35 Facts About Nebraska Cornhuskers

Nebraska Cornhuskers are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers compete in NCAA Division I, fielding twenty-two varsity teams in fifteen sports.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have two official mascots, Herbie Husker and Lil' Red.

Nebraska Cornhuskers plays its home games at Memorial Stadium, where it has sold out every game since 1962.

Nebraska Cornhuskers is among the most storied programs in college football history.

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Between 1900 and 1916, Nebraska Cornhuskers had five undefeated seasons and completed a stretch of thirty-four consecutive games without a loss, still a program record.

In 1995, Nebraska Cornhuskers became the first Big Eight school to sponsor a varsity women's soccer program.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have won five national championships and reached the national semifinals on ten other occasions.

Nebraska Cornhuskers has made the NCAA tournament for thirty-nine consecutive seasons and has never been ranked outside of the national top 20.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have featured more AVCA All-Americans than any other program, including four National Player of the Year award winners.

Nebraska Cornhuskers volleyball is one of the most popular spectator attractions in the state.

From 2005 to 2009, Nebraska Cornhuskers won a then-NCAA-record ninety consecutive home matches.

Nebraska Cornhuskers is the only power conference program without a victory in the NCAA Tournament; NU did not even make the tournament until 1986, forty-six years after its establishment.

Under Yori's guidance, Nebraska Cornhuskers became a fixture in the national top 25 and NCAA Tournament.

Nebraska Cornhuskers has won four more titles since, and has never been ranked outside the top ten since national collegiate rankings debuted in 1990.

Nebraska Cornhuskers is one of only five Big Ten schools to sanction a men's gymnastics program.

Former Nebraska Cornhuskers standouts include 2000 Olympic gold medalist and 2004 bronze medalist Rulon Gardner, and two-time NCAA champion and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers experienced little success for most of the program's history, making the NCAA tournament just three times in the forty-five years following its creation in 1954.

Nebraska Cornhuskers won its first conference tournament in Van Horn's second season, and in 2000 advanced to a super regional for the first time.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers reached the College World Series, held annually in nearby Omaha, in each of the following two seasons, but failed to win a game in either appearance.

Nebraska Cornhuskers has ranked in the top thirty nationally in average attendance every year since the move to Hawks Field.

In 2013, Nebraska Cornhuskers announced it would add beach volleyball as the school's twenty-second intercollegiate varsity sport, and the program began play that spring.

On March 8,2017, Nebraska Cornhuskers hosted Missouri Baptist at the Hawks Championship Center.

In 1979, Nebraska Cornhuskers hired its first coach exclusively to coach women's golf.

Nebraska Cornhuskers's softball program started in 1970, before it was an official NCAA sport.

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Since the NCAA sanctioned softball in 1983, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have made eight appearances in the Women's College World Series, held annually in Oklahoma City, and won the tenth-most games of any program.

Five Nebraska Cornhuskers have won conference championships, and seventeen have been named all-conference selections.

Fourteen Nebraska Cornhuskers have won conference championships, and twenty have been named all-conference selections.

Nebraska Cornhuskers athletes have won fifty-four medals, including sixteen gold medals, while representing thirty countries.

Merlene Ottey is Nebraska Cornhuskers's most decorated Olympian, winning nine medals and competing in seven Olympic Games, a record for track and field competitors.

Nebraska Cornhuskers has sold out every home football game since November 3,1962,382 in a row, the longest sellout streak in college athletics.

Nebraska Cornhuskers fans are noted for often applauding the visiting team as they leave the field at the end of the game.

Nebraska Cornhuskers fans are regarded as some of the best-traveling fans in the country.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have led the country in attendance for eight straight seasons, and have played in nine of the ten highest-attended college volleyball matches ever played.

Nebraska Cornhuskers has produced 347 Academic All-Americans, more than any other Division I school and second only to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology among all universities.