NE KS 4 NE picnic on Saturday, July 27th
Join us for our 2024 Northeast Kansans for Nebraska Picnic St. David’s Parish Hall 17th St & Gage Blvd Topeka,...
NE KS 4 NE picnic on Saturday, July 27th
| Join us for our 2024 Northeast Kansans for Nebraska Picnic St. David’s Parish Hall 17th St & Gage Blvd Topeka, Kansas Saturday, July 27, 2024 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m., not before) Our virtual speaker this year is Haven Fields who joined Nebraska Athletics as the Deputy Athletic Director/Chief Operating Officer in April of 2024. Fields will serve as the day-to-day football administrator, assisting Head Coach Matt Rhule and his football staff. In addition to his role with the football... |
It’s Time to Apply for the NE KS 4 NE Scholarship
| One of the most important activities our Northeast Kansans for Nebraska Alumni chapter does is provide three annual financial scholarships to local students attending the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Two $1,500 annual scholarships are provided by our chapter members and a third $1,000 annual scholarship is awarded as the Bob Elliott Memorial Scholarship. If you have a son or daughter, grandson, or granddaughter, attending UNL or enrolling for the 2024-2025 school year at UNL, the deadline for the application process is approaching. Because our... |
Chapter donates $520 to Doorstep
| Your donations during this year’s game watches toward Doorstep totaled $520. Thank you for your generosity showing, as Husker fans, we not only support our university, and its sports teams, but we support great causes. With the challenges our local charitable organizations are facing, we modify one of our key phrases to state, “There are no fans like Nebraska’s”. Go Big Red. |
Wrestling: Omaha Bryan’s Abdi Unle Commits to Nebraska, Giving Huskers Fourth in ‘25 Class
| Nebraska Head Coach Mark Manning, seen here during a dual in 2023, and his staff have put together another really good recruiting class for 2025. | Dylan Guenther / Corn Nation Unle adds to a nice haul of top recruits for the Huskers with all four commits coming in at weight classes of need Nebraska just put the cherry on top of its 2025 recruiting class last night when in-state prospect Abdi Unle committed to the Huskers. Unle is ranked #9 in the country at... |
Corn Flakes: Buschini Gets a Blackshirt and Reilly Repeats As B1G Setter of the Week
| Stephen Bruce Also, Giant Pandas in the National Zoo! In his press conference today Coach Rhule said he gave out two more blackshirts in the last week. One went to the deserving Ceyair Wright after another solid performance against Rutgers. The other went to Punter, Brian Buschini. Rhule said that some of the defensive players came up to him and told him they needed to give Buschini a blackshirt. Buschini had an amazing game against Rutgers and has been a vital part of helping the... |
NCAA makes changes to the portal window dates and NLI policy
| Dylan Widger-Imagn Images The NCAA announced some changes to the portal window, moving from 45 days to 30 days and eliminating the National Letter of Intent (NLI) in favor of financial agreements. The Winter window is now from December 9th to December 28th, while the Spring window is from April 16th to April 26th. The NLI falling away is a sign of the times with the ever-changing landscape of college football and the NCAA clawing to keep up. The portal has changed college football forever... |
Corn Flakes: Volleyball Wins, Basketball and Baseball Scrimmages
| Dylan Widger-USA TODAY Sports Could the Husker women be ranked #1 after Pitt lost to the same SMU team that derailed Nebraska earlier in the season? The Friday night volleyball match with Purdue did not disappoint! It was a clash of defensive titans with Purdue matching, and at times outplaying, the Huskers on the defensive side of the ball. The Boiler block was on point, but our beloved Huskers found a way. Now, the current #1 team in D1 volleyball, the Pitt Panthers, were beaten... |
Wrestling: Husker Commit Tyler Eise Wins Super 32 Title at 175; Ziola and Zinkin Both Place
