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Nebraska Cornhuskers
2017–18 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team
University
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
First season
1897
All-time record
1,474–1,337 (.524)
Head coach
Tim Miles
6th season
Conference
Big Ten
Location
Lincoln, Nebraska
Arena
Pinnacle Bank Arena
(Capacity: 15,147)
Nickname
Cornhuskers
Colors
Scarlet and Cream[1]
Uniforms
Home
Away
Alternate
NCAA Tournament appearances
1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2014
Conference tournament champions
1994
Conference regular season champions
1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1949, 1950
Conference division season champions
Missouri Valley North
1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914[2]
The Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I. The program's first game was an 11–8 win over the Lincoln YMCA. Three years later, Nebraska played its first game against another university, a 37–5 victory over Nebraska Wesleyan. Through 2017, the program has an all-time record of 1,474–1,337 (.524) with seven NCAA appearances and 16 NIT appearances. NU's only national tournament championship came in the 1996 NIT.
Nebraska has the unfortunate distinction of being the only major conference program to have never won a game in the NCAA Tournament, and did not even make the tournament until 1986. Much of the team's modest success came during the tenure of Danny Nee, head coach from 1987 to 2000. Nee is the program's all-time winningest head coach, with a record of 254–190 (.572). Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their seven NCAA Tournament appearances and six bids to the NIT, including the 1996 NIT championship. After Nee was fired in 2000, Barry Collier was hired and led the program for six years, until leaving to become athletic director at Butler University, where he had previously coached.[3] Nebraska hired Doc Sadler from UTEP following the departure of Collier. Sadler led the Cornhuskers for six seasons, which included the school's transition from the Big 12 to the Big Ten, but like Collier, he failed to make an NCAA Tournament appearance. NU hired Tim Miles in 2012, and he took the team to the NCAA Tournament in only his second season, but the Huskers have yet to make it back.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 First years
1.2 Harry Good (1946–53)
1.3 Jerry Bush (1954–63)
1.4 Joe Cipriano (1963–80)
1.5 Moe Iba (1980–86)
1.6 Danny Nee (1986–2000)
1.7 Barry Collier (2000–06)
1.8 Doc Sadler (2006–12)
1.9 Tim Miles (2012–present)
2 Seasons
3 Pinnacle Bank Arena
4 Postseason
4.1 NCAA tournament results
4.2 NIT results
5 Coaching staff
6 Players
6.1 Retired numbers
6.2 NBA Players
7 References
8 External links
History[edit]
The 1904 junior team
First years[edit]
The University of Nebraska has experienced a great deal of success throughout its athletic programs, but men's basketball is an exception. NU hasn't won a conference championship since sharing the Big Seven with Kansas and Kansas State in 1950, and has not won an outright title since sweeping the MVIAA in 1916.
As near as anyone can determine, the school was first represented by a men's basketball team on Feb. 2, 1897, just six years after James Naismith first set down the rules of the game. A team from the Lincoln YMCA was the opponent, and Nebraska posted an 11–8 victory at Grant Memorial Hall, the home of the Huskers for all but two seasons until the Coliseum opened in 1926. The same teams played in Grant Hall three weeks later with a similar result, as NU won 23–14. Such was the modest beginning of a program that has enjoyed its greatest success since 1980. In that span, NU has posted a 504–379 record and 18 postseason appearances, including six in the NCAA Tournament, with conference tournament title in 1994 and an NIT title in 1996.
Nebraska doubled its schedule in 1898, losing twice to the Lincoln YMCA and splitting two games with the Omaha YMCA. Nebraska played teams from other universities for the first time in 1899, winning two games against Nebraska Wesleyan and one against Doane en route to the unofficial state championship. Nebraska played an out-of-state opponent for the first time the following season, defeating James Naismith and Kansas 48–8 in what is still the worst loss in KU history. The 1900 Cornhuskers finished 5–0 and were retroactively ranked second nationally by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.[4] Nebraska's student yearbook wrote: "A closely contested game was looked for. The Jayhawkers were, however, completely outclassed, the score being 48–8... [Nebraska's] basketball team for this year was undoubtedly superior to any in the west."
Nebraska hired its first full-time coach in 1911. E.O. Stiehm, who played against Nebraska while at Wisconsin in 1908, coached both football and basketball for the Cornhuskers. His first basketball team won 14 of 15 games, its only loss coming at Minnesota. The student newspaper blamed the loss on Nebraska’s inability to adjust to the Gophers' 100-foot floor.
Under Stiehm, Nebraska shared the Missouri Valley Conference championship with Kansas in 1912 and 1914 and won the title outright in 1913, when guard Sam Carrier became Nebraska's first All-American. The 1914 team, which averaged a then-impressive 30 points per game, was "so fast it took a movie camera to catch 'em," according to the student yearbook.
Nebraska won another conference title in 1916, after Sam Waugh replaced Stiehm as the Cornhuskers' coach for one season. Stiehm, who coached the first game of the season before giving way to Waugh, had planned to remain at Nebraska through the season before leaving to become coach and athletic director at Wisconsin, but NU's Athletic Board decided to replace him.
The 1921 team
Waugh was succeeded by E.J. Stewart, whose three Cornhusker teams had a combined record of 29–23. Nebraska was 22–2 in 1919–20 and 11–3 in 1920–21 under P.J. Schissler. After the 1920 season, Schissler challenged the University of Chicago to a postseason game, but the offer was declined. The Cornhuskers also were invited to a postseason AAU tournament in Atlanta, but didn’t participate.
