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nebugeater wrote:

skinzfan23 wrote:That is a win that NE should have. WI is definitely in a down year. I am surprised that the margin wasn't larger.

I'm Not.

This team is learning to win. As mentioned above in past years it would have been a L. Any win, by 1 Pt. even, is a good improvement.

I agree with this. In prior years, the Huskers would have disappointed their fans with a loss. NU basketball is improving. Kudos to them and I hope they can win enough to earn a spot in the Big Dance in March...

Ciao..LiO...Peace

I didn't realize Tuesday was the first time Bill Moos had been to a home basketball game:

http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/f ... c1a5f.html


Greg

Greg S wrote:I didn't realize Tuesday was the first time Bill Moos had been to a home basketball game:

http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/f ... c1a5f.html


Greg

I had the same thought. I would have assumed that he would have been there at the Dec game when Scott F. walked out and waved to the crowd pregame without speaking to the crowd.

Didn't he attend a Volleyball game before the season ended?

Coyote wrote:Didn't he attend a Volleyball game before the season ended?

I believe he did and I think he was in KC for the title game.

Rumors abound about a starter leaving the team

Coyote wrote:Rumors abound about a starter leaving the team

Jordy Tshimanga ?

Coyote wrote:

Coyote wrote:Rumors abound about a starter leaving the team

Jordy Tshimanga ?

Looks like it is, this is a seriously questionable move transferring right in the middle of league play.

Linkin5 wrote:

Coyote wrote:

Coyote wrote:Rumors abound about a starter leaving the team

Jordy Tshimanga ?

Looks like it is, this is a seriously questionable move transferring right in the middle of league play.

Yikes...what the heck happened to cause that?

MadMartin8 wrote:

Linkin5 wrote:

Coyote wrote:

Coyote wrote:Rumors abound about a starter leaving the team

Jordy Tshimanga ?

Looks like it is, this is a seriously questionable move transferring right in the middle of league play.

Yikes...what the heck happened to cause that?

Not sure, he has had a really rough year but his last game was one of his best. Personally, I’ve liked our shorter lineup with Roby in instead of Jordy.

Yeah he's had a down year compared to expectations. Though he did look better against Wisconsin.

He's not traveling to Penn State.

According to the Journal Star it's a fluid situation and the coaching staff is trying to get it resolved in the next few days.

Greg

Lunardi's latest Bracketology only has 5 B1G teams in:
1 Seed Mich St.
2 Seed Purdue
8 Seed Michigan
9 Seed Ohio St.
10 Seed Maryland

Minnesota is listed as a next four out. Nebraska is not in the equation yet.
They do not have a questionable loss, but do not have a quality win.
They need to steal a road win at Ohio St or a home win against Maryland.
Minnesota is in disarray right now, Pitino is anything like his dad.
Losing a big in the front court will hurt against Penn St.,
so this next game is going to be huge in regards to the dance or NIT.

Yeah Minnesota is a mess right now.

Young Pitino might be on the hot seat. They just gave him a large extension during the offseason.

Greg

OT in Happy Valley. What a come back...

Nuts
Nebraska 74
Penn St 76 (OT)

Coyote wrote:Nuts
Nebraska 74
Penn St 76 (OT)

This was a pathetic loss. Penn State is not a good team. Unlike the last 4 or 5 teams Nebraska has played Penn State had no superstar player that could take over the game. The game was tied up with 20 seconds or so left in the game and Nebraska had the ball and called time out and gave the ball to Watson who ran the clock down to 3 seconds and then sent the game into overtime with a missed 15 ft jumper shot clanking off the rim. Even the announcer said it was inexcusable for Nebraska to come out of a time out with that lame attempt. It was absolutely horrible. Mismanagement and ineptitude would only get worse for Nebraska in overtime like when Roby lost track of the clock and was caught standing dumb and surprised in the middle of the court with a shot clock violation. Then at the end of the game there was Roby looking dumbfounded again with the ball in his hands taking another wild shot at a time that was no time to be taking wild shots........ And Tim Miles was sitting on the bench not saying much instead of yelling at the top of his lungs at the incompetence. It hurt Nebraska big time not having center Tshimanga. Between the starting center threatening to leave the team and this poorly coached and managed game one can not help but think the wheels have come off the axle and this thing is going to crash and burn in an ugly end. Right now its safe to say that 2 months from now Nebraska will have fired Miles and looking hard for a new coach.

Did anyone else that watched the game last night hear the Color guy talk about Baby Blue in the Railroad district around Pinnacle? He went on and on about how good it was and how it was a surprise in the midwest.

nebugeater wrote:Did anyone else that watched the game last night hear the Color guy talk about Baby Blue in the Railroad district around Pinnacle? He went on and on about how good it was and how it was a surprise in the midwest.

I did hear that. He said it was amazing some place so far from the sea had good sushi. Last time I had sushi was about 35 years ago. I don't eat fish of any kind ever not even tuna fish!

