Tag Archives: Women’s Basketball

For a third straight year, the Nebraska women’s basketball team got a tough draw in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The Huskers will play at North Carolina, which finished 29-7 last year in the ACC and lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a No. 3 seed.  NU advanced to the Sweet 16 where it lost to the Tar Heels’ biggest rival, Duke.

UNC loses three starters off of last year’s team, but returns two key pieces in Xylina McDaniel (daughter of the X Man, Xavier McDaniel), who avaeraged 11.3 points and 7.1 rebounds as a freshman, and top 3-point shooter Brittany Rountree.

“North Carolina has been a traditional power in the ACC for nearly 30 years under Coach Sylvia Hatchell,” Nebraska coach …

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Former Nebraska point guard Lindsey Moore Monday night became the latest Husker to play in the WNBA, as the Minnesota Lynx selected her with the 12th pick in the first round.

The Lynx lost in the WNBA finals last year. Moore was the second player taken from the Big Ten; Ohio State’s Tayler Hill was first,  going fourth overall.

Unsurprisingly, Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne and Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins were picks one, two and three.…

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The Nebraska women’s basketball team won its ninth straight game Sunday and its third straight by 17 points or more so I felt compelled to pop the question.

Are these No. 20 Huskers playing as well, right now, as the 2010 crew that finished 32-2, won the Big 12 and advanced to the Sweet 16? And, believe me, I qualified the question to account for different players, different styles and all the other things coach Connie Yori would lodge as a nitpick because, well, Yori is a good coach in part because she nitpicks.

But, still, Yori wasn’t biting in the least.

“That team was a lot better,” she said after NU’s 66-46 win over Iowa. “We had a lot more pieces in place. And …

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Nebraska women’s basketball coach Connie Yori announced Wednesday that sophomore guard Rebecca Woodberry had been removed from the team for a violation of team rules. A Phoenix native, Woodberry averaged 4.5 points and 3.3 rebounds for the Huskers last year.

According to her Twitter profile, Woodberry was also head coach of a local Lincoln girls youth basketball team.

Woodberry’s mother, Desiree Lewis, declined comment.…

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Nebraska senior guard Lindsey Moore and junior forward Jordan Hooper were among 25 women’s college basketball players named to the Wade Watch List on Tuesday. The Huskers were one of five schools with players on the list for the award that annually recognizes the best player in women’s college basketball.

Moore averaged 15.7 points and 5.1 assists last year while Hooper averaged 18.9 points and 9.3 rebounds.

The last Husker to win the Wade Trophy was Karen Jennings in 1993. In 2010, Kelsey Griffin was a finalist.

On Monday, Lindy’s Sports preseason magazine tabbed NU as the No. 19 team in the country.…

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The Big Ten released its full women’s basketball schedule Friday; unlike the Husker men, the NU women got a balanced, favorable draw from the league. Here’s the slate. Home games in bold.

Wednesday, Jan. 2 vs. Wisconsin
Saturday, Jan. 5 vs. Purdue
Thursday, Jan. 10 at Indiana
Sunday, Jan. 13 at Penn State
Thursday, Jan. 17 vs. Illinois
Sunday, Jan. 20 at Minnesota
Thursday, Jan. 24 vs. Michigan State
Thursday, Jan. 31 at Ohio State
Sunday, Feb. 3 vs. Minnesota
Thursday, Feb. 7 at Northwestern
Monday, Feb. 11 at Iowa
Thursday, Feb. 14 vs. Ohio State
Thursday, Feb. 21 at Michigan
Sunday, Feb. 24 vs. Iowa
Thursday, Feb. 28 at Wisconsin
Sunday, March 3 vs. Penn State

A couple takeaways:

>> You always want a …

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LITTLE ROCK — By the time the Nebraska’s women’s basketball team tips off at 6:30 p.m. vs. Kansas in the NCAA Tournament, most of the first round will already be over. For Husker fans, it’s a long wait in Arkansas’ capital city, yet another lovely metroplex that makes you wish Lincoln had a river running through it.

The Jack Stephens Center on the campus of Arkansas-Little Rock is the site of the games. A billionaire businessman and philanthropist, the name Stephens — you know, The Masters chairman in the 1990s — is on everything in this town. The arena. The baseball stadium in North Little Rock, which resembles a smaller version of Haymarket Park. A skyscraper. I’ve heard the arena — the brainchild of UALR …

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Forget the magical run two years ago. If Connie Yori had somehow coached this super-young Nebraska women’s basketball team to a Big Ten Tournament championship — playing four games in four days and five games in seven — it would have been the best achievement of her career. And one of the crowning achievements in Husker hoops history.

So close.

As it was, the Huskers fell short — 74-70 in double overtime to Purdue. The Huskers were dragged into a streetfight with the Boilermakers — NU guard Lindsey Moore took one of the nastiest shots on a screen you’ll ever see — and Lincoln native KK Houser had one of the best games of her Purdue career. Nebraska didn’t seem to have the same pep …

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Nancy Lieberman. Maybe you’ve heard of her. Most folks who have followed women’s basketball at all over the last 30 years have.

It’s her name on college basketball’s award for best point guard — chosen by sportswriters around the nation — and NU junior Lindsey Moore is one of eight finalists. Moore’s started 91 straight games and she’s fourth in Husker history with 477 assists.

In other news, the Huskers remained in the Associated Press Top 25 at No. 23. The Coaches’ Poll comes out Tuesday.…

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There are a few key differences between the Creighton men’s basketball team and the Nebraska women’s basketball team — how they win, for example — but more similarities than you might initially imagine. As the Huskers head down the stretch, a few things to chew on:

>> Both put together a string of victories before reaching a plateau. Creighton lost three in a row; NU’s lost two. And that mini-streak of losses will likely cost both teams a shot at their respective league crowns.

>> Both have sophomore sensations (Doug McDermott and Jordan Hooper) who were overlooked in the recruiting process — in Hooper’s case, let’s face it, she probably undersold her own talents — but aren’t going to surprise opponents nearly as much down …

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