The program's most significant event during the 1920s was the building of the Nebraska Coliseum, dedicated on February 6, 1926. The Cornhuskers lost 25–14 to Kansas in the first game at their new home, which was built at a cost of $445,000 and seated 8,000 for basketball. Prior to that, Nebraska played most of its home games in Grant Hall, which seated about a fourth as many fans as the Coliseum and was located just north of where the Sheldon Art Gallery now stands.
Athletic Director Fred Leuhring arranged for Nebraska to play its home basketball games at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum in 1921, in order to accommodate more spectators. The Cornhuskers played two seasons at the Fairgrounds Coliseum, which had a wider court than Grant Hall. The first game there was played on January 14, 1921, when Nebraska defeated Grinnell 31–10 before a crowd of 1,500. After two seasons, the Cornhuskers returned to Grant Hall, which had been remodeled, and continued to play home games there until the Coliseum opened.
William H. Browne
Nebraska ended the decade with an 11–5 season under Charles T. Black, a former Kansas All-American. Over the next 19 seasons, the Huskers had just two winning seasons, one of which was a Big Six championship in 1937.
The 1930s produced four more Cornhusker All-Americans: Don Maclay in 1931, Steve Hokuf in 1933, George Wahlquist in 1936, and Robert Parsons in 1937. Maclay was the Big Six scoring leader in 1930, scoring 112 points in 10 league games.
Harry Good (1946–53)[edit]
Harry Good
Harry Good was hired as head coach in 1946 and after two losing seasons, turned Nebraska’s fortunes around. In 1948–49, Good's Huskers went 16–10, tied Oklahoma for the Big Seven championship and defeated the Sooners in a conference playoff to qualify for an NCAA berth. The Cornhuskers lost to MVC champion Oklahoma A&M 52–35 in Kansas City. The Aggies would finish second to Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats in the tournament.
In 1949–50, Nebraska again won 16 games and shared the Big Seven crown with Kansas and Kansas State, the last time NU won a regular season conference championship. Claude Retherford and Bus Whitehead each were named all-conference performers in 1949, and the latter earned the honor again the next year. The 6–10 Whitehead averaged a then-school-record 15.7 points per game in 1950, and was the first Cornhusker selected to play in the East-West All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden. When he graduated, Whitehead held nine school scoring records.
This period of relative prosperity was followed with 15 consecutive losing seasons. Despite playing for a team that finished last in the Big Seven in 1952, Husker guard Jim Buchanan earned All-America and all-conference honors.
Jerry Bush (1954–63)[edit]
Jerry Bush, dubbed the "Big Bear of the Coliseum," never produced a winning team in his nine seasons at Nebraska, but his colorful personality and uncanny ability to fashion upsets kept Cornhuskers fans entertained.
Jerry Bush
The most dramatic upset of Bush's tenure as coach came against no. 4 Kansas in 1958. The Jayhawks had defeated the Huskers 102–46 earlier in the year, with star center Wilt Chamberlain single-handedly matching Nebraska's 46 points. In the rematch, guard Jim Kubacki hit a jump shot with two seconds remaining to give Nebraska a 43–41 win. Kubacki was supposed to be out with a knee injury, but when team captain Gary Reimers hurt his leg with seven minutes remaining, Kubacki convinced Bush to let him suit up.
Bush also had the distinction of coaching the school's first 1,000-point scorer, Indianapolis native Herschell Turner, who was rated as the second-best high school player in the state as a senior, behind only Oscar Robertson. Turner earned All-America honors in 1959 and followed with All-Big Eight honors in 1960 and ended his collegiate career with 1,056 points.
Joe Cipriano (1963–80)[edit]
Joe Cipriano
In March 1963, Bush was replaced as head coach by 31-year-old Joe Cipriano, who had been the head coach at Idaho for three seasons. Nebraska athletic director Tippy Dye had coached Cipriano at Washington, where they led the Huskies to the 1953 Final Four and a 79–15 record during Cipriano's varsity career. Following graduation, he served as an assistant coach at his alma mater until he was hired by Idaho in 1960. His Vandals improved each year and posted a 20–6 record in 1962–63, led by future Basketball Hall of Famer Gus Johnson. "Slippery Joe" brought an up-tempo style of basketball to the Coliseum; his Nebraska teams pressed full-court and ran a fast-break offense, which led the Big Eight in scoring average in 1966, 1967, and 1968.
Cipriano's first two teams struggled, with a combined record of 17–33. But his third team, in 1965–66, was one of the most successful in school history, finishing 20–5 and second to Kansas in the Big Eight. All-Big Eight guard Grant Simmons became the first Cornhusker to earn academic All-Big Eight honors. The 1966–67 team finished 16–9 and made the school's first appearance in the 16-team National Invitation Tournament, played at Madison Square Garden. Guard Stu Lantz was a two-time All-Big Eight pick and led the Cornhuskers in scoring and rebounding in both 1966–67 and 1967–68. Guard Marvin Stewart and center Chuck Jura earned All-Big Eight honors for Cipriano in 1971 and 1972, respectively. Guard Jerry Fort, who finished his career with a then-school record 1,882 points, was the first Nebraska player chosen first-team all-conference three times, from 1974 through 1976. With Fort’s leadership, Nebraska began a string of 14 winning seasons.
