Nebraska @ Wisconsin: Fri 11/24/23, 3 PM CT (BTN)
Nov 19, 2023 15:17:27 GMT -5
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| Wisconsin vs. Nebraska |
| Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 3 PM Central |
| UW Field House Madison, Wisconsin |
It’s Black Friday, and has become tradition, the two shades of red meet for an epic clash.
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| 24-3, 15-3 B1G | 27-0, 18-0 B1G | |
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Follow Along
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🦡🎧: FoxSports 1070 AM Madison
🌽🎧: Huskers Radio Network
📊: StatBroadcast
Players to Watch
Wisconsin
| #13 - OH Sarah Franklin 6-4 R-JR | #52 - MB Carter Booth 6-7 SO | #10 - MB/RS Devyn Robinson 6-2 SR | ||
| #12 - OH Temi Thomas-Ailara 6-2 GR | #9 - MB Caroline Crawford 6-3 SR | #14 - MB/RS Anna Smrek 6-9 JR |
Nebraska
| #27 - OH Harper Murray 6-2 FR | #5 MB Becka Allick 6-4 SO | #13 - RS Merritt Beason 6-4 JR | ||
| #8 - L Lexi Rodiriguez 5-5 JR | #15 - MB Andi Jackson 6-3 FR | #2 - S Bergen Reilly 6-1 FR |
History
The Series: Nebraska leads 20-13-1.
In Madison: Wisconsin leads 7-4-1.
In incoln: Nebraska leads 11-4.
Neutral: Nebraska leads 5-2.
The Streak: Nebraska won the last match.
Last Meeting: Nebraska won a five set match on 10/21/2023 in Lincoln.
Did you know…?
The original Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869, when a group of “robber-barons” of the age - Jay Gould, a railroad tycoon; James Fisk, a cotton smuggler; and Abel Corbin, a real estate speculator who was brother-in-law to President Ulysses S. Grant - were foiled in their plan to corner the US gold market. Though greenbacks were the legal tender in the US, international trade was still executed in gold. Since it would take weeks, sometime months for a transaction to occur, the price would fluctuate with the unstable gold/greenback exchange rate. If gold went down or the greenback price went up, merchants would be liable – often at a substantial loss – to cover the cost of the fluctuations. To protect merchants against risk, the New York Stock Exchange was created so gold could be borrowed at current rates and merchants could pay suppliers immediately and make the gold payment when it came due. About $20 million of gold was available in New York, but the US Government held >$100 million in reserves. They slowly released gold into the market to keep the price steady.
A cartoon showing Gould stirring up the gold market, represented by caged bulls and bears fighting. Grant is shown running holding a bag of gold.
The trio of slippery financiers had leveraged Corbin’s connections to President Grant to secure the appointment of their friend, Major General Daniel Butterfield, as assistant treasury secretary. The men insinuated themselves into Grant’s orbit and began trying to influence the administration’s monetary policy in the hopes that gold would remain scarce and prices would remain high. Through proxies, the conspirators had quietly bought up gold over the preceding months, with the agreement that Butterfield would tip the men off to the US government’s plans for gold sales. President Grant, meanwhile, had grown suspicious of the duo as the price of gold soared, and on that Friday at the end of September, he ordered the Treasury to sell off $5 million in gold. Gold prices dropped, and the stock market followed. Gould had been tipped off to the President’s move but he did not tell his co-conspirators, instead secretly selling off his gold before the government stepped in. It’s estimated that he managed to net $12 million on the affair. Fisk didn’t profit, but he did weasel out of his massive losses, claiming third-party brokers had made the trades without his knowledge. Despite multiple allegations of malfeasance and an official investigation by Congress, the men leveraged their political connections and employed a brigade of attorneys to avoid spending a single night in jail.
Photograph of the blackboard in the New York Gold Room, September 24, 1869, showing the collapse of the price of gold. Handwritten caption by James A. Garfield indicates it was used as evidence before the House Committee of Banking & Currency during hearings in 1870.
In 1975, Steely Dan, the rock group consisting of multi-instrumentalist Walter Becker and singer Donald Fagen, wrote a song about the whole affair. “Black Friday” was released that same year on their “Katy Lied” album. It was the first single off the album and reached #37 on the Billboard charts.
