Selection Sunday has arrived, and Nebraska men’s basketball has emerged as one of the surprise success stories of the college basketball season, putting together what is shaping up to be one of the best campaigns in program history. The Huskers sit at 26-6 on the season, matching the program record of 26 set in 1991 by the Danny Nee-coached Big Red.
The Huskers will patiently await to hear their name called this evening on the Selection Sunday Show at 5 p.m. CT on CBS. Nebraska Cornhuskers men’s basketball is widely projected to land on the No. 3–4 seed line in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, according to multiple bracketology projections. If those projections hold, Nebraska could earn one of the program’s highest seeds ever and would enter March Madness with a legitimate opportunity to earn the first March Madness win in program history. Here’s where the Huskers currently stand heading into this evening:
Nebraska Men’s Basketball Bracketology (Updated Mar. 15)
| Publication | Projected seed | Destination |
|---|---|---|
| Bracket Matrix | 3 seed | |
| Joe Lunardi | 3 seed | Oklahoma City |
| Bart Torvik | 4 seed | Oklahoma City |
| Teamrankings.com | 4 seed | |
| Halsametrics | 3 seed | |
| Mike Decourcy | 4 seed | |
| CBS Sports | 4 seed | |
| Andy Katz | 4 seed | Portland |
The highest seed Nebraska has ever earned in the NCAA Tournament is a No. 3 seed in 1991, though the Huskers fell to Xavier in the opening round that season. Fred Hoiberg’s squad is potentially on track to make history so long as it can hold serve over the final month of the regular season, putting itself in a great position to shed its status as the only high-major team without an NCAA Tournament victory.
Nebraska Men’s Basketball Resume (Updated Mar. 15)
| Record | Home | Away | Neutral | Quad 1 | Quad 2 | Quad 3 | Quad 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-6 | 16-2 | 7-3 | 3-1 | 9-6 | 6-0 | 5-0 | 6-0 |
Nebraska owns a 9-6 record in Quad 1 games, along with marks of 6-0 in Quad 2, 5-0 in Quad 3 and 6-0 in Quad 4. The quadrant system is used to evaluate quality wins ahead of Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament, with the following system used to classify games.
Quad 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75.
Quad 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135.
Quad 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240.
Quad 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