In the fall of 1976, NU basketball moved out of the Coliseum and into the state-of the-art Bob Devaney Sports Center. Located on the State Fairgrounds, the $13 million athletic complex was financed by a special cigarette tax.
Cipriano coached Nebraska to another 20-victory season in 1977–78. The Cornhuskers, led by All-Big Eight guard Brian Banks, finished with a 22–8 record and advanced to the second round of the NIT. By 1979, Cipriano's failing health – he would die of cancer the following year – meant he had to share coaching duties with assistant Moe Iba, and they took Nebraska to the NIT again. For their efforts, the duo shared United Press International Big Eight Coach-of-the-Year honors.
Cipriano brought Nebraska into the modern era, coaching 17 seasons and 450 games. His record of 253–197 gave him nearly one-fifth of Nebraska’s all-time wins, and 168 more than any previous NU head coach.
Moe Iba (1980–86)[edit]
Following Cipriano's death in November of 1980, Iba was named head coach, and he continued Cipriano's winning ways. In Iba's six seasons, Nebraska was 106–71 and advanced to postseason play four times.
Center Andre Smith was the 1981 Big Eight Player of the Year and twice earned all-conference honors. However, it was the late Jack Moore, a 5–10 playmaker from Muncie, Indiana, who captured the hearts of Nebraska fans in the early 1980s. Moore earned All-Big Eight honors in 1982, when he won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, given annually to the nation’s top player no taller than six feet. The first three-time academic All-Big Eight pick in Nebraska history, Moore scored 1,204 points and hit .901 from the free throw line during his career.
The cornerstone of Iba's teams from 1983 through 1986 was Omaha native Dave Hoppen, a three-time All-Big Eight center and the first Nebraska basketball player to have his jersey number (No. 42) retired by the school. In 1982–83, Hoppen's freshman season, the Cornhuskers went 22–10 and won three games in the NIT before losing to DePaul in the semifinals at Madison Square Garden. The Cornhuskers returned to the NIT each of the next two seasons, advancing to the second round both times.
Hoppen's college career was ended by a knee injury he sustained against Colorado on February 1, 1986. He finished as the school's all-time scoring leader with 2,167 points and broke or tied 19 school records. After Hoppen's injury, Iba's team regrouped and went on to earn the school's first "official" NCAA Tournament berth. Nebraska lost to Western Kentucky 67–59 in the first round of the Southeast Regional. Following the game, Iba announced his resignation.
Danny Nee (1986–2000)[edit]
On March 27, 1986, Danny Nee was officially introduced as Nebraska’s 24th basketball coach. During a news conference to announce his hiring, Nee said a "new era" in NU basketball was beginning. Nee's 14 teams appeared in the postseason 11 times and topped the 20-win mark in seven seasons. In his first season, Nebraska was 21–12 and finished third in the NIT. After a 13–18 record in his second season, the Cornhuskers got back over .500 with a 17–16 record in 1988–89 and advanced to the second round of the NIT.
Nebraska missed the school single-season record for losses by one in 1989–90 at 10–18, then won a school-record 26 games in 1990–91. The Cornhuskers reached the Big Eight Tournament championship game for the first time and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, but were upset by no. 14 seed Xavier in the first round. The 1990–91 team included two future first-round NBA draft picks, senior Rich King and redshirt freshman Eric Piatkowski. The 7–2 King was the tallest player in program history. Piatkowski, Nebraska's sixth man in 1990–91, went on to earn first-team all-conference honors twice. He ranks second on the Cornhuskers' career scoring list with 1,934 points, and he is the only Nebraska player to finish with at least 1,900 points, 600 rebounds (669) and 300 assists (322). In 2006, Piatkowski (No. 52) joined Hoppen and Stu Lantz (No. 22) as the only players to have their number retired.
Three more NCAA Tournament appearances followed the record-breaking 1991 season. In 1992–93, the Huskers registered their highest league finish under Nee by tying for second in the Big Eight. In addition to reaching the NCAA Tournament for a fourth consecutive season and recording back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in school history, Nee's 1993–94 team made history by winning the school's first Big Eight Tournament title. The Cornhuskers defeated Oklahoma, Missouri and Oklahoma State to earn the tournament championship.
Nebraska's NCAA Tournament run ended at four in 1994–95, but the Huskers kept their postseason streak alive with an NIT berth, advancing to the second round. The 1995–96 team struggled down the stretch but was back in the NIT and capped its season with a run to the tournament title. The Huskers won two games on the road and scored more than 80 points in four of their five postseason games, finishing with a 60–56 victory over St. Joseph's. "The NIT run was incredible when you look at the teams we beat and how we beat them," Nee said after the remarkable run. "I don’t care what anybody says, it was domination."
The 1996 NIT championship team was one of the most talented in school history. Two future NBA players, Erick Strickland and 1998 first-round draft pick Tyronn Lue, started in the backcourt. And two other players on the team scored 1,000 career points, Jaron Boone and freshman Venson Hamilton, who would finish his career in 1999 as the school's all-time leading rebounder and shot-blocker. Lue's contributions as a freshman to the NIT championship team were only a preview of what was to come. The 6–0 point guard finished his career as the seventh leading scorer in school history, and he ranked in the top 10 in 12 other career categories. He took the 1996–97 Cornhuskers to the NIT in Nebraskas first season in the Big 12 Conference.
