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NARRATOR: They say parting is such sweet sorrow.
Ask the members of the Nebraska Women's Basketball team
and they might agree.
This season is the last the program will play
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
During the program's 37 year stretch here,
it's become home to current and former Huskers alike.
COACH CONNIE YORI: I think there's the comfort level.
With having coached here for so long
and our players who now played, that are juniors and seniors
have a certain comfort level
LINDSEY MOORE: I do remember my first like ever hurrah
at the Devaney and it was a lot of fun.
It was more, it was more than I expected.
Being from Seattle like I always went to
University of Washington women's games
and you know they really didn't have that great of a crowd
so to come from that to where that was really
my only experience to Devaney was completely different
and the fans were awesome and so into it.
NARRATOR: While home to the women's team,
they also share the court with the Nebraska men's basketball,
wrestling, and gymnastics teams.
It also hosts the NSAA High School Basketball championships,
where a few Huskers actually got their
first experience at Devaney.
JORDAN HOOPER: I only remember the championship game.
It was a big game.
Our fans from Alliance came
and the atmosphere was like ecstatic.
It was kind of like it is now but I mean
one half of it was rooting for us
so it wasn't like the huge, huge deal it is now.
LINDSEY: The fans are awesome.
You know they do so much for us.
They energize us.
You know they just create an energy for us that we
just feed off of and they get us going a lot of the times
and they're with us through the good and the bad,
the ugly- all of it you know.
We really do have the best fans in the nation.
NARRATOR: Those fans helped the 2009-2010 team
to finish a perfect 29-0,
capturing the Big 12 regular season title.
COACH: It was neat to be a part of cutting down
the nets for a Big 12 championship.
There hadn't been a lot of championships
won in that building for us to finalize our
perfect season in the Devaney center and cut down the
nets in 2010 was pretty special.
JORDAN: I mean you go to a couple other places and
they get like a couple hundred here or there some nights.
I think that when Nebraska comes
I feel like they get quite a few more.
But when we play at home we get a lot of fans
and they're really loud, they're really
into the games and they really bring it.
NARRATOR: While they are eager to look to the
future of their program
it's always nice to take a trip down memory lane.
COACH: Something that stands out to me about the
Devaney center is my first year here 11 years ago.
We weren't very good.
We had 5 scholarship players most of the season
and we were highly undermaned so to speak and
yet our fans still came out and cheered for us.
Despite the fact that we would often times lose
by large margins but the one thing that was very
obvious to me was how great our fans were.
We were actually getting at times
standing ovations in losses.
Not very often do you get standing ovations
when you lose.
So that's what was neat about it is that our fans
had the respect for what we were doing and
they understood that even if we weren't winning
that effort is a part of Nebraska culture and
a part of who we're supposed to be as people here.