| Nebraska Cornhuskers | ||||
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| University | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | |||
| First season | 1897 | |||
| All-time record | 1,574-1,442 (.522) | |||
| Athletic director | Troy Dannen | |||
| Head coach | Fred Hoiberg (6th season) | |||
| Conference | Big Ten | |||
| Location | Lincoln, Nebraska | |||
| Arena | Pinnacle Bank Arena (capacity: 15,147) | |||
| Nickname | Cornhuskers | |||
| Student section | Red Zone | |||
| Colors | Scarlet and cream[1] | |||
| Uniforms | ||||
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| NCAA tournament appearances | ||||
| 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2014, 2024 | ||||
| Conference tournament champions | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Conference regular season champions | ||||
| 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1949, 1950 | ||||
| Conference division season champions | ||||
| Missouri Valley North 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914[2] | ||||
The Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I. The program's first year of competition was 1897, and NU has since compiled an all-time record of 1,535–1,417, with eight NCAA tournament and sixteen NIT appearances. The team has been coached by Fred Hoiberg since 2019.
Nebraska did not make the NCAA Tournament until 1986 and remains the only major-conference program to have never won a tournament game. Prior to the creation of the NCAA Tournament, Nebraska was a Midwest power under head coaches R. G. Clapp and Ewald O. Stiehm; the retroactive Premo-Porretta Power Poll ranked the Cornhuskers in the top ten three times between 1897 and 1903.[3] Much of the team's modest modern-day success came during the fourteen-year tenure of Danny Nee, Nebraska's all-time winningest head coach. Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their seven NCAA Tournament appearances and six NIT bids, including the 1996 NIT championship, NU's only national postseason title. After Nee was fired in 2000, head coaches Barry Collier, Doc Sadler, and Tim Miles combined to take the Cornhuskers to the NCAA Tournament just once in nineteen seasons. Miles was fired in 2019 and Nebraska hired former Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg.[4]
- ^ "The Power of Color" (PDF). Nebraska Athletics Brand Guide. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York: ESPN Books. pp. 529–30. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ "Hoiberg to Lead Nebraska Men's Basketball Program".