Behind a late-season run, which included Nebraska's longest conference winning streak in 20 years, Nee's 12th team finished fourth in the Big 12 and returned to the NCAA Tournament. The bid was the Cornhuskers' fifth during the 1990s and extended the school-record postseason streak to eight consecutive years. The streak reached nine in 1999, as the Cornhuskers just missed an NCAA Tournament bid and advanced to the second round of the NIT. In the process, NU won 20 games for a second straight season, and Hamilton was named Big 12 Player of the Year.
The optimism that preceded the 1999–2000 season quickly faded when guard Cookie Belcher was sidelined by a wrist injury and forced to take a medical redshirt. The Cornhuskers were off-balance almost from the beginning of the season and fell far short of expectations. Nee became the winningest coach in school history in NU's final home game, a 69–64 win over Colorado that gave him his 254th victory. Despite this, the team finished just 11–19 and tied the school record for most losses in a season, which led to Nee's firing.
Barry Collier (2000–06)[edit]
Director of Athletics Bill Byrne hired Barry Collier as the Cornhuskers' new coach on April 5, 2000. In Collier's first season, Nebraska finished 14–16 as Belcher returned to the lineup and earned second-team All-Big 12 honors. He finished his career with 353 steals, the third most in NCAA history.
In Collier's fourth season, Nebraska ran to an 18–13 record and its first postseason bid in five years. Nebraska won its first two games in the 2004 NIT, including an exhilarating 71–70 road victory over in-state rival Creighton in the opening round. After a home-court victory over Niagara, the Huskers' season came to an end three days later at Hawaii. NU came back from 17 points down at halftime to tie the game but eventually lost by a point.
Nebraska struggled the following season, but an influx of young talent helped the Huskers move forward. Freshman center Aleks Marić, the first Australian to play in the program, made an immediate impact as he broke the NU freshman record for rebounds and double-doubles. He finished his four-year career ranked fifth all-time in scoring and was only the second Husker to record 1,000 career rebounds.
NU made its second postseason appearance in three years in 2006, finishing with a 19–14 record. It was the most wins under Collier and the first time his Huskers won a game in the Big 12 Tournament. NU reached the semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time since winning the Big Eight Tournament in 1994.
Collier abruptly resigned in early August of 2006 to take the position of athletic director at his alma mater, Butler University, ending his career at Nebraska with an 89–91 record.
Doc Sadler (2006–12)[edit]
The late job opening created by Collier posed little challenge for Nebraska as one week later, Doc Sadler was introduced as the 26th head coach in program history. Sadler's program saw moderate success through his six seasons in Lincoln, finishing above .500 four times but only winning one postseason game.
Nebraska finished first in the Big 12 and 18th nationally in scoring defense in 2007–08, allowing just 60.7 points per game. Sadler's specialty was highlighted again in 2008–09 as the Huskers proved it was no fluke, claiming another first-place defense in the league while ranking 22nd nationally by giving up just 60.4 points per contest. It was the second-lowest total in the Husker record book since 1951, giving Sadler-coached squads three of the top four Husker scoring defenses in the past half century. In 2010–11, Nebraska led the Big 12 for the third time in four seasons, allowing just 60.5 points per game and ranking seventh nationally in field goal defense (.389).
The defensive strategy Sadler employed earned him 89 victories through five seasons. The total was the most by a Husker coach in his first five years in Lincoln. He was also just the second NU coach ever to reach the postseason twice in his first three seasons and only the second since World War II to post at least three winning seasons in his first four years on the bench. Among the 89 victories were eight against ranked teams, including three ranked teams during the 2010–11 season. That year, the Huskers reached the NIT, the school's third postseason appearance in the last four seasons.
The Huskers' 20–13 record in 2007–08 included a 7–9 Big 12 record. In 2008–09, Sadler's team finished 8–8 in the Big 12, the first time NU was at least .500 in conference play in a decade.
Nebraska athletics began a new era in 2011, as the Cornhuskers became members of the Big Ten Conference. The fall of 2011 also marked the opening of the Hendricks Training Complex. Hendricks Training Complex, a new facility attached to the Bob Devaney Sports Center for both men's and women's basketball to train and practice. In 2011–12, Sadler returned an experienced team with high expectations, but injuries plagued the team, which finished 12–18 overall, and 4–14 in the Big Ten. On March 9, 2012, athletic director Tom Osborne fired Sadler after six seasons. At his firing press conference, Sadler emotionally addressed the media: "I wanted to be the guy that won the first NCAA tournament game. It didn’t happen. That's the bottom line. We can all sit here and talk about this that whatever. It all comes down to winning. That's what it should come down to."
Tim Miles (2012–present)[edit]
Nebraska vs. Florida Gulf Coast at Pinnacle Bank Arena on November 8, 2013, the first game at the new arena
Tim Miles was hired on March 24, 2012, as Nebraska's head basketball coach. Miles came to Nebraska after a five-year stint at Colorado State. In his second season, the Cornhuskers moved to Pinnacle Bank Arena after 37 years at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Their first game in the new arena was an exhibition game against Nebraska-Kearney on November 4, 2013, followed four days later by their first regular season game against Florida Gulf Coast. Behind a 15–1 record at "The Vault," Miles led the Cornhuskers to the program's first NCAA Tournament berth since 1998, but NU lost to Baylor in the first round. Despite appearing in the preseason nation top 25 for the first time in 20 years, Nebraska finished under .500 in 2014–15, and did not have a winning record again until 2017–18. On February 6, 2017, Nebraska suffered their worst home defeat in program history, closing the regular season with a 36-point loss to Michigan.
