Nebraska still hasn’t settled on an opponent for the men’s basketball home opener at the new Pinnacle Bank Arena in November.

“We’ve got a couple of teams in the hopper, but no contracts are signed,” Marc Boehm, NU’s basketball oversight administrator, said Tuesday.

“We’re probably going to wait until early summer to announce some things. We want to roll out a plan for both men and women and the dates they play.”

One certainty, Boehm said, is that Nebraska will have 17 home men’s game in 2013-14: one exhibition, seven non-conference and nine Big Ten games. A second exhibition game will be a closed scrimmage with a Division I foe.…

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Wisconsin defensive end David Gilbert, an honorable mention All-Big Ten pick last season, has retired from football because of a recurring foot injury.

The senior was expected to be a key part of Wisconsin’s new 3-4 defensive alignment. He injured his right foot last season before the Nebraska game in Lincoln, then damaged it again in practices leading up to the Rose Bowl.

Gilbert, who has had multiple surgeries, could sit out and try for a sixth year of eligibility, but he graduates next month and said he is done with football.…

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The injury luck at Michigan spring football practice has gone missing.

The Wolverines have lost a second player to a torn ACL: backup quarterback Russell Bellomy. Earlier this spring, senior linebacker Jake Ryan — the team’s top returning tackler — went down with a knee ligament tear.

Bellomy, a sophomore, played in the second half of last season’s 23-9 Nebraska victory over Michigan. Bellomy, in relief of injured Denard Robinson, completed 3 of 16 passes with three interceptions.

Bellomy’s injury leaves only one scholarship quarterback on the UM roster: junior starter Devin Gardner. Walk-on redshirt freshman Brian Cleary likely will be Gardner’s backup until incoming freshman Shane Morris arrives this fall.…

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Congratulations to John Higgins of Omaha, chosen Monday as one of 10 officials to work the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta.

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee approved the officials, who were recommended by John Adams, the national coordinator of officiating.

Higgins is a longtime college official who has worked more than 1,200 games in 39 states over the past 17 seasons.…

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Nebraska’s top big-man recruiting target in men’s basketball committed Saturday afternoon to Auburn.

Matthew Atewe, a 6-foot-9, 230-pounder from Toronto, had narrowed his choices to NU, Auburn, Charlotte and Nevada. Atewe played this past season at Notre Dame Academy, a prep school in Fitchburg, Mass.

Nebraska’s other two offers this spring have been to 6-7 Sai Tummala from Salt Lake (Utah) Community College and 6-8 Leslee Smith of Seward County (Kan.) CC.…

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Nebraska basketball fans got an in-person look at NCAA tournament darling Florida Gulf Coast on Dec. 6, 2011.

FGCU came to the Devaney Center that night and outplayed NU through much of the game before Dylan Talley hit a jumper with 10.4 seconds left to give the Huskers a 51-50 win.

Sherwood Brown, the current Atlantic Sun player of the year, led FGCU with 14 points against Nebraska.…

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The Michigan football team will have to replace second-team All-Big Ten linebacker Jake Ryan, who suffered a torn ACL in Tuesday’s scrimmage.

Ryan led the Wolverines in tackles last season with 88, with 16 for loss and four forced fumbles.

With ACL recovery times from 6 to 12 months, Ryan is doubtful for the coming season.…

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Kareem Richardson, an assistant coach at Louisville, has been named head coach at Missouri-Kansas City.

Richardson was the main recruiting contact for Louisville with Omaha Central all-state center Akoy Agau, who signed a letter of intent in November.

The connection between Richardson and Agau started back when Richardson was an assistant at Xavier and began recruiting Agau.…

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It’s not a surprise, but it’s still disappointing to see Northwestern basketball coach Bill Carmody lose his job.

After 13 years as the head of the lone power-conference program never to have made the NCAA tournament, Carmody was let go Saturday. Northwestern, hit with four season-ending injuries, lost its final nine games to finish 13-19.

Carmody was a straight-shooter with a wickedly wry sense of humor. Hate to lose guys like that. The question now is whether a couple of highly touted recruits he had lined up to come will follow through.…

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Nebraska is trying to provide another night of excitement at the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament.

The Huskers trail No. 10 Ohio State 28-23 at halftime, but have had strong stretches of play.

NU jumped to leads of 7-3, 9-4 and 15-6. Then came five turnovers in a scoreless span of 5 1/2 minutres.

Late baskets from Shavon Shields and Brandon Ubel brought Nebraska within one at 24-23 with 1:38 to go.…

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