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Wrestling: The Huskers’ NCAA Tournament Seeds are Out

Nebraska head coach Mark Manning has nine NCAA qualifiers this season. | Dylan Guenther / Corn Nation The NCAA announced its seeds for the 2024 NCAA Championships in Kansas City tonight The NCAA announced its seeds for this year’s NCAA Championships that start next Thursday, so we have some Husker seeds to look into. I’ll...

Wrestling: All Husker Commits and Signees Have Finished Their State Tournaments

Hebraska Head Coach Mark Manning (right) and associate head coach Bryan Snyder have a solid 2024 class coming in and a star-studded start to the 2025 class. | Dylan Guenther / Corn Nation Two-time Ohio state champion Omar Ayoub made his fourth state final but fell short of the three-peat to round out the pool...

Monday Night Therapy: NCAA Tourney Time! Matt Rhule Gives A Presser!!!

There is so much to talk about this week. Continued fallout and discussion of Trev Alberts leaving for Texas A&M – thrown directly in our face because the NCAA selection committees for both men’s and women’s basketball has chosen to put Nebraska up against the Texas A&M Aggies in both sports in the opening round...

Wrestling: Nebraska With Seven Advancing to Friday’s Quarterfinal Round

Nebraska’s 10-seed Silas Allred, seen here after a dual in 2023, won both his matches on Day 1 to advance to Friday’s quarterfinal round. | Dylan Guenther / Corn Nation Huskers went 15-3 on the first day of NCAAs, putting them in great position to earn a team trophy The first day of the 2024...

Nebraska WBB vs Oregon State NCAA Tournament Second Round Thread

Photo by Howard Lao/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Can the Huskers get an upset and advance to the Sweet Sixteen? Nebraska needed every bit of the lead developed over the first three quarters to hang on for the two-point win vs Texas A&M. Oregon State is playing on their home floor and features some of...

Cornhuskers Open Big Ten Play With 5-2 Win Over Northwestern

Will Walsh goes long . . . again! | Nebraska Athletic Department Bullpen saves the day for Nebraska Having already won as many games as they did the entire 2023 season, the Northwestern Wildcats are under the leadership of their third head coach in three years. Ben Greenspan came over from Big Ten rival Michigan...

Five Heart Podcast LIVE: Husker Baseball Loses to Creighton and WE DEMAND ANSWERS! Tonight at 9pm!

Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images What is going on with this week’s show? Minnie, our newest cast member, is joined NOT by Greg and Jon, but by Andy and Aaron. You know Andy from Husker Heat, the Nebraska softball show. Aaron is a pretty regular Chatterfield who has been a guest on the show before...

Nebraska Baseball’s Brett Sears is (Finally) Your Big Ten Pitcher of the Week

Nebraska Athletics How did it take this long???? It was a Friday night many will remember for a long time. Takes you back to some of the Friday night performances of yesteryear. Povich, Waldron, Watson, Chamberlain, Komine. And now Sears. Husker Aces who have turned in some all time memorable performances at Haymarket Park. This...

Nebraska Football 2024 Spring Preview: Special Teams

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Nebraska football has lost a lot of close games in recent years. Can the specialists help get the Huskers over the top? Nebraska has been the place where some amazing punters and kickers played their college football. In the not so distant past, Husker fans have simply hoped for “not...

Wrestling: Six Former Huskers Competing at Olympic Trials

Former Husker Jordan Burroughs will be trying to make his third Olympic team this weekend at the US Olympic Trials. The 7-time World and Olympic gold-medalist will be the 1-seed in the challenge tournament at 74 kg. | Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Both past world medalists, Jordan Burroughs and James Green are in the mix...

Wisconsin Guard Connor Essegian has transferred to Nebraska

Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports Nebrasketball has picked up another transfer out of the portal as Wisconsin guard Connor Essegian becomes a Husker. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tipton Edits (@tiptonedits) Essegian played for Wisconsin the past two seasons, averaging 27.3 minutes per game in 2022-23 and scoring 11.7 points per game....

Friday Flakes: Deion Sanders Isn’t Really Recruiting Colorado Kids so Nebraska Is Taking Advantage with Latest Commit

Photo by Sam Hodde/UFL/Getty Images Add Tanner Terch to another list of the type of kids Matt Rhule and his coaching staff are going for in that they are underrecruited and that they fit a certain mold. That mold generally revolves around speed and explosiveness. The coaching staff feel that they cannot teach speed but...