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Fred Hoiberg is back in business at Nebraska, one of the best stories in college basketball

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Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg nearly led the Huskers to a weekend upset win at Illinois, but they lost in overtime.

Two of the better men’s basketball coaches in the Big Ten will square off Wednesday when Northwestern takes on Nebraska at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

Imagine trying to write that sentence with a straight face a couple of years ago.

Some probably would still take issue with it now, though they’d be wrong.

You have the Wildcats’ Chris Collins, who, for all his struggles to get a winner off the ground in Evanston, became Big Ten coach of the year last season, his 10th at the school.