Every game of the best season in Nebraska men's basketball history: a 28-7 record, a 20-0 start, and the program's first NCAA tournament wins, reaching the Sweet 16.
Format
A tibble with 35 rows and 10 columns:
- game_number
Game number, 1 to 35.
- date
Date of the game (Central time).
- opponent
The opponent.
- location
"home", "away" or "neutral".
- game_type
"regular season", "Big Ten tournament" or "NCAA tournament" (a factor).
- conference_game
TRUEfor Big Ten games.- husker_score, opponent_score
Points scored by each team.
- point_margin
husker_scoreminusopponent_score. Positive numbers are wins.- result
"W" or "L".
Source
ESPN schedule data via the hoopR package
(hoopR::load_mbb_schedule(2026)). The record and final game were
checked against huskers.com. See data-raw/husker_games.R in the package
source.
Examples
husker_games
#> # A tibble: 35 × 10
#> game_number date opponent location game_type conference_game
#> <int> <date> <chr> <chr> <fct> <lgl>
#> 1 1 2025-11-03 West Georgia home regular … FALSE
#> 2 2 2025-11-08 Florida Internatio… home regular … FALSE
#> 3 3 2025-11-11 Maryland Eastern S… home regular … FALSE
#> 4 4 2025-11-15 Oklahoma neutral regular … FALSE
#> 5 5 2025-11-20 New Mexico neutral regular … FALSE
#> 6 6 2025-11-21 Kansas State neutral regular … FALSE
#> 7 7 2025-11-25 Winthrop home regular … FALSE
#> 8 8 2025-11-29 South Carolina Ups… home regular … FALSE
#> 9 9 2025-12-07 Creighton home regular … FALSE
#> 10 10 2025-12-10 Wisconsin home regular … TRUE
#> # ℹ 25 more rows
#> # ℹ 4 more variables: husker_score <int>, opponent_score <int>,
#> # point_margin <int>, result <chr>
# Hear the season: higher notes for bigger wins
husker_games |>
sonify_data(point_margin, instrument = "bell", bpm = 180)
35 notes · 11.7 seconds · bell