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Nebraska Basketball and the Big Ten with Kevin Knight

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, Jon, Minnie, and Greg are joined by Kevin Knight, one-time basketball writer for Corn Nation and lifelong Big Ten Country dweller.
A Spartan by birth, Kevin will join us to talk about Nebraska’s incredible season. And since the regular season finale is against the Michigan Wolverines, a team he’s hated since birth, there’s no shortage of schadenfreude at Michigan’s expense.
But being a Big Ten lifer, Kevin shares his opinion on the history of men’s basketball in the conference (is it historically the best basketball conference?) as well as offer an insider’s opinion to the continued expansion of the league.
Chatterfields…Mount up!

HUSKER HEAT! : The Corn Nation Softball Podcast Makes Its Debut

On our opening show we’ll discuss the Huskers opening tournaments (and just what those are), including The Big Red Invitational which wasn’t the homecoming anyone wanted. The Razorback Rumble is next and has already hit a hitch. We also hope to bring up a rule/factoid/etc. each week where we’ll dive a little deeper into the differences between fast-pitch softball and baseball.
Besides the funny throwing motion and the bigger ball.
And, of course, we’ll discuss Jordy Bahl’s injury and ensuing surgery and the effects on the team both short-term and long-term.
I’m Andy Ketterson, your host and I’ll be joined by Mylie Ketterson tonight and also Jaden Miller in the ensuing weeks.
So drop by, chime in and give us and Nebraska Cornhuskers softball a shot if you will.

Monday Night Therapy: Nebrasketball Senior Night, Baseball Finishes!

Keisei Tominaga, Josiah Allick and Boogie Coleman all walked on senior night and C. J. Wilcher was honored. So is this the last we’ll see of Tommy Naga, probably the most exciting charismatic player in Nebraska basketball history? We’ll have to wait and see.
The Nebraska baseball team swept the College of Charleston over the weekend and Todd will have updates on that.
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Recapping Nebraska Basketball vs Ohio State, Football’s Chasing 3

This go-around on the Five Heart Podcast, Greg and Minnie discuss the Nebraska men’s basketball game that would have concluded by show time. The Huskers are in Columbus, OH to take on an Ohio State University, which has seen a change of luck since they fired their head coach. 
After the game against the Buckeyes, the men only have two regular season games remaining. 
The Husker WBB team has one regular season game remaining, a road game Sunday against Illinois. Nebraska beat the Illini by eight points ack on January 11 and have won three in a row and five of their seven contests in February. 
And I don’t know if you’re up to speed on the Chasing 3 YouTube series, but a recent episode shed some light on Nash Hutmacher’s return to wrestling, signing day and move-in day, Ty Robinson’s decision to return to Nebraska for his final year, and cooking with the freshmen! 

Nebraska Had a Helluva Weekend! - Everything Is Copacetic!

Nebraska sports had an excellent weekend. Nebraska men’s basketball had a very dominant win over the Minnesota Gophers and it solidified Fred Hoiberg’s position as Big Ten Coach of the Year.
Will he get it or not? Who knows, but he deserves it.
But up until the game against Minnesota, Ben Johnson from Minnesota was another great candidate.
The Football players had a dunk contest at halftime of the men’s basketball game against Minnesota, and WHEN is the last time we had athletes showing off their talents at another athletic event?
The baseball team went 3-1 with a series win over Grand Canyon University.
Men’s track and field finished second in the Big Ten.
Women finished 8th.
Nebraska softball (8-6) finished with a 2-3 record in the tournament while playing three ranked teams and five teams that made the 2023 NCAA Tournament.
And look at all this stuff from the athletic department notes after the men’s basketball win against Minnesota:
Nebraska improved to 20-8 on the season, matching its best 28-game start in the Big Ten era (also 2017-18).It is the seventh time Nebraska has won 20-or-more games in the regular season (also 1919-20, 1977-78, 1965-66, 1990-91, 1992-93 and 2017-18).
* Nebraska tied a school record with its 17th home win, which had been done three other times in school history. Nebraska is 17-1 at Pinnacle Bank Arena this season.
*-Nebraska has now won 10 Big Ten games, marking only the third time since joining the conference that NU has reached double figures in conference wins.
*-Nebraska held Minnesota to a season-low 55 points as its previous low was 58 at San Francisco on Nov. 26. Minnesota entered Sunday’s game averaging 76.7 points per game.
*-Nebraska has won four straight Big Ten games by at least 15 points including tonight’s 18-point victory. This marks the first time Nebraska has won four straight conference games by 15 or more points since winning four straight Missouri Valley Conference games by at least 15 points in 1911-12.
*-Nebraska last won four straight conference games by double figures in 1998-99 when the Huskers won four straight Big 12 games by at least 13 points.
*-Juwan Gary posted a career high with 22 points, betting his previous career high of 20 on two other occasions. Gary also had a career-high four 3-pointers, topping his previous best of three on two other occasions.
*-Nebraska is 15-0 this season when holding opponents under 70 points and has won 19 straight dating back to last season.

