Nebraska Husker News

Omaha - Nebraska's returning national qualifiers each started the 2010 NCAA Championships on a positive note as three of the Huskers' five participants earned first round wins Thursday at Qwest Center Omaha.

Mark Manning is a believer in dreaming big, and Nebraska's head wrestling coach can't get a certain picture out of his mind this week. It's a mental image of Stephen Dwyer and Craig Brester on motorcycles, riding off into the sunset with NCAA national championship wrestling medals around their necks.

The Nebraska baseball team opens Big 12 action this weekend, as the Huskers travel to Austin, Texas, for a three-game series at No. 2 Texas at UFCU-Disch Falk Field. The Huskers come into the weekend riding a five-game win streak following Tuesday's win over South Dakota State.

The No. 12 Nebraska women's gymnastics team heads to No. 15 Penn State this Saturday, March 20 in NU's final regular-season meet of 2010. lt;br />Competition is set to begin at 6 p.m. at Rec Hall. The Huskers have an all-time record of 25-9 over Penn State. NU last scored a 195.45 to PSU's 195.80 lt;br />at the 2009 NCAA Southeast Regional in Raleigh, N.C.

Stay up-to-date with everything surrounding the 2010 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships!!!

The Nebraska softball team completed a doubleheader sweep of South Dakota at Bowlin Stadium on Wednesday, taking the nightcap by a score of 9-3.

Blacksburg, Va.---The No. 25 Nebraska men's tennis team saw their eight match winning streak come to an end on Wednesday, March 17, after falling to the No. 22 Virginia Tech Hokies 5-2. With the loss the Huskers fall to 11-4 on the season, while the Hokies improved to 7-3. Playing on the road for the sixth straight match, the Huskers were able to win the doubles point, but couldn't carry that momentum into singles competition.

Big 12 regular-season champion Nebraska earned its highest NCAA Tournament seed in school history by claiming one of four No. 1 national seeds in the 2010 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship.

The Nebraska softball team scored seven runs in the fifth and sixth innings to erase a four-run deficit and rally for a 7-5 victory over South Dakota on Wednesday in the first game of the Huskers' home-opening doubleheader at Bowlin Stadium.

Nebraska senior Kelsey Griffin claimed one of seven spots on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-Region 5 team announced on Wednesday.

Nebraska Coach Connie Yori earned another spot as a national coach-of-the-year finalist on Wednesday, when she was named one of four coaches in the running for the 2010 Naismith Coach-of-the-Year Award.

Before they ever coached together at Wyoming or won national football championships at Nebraska, Bob Devaney and Jim Ross were inextricably linked. The stabilizing force behind the late Devaney's entire coaching career, Ross died last Friday at Bryan LGH West Hospital in Lincoln. He was 94.

The Nebraska men's tennis earned its highest ranking in school history after it moved up to No. 25 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings released on Tuesday, March 16.

DJ Belfonte belted two of Nebraska's three homers, as the Husker baseball team wrapped up a perfect homestand with an 11-6 victory over South Dakota State Tuesday afternoon.

On Tuesday, March 16 the Nebraska track and field team announced that it has signed 17 athletes for the 2011 season. A well-rounded class, it is represented by five states and four foreign counties, including Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Iowa, Jamaica, Barbados, Germany and the United Kingdom.

After playing its first 26 games of the season on the road, the Nebraska softball team is set to play its first home games of the year on Wednesday, when the Huskers host South Dakota for a doubleheader at Bowlin Stadium beginning at 3 p.m.

Nebraska Coach Connie Yori was named one of eight NCAA Division I regional coaches of the year by Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) on Tuesday.

Led by Brandon Crick's individual medalist performance, the Nebraska men's golf team captured a tournament title for the first time in nearly four years at the Jackrabbit Invitational on Tuesday.

Nebraska looks to extend its winning streak to fiive games, as the Huskers take on South Dakota State beginning at 1:35 p.m.. Sean Yost takes the hill for the Big Red and looks for his second win of the season.

Five Huskers will represent the Nebraska wrestling program inside state borders when the season culminates at lt;br />the 2010 NCAA Championships this Thursday-Saturday at Qwest Center Omaha.