Nebraska Cornhuskers

The Nebraska Cornhuskers play at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, a program overshadowed for decades by the school's football tradition but steadily building its own basketball identity. Scarlet-clad crowds have historically been patient with a program still chasing its breakthrough tournament run, and recent seasons have shown signs of progress under an ambitious rebuild. Nebraska basketball is defined by persistence in a football-first athletic culture.

Nebraska basketball has never reached the Final Four or won an NCAA championship, historically one of the longest such droughts among Big Ten programs. The Cornhuskers did win the 1996 NIT championship, and in 2026 the program earned its first-ever NCAA Tournament win after a long history of tournament near-misses. Nebraska continues working to establish a winning postseason tradition to match its football counterpart.