Yup, it's madness all right. It's madness to play an entire season and then throw out all of the accomplishments of that season for one game against an opponent you have never seen before. Madness to give automatic bids to teams who may have a chance to have one good game and beat a big boy, but throughout the season, could not hold up against the big boys or 50 teams who didn't make the dance. Madness that a team that finishes 12-8 in a conference is in 2nd place and a 4 seed in the tournament and a team that finishes 9-11 in that same conference and beats several teams in the dance (one twice) can't even get invited to the consolation tournament.

Finally, madness that college basketball is a shadow of what it once was, when all of the elite players stayed for 4 years and the most physically talented players weren't a group of one-and-done freshmen. The thing that differentiates the NBA star caliber players from all of the others of similar size, speed, and strength is that the NBA star caliber players are almost all elite scorers, players with unique skill sets to put up significant points nearly every night. ALL of those players are out of college by the end of March of their freshman year, before their game has been fully developed. That's one of the reasons why a team in the dance this year was only able to put up 40 points in a 40 minute game.

The lack of elite scorers evens the playing field enough in a "one loss and you go home tournament" that any freakish thing can happen, and as we have seen the past few years, it has. Some people think that this is great! Yeah, watching basketball with at best G-league players is SO much fun! Shoot, it's almost as fun as the choice I have in early June every year to either watch the Braves (with some of the best players in the world on both teams) or the CWS.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that while College Football still has a broad appeal despite the multiple recent changes designed to destroy it, College Basketball has relegated itself to the level of other minor sports, where the interest is primarily on campus or friends and family. Sure, March Madness makes a lot of TV money because it's a reason to have parties and not watch most of the other crap on TV, but it's become really bad basketball.

I just finished watching KU Ark. game. Ark. Had a three point lead with a minute to go and they kept fouling KU. The strategy worked because they simply ran out the clock. In these circumstances the foul on Arkansas was actually a penalty on KU. I think a team should be able to decline the foul and keep type ball.

So PSU may end up being blown out today by Indiana, but getting to.500 in conference play and playing in the Big Ten Conference semifinals this season should be what Trev will expect from Fred’s Huskers in 23-24 or a change will be warranted. No regression will be tolerated.

and once again I am happy I don't bet on college basketball. 2nd day in and the bracket is trashed, truly is madness.

Just like football playoffs

Need a hoops rose bowl stat

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If Lavante make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, will his name end up on the North Stadium Wall?

Can someone please create a meme of Freg holding his little brother Greg McDermott’s hand? Overwhelming amount of Creighton fans on my socials today I need to send that too. TIA

Pretty good summary of Rhule's leadership in his short time at Nebraska...

It was an announced on the postgame show that NU and Nicholls will play a third series game in Manhattan Sunday at 2:00.

Lakeview senior Landon Ternus who capped off a 45-0 wrestling season on Feb. 18, winning Class B gold at the NSAA State Wrestling Championships in 220-pound weight class.
On Tuesday, Ternus was honored at Lakeview High for the next step in his athletic and academic career. Ternus' next step will be in Lincoln with the Nebraska football team after he accepted a preferred walk-on spot with the Huskers.

Departures: None

Key Returnees for 2023: Marques Buford, Braxton Clark, Myles Farmer, Isaac Gifford, Malcolm Hartzog, Tommi Hill, Tyreke Johnson, Tamon Lynum, Javier Morton, Quinton Newsome, Phalen Sanford, Rahmir Stewart, Javin Wright
Additions: D’Andre Barnes, Dwight Bootle, Corey Collier, Ethan Nation, Syncere Safeeullah

Malcolm Hartzog was one of the team’s biggest bright spots. Not only did the then-true freshman score Nebraska's first touchdown off a blocked punt since 2009, but he also tallied three interceptions. Two of those helped secure not only Nebraska's first FBS victory in a year but a morale-boosting winning streak following Scott Frost's exit. Login to view embedded media

2023 Outlook​

For all the benefits a more vicious attack up front brings, Nebraska's defensive backs should be licking their chops over the prospect. Hartzog should have plenty of opportunities to boast the best ball-hawking skills again, along with an overabundance of competition.
— Written by Brandon Cavanaugh, part of the Athlon Contributor

Nigerian kid, athletic freak. NU offer, among others.
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Quick turnaround for Nebraska (10-5-1) who takes on Nicholls (11-9) for the second game of today's doubleheader. The Huskers pulled out game one in just over an hour as starter Emmett Olson tossed his second career complete game with seven innings of one-run ball to lead Nebraska to a 2-1 victory. Colonel starter Tyler Theriot went the full six innings for Nicholls and limited the Husker offense to a pair of runs on seven hits.

Jace Kaminska will get the start and will have a fresh bullpen behind him.

both lose, please? What ugly basketball. Bad city league with exceptional athletes.

Dubliner is packed, II have some friends that got there early.

Brazen head is getting busy

Clancy's is slammed

Barretts is packed

Office West is starting to get busy

I have to wait on some friends (true story, I do have some friends) but we will be out there soon!

UCLA
Alabama
Purdue
Houston

Check it out, go FDU!

Huge day for the Big Red. Hit the link.

Nebraska offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield joined Sports Nightly on Thursday. It was a brief interview, but here are the highlights nonetheless.

Satterfield talked spring practice goals and diving into fullback tape from 1995 with Ron Brown.

Can't wait to listen.

Coaching Legend, Player Legend, Future Coaching Legend?

After Thursday's series opener was canceled, we are back for a Friday doubleheader between Nebraska (9-5-1) and Nicholls (11-8). The Colonels have been decent this season and have a couple of nice arms that have good ERAs. I'm interested to see how the Huskers respond after such a disappointing loss against Omaha on Tuesday. I'm not too concerned about the offense as they've proven they can produce runs against everyone, but let's see how the bullpen reacts. They gave up all 10 runs the Mavericks scored on Tuesday. Last time the bullpen struggled against San Diego, they came back to throw a shutout weekend against South Alabama where they allowed zero earned runs across three games.

Good pitching matchup for the opening game of this doubleheader as it will be RHP Emmett Olson (2-1, 3.97 ERA, 22.2 IP) vs. LHP Tyler Theriot (2-2, 2.53 ERA, 21.1 IP). Considering this is only a seven-inning game, it could go quick.

A nine-inning game will follow with RHP Jace Kaminska (3-0, 2.25 ERA, 24.0 IP) vs. TBA. Here's the series preview to get you ready.

Never saw Iowa play such a sloppy game.

Nebraska WBB will host Northern Iowa in the second round of the WNIT. The game will tip off Sunday at 2 p.m. at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

The Huskers posted a 74-65 win over Missouri State while UNI beat Colorado State 88-76.