Nebraska Cornhuskers basketball
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| University | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | |||
| First season | 1897 | |||
| Conference | Big Ten | |||
| Location | Lincoln, NE | |||
| Head coach | Tim Miles (6th year) | |||
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Pinnacle Bank Arena (Capacity: 15,147) |
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| Nickname | Cornhuskers | |||
| Colors | Scarlet and Cream |
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| NCAA Tournament appearances | ||||
| 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2014 | ||||
| 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 |
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I. The program saw its first game in 1897 playing 7-on-7 basketball. The first collegiate game was against Nebraska Wesleyan University. Throughout the years, the program had 1,370 wins and 1,218 losses (.529) with 7 NCAA appearances and 16 NIT appearances. Nebraska's only major national trophy came when they won the 1996 NIT.
Nebraska has the distinction of being the only major conference program to have never won a single game in the NCAA Tournament. In fact, Nebraska did not make its first NCAA Tournament appearance until 1986. Much of the team's success came under the tenure of Danny Nee, head coach from 1987 to 2000. Nee is the team's all-time winningest head coach with a record of 254-190. Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their seven NCAA Tournament appearances, and six bids to the National Invitation Tournament, including the 1996 NIT Championship. Barry Collier, who led Nebraska from 2000 to August 2006, left to become athletic director at Butler University. He previously had been Butler's head coach from 1989 to 2000. Nebraska hired Doc Sadler from UTEP as men's basketball head coach following the departure of Collier.
As part of the 2010 NCAA conference realignment, Nebraska's basketball team began competing in the Big Ten Conference during the 2011-12 season. Sadler was fired after the first year in the Big Ten and was replaced on March 24, 2012 by Tim Miles from Colorado State, who is the current head coach.
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