You thought that shot was going in didn’t you?
I watched that last second heave by Vanderbilt guard Tyler Tanner and time seemed to slow down the closer it got to the basket. It totally looked like it was going through the hoop. It was on line, it had the right distance…
Then it rattled out and all of Husker Nation took a breath and started celebrating. Doesn’t it feel good to finally get rid of that “only team to never…” text from TV graphics?!?
With
all due respect to other Husker sports, this Flakes is a bit heavy on Nebrasketball. (Congrats to the wrestling team for their third place finish at nationals!)
Corn Flakes
“We did it!” Nebraska men’s basketball is moving on to the Sweet 16
OKLAHOMA CITY — Nebraska men’s basketball faced Vanderbilt in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.
The Huskers’ postgame tunnel celebration featuring Berke Büyüktuncel in a Herbie hat
Nebraska dances into the Sweet 16 with a thrilling win over Vanderbilt
The No. 4 seed Nebraska needed a last minute push, and a layup from Braden Frager in the closing seconds, to defeat the No. 5 seed Vanderbilt in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Oklahoma City, 74-72.
The Husker women were close to getting a first round win of their own in the NCAA tournament.
Huskers bounced from Big Dancy by Baylor 67-62
Britt Prince scored a game-high 27 points, but No. 11 seed Nebraska fell to No. 6 seed Baylor, 67-62, in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Friday afternoon.
Nebraska softball sweeps Michigan State in weekend series
Nebraska softball (24-5, 6-0) concluded its series with Michigan State on Saturday in an afternoon doubleheader. The Huskers swept the Spartans to sweep the series, winning 13-0 in six and 4-1.
Four bombs launch Nebraska baseball to series win over Michigan
With the game tied in the ninth, Max Buettenback hit a home run to right field. The blast sealed the game and the series. Both teams traded blows in a back-and-forth battle but Nebraska’s tenacity fueled another late-game offensive surge.
Husker wrestling gets seven All-Americans, places third as a team at the NCAA championships
A year after setting multiple program records, Nebraska kept its foot on the gas at this year’s NCAA Championships, picking up its second straight team trophy.
Johansson earns bronze at World Track & Field Championships
On the first day of the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland, Axelina Johansson used a lifetime best throw of 19.75m (64-9 ½) to claim Bronze in the women’s shot put.
Sports!
Nebrasketball ball will take on Iowa in the Sweet 16! Bring on the rock fight!
Iowa stuns defending national champions in March Madness
No. 1 seed Florida has been eliminated from the NCAA Tournament, losing to No. 9 seed Iowa 73-72 in the second round matchup and sending the Gators home early.
Alex Ovechkin joins Wayne Gretzky in rare achievement – 1000 goals
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin once again made history Sunday, March 22, scoring his 1,000th career NHL regular season and Stanley Cup playoff goal, joining Wayne Gretzky as the only two players in NHL history to do so.
Minnesota women stun Ole Miss with buzzer beater to advance to Sweet 16
Host Minnesota was in trouble against No. 5 seed Ole Miss on Sunday, trailing 54-46 heading into the fourth quarter. But it rallied to stun Mississippi with a late comeback capped by a game-winning bucket in the final second to secure a 65-63 win.
Dylan Darling hits driving layup at the buzzer as St. John’s beats Kansas 67-65
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dylan Darling hit a driving layup as time expired for his only bucket of the game, and St. John’s advanced to its first Sweet 16 since 1999 with a 67-65 victory over Kansas in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
Luka Doncic avoids suspension after 16th tech foul rescinded
The NBA has rescinded Luka Doncic’s 16th technical foul, allowing him to play in the Los Angeles Lakers’ road game against the Detroit Pistons on Monday night.
Then There’s This
1800’s wine cellar discovered buried under golf course
It started when a groundskeeper at the Davyhulme Park Golf Club near Manchester, England, was inspecting a sinkhole near the course’s 13th hole.
Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first, and only, time
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s.
What if the bar came to you on St. Patrick’s Day? These mini Irish pubs make it a reality
READING, Mass. (AP) — Just before St. Patrick’s Day, an Irish pub appeared one night beneath a basketball hoop in a suburban Massachusetts driveway.
Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton rock that fell to earth
MEDINA, Ohio – Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was seen from hundreds of miles away.