Seasons[edit]
Main article: List of Nebraska Cornhusker men's basketball seasons
Pinnacle Bank Arena[edit]
The $180.7 million Pinnacle Bank Arena in the West Haymarket district of Lincoln, Nebraska has a seating capacity of roughly 16,000 for concerts and 14,970 for basketball. It replaced the Bob Devaney Sports Center as the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers men's and women's basketball teams.
Postseason[edit]
NCAA tournament results[edit]
The Cornhuskers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament seven times, with a combined record of 0–7. Nebraska is the only power conference school that has never won a tournament game.
Year
Seed
Round
Opponent
Result
1986 9 SE First Round (8 SE) Western Kentucky L 59–67
1991 3 MW First Round (14 MW) Xavier L 84–89
1992 8 SE First Round (9 SE) Connecticut L 65–86
1993 10 E First Round (7 E) New Mexico State L 79–93
1994 6 E First Round (11 E) Penn L 80–90
1998 11 W First Round (6 W) Arkansas L 65–74
2014 11 W Second Round (6 W) Baylor L 60–74
NIT results[edit]
The Cornhuskers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament 17 times with a combined record of 23–16. They won the tournament in 1996.
Year
Round
Opponent
Result
1967 Quarterfinals Marshall L 88–119
1978 First Round
Second Round Utah State
Texas W 67–66
L 48–67
1980 First Round Michigan L 69–76
1983 First Round
Second Round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals Tulane
Iona
TCU
DePaul W 72–65
W 85–73
W 67–57
L 58–68
1984 First Round
Second Round Creighton
Xavier W 56–54
L 57–58
1985 First Round
Second Round Canisius
UCLA W 79–66
L 63–82
1987 First Round
Second Round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
3rd Place Game Marquette
Arkansas
Washington
Southern Miss
Arkansas–Little Rock W 78–76
W 78–71
W 81–76
L 75–82
W 76–67
1989 First Round
Second Round Arkansas State
Ohio State W 81–79
L 74–85
1995 First Round
Second Round Georgia
Penn State W 69–61
L 59–65
1996 First Round
Second Round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Finals Colorado State
Washington State
Fresno State
Tulane
Saint Joseph's W 91–83
W 82–73
W 83–71
W 90–78
W 60–56
1997 First Round
Second Round
Quarterfinals Washington
Nevada
Connecticut W 67–63
W 78–68
L 67–76
1999 First Round
Second Round UNLV
TCU W 68–53
L 89–101
2004 Opening Round
First Round
Second Round Creighton
Niagara
Hawaiʻi W 71–70
W 78–70
L 83–84
2006 First Round Hofstra L 62–73
2008 First Round
Second Round Charlotte
Ole Miss W 67–48
L 75–85 OT
2009 First Round New Mexico L 71–83
2011 First Round Wichita State L 49–76
Coaching staff[edit]
Coach
Position
Tim Miles Head Coach
Kenya Hunter Assistant Coach
Jim Molinari Assistant Coach
Michael Lewis Assistant Coach
Gregory Eaton Director of Basketball Operations
Wes Eikmeier Graduate Manager
Dorian Green Graduate Manager
Tim Wilson Strength Coach
Matt Holt Video Coordinator
Players[edit]
Retired numbers[edit]
Nebraska Cornhuskers retired numbers
No.
Player
Position
Tenure
Year retired
42 Dave Hoppen [5] C, PF 1982–86 1986
22 Stu Lantz [5] G 1965–68 1989
52 Eric Piatkowski [5] SF 1990–94 2006
10 Tyronn Lue [6] PG 1995–98 2017
NBA Players[edit]
Nebraska Cornhuskers in the NBA
Player
Position
NBA debut
Final NBA year
Herschell Turner PG 1968 1968
Grant Simmons PG 1968 1969
Stu Lantz G, PG 1969 1976
Dave Hoppen C, PF 1988 1993
Eric Johnson PG 1990 1990
Rich King C 1992 1995
Eric Piatkowski SF 1995 2008
Erick Strickland PG 1997 2005
Tony Farmer C, PF 1998 2000
Tyronn Lue PG 1998 2009
Mikki Moore C, PF 1999 2012
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "University of Nebraska Athletics Brand Guide" (PDF). Retrieved December 24, 2017.
Jump up ^ http://bigeightsports.com/Sports/MensBasketball/MensBasketballChampionships.htm
Jump up ^ Collier departure
Jump up ^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 529. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Retired jerseys" at This is Nebraska website
Jump up ^ Omaha.com BigRedToday: "Nebraska to retire Tyronn Lue's jersey"
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In baseball, the designated hitter rule is the common name for Major League Baseball Rule 5.11,[1] adopted by the American League in 1973. The rule allows teams to have one player, known as the designated hitter (or DH), to bat in place of the pitcher. Since 1973, most collegiate, amateur, and professional leagues have adopted the rule or some variant.[2] MLB's National League and Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League are the most prominent professional leagues that do not use a designated hitter.[3]
A designated hitter reduces the need for late-inning pinch-hitters.[4]
Edgar Martínez, who spent most of his career as the full-time designated hitter for the Seattle Mariners
Contents
1 Major League Baseball rule
1.1 Interleague play and exhibitions
2 Background and history
3 Awards
4 Debate
5 Designated hitter outside Major League Baseball
5.1 Minor League Baseball
5.2 International baseball leagues
5.3 Amateur baseball
6 Sources
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
Major League Baseball rule[edit]
In Major League Baseball, the designated hitter is a hitter who does not play a position, but instead fills in the batting order for the pitcher. The DH may only be used for the pitcher (and not any other position player), as stated in Rule 5.11. Use of the DH is optional, but must be determined prior to the start of the game. If a team does not begin a game with a DH, the pitcher (or a pinch-hitter) must bat for the entire game.
