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Michigan State at Nebraska: A Family Affair

Father and Son will face off tonight on opposite benches | Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images

More than one Hoiberg will be on the sidelines and court in the vault tonight.

When it comes to a family affair tonight with the Michigan State Spartans coming into Lincoln to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers, I’m not talking about my own household where the husband and I are pitted against each other in a classic good (MSU) versus evil (Nebraska). Instead this one will be between the player benches as a father-son duo. The Michigan State Spartans feature redshirt sophomore guard Jack Hoiberg while the Nebraska Cornhuskers bench is led by Head Coach Fred Hoiberg.

While it is not all that uncommon for brothers to square off against each other from time to time, a father coaching a team facing his son is far less common. Duke, Kentucky, Iowa, and even Michigan State all have the head coach’s son (or sons in the case of the Hawkeyes) on their roster rather than other D1 opponents. So the match-up tonight brings in a unique twist not commonly seen, and a fun human element we can expect to hear talked about by the announcers quite a lot tonight during the game.

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