Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball
| Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball | |||
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| University | University of Nebraska | ||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||
| Location | Lincoln, NE | ||
| Head coach | Amy Williams (1st year) | ||
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Pinnacle Bank Arena (Capacity: 14,970) |
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| Nickname | Cornhuskers | ||
| Colors | Scarlet and Cream |
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| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | |||
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| NCAA Tournament second round | |||
| 1993, 1998, 2008, 2010, 2013 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1988, 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| 2014 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| 1988, 2010 | |||
The Nebraska Cornhuskers represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in women's college basketball.
Women's basketball started as a club sport in 1970 and five years later it became a varsity sport when scholarships were offered. George Nicodemus was the first head coach and had a 22–9 record in his first season, taking the Huskers to the AIAW where they lost in the second round of the tournament. Five different head coaches would be hired after Nicodemus left the program in 1971 until 1986 when Angela Beck took a stable head coach position. Beck led the Huskers to their first NCAA bid after winning the Big 8 championship in 1988. She led the Huskers back to the NCAA in 1993 and 96. She left the program in 1996 to pursue other opportunities and was replaced by Paul Sanderford. Sanderford led the Huskers to a NCAA sub-regional in 1998 and 1999 and received a third consecutive NCAA bid in 2000. Connie Yori became the head coach in 2002 and has led the Huskers to WNIT in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009 and NCAA in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014
The women’s basketball team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has made 13 NCAA Tournament trips since 1988. The Huskers have also have had eight NCAA Tournament victories. In the past six years alone, the Huskers have played five games for a conference title. Also in the past six years the Huskers have made two trips to the NCAA Sweet 16 and they have had 22 All-Conference Awards. Some of the awards include Jordan Hooper receiving 2014 Big 10 Player of the Year in 2014, in 2010 Kelsey Griffin was awarded Big 12 Play of the Year in 2010. Head coach Connie Yori has received the award for Coach-of-the-Year in 2010, 2013, and in 2014. Yori also won the national Coach-of-the-Year award in 2010. The Huskers also won the Big Ten Tournament in 2014 and won the Big Twelve Championship in 2010.
As part of the 2010–13 NCAA conference realignment, the women's basketball team began competing in the Big Ten Conference in the 2011–12 season. There are fourteen colleges that are a part of the Big Ten Conference. The other colleges include the University of Illinois, Indiana University, the University of Iowa, the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, The Ohio State University, Penn State University, Rutgers University, the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin.
The Huskers play at the Pinnacle Bank Arena that was recently built in 2013, which cost $179 million to build. The new arena has a capacity of 14,970 people for basketball games. The women’s basketball team has an average of 6,000 fans per game, which ranks the Huskers as 11th nationally for women’s basketball home attendance. Both the Nebraska men's and women's basketball teams had previously played at the Bob Davaney Sports Center. Pinnacle Bank Arena is located in the West Haymarket district of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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