It’s official. Nebraska is the No. 3 seed in this year’s conference tournament at Minneapolis’ Target Field, set to face off against the same team that left Lincoln Saturday with a convincing 19-9 win.
The Huskers will play No. 6 seed Michigan in the first round of the Big Ten tournament at 3:35 p.m. Wednesday. No. 4 Minnesota plays No. 5 Illinois in the other Wednesday match-up.
Top-seeded Indiana, champs for the first time since 1949, and No. 2 seed Ohio State both have first-round byes. If NU were to beat the Wolverines Wednesday, it would play the Buckeyes at 3:35 p.m. Thursday.
A loss Wednesday, and Nebraska would drop into the loser’s bracket — which is essentially a death sentence for any team …
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World-Herald videographer Kyle Benecke reports in with the sights and sounds of the Nebraska state track and field meet at Burke Stadium from Saturday.
Best on the track: Lincoln Pius X, which had won the Class A girls 3,200 relay three of the past four years without getting an all-class gold medal, broke through with the foursome of Sarah Kottwitz, Tarin Van Slyke, Megan Drozda and Alyssa Thavenet running the No. 5 time all time at 9:25.16.
Best in the field: Tierra Williams of Auburn went to No. 2 on the all-time chart in the girls long jump with a wind-aided leap of 20-1¼ for an all-class gold.
Surprise of the day: Pius X’s boys finished fourth in their loaded district in the 3,200 relay, but ended up on top in a NASCAR-like finish. Jacob Holtmeier got to the line first to bring home golds for him and teammates …
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The annual Collin-Orcutt All-Star game will be played May 27 at 6 p.m. at Brown Park.
Greco and Don Kiviniemi of Bellevue East will coach the Collin squad while Jason Coulter of Omaha Benson and Scott Hodges of Omaha Burke will coach the Orcutt team. The game, featuring the top seniors from the Omaha area, marks the start of the American Legion season.
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Collin — Millard West: Ryan Merrill, Nick Hargis, Eric Salmonson. Millard South: David Foley, Matt Meiners, Nick Houston. Papillion-La Vista South: Josh Kiger, Sam Palensky, Brent Kirsch. Papillion-La Vista: Matt Gay, Geoff Birkemeier. Omaha Gross: Zach Knicky, Cragin Missak. Ralston: Spencer Lavicky. Omaha South: Eric Mulligan. Omaha Westside: Bryce McMullen, Will Frei. Bellevue West: Cale Svehla. Bellevue East: Dan Gleason. Omaha …
The Nebraska state track and field championships are underway at Burke Stadium.
See a photo showcase from the first-day action, and check out the video below to see sights and sounds from the state meet:
Time for another big, fat recruiting update!
But first, a few thoughts about Nebraska’s recruiting strategy, and comments NU recruiting coordinator Ross Els made to ESPN about the lack of early commits to the Huskers. The comments that had many of Nebraska’s most ardent recruitniks clicking the “send” button on message boards.
First, the key comment Els made, comparing Nebraska to Ohio State and Michigan’s ability to get early commits:
“You can’t compare us to Ohio State and Michigan and Notre Dame. We will not fill up that quickly. If we’re filling up that quickly, it’s either because we just won the national championship and everybody wants to play for us, or we might be not very selective in who we’re taking. We don’t throw …
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Papillion-La Vista junior Kenzo Cotton grabbed the Class A state meet record in the 100-meter dash by running 10.51 in Friday’s heats at Burke Stadium.
Cotton’s personal best is a wind-aided 10.41 at last year’s state meet. That mark is second all-time on The World-Herald chart for electronic timing.
Lincoln Pius X opened the two-day meet by setting school records in the girls and boys 3,200 relays to win Class A titles. The Pius girls are now fifth on the all-time list.…
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The latest trendy topic for college football commenters to bloviate about is how schools should play more neutral-site games, even giving up home games to do so.
Sounds kind of cool. But it’s not happening on anything more than an irregular basis, as anyone who has ever sat down with an athletic director at conference administrative meetings can attest.
Power conference schools playing at least seven home games a year is NON-NEGOTIABLE. Anyone who tells you otherwise isn’t paying attention.
Listen to Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez from earlier this week: “Everyone needs seven home games to balance your budget.”
Or hear Ohio State A.D. Gene Smith: “We all work off needing seven home games. That’s how we’re set up.”
One school in a position to get creative in football scheduling …
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It’s Friday! That means Ten Big stories in 10 little bites. We hit Tiger Woods and Bubba Starling, Ndamukong Suh and Julie Hermann and conference races in college baseball. But first, the head-scratching new Big Ten schedules.
In case you missed it, Nebraska doesn’t play Ohio State or Michigan in 2014 or ‘15. Neither does Wisconsin. Neither does Iowa.
Why would the Big Ten build a conference schedule whose biggest interdivisional matchup is Michigan vs. Northwestern? Good question.
Theory 1: All this talk about schedule strength as a critical factor for playoff selection is overblown and the Big Ten knows it. Yes, it’s going to be important to strengthen non-conference schedules. But the best way to assure yourself a spot — or two …
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CLASS A
TOP PERFORMERS
Sophomore Mike Waldron pitched Omaha Westside to victory in the championship game. He went the distance and struck out six in the 8-0 win. He also had two hits, including an RBI single in the first.
Warriors junior center fielder Devin Stueck also had a nice game, belting three hits. He reached base a fourth time when he was hit by a pitch.
Millard South shortstop Jake Huscroft and pitcher Nick Houston performed well. Huscroft had two hits in the championship game (and two in the earlier game against Papillion-La Vista) and Houston held the fort as much as possible by pitching six innings of relief against Westside.
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Neither game was close Thursday as Millard South defeated Papio 12-2 …
