Chadron big man glad to be a Gopher
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Sunday's Big Ten men's basketball matchup between Nebraska and Minnesota is a big game for Gophers center Elliott Eliason, but not for the reason you might think. Yes, Eliason is from Chadron, Neb. And, yes, he held a Husker scholarship offer for 16 months before telling NU coach Doc Sadler he wanted to go elsewhere.
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Wildcats go long, outlast Huskers
Nebraska's defense Thursday night at Northwestern made a major miscalculation. The Husker men chose to clog the lane in the first half, daring the opponents to shoot 3-pointers. Northwestern obliged, hitting 10 of 19 from long range to take a 15-point halftime lead, then hung on for an 84-74 victory. Nebraska, down 41-26 after 20 minutes, cut the deficit to 54-53 with 10:39 left in the game and to 75-72 with 1:36 left.
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Strickland eyes return to NU bench?
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Erick Strickland, a member of the Nebraska basketball hall of fame, has hopes someday of becoming a member of the Nebraska basketball coaching staff. The former Bellevue West and Husker star, who went on to a nine-year NBA career, said Wednesday from Dallas that he talked last week with NU coach Doc Sadler about getting into college coaching. "I want everyone to know I'm not trying to shake up anything there," Strickland said. "I just want to help.
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Sadler's squad set for heavy workload
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.After playing one game the past 11 days, the Nebraska men's basketball team embarks on a four-games-in-10-days stretch, starting Thursday night at Northwestern. How the Huskers (11-9, 3-6) will react to so much time away from games in the middle of conference play is a mystery to coach Doc Sadler. "We've not been through something like this," he said. "I guess if we win, we'll look back and say they knew how to handle it. If we don't play good, it will be something we'll have to change up."
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Huskers feeling better at foul line
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Doc Sadler speculated Tuesday that Nebraska basketball fans nearly had reason in recent years to honor him with a monument outside the Devaney Center. If that sentence has you wondering if this weird winter weather has affected the sixth-year coach's thinking, read on. This comes back to the Huskers, who play Thursday at Northwestern, shooting 75 percent from the foul line this season compared with an average in Sadler's first five seasons of 69.1 percent.
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Barfknecht: 'NUs' are oh-for the NCAAs
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.When it comes to men's basketball, Nebraska and Northwestern share a far more notable distinction than the nickname NU. These two schools, who meet Thursday night in Evanston, Ill., have never won an NCAA tournament game. The only other school in a power conference without a tourney victory is South Florida. But the Bulls, 0-2 all-time, have only been a member of the Big East since 2003.
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Chatelain: Panel's numbers key for mid-majors
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Mid-major respect (or lack of) is one of the annual story lines of Selection Sunday. Typically, we measure respect by at-large bids. How many invitations did the selection committee allocate to leagues like the Missouri Valley versus the so-called power conferences?
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Huskers rally for road win
In practice, Nebraska men’s basketball coach Doc Sadler practically begs Brandon Richardson to shoot more. “It’s something Coach has told me since Day One, and I’m talking about five years ago when I first stepped on campus,” the senior from Los Angeles said. “But that’s just the type of player I am. I’ll take an assist over a jump shot any day.” Richardson finally went against form Thursday night, and Iowa paid the price.
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Notes: Switch to zone keys turnaround for Huskers
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Oh to be a fly on the wall in Nebraska coach Doc Sadler's office the next few days. His phone likely will buzz nonstop from coaching buddies ready to razz Mr. Man-to-Man Defense or Death for utilizing a 2-3 zone most of the second half to rally for a 79-73 win over Iowa. "I can't tell you the last time we worked on zone defense," Sadler said Thursday night. "I guess coaching is not overrated. Don't work on it. Just play it, and you might do OK.
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Shatel: Nebraska, Iowa know this road all too well
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Iowa and Nebraska get together Thursday for their own version of the Big Ten Network show, "The Journey." The title could be "Careful What You Wish For." Or, "The Butler (Todd Lickliter, Barry Collier) Did It." The Hawks and Huskers are trying to find the road back, back to a place where they were happier than they knew at the time. Back to a life they threw away in the name of moving up.
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