The designated hitter may be replaced as DH only by a player who has not entered the game. If a pinch hitter bats for, or a pinch runner runs for, the DH, that pinch-hitter or pinch-runner becomes the DH.
The designated hitter can be moved to a fielding position during the game. If the DH is moved to another position, his team forfeits the role of the designated hitter, and the pitcher or another player (the latter possible only in case of a multiple substitution) would bat in the spot of the position player replaced by the former DH. If the designated hitter is moved to pitcher, any subsequent pitcher (or pinch-hitter thereof) would bat should that spot in the batting order come up again (except for a further multiple substitution). Likewise, if a pinch-hitter bats for a non-pitcher, and then remains in the game as the pitcher, the team would forfeit the use of the DH for the remainder of the game, and the player who was DH would become a position player (or exit the game).
Unlike other positions, the DH is "locked" into the batting order. No multiple substitution may be made to alter the batting rotation of the DH. In other words, a double switch involving the DH and a position player is not legal. For example, if the DH is batting fourth and the catcher is batting eighth, the manager cannot replace both players so as to have the new catcher bat fourth and the new DH bat eighth. Once a team loses its DH under any of the scenarios discussed in the previous paragraph, the double switch becomes fully available, and may well be used via necessity, should the former DH be replaced in the lineup.
Interleague play and exhibitions[edit]
See also: Home advantage § Causes
In Major League Baseball, during interleague play, the application of the DH rule is determined by the identity of the home team, with the rules of the home team's league applying to both teams. If the game is played in an American League park, the designated hitter may be used; in a National League park, the pitcher must bat or else be replaced with a pinch-hitter. On June 12, 1997, San Francisco Giants outfielder Glenallen Hill became the first National League player to DH in a regular-season game, when the Giants met the American League's Texas Rangers at The Ballpark in Arlington in interleague play.[5]
At first, the DH rule was not applied to the World Series. From 1973 to 1975, all World Series games were played under National League rules, with no DH and pitchers batting. For 1976, it was decided the DH rule would apply to all games in a World Series, regardless of venue, but only in even-numbered years. Cincinnati Reds first baseman Dan Driessen became the first National League player to act as a DH in any capacity (regular season or postseason) when he was listed as the DH in the first game (he was the DH in all four Series games that year). This practice lasted through 1985. Beginning in 1986, the DH rule was used in games played in the stadium of the American League representative.
There was initially no DH in the All-Star Game. Beginning in 1989, the rule was applied only to games played in American League stadiums.[6] During this era, if the All-Star Game was scheduled for an American League stadium, fans would vote in the DH for the American League's starting lineup, while the National League's manager decided that league's starting DH. Since 2010, the designated hitter has always been used by both teams regardless of where the game is played.[7]
In June 2010, the Philadelphia Phillies scheduled 2010 series against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre was moved to Philadelphia, because of security concerns for the G-20 Summit. The Blue Jays wore their home white uniforms and batted last as the home team, and the designated hitter was used.[8] The game was the first occasion of the use of a designated hitter in a National League ballpark in a regular-season game with Ryan Howard being the first player to fill the role.[9]
In spring training games, the home team chooses whether the designated hitter is used. Occasionally National League teams opt to use the designated hitter, usually when a player is recovering from an injury.
Background and history[edit]
The rationale for the designated hitter rule arose comparatively early in the history of professional baseball. It was observed that, with a few exceptions — most notably Babe Ruth, who began his career as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox — pitchers are usually selected for the quality of their pitching, not their hitting, and that most pitchers were weak hitters who had to be batted ninth in the batting order and pinch-hit for late in games when their team was trailing. The designated hitter idea was raised by Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack in 1906,[10] though he was not the first to propose it. The rumors were that he grew weary of watching Eddie Plank and Charles Bender flail at pitches when at bat. Mack's proposal received little support and was even lambasted by the press as "wrong theoretically". The notion did not die. In the late 1920s, National League president John Heydler made a number of attempts to introduce a 10th-man designated hitter as a way to speed up the game, and almost convinced National League clubs to agree to try it during spring training in 1929.[10]
However, momentum to implement the DH did not pick up until the pitching dominance of the late 1960s. In 1968, Denny McLain won 31 games and Bob Gibson had a 1.12 ERA, while Carl Yastrzemski led the American League in hitting with only a .301 average. After the season, the rules were changed to lower the mound from 15 to 10 inches and change the upper limit of the strike zone from the top of a batter's shoulders to his armpits. In addition, in 1969 spring training, both the American League and National League agreed to try the designated pinch hitter (DPH), but they did not agree on the implementation. Most NL teams chose not to participate. On March 6, 1969, two games utilized the new DPH rule for the very first time. Two newly formed expansion teams, the Montreal Expos and the Kansas City Royals, would participate in one such game, and the New York Yankees and Washington Senators in the other. On March 26, 1969, Major League Baseball nixed the idea for the time being. However, a four-year trial in which the International League and four other minor leagues started using the DH for their games began that year.[11]
Like other experimental baseball rule changes of the 1960s and 70s, the DH was embraced by Oakland A's owner Charlie O. Finley. On January 11, 1973, Finley and the other American League owners voted 8–4 to approve the designated hitter for a three-year trial run.[10] On April 6, 1973, Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees became the first designated hitter in Major League Baseball history, facing Boston Red Sox right-handed pitcher Luis Tiant in his first plate appearance. "Boomer" Blomberg was walked.[12] The result of the first season of the DH was that the American League posted a higher batting average than the National League, something which has remained consistent to this day.
