And you thought the football team had a good year…
Folks hold onto your butts cause we are starting to see a potential historic season in Nebraska. The Nebraska women’s basketball team is off to a Nebraska women’s basketball best, 13-0 start. The first undefeated non-conference season in school history has been highlighted by one game decided by less than 10 points. It has also featured probably the biggest win in school history with a 14 point win over the #5 team in the nation at the time, the LSU Tigers.
The women are led by Kelsey Griffin. Griffin has so far put together a 1st team All-American season and is in the discussion for national player of the year. She is the real deal. The senior from Alaska battled an injury last year and did not play. She has had injury concerns throughout her Husker career but has been one of the best players for Connie Yori. Griffin is averaging almost 20 points/game and 10 rebounds/game.
To show you how big a season this has been so far, Nebraska started the year unranked and didn’t see the rankings until they played Creighton on Dec. 9th and that was #24. After their LSU win they vaulted up to 13. And then they climbed another spot in the polls to #12 and promptly crushed Vermont 94-50 (Vermont was a fringe Top 25 team before the Nebraska game as well). The buzz word around college basketball is Bracketology and the study of if the tournament started now, where would they be in the tournament. Again before the LSU game on December 10th ESPN.com had a 10-0 Nebraska as the #4 seed. Now with conference play starting up, Nebraska is the #3 seed right now.
But it will not be easy for Nebraska in the Big 12. There are two teams ranked ahead of Nebraska as Baylor is #5 and Texas A&M is #10, Oklahoma and Texas is right behind Nebraska at #14 and #15. Kansas and Oklahoma St. are ranked as well in the top 25. This will not be easy for Nebraska. They start conference play tonight versus Iowa State and have a big game next Tuesday at home versus Texas.
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jake rhymes with cake says Husker Women Gymnastics January 9, 2010 at 9:40pm
The Women’s Gymnastic team had their season opener yesterday at Washington and brought home a victory. They won by a meager 2 pts, but hey, it’s a win with a mostly “young” team. Awesome!