O/U is 151
Nebraska needs this one holding down it’s home court..
Nebraska needs this one holding down it’s home court..
Hoosiers come into the vault as +5 dogs
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Big time, sounds like Mast will be very limited @ best. Def need to hold serve @ Home.
Go Big Red! And sorry folks, I'm referring to the Hoosiers!!
NU needs at least 9 more wins. This is one of them they almost have to have. And while I definitely want NU to win, I placed a hedge bet on Indiana moneyline at +175. I don’t mind paying for NU wins.
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Majority of the time if you can finish .500 in conference play
you have a decent shot at making the dance..
Can this Husker team accomplish this ?
No no no. NU is the only BIG RED. You guys are the candy stripers 😉
I really wish the B1G would copy the Big East tip time framework for weekday games
First game - 6pm ET tip
Second game - 8pm ET tip
Would allow to have 3 broadcast windows for the new west coast teams by adding a 10pm ET tip next year if they want
First game - 6pm ET tip
Second game - 8pm ET tip
Would allow to have 3 broadcast windows for the new west coast teams by adding a 10pm ET tip next year if they want
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I'm in the Mountain time zone and I don't think I've ever seen a Big East game at 3:00 p.m. my time on a weekday. Sometimes 4:00 MT, but no earlier.
Its not one they "almost have to have." Indiana has a NET Ranking of 103 as of today. A loss to Indiana would literally be Nebraska's WORST loss of the year. It would be counted as a Quad 3 Loss. Minnesota is only a Q2 loss, and will likely remain in that spot all season.
A 10-10 finish will get them there, but it comes with a caveat.
1. They need at least 3 or 4 Q1 wins. - That will require them to steal a win on the road vs. a team like Wisconsin, Illinois, or Ohio State. And really, they likely also need to pull off a major shocker with a win over a team like Purdue at home. That will be really tough. The Michigan State win should finish in the Q1 territory. That's a good start. Its currently a Q1 win. As of today, a home game win over Wisconsin would also be a Q1 win.
2. They need to avoid Q3 losses. The good news about the league is every potential road game will be Q1 or Q2 at this point. However, because the NET Ranking Quad system formula is absurd, they have to absolutely protect the home court vs. a few quality teams with bad rankings. They MUST win the following home games:
- Indiana
- Northwestern
- Michigan
- Penn State
- Minnesota
- Rutgers
3. Find a way to steal a couple winnable Q2 road games. Winning road games is never easy, even against marginal teams. They already failed one of those tests vs. a very marginal Minnesota team. They need to split these games:
- at Maryland
- at Michigan
- at Indiana
- at Northwestern
- at Rutgers
- at Iowa
My suspicion is this team will probably win a game or two that's unexpected, and they will probably lose a game or two that's unexpected.
Teams like Northwestern and Michigan are beatable this season, but they are constructed in ways that give Hoiberg teams and this current team a LOT of fits.
Lastly, Nebraska needs to Michigan State, Duquesne, and Kansas State to keep winning games.
One year, we finished with a 13-5 conference record and still didn't make the NCAA tournament.
This current team already has more Quad 1 wins than that team. That team also got crushed by devastating losses to Penn State, Central Florida, and St. John's.
And it was also the first season of the NET Ranking formula which puts a major emphasis on Margin of Victory. That Husker team had close wins over bad teams like Eastern Illinois, Long Beach State. UT San Antonio.
Luckily Nebraska has dominated most of their shitty opponents so far this season, which helps.
This is setting up for a Hoiberg meltdown. I hope this team is different, but we always seem to shit the bed in these games. I'd go with Indiana tonight and because I said that NU covers with ease.
I honestly think this is a 50 50 game
I agree. I want to buy in to this team so bad because they have looked really decent at times, but every time I get my hopes up this team collapses. I just want to win the ones we are supposed to for once.
Yeah, these 9pm eastern tipoffs are tough for me. I’m asleep early 2nd half lol
I somewhat like our chances now that they don't have Jackson-Davis. That guy owned Nebraska.
It's not just a Hoiberg thing. It's been a Husker basketball thing for most of my life. I might tune in for the final 5 minutes if I become aware we're still in the game.
I would say Michigan St is much better than IU and Nebraska handled that game ok.
Ya I'm trying to be positive which probably surprises everyone on this board. Nebraska has shown some different things than years past with the exception of the Minnesota and Creighton games. They shit the bed against Minnesota and never showed up for Creighton. We shall see with the Hoosiers showing up. I'm optimistic.
Pretty huge game tonight when you consider the next two games are @ Wisky and home against Purdon't. Could easily start off 0-3 if we don't protect the vault.
A couple key things for tonight's game:
1) Is Mast back, and healthy enough to play meaningful minutes? If so, he can somewhat neutralize the Indiana bigs and helps us with rebounding.
2) Can Indiana shoot the 3 at a decent percentage, and do they shoot enough of them to offset what I hope is our advantage from beyond the arc?
Nebraska should be competitive in every single game (home or away) as long as the other team doesn't go nuts from the 3-point line. That also assumes NU doesn't crap the bed on 3-pointers themselves. The only team I don't think we match up well enough with is Purdue, as we don't have anyone that can probably truly handle The Zombie (unless Ninja torches the nets for 30-40 points to take away Purdue's advantage in the paint).
1) Is Mast back, and healthy enough to play meaningful minutes? If so, he can somewhat neutralize the Indiana bigs and helps us with rebounding.
2) Can Indiana shoot the 3 at a decent percentage, and do they shoot enough of them to offset what I hope is our advantage from beyond the arc?
Nebraska should be competitive in every single game (home or away) as long as the other team doesn't go nuts from the 3-point line. That also assumes NU doesn't crap the bed on 3-pointers themselves. The only team I don't think we match up well enough with is Purdue, as we don't have anyone that can probably truly handle The Zombie (unless Ninja torches the nets for 30-40 points to take away Purdue's advantage in the paint).
Mast is ok considering the time off. Tominaga needs to just accept that opposing teams are going to be physical with him and he's not going to get every ticky-tack call. He has to keep playing and not hold his arms up to the ref every time he gets touched. It's not helping!
I feel like the Huskers spend a huge amount of time and energy trying to get Tominaga open for threes off the curl, and every opponent knows it’s coming. Need to find other ways to get him open, on different spots on the floor, instead of playing right into the scouting report.
Agree. They need to reverse their strategy for Ninja. Start off getting him plays cutting to the hoop and driving in the lane. He is good at those and would open up his 3 point shots after seeing the ball go through the hoop from the paint. He seems to be forcing his 3s.
When I look at Indiana’s 10-3 record, it feels very Iowa football-esque.
I think Indiana barely lost to Kansas.
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