In response to increases in American League attendance because of the designated hitter[citation needed], the National League held a yes/no vote on August 13, 1980, to determine whether or not the league would adopt the designated hitter. A majority of the 12 member teams was necessary to pass the rule, and the measure was expected to pass. However, when the teams were informed that the rule would not come into effect until the 1982 season, Philadelphia Phillies vice president Bill Giles was unsure of how the team owner, Ruly Carpenter, wanted him to vote. Unable to contact Carpenter, who was on a fishing trip, Giles was forced[by whom?] to abstain from voting. Prior to the meeting, Harding Peterson, general manager for the Pittsburgh Pirates, was told to side with the Phillies.[clarification needed] The final tally was four teams voting for the DH (Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Diego Padres), five votes against (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, and San Francisco Giants), and three abstentions (Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Houston Astros). Five days after that meeting, the Cardinals fired their general manager, John Clairborne, who was the leading proponent for the adoption of the DH rule, and the National League has not held another vote on the issue.[13]
As time passed, the designated hitter rule has ended up offering American League managers multiple strategic options in setting their teams' lineups: they can rotate the DH role among part-time players (for example, using a left-handed batter against a right-handed pitcher and vice versa) or they can employ a full-time designated hitter against all pitchers. It also allows them to give a healthy everyday player a partial day off, or to give an injured player the opportunity to bat without exposing him to re-injury while playing in the field.
In recent years, full-time DHs have become less common, and the position has been used to give players a partial off-day, allowing them to bat but rest while the other team is batting. This option comes in very handy when a team's lineup includes several older players. The 2012 Yankees, for example, rotated five players through the DH spot during the season, all of them over 34 years old.[14] Only a handful of players compile over 400 at-bats as a DH each year.
With the Houston Astros having moved to the American League for the 2013 MLB season, which requires interleague play season-round (as well as the Astros to start using a DH full-time), there is debate within MLB to unify the rules of the two leagues, with either the American League returning to its pre-1973 rules and have the pitcher hit, like the National League or the National League adopting the DH.[15]
In January 2016, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred indicated that the National League might adopt the DH for the 2017 season when a new collective bargaining agreement is created after the current one expires on December 31, 2016.[16] However, he later backtracked on this statement to say that he does not see unification coming any time soon.[17] Accordingly, the DH rule was not adopted by the National League for 2017.
Awards[edit]
Major League Baseball presents an annual award to the most outstanding designated hitter of the season, called the Edgar Martínez Award. Renamed for the former Seattle Mariners DH after his retirement in 2004, the Outstanding DH Award was introduced in 1973 and has been handed out every season since, except 1994 due to a player's strike. Notable winners include Martínez (five times) and David Ortiz (seven times, five consecutively).
DHs have generally not made much impact on the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award or National Baseball Hall of Fame voting, because of the relative rareness of the full-time DH and the fact that the DH does not contribute on defense.
During the 1993 season Paul Molitor became the first player to win the World Series Most Valuable Player award while playing 137 of 160 games (85.63%) as a designated hitter; David Ortiz did the same in 2013. Ortiz was also the first designated hitter to win the ALCS MVP in 2004. Ortiz and Molitor played games at first base in their World Series MVP seasons, leaving Hideki Matsui in 2009 as the only World Series MVP to never play the field that season.
Among Hall of Famers, Paul Molitor and Jim Rice were, until 2014, the only inductees to even have played at least 25% of their games at DH. With the election of Frank Thomas on January 8, 2014, he becomes the first Hall of Famer to play the majority of his games at DH. Edgar Martínez is currently on the ballot (received 70.4% of votes in 2018).
Debate[edit]
There is considerable debate over whether or not the designated hitter rule should be removed,[18][19] while some [18] have argued that the National League should adopt it. On the other hand, there are also fans who enjoy the fact that the American and National Leagues use different rules. Two generations of fans of American League teams have grown up with the designated hitter rule being in place, so some may consider the designated hitter to be as much a traditional part of baseball as the pitcher taking his turn at bat is for fans of National League teams.
Critics often argue that use of the designated hitter introduces an asymmetry to the game by separating players into classes, creating offensive and defensive specialization more akin to American football. Opponents of the rule believe it effectively separates pitchers, other fielders, and designated hitters into separate roles that never cross, possibly causing issues with promoting 'batting cage' players whose scope of experience is extremely limited. However, when the pitcher bats alongside everyone else, all nine players must take turns at the plate and in the field, and the hybridization of roles requires that everyone knows other roles in addition to their own.
The designated hitter rule also changes managerial strategy in late innings. In the National League, a manager must decide when to let a pitcher bat or remove him, as well as with whom to pinch-hit and where or if that player should take the field afterward. When the decision to remove a pitcher is made, the manager may also elect to double switch, delaying the new pitcher's turn at bat.
