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Nebraska-Creighton set for new chapter as old friends Hoiberg and McDermott match up

After years of friendly needling that turned a little less friendly at the end, the relationship between the men's basketball coaches at Nebraska and Creighton begins a new chapter Saturday.

Fred Hoiberg and the McDermott family will always be tied together in the basketball world. It was Hoiberg who took over at Iowa State in 2010 when Greg McDermott left the Cyclones to take the Creighton job. And a few years later, Hoiberg was coaching Doug McDermott in the NBA.

Now, of course, Hoiberg is on the sideline at Nebraska. And Saturday he'll get his first taste of a blue vs.