| Husker commits Tyler Eise (left) and Cade Ziola both placed at Super 32 with Eise winning gold at 175 pounds. | Courtesy of Tim Ziola Along with Eise’s title, fellow commits Cade Ziola and Nikade Zinkin both placed with Ziola taking third at 215 and Zinkin placing sixth at 144 For the second year in a row, Nebraska had a commit win a Super 32 title. Widely regarded as the toughest high school folkstyle tournament of the year, the annual event is a marquee event... |
Nebraska Volleyball Finishes the Weekend with a Sweep of Rutgers
| Nebraska sweeps Rutgers Saturday night and. Looks to be #1 during Monday’s rankings While Nebraska sweeping Rutgers is always good to see, there was another match today that gained a lot more attention. SMU took down #1 Pitt to give them their first loss of the year. Why is this important for the Huskers you ask? Well this is important because this means that Nebraska will mostly likely be ranked #1 when rankings come out Monday afternoon. That Purdue win meant even more than we... |
Nebraska vs. Rutgers Volleyball Watch Thread
| Nebraska is back in action against Rutgers tonight! #2 Nebraska (15-1) vs. Rutgers (5-11) When: Saturday, October 12th 2024, 7:00 pm (CT) Where: Bob Devaney Sports Center, Lincoln, NE Watch: B1G+ Radio: Husker Radio Network Live stats #2 Nebraska (13-1) #2 Bergen Reilly 6’1” SO Setter#5 Rebekah Allick 6’4” JR MB#6 Laney Choboy 5’3” SO DS/L#7 Maisie Boesiger 5’6” JR DS/L#8 Lexi Rodriguez 5’5” SR DS/L#9 Kennedi Orr 6’0” SR Setter#10 Olivia Mauch 5’6” FR DS/L#11 Leyla Blackwell 6’4” SR MB#12 Taylor Landfair 6’5” SR... |
Nebraska Bye Week Game Thread!!!!
| Photo by Jim Cowsert/Icon SMI/Icon Sport Media via Getty Images It’s a beautiful bye week for Nebraska AND Indiana. It’s also a HUGE weekend for college football match ups. Washington at Iowa – can the Huskies enter hell and escape? I hope so because that would be hilarious. Ohio State vs Oregon – HUGE! Texas vs Oklahoma – It’d be nice if Oklahoma would rise up and knock those asses off their perch! Penn State at USC – I expect the Nits to win this... |
Nebraska Volleyball Preview: Huskers vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights
| Nebraska looks to beat Rutgers for wins on back-to-back nights After a hard fought 5 set win last night against Purdue, the Huskers will quickly need to turn the page as Rutgers is in town tonight to try and steal a win from them. That Purdue match last night was like a giant rollercoaster. Sometimes it was fun to watch and be apart of and other times I just wanted to close my eyes and not watch what was going on. This especially happened in... |
Huskers Pushed to Five Sets in A Win Over Purdue
| Dillon Galloway Long rallies with lots of defense led to entertaining volleyball Nebraska 3 vs Purdue 2 – 25-22, 22-25, 23-25, 25-22, 17-15 Nebraska outlasts Purdue in a three hour thriller in the Bob Devaney Center. The statistics are jaw dropping; multiple players with twenty or more kills, blocks in double digits and sideout percentages very close to equal. Nebraska did not play their best volleyball but they did find a way to win. They are 5-0 in Big Ten play. Purdue’s outside hitters were... |
Nebraska vs. Purdue Volleyball Watch Thread
| Mac Johnson #2 Nebraska (14-1) vs. #10 Purdue (12-3) When: Friday, October 11th 2024, 7:30 pm (CT) Where: Bob Devaney Sports Center, Lincoln, NE Watch: B1G Radio: Husker Radio Network Live stats #2 Nebraska (14-1) #2 Bergen Reilly 6’1” SO Setter#5 Rebekah Allick 6’4” JR MB#6 Laney Choboy 5’3” SO DS/L#7 Maisie Boesiger 5’6” JR DS/L#8 Lexi Rodriguez 5’5” SR DS/L#9 Kennedi Orr 6’0” SR Setter#10 Olivia Mauch 5’6” FR DS/L#11 Leyla Blackwell 6’4” SR MB#12 Taylor Landfair 6’5” SR OH#13 Merritt Beason 6’4” SR... |
Numbers, Statistics, and Lies: Bye Week
| Dylan Widger-Imagn Images A mid-season check on where the Huskers rank in the conference and nation. NSL is a quick look at basic stats and where Nebraska ranks in all of FBS as well as the Big Ten. I pull out some random stats the dart landed on carefully curated statistics and then analyze where the numbers match the eye test. There are 134 teams playing FBS football in 2024. The chart below is broken into quintiles the top 20% is colored dark green. These... |
