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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• Box Score: Penn State 67, Nebraska 51

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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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.George Pomey remembers the last time he was at Nebraska for a basketball game, but he would just as soon forget. The Ann Arbor, Mich., insurance salesman was a member of the 1964-65 Wolverine team ranked No. 1 nationally in both polls that came to the NU Coliseum on Dec. 12, 1964, to face Nebraska. Michigan had All-American Cazzie Russell, who scored 29 points, and two other stars in Bill Buntin and Oliver Darden.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Michigan and Nebraska couldn't be at much more different places in their seasons when they meet at the Devaney Center on Wednesday. The Wolverines (17-7, 7-4) come in ranked No. 22 nationally, No. 15 by rpiratings.com and facing a stretch of schedule that should allow them to rise higher than their current tie for third in the Big Ten and to polish their NCAA tourney résumé.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Long-suffering Nebraska basketball fans — are there any other kind? — have seen this movie before. It's called "The Six-Season Itch." Here's the plot: NU hires a coach. Said coach works to install his system. Results are fair with some notable upsets, but little traction is gained against good competition. Some NIT bids are involved. But the rosters are short of power conference-caliber players, the style of play wears thin and apathy takes hold.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Each week World-Herald staff writer Lee Barfknecht ranks the men's basketball Big Ten. Find out which team is in the top spot this week.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Conference realignment affected every major conference in America. But no one wears a bigger scar than the Big 12. First Nebraska and Colorado left for greener pastures. Then Texas A&M and Missouri bolted for the SEC. Amid all that strife, Dan Beebe lost his job, and Texas and Oklahoma nearly dissolved the league in favor of a West Coast super-conference.

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Nebraska went stone cold in the second half Sunday in falling to Minnesota 69-61 in Big Ten men's basketball. The Huskers, who led 33-32 at halftime, missed 14 of their first 16 shots after the break and went without a field goal for 7:33. Minnesota (17-7, 5-6) used a 16-4 splurge during the NU cold snap to go up 48-39 with 8:06 to play. Nebraska (11-11, 3-8) never got closer than six points the rest of the way.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.It was a triumphant return to his home state Sunday for Minnesota center Elliott Eliason. The 6-foot-11 redshirt freshman from Chadron, Neb., had a big hand in a 69-61 win against Nebraska. In 17 minutes, he scored six points, grabbed four rebounds and blocked a shot.

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