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Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball
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Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball team is the representitive of Univerasity of Nebraska of Lincoln in the field of college basketball. The fisrt game which took place under the program was played in the year 1986. the first game played was a 7-on-7 basketball game.
The first collegiate game of Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball was played against Nebraska Wesleyan University.
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By the end of 2005 -2006 season the team had won 1298 games as well as lost 1162 games. Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball has given 6 NCAA appearances and aslo has 14 NIT appearances to their credit. The head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball men's team is Doc Sadler.
Unlike anyother team from the University of Nebraska, Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball did not have a considerable amount of success in the intercollegiate athletic prgrams. Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball team is familiar for being one of those teams that have never been able to win a single game in the major torunaments like NCAA Tournament. In the 90 year of the hsitory of varsity competitions the fisrt trip of NCAA Tournament in which Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball team took place came only in the year 1986.
Most of the successes of the team fcan be accredited to Danny Nee as during his tenure from the year 1987 to 2000 the Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball team succeeded to win many of the games. He is the best winning head coach of the team who holds a record of 254-190. Under Nee's tenure the Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball team got chance to appear in five NCAA tournaments and could appear in only one NCAA tournament after that. During the time they also gotbids of six Natinal Invitation Tournaments which include the NIT Championship in the year 1996.
Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball nickname is Cornhuskers and the color of the team is scarlet and cream. The famous names in Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball team include Barry collier who led the team from 2000 to 2006. The team plays in the Bob devaney Sports Center and prior to that the team used to paly in Nebraska Coliseum.
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