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The Nebraska men’s basketball program will pay tribute to the most decorated team in school history as it will host a 15-year reunion of the 1990-91 squad on the weekend of Feb. 17-18. The event will include a private banquet for the team on Friday night and all members present for the reunion will be honored at halftime of the men’s basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 18, against Texas Tech.
The 1990-91 squad earned national recognition as it was ranked in the top-25 polls for a school-record 14 consecutive weeks and finished with the highest end-of-season ranking in program history, by coming in at No. 9 in the UPI poll and No. 11 in the Associated Press poll. The team was 4-2 against ranked squads on the year, including a 71-69 victory over No. 5 Michigan State at home early in the non-conference slate.
The Huskers picked up steam early on as they rolled to a 16-1 record, including 14 straight victories following a narrow two-point defeat in the third game of the season. NU entered the national rankings before its Dec. 22 contest against Miami (Ohio) and reached as high as No. 11 in the regular season by the Associated Press following a 111-99 victory over No. 13 Oklahoma on the road.
Nebraska reached its first-ever Big Eight title game after defeating Oklahoma, 117-113, in overtime and then No. 12 Kansas, 87-83, in the semifinals. NU fell by eight to Missouri in the finals, but after finishing third in the conference regular-season standings with a 9-5 record, still earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament, the first of a school-record four straight NCAA appearances.
Nebraska was led by second-team All-Big Eight selection Rich King, who finished his career with 1,475 points ? which ranked fourth in program history at the time ? and went on to become the Huskers’ first-ever NBA first-round selection when he was taken 14th overall by the Seattle SuperSonics. King led the team with 15.5 points and 8.1 rebounds per game as the Huskers won a school-record 26 contests. King was one of five double-figure scorers for the Huskers along with Carl Hayes (13.5 ppg), Tony Farmer (12.4), Eric Piatkowski (12.4) and Clifford Scales (10.2). The Huskers averaged a school-record 87.6 points per game on its way to a 26-8 final record.
Three members of the team went on to play in the NBA, including King, Piatkowski (1st round selection, 15th overall by Indiana Pacers) and Farmer (free agent), while two others (Scales and Bruce Chubick) also went on to play professionally. Currently, three members ? King, Scales and Beau Reid ? are members of the Nebraska Basketball Hall of Fame.