Advocates of the designated hitter[18][19] point to the fact that it has extended many careers, and, in a few cases, created long, productive careers for players who are weak fielders or have a history of injuries, such as Edgar Martínez and David Ortiz. Hall of Fame members George Brett, Carl Yastrzemski, and Paul Molitor continued their careers longer than they ordinarily would have without the rule.[20] Barry Bonds, who spent his entire career in the National League and actually won eight Gold Gloves earlier in his career, was used strictly as a DH later in his career when the San Francisco Giants played away interleague games due to his poor fielding.[21] Some believe that extending careers of older players is less of an advantage and more of a disadvantage, filling spots that otherwise may have been taken by younger players who end up not finding a place in the major leagues.
Interleague play has added a new wrinkle to the controversy. Some feel that it is not fair to ask an AL team to play without their DH when their roster has not been set up to do so, or on the other hand, to ask an NL team to use a DH when they may not have an appropriate player. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig once proposed that the road team's rules should be followed for interleague games in order to combat this advantage for the home team, but the idea has not received traction.[22]
The decline of pitcher Chien-Ming Wang due to an interleague game injury has been cited in support of the designated hitter. On June 15, 2008, Wang was taken out of an interleague game versus the Houston Astros due to a right foot injury he sustained while running the bases, something he was not used to doing, since pitchers do not bat in the American League. Wang was diagnosed with a torn Lisfranc ligament and a partial tear of the peroneus longus of the right foot. The cast was removed on July 29, but the extensive rehabilitation process prevented Wang from being an effective pitcher at the major league level since. Yankees' part-owner Hank Steinbrenner showed frustration with pitchers having to bat in the National League and suggested that the League "join the modern age".[23]
Designated hitter outside Major League Baseball[edit]
Minor League Baseball[edit]
Among Minor League Baseball teams, Rookie and Single-A level leagues use the DH in all games. At the Double-A and Triple-A level, when both teams are National League affiliates, pitchers may bat. In the Pacific Coast League, pitchers only hit when both clubs are NL affiliates and both clubs agree to have their pitchers hit. The reason for the difference is that as players get closer to reaching the majors, teams prefer to have the rules mimic, as closely as possible, those of the major league teams for which the players may soon be playing.[24]
International baseball leagues[edit]
The DH is used in most professional baseball leagues around the world. One notable exception is the Central League of Japan, where pitchers bat as they do in the National League. Japan's Pacific League adopted the designated hitter in 1975. When teams from different leagues play against each other in the Japan Series or interleague games, the DH rule is adopted if the Pacific League's team hosts the game. The DH rule is used in the Japanese minor leagues.
Amateur baseball[edit]
In American high schools and other amateur baseball leagues that use National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) rules, a DH may bat in place of one player in any position, not just a pitcher. Many coaches use a designated hitter in place of the weakest hitter in the lineup, if they use one at all. In amateur baseball, many pitchers are also good hitters and will often play another position (or even DH) when not pitching. Japanese high school baseball is one of the few amateur baseball leagues in the world that has never used the designated hitter rule at all. In high school baseball in South Korea, the rule has been adopted since 2004. American Legion rules, on the other hand, allow the DH only to bat for the pitcher; prior to 1995, the use of the DH was not allowed in Legion baseball at all.
In college baseball, NCAA rules state that the designated hitter must hit for the pitcher, but in many instances the pitcher is also a good hitter, and the coach may elect to let the pitcher bat in the lineup. If the pitcher opts to bat for himself, he is treated as two separate positions – a pitcher and a designated hitter (abbreviated P/DH on the lineup card) – and may be substituted for as such (i.e. if he is removed as the pitcher, he may remain as the designated hitter and vice versa). However, if a player who starts a game as a P/DH is relieved as the starting pitcher, he may not return to the mound even if he remains in the game as the DH, and he may not play any other defensive position after being relieved as the pitcher unless he immediately moves to another defensive position, in which case the new pitcher must assume the spot in the batting order of the fielder the P/DH substituted for, and the DH is lost for the remainder of the game. Conversely, a player who begins the game as the DH, but not as the pitcher, may come into the game as a reliever and remain as the DH (in effect becoming a P/DH), be relieved on the mound later in the game but continue to bat as the DH.
In Little League Baseball, the DH is not used. However, a league may adopt a rule which requires all players present and able to play to be listed in the batting order (such that the order contains more than nine players), and thus all players will have a turn to bat even when they are not assigned a fielding position. Players in the batting lineup without a position on the field are given the position designation extra hitter (EH), a position seen occasionally in other amateur organizations (both youth and adult).
Sources[edit]
Baseball portal
Will, George F. (1990). Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball.
McKelvey, G. Richard (2004). All Bat, No Glove: A History of the Designated Hitter.
Dickey, Glenn (1980). The History of American League Baseball.
Johnson, Lloyd (1999). Baseball's Book of Firsts.
Mahony, Phillip (2014). Baseball Explained. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014.
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Further reading[edit]
Chen, Albert (April 11, 2011). "Going, Going ... Gone?: Adam Dunn is powerful, plodding, productive and very well paid—and in today's game, he's a dinosaur. In an era that values run prevention and lineup flexibility, the DH as we knew it is a dying breed". Sports Illustrated. p. 53.
External links[edit]
Rule 6.10, the Designated Hitter Rule, from MLB's Official Rules
The Etiology of Public Support for the Designated Hitter Rule, by Christopher Zorn and Jeff Gill, June 1, 2006
The Designated Hitter as Moral Hazard, by Daniel H. Pink, December 12, 2004
The Designated Hitter's Place in Baseball
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