While Nebraska has yet to get a quality win, at least they do not have a questionable loss. They need to beat Illinois at home tonight and keep at least that stat intact
But, even if they end up with 19-20 wins, they will need some good conference tournament wins to at least be on the bubble, where according to all brackets out there, they do are not even in the next four out group.

Jordy T. Not transferring.

Will not play against Illinois tonight.

Will be interesting to see if he transfers after season or stays. Either would not surprise me.


http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mens-baske ... 45fd9.html


Greg

Maybe a season saving shot from Palmer last night. Big time clutch play.

iamjacobm wrote:Maybe a season saving shot from Palmer last night. Big time clutch play.

Ridiculously difficult shot to pull off as well.

Louie wrote:

iamjacobm wrote:Maybe a season saving shot from Palmer last night. Big time clutch play.

Ridiculously difficult shot to pull off as well.

When asked what he thought about that last game winning shot coach Miles replied "I would rather be lucky then good." That summed up the situation well. It was a horrible ill advised last shot. After losing their last game due to bad game management they almost turned around and did the same thing. Illinois might be the worst team in the conference and Nebraska was lucky to squeak past them. Miles is loosing/lost this team and it has and is degenerating to every man for himself. The players are often skipping passing the ball and just taking shots themselves. It appears that Jordy T. was going to leave until he found out that he could not play for another team until 2020....... so he has decided to at least finish out the season before he transfers. Even though it was Isaiah Roby's fault they choked and lost to Penn State last week I think Miles is a fool for not getting the ball to Roby more often. I think Isaiah Roby is the most talented and promising player on the team and Miles should get on that horse and ride him hard.

Last night just felt like a loss for most of the game. One we could not afford.

I will definitely take the win.

Will need to play better at Michigan this week.

Greg

I heard on 1620 that since entering the Big 10 Nebraska have never defeated Michigan in men's basketball.

Greg

Nebraska needs this for a big quality win.
Presently they are 4.5 dogs.

It will be interesting to see Jordy T's minutes.

Greg

Michigan 21
Nebraska 32 (half)

Greg S wrote:It will be interesting to see Jordy T's minutes.

4 minutes in the first half, 2 rebs.
I didn't think he would touch the court tonight.

Great win by the Huskers tonight and probably the most complete game I have seen them play in a long time. 20pt win over Mich.

Michigan 52
Nebraska 72
Big huge victory...

They looked so much better than the last 2 home games. Love the depth on this team.

There will definitely be more ups and downs to come from this group.


Greg

Barfknecht: Smaller ‘death lineup’ may breathe new life into Nebraska basketball

By Lee Barfknecht / World-Herald staff writer wrote:With the 6-foot-11, 268-pound Tshimanga back on the team but no longer starting as he did the first 18 games, coach Tim Miles has gone more to his “smaller” lineup. That means 6-8, 225-pound Isaiah Roby at center and 6-9, 221-pound Isaac Copeland at power forward.

After Roby, Copeland and guards James Palmer, Glynn Watson and Anton Gill turned a one-point game at Northwestern with eight minutes left into a 15-point Husker romp, Wildcats coach Chris Collins called it “the death lineup.” “We didn’t have an answer,” he said.

I am not a huge Lee B. fan but this was a good read. Some good insight into the smaller lineup and diversified depth of this year's team.

Also had no idea we gave Michigan their worst loss in conference play in the last 5 years on Thursday.

Greg

After leading most of the half:
Nebraska 22
Ohio St 24 (half)

Nebraska gave this game away. They should have easily won this. Shot clock violation with 1:02. Turnovers. They were all in this until the end.

CAN"T I repeat CAN"T be successful and continue to have the multi minute scoring droughts.

Coyote wrote:Nebraska gave this game away. They should have easily won this. Shot clock violation with 1:02. Turnovers. They were all in this until the end.

The bad part is that the shot clock violation came after a timeout by NU. No excuses there. I actually don't like the call to take a timeout in the middle of the shot clock. If you are going to do that, you need to make absolutely sure that every single player knows exactly how much time is left on the shot clock.

Nebraska, like Creighton, is still finding ways to lose instead of ways to win and it's just odd. Those scoring droughts are absolutely brutal to witness...the bad part is, if they would just keep an even semi-normal scoring pace (not talking about shooting 60% or anything.... just don't go 3 minutes without a bucket), they'd be more than fine in a very down year for the Big 10.

I am not one that thinks the Huskers are even in the discussion yet as a NCAA bubble team yet. That being said they have to win the next two to get into that conversation if they think they can get a mention.

Tonight on the road at Rutgers with a 6 PM local time tip has to be a win. Rutgers is 2-6 in Conf and on a four game loosing streak

Saturday they host Iowa and they are 2-7 in Conf but did just beat a 3-5 Conf record Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is the next game up and should be winable but lets see how these two go first Tonight and Sat.