Huskers Host Iowa Monday in WNIT

Lincoln ? The Nebraska women’s basketball team will play its second-round game in the 2005 SportsView.TV Postseason WNIT against the University of Iowa on Monday, March 21 at 7:05 p.m. at the BobDevaneySportsCenter.

 

The Huskers, 18-13 overall, advanced to the second round in the WNIT for the second straight season with their 66-57 victory at Marquette on Thursday night at the Al McGuire Center in Milwaukee.

 

Tickets for Nebraska’s second-round game in the SportsView.TV Postseason WNIT will be available on the Internet at Huskers.com by clicking on the “Tickets” link in the top banner on the homepage. 

 

Tickets can also be purchased at Hawks Field at HaymarketPark on Saturday and Sunday during the Nebraska baseball team’s home series with Seton Hall.  The Husker baseball team takes on Seton Hall on Saturday at 1:05 p.m. and on Sunday at 11:05 a.m.

 

Ticket prices for Nebraska’s game with Iowa on Monday night will be $9 for lower-level reserved seats and $7 for upper-level reserved seating.  General admission tickets are just $5, while student tickets will be available for just $4.

 

Tickets can also be purchased on Monday beginning at 8 a.m. by calling the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office at 1-800-8BIGRED, or in person during regular business hours at the Athletic Ticket Office located in the Stadium Drive Parking Garage across the street from Memorial Stadium.  Tickets will also be available at the BobDevaneySportsCenter on Monday evening when the doors open at 5:30.

 

Nebraska Coach Connie Yori said the Huskers were happy to be playing at home at least one more time in 2004-05.

 

“It is great to get our players and our fans another game in Lincoln,” Yori said.  “We have had some success playing at home over the past two seasons and we hope that can continue.  We also hope that the great fans who came out and supported us all season will be back at the DevaneyCenter on Monday night.”

 

The Huskers, who are 25-7 at home the past two seasons, including 12-3 this season, are ranked 25th nationally in average home attendance by attracting 4,100 fans per game to the Devaney Center during the 2004-05 season. The Huskers averaged more than 10,000 fans per game in their final three regular-season home games this year at the DevaneyCenter.

 

Iowa, 21-9 overall, also earned a spot in the second round on the strength of its 67-52 victory over 2004 Postseason WNIT Champion Creighton in the first round on Friday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

 

The win by the Hawkeyes sets up the first meeting between Nebraska and Iowa in women’s basketball since Dec. 8, 1996, when the Huskers knocked off a No. 9 Iowa squad, 73-67 in the Big Kona Classic in Kona, Hawaii.