Nebraska's free-fall to the bottom of the Big Ten men's basketball standings is complete. The Huskers' 67-51 loss Saturday at longtime league doormat Penn State dropped NU into a tie for last place with PSU at 3-10. Nebraska (11-13, 3-10) had early leads of 6-3 and 11-9 behind four points each from Toney McCray and Caleb Walker.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.This is hardly the senior season Nebraska forward Toney McCray imagined. The Huskers play at Penn State on Saturday needing to beat the Nittany Lions for a second time this season to avoid joining them in the Big Ten men's basketball cellar. "It's pretty tough," said the fifth-year player from Missouri City, Texas. "Nobody likes losing. Losing is hard, especially when you don't think you're outmatched talent-wise."

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It's the best possible identity crisis for Nebraska wrestler James Green. Nearing the end of his freshman season, the 157-pounder looks back at the kid who arrived in Lincoln last summer. He could recognize his picture in the NU media guide. Little else, however, is the same. "It's not even close," he said. "That James Green in the summer is a stranger compared to now. It's been a long ride, but it's a lot different, a lot better."

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The Huskers took four individual titles at two meets Friday, with the Nebraska runners competing at the Iowa State Classic in Ames and the pole vaulters, throwers and jumpers in action at the Tyson Invitational at the University of Arkansas.

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The Nebraska men's golf team went 1-1 Friday at the Big Ten match play, defeating No. 5-seeded Michigan State before falling to No. 4 Purdue. The 12th-seeded Huskers went 3-3-0 in their morning wave match against the Spartans.NU would ultimately advance to the next round against Purdue because they won more total holes in the match.

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Seventeen straight missed shots. And 28 rim-outs, bricks and whiffs out of 37 3-point attempts. The No. 13 Nebraska women's basketball team couldn't throw it in several oceans in a 63-52 loss to Michigan Thursday night. But NU coach Connie Yori wants her Huskers to take those shots again. And again. And again. That's what the Wolverines' man-to-man defense — a regiment packed so tightly in the paint it resembled a 2-3 zone from the cheap seats — offered.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.The 7,642 fans at the Devaney Center on Thursday night outdrew the attendance for the Nebraska-Michigan men's game on Wednesday by 623. And unlike the early-exiting crowd Wednesday, Husker fans stayed loud and active even when NU trailed by 27 early in the second half.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Freshman sprinter Ricco Hall figured he'd be running the second leg of Nebraska's 1,600-meter relay last Saturday. But shortly before one of the most popular races at the Frank Sevigne Invitational, he found out he'd be running the anchor leg. And there's always, he said, a "love-hate relationship" with that spot. Exhilarating. But pressure-packed.

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A smattering of boos after scoring 15 points in the first half. Catcalls from the bleacher seats of, “Just shoot the ball!” Fans from the crowd of 7,019 — the seventh-smallest for a home conference game — walking to the Devaney Center exits with 10 minutes to play. Altogether Wednesday, it was just another long night for Nebraska men's basketball around a 62-46 loss to No. 22 Michigan that could have been much worse.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.So you thought Nebraska women's basketball had its 15 minutes of fame? Thought Connie Yori and the ladies would fall back to earth and never be heard from again? Think again. Two years after that season of seasons — 32-2, Big 12 championship, No. 1 seed, NCAA Sweet 16 — the Huskers are 19-3 and half a game out of first place in the Big Ten.

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