Nebraska Basketball, Good and Bad, and Rage Against Idiots

The Nebraska Men’s basketball team once again successfully defended the home court Saturday when they defeated Penn State. It’s back on the road Wednesday night against the Indiana Hoosiers, with a good opportunity to pick up that elusive Big Ten road win. By the time we do the show, we’ll know just how successful the attempt was. *Update - it was very successful. 
Meanwhile, the Nebraska women’s basketball program is facing some unplanned scrutiny. While the team has won two in a row and four of its last six, it is accusations from the past that have popped up, putting a black eye on arguably Amy Williams’ finest season to date as the head coach of the Husker women. They will continue to prepare for Saturday’s game against Minnesota amid the lawsuits levied against Williams, the former assistant coach, AD Trev Alberts, and the University. 
And how do you fight idiots online? One school of thought is to ignore them completely. But Greg saw something this week so repugnant that he could not let it slide. So prepare for rants against recency bias and click bait. IT WILL NOT BE CONDONED! 

MONDAY NIGHT THERAPY: Your Nebraska Cornhuskers Sports Update From Two Old Crusty Men

Todd and I wandered through an hour long show and people enjoyed it somehow.
I started out the show by letting everybody know I had been paying to no current events in football but instead I have been in studying the Ku Klux Klan because in 1924 when Notre Dame played Nebraska the Ku Klux Klan was involved and tried to disrupt the game and I’d like to do a history video about it. (I think it was the 1925 game, tho.)
Todd has been watching baseball in Texas and we talked a bit about the Nebraska baseball team and their start in which they were probably more competitive than they’ve been in an opening series in the last decade. They looked good they just unfortunately lost two of the three games in the ninth inning.
We talked about the wrestling team and how well they fared against Penn State and the fact that Penn State hasn’t lost a duel since 2019
The question came up of what was our favorite Nebraska football team ever or favorite season in Nebraska history and both Todd and I chose 1983 probably because that was the year we were there at Nebraska and got to watch Turner Gill and that offense in person and it was a blast
There was a discussion about what Huskers you put on Mount Rushmore.
Let’s face it there’s some great Huskers there’s not a lot of discrepancy between who would pick we people would pick between the the top four. Unfortunately like I told Todd it’s a list for old people by old people because we you really can’t the people that we players we’ve had in the last 20 years just haven’t had the teams around them to compete with the players we had before that so if you’re looking at a Mount Rushmore there is nobody that you’re going to pick in the last 20 years that would compete with some of the other people and that’s kind of sad.
We talked about Tom Novak and I gave a short history lesson about who Tom Novak was and I should do a video about him as well.

Five Heart Podcast: Husker WBB and Wrestling Awards, No Football Players at NFL Combine

No Huskers at the NFL Combine. Let’s be honest - it’s not totally unexpected. And it is our hope, nay, our EXPECTATION, that this may be the final year in some time that a Combine will come and go with no Huskers. Because Rhule-Aid tastes great.
Yes, I hear myself saying it, and I know how it sounds.
The Husker Women’s Basketball team may have hit a tough spot in Columbus last night, but that does not diminish the shine they had at Pinnacle Bank Arena Sunday, beating previously #2 Iowa Hawkettes and ol what’s-her-name. And in doing so, for the first time ever a Nebraska WBB player was named NATIONAL Player of the Week.
At the same time Jaz Shelley was receiving her flowers, Ridge Lovett was being named Wrestler of the Week after his continued dominance.
Good things ARE happening at Nebraska. So sip the Rhu-...kool-aid and jump on board now. Because like a lot of memes out there suggest, “if you can’t handle us at our worst, you don’t deserve us at our best.”
GBR.

The Best AND Greatest 2024 Nebraska Baseball Preview EVER!

College baseball season is almost upon us!
Nebraska plays college baseball, ergo you need to know about your favorite team.
Who are the coaches?
Who are the pitchers?
Who are the infielders?
Who are the outfielders?
WHO’S GONNA MAKE THE RUNS!
WHO WHO WHO!
Oh yeah. Is there gonna be beer at the park this season?

Monday Night Therapy: What the Hell is Going on at Ohio State

Tonight we’ll be talking with Ramzy Nasrallah, a THE Ohio State Buckeye guy who runs (or kind of runs or maybe is involved with the Buckeye site 11warrriors.com.
There is a lot going on with the Buckeyes:
The Buckeyes have lost THREE STRAIGHT TO MEEECHIGAN
As a result, MEECHIGAN has won the last three Big Ten Championships in football
Many Buckeye fans feel Ryan Day should be fired... or not? that’s the question!
Ohio State just hired a new Athletic Director away from Texas A&M... (odd?)
Ohio State just hired UCLA’s head coach Chip Kelly as offensive coordinator
There’s probably a lot of portal and transfer stuff going on because Ohio State can afford anything
We discussed the future of football, ala the Big Ten and SEC forming their own alliance, including how out loud that is about what’s going to happen in 3-5 years.
Any other questions?