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Stadium:
Bob Devaney Sports Center
The Bob Devaney Sports Center is a sports complex on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska that includes a 13,500-seat multi-purpose arena, a 1,000-seat covered 25-yard swimming and diving facility (Devaney Center Natatorium) and a 5,000-seat covered track and field (athletics) facility (Devaney Sports Center Indoor Track) that features a 200-meter hydraulic-banked track, one of only 3 in the United States and 7 in the world. The arena opened in 1976 and is named after former Nebraska football coach and athletic director Bob Devaney. It is home to the Cornhuskers basketball, gymnastics, indoor track and field and swimming and diving teams. The building replaced the Nebraska Coliseum, the current home of the volleyball and wrestling teams. It hosted the 1980, 1984 and 1988 men's NCAA basketball tournament Midwest first- and second-round games, and the 1993 women's NCAA tournament first round. In the arena's first thirty years, the men's basketball team has never had a losing home schedule.

Team History:
While the University of Nebraska has experienced varying amounts of success for their intercollegiate athletic programs, men's basketball has been an exception. Nebraska has a distinction of one of the few major conference programs never to win a single game in the NCAA Tournament. In fact, in the over 90 years of varsity competition at the University, the first trip to the NCAA Tournament for Nebraska did not come until 1986. Much of the team's success came under the tenure of Danny Nee, head coach from 1987 to 2000. Nee is the team's all-time winningest head coach with a record of 254-190. Nee led the Cornhuskers to five of their six NCAA Tournament appearances, six bids to the National Invitation Tournament, including the 1996 NIT Championship. Barry Collier, who led Nebraska from 2000 to August 2006, left to become athletic director at Butler University. He previously had been Butler's head coach from 1989 to 2000.

Season Preview:
Nebraska won the 2006 Big 12 North championship, but no one associated with the program is celebrating. Oh, don't get them wrong. The division title is nice. But there's so much more to accomplish. The Cornhuskers lost the conference championship game and the Cotton Bowl. They finished 9-5, unranked and never really considered among the nation's elite teams. Once a no-brainer for the top 10 and a national title contender every year, Nebraska had to settle instead for merely being the big dog in the Big 12's weaker half.

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