Norfolk Daily News Sports Blog

I’ve often heard the argument that the current NSAA point system for basketball isn’t fair because it rewards teams for playing down a class.

What the people making that argument say is that teams should be given bonus points for playing up a class – say a Class C1 school playing a Class B team and be penalized for playing down a class – say a Class C2 school playing a Class D1 team.

Currently, bonus points are given for playing up a class, but teams aren’t penalized for playing down.

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The Nebraska men took on a ranked Kansas State team this week. The Husker women took on a ranked Oklahoma State team. So who won round one, based on the crowd at the Devaney Center?

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I’m going to make a hodgepodge, but I don’t know where to start.

I just wish a hodgepode were an awesome house with 42-inch televisions on every wall and a box of Cocoa Puffs in every cupboard. That’d be the dream.

But while you’re dreaming of where you want to live, leftover spinach, I’m going to be creating the world’s greatest hodgepodge – and I’ll start with high school football.

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Norfolk High’s Tyson McGill plans to walk on at Nebraska — ending a 15-year drought for the Panthers.

Over the past decade, Norfolk Catholic has sent its fair share of players to Nebraska, but Norfolk High hasn’t sent a football player to Lincoln since the mid-1990s.

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If the undefeated Nebraska women continue their remarkable run, you have to wonder if they’ll start to outdraw the men during the latter part of the season.

Take a look at the tale of the tape.

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