforming Nebraska sports is about to be over as the Huskers football team takes another run at their Big 12 rivals.

Well, that was a short-lived Big 12 Tournament appearance for the men’s team this year. Baylor, coming into the game with a similar record to the Huskers, absolutely took it to Nebraska all game long. If you missed the game and catch the highlights on ESPN you’ll probably notice that at no time do they show a positive Nebraska play. The whole reel is like a promotional video for Baylor basketball. What a bummer.

With a final record of 18-12 the best Nebraska can really hope for is an invite to the NIT. In all honesty, while a NCAA Tournament berth is always nice it probably would’ve meant a one-and-done scenario for the Cornhuskers. If they get into the NIT it’s really anyone’s ball game and they might have at least a slim chance at making a run and playing some more games.

After the Kansas beat down on Saturday, I thought it might be time to play a little catch up with how the boys basketball season is progressing.

With a record of 16-9 the Cornhuskers find themselves in 7th place in the Big 12 and on the outside looking in for the tournament. Their 3 and 6 road record is partly to blame but the Big 12 has three twenty win teams at this point with two more knocking on the door.

Nebraska just doesn’t quite have the talent necessary to compete in the conference right now. Maybe in a few years, with some successful recruiting, that can change but in the meantime I think we’ll all have to continue using basketball season as a means to keep our minds occupied until football gets underway.

The Nebraska men’s basketball team has put together a very respectable 12 and 6 record so far this season with an impressive 11 and 2 mark when playing at home. Even though they’ve lost their last two straight ball games Nebraska fans have to be impressed and optimistic about the remainder of the season.

Two of their standouts losses came to the Sun Devils and Oklahoma. Arizona gave Nebraska a twenty point drubbing at their place back in the first week of December. The Oklahoma game, still fresh on everyone’s minds, ended up as a double-digit defeat as Nebraska couldn’t hang with Griffin and one of the top teams in the nation.

Highlight wins so far include crushing affairs against Kansas State, Alabama State and Florida A&M. A lot of Nebraska’s wins have come over admittedly weaker competition which might hurt the team’s chances of making the Tournament in March if their final win-loss record is questionable.