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The best part... AWIII will be playing as many NCAA Tourney games as the Huskers this year.

I want to thank you for this contest. I am a 78 year old living in Wichita, Kansas and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of this. I tried keeping up with the stats so I know how much work this was for you. I hope you continue to do this next year. I lived in Lincoln and taught school at Millard Lefler. I am a dyed in the wool Cornhusker.

That'll be it for 2016-2017. It's been quite a rocky and stressful ride this season, but at least there's a little clarity already for next year. And hey, Husker4Life took a last minute lead over Ken Pomeroy! That's gotta be worth something! Thank you everyone for making HHCC go smoothly this year. It takes a lot of coordination to manage and your patience was greatly appreciated! (That's gotta be worth at least 153 bonus points for me, right? ) Until next year, friends. Don't be strangers. Stop by HHC from time-to-time during the offseason! This week included: Game #31 neut. Penn State 2016-2017 HHCC Final Standings 1 Husker4Life 1036 U1 * ^2 KenPom 1040 D1 * 2 Crush78 1134 NC * 3 1sdpad2 1136 U3 * 4 hhcdimes 1141 D1 * 5 NUtball 1151 NC 6 trickey 1177 D2 7 colhusker 1184 NC * 8 HuskerFever 1188 NC * 9 huskerbaseball13 1199 NC 10 Buglem 1204 U1 * 11 Bugeaters1 1214 U1 * 12 4NUfans 1236 D2 13 UnicamMan 1271 U3 * 14 swoof 1279 U8 * 15 cjbowbros 1281 D1 16 MichHusker 1291 U8 17 jimmykc 1297 D2 18 aphilso1 1301 U10 * 19 REDZONEDAN 1304 U8 * 20 khoock 1305 D7 21 Silverbacked1 1307 D2 * 22 Ralph Wiggum 1316 D2 23 hal9000 1320 D2 24 Jugular 1330 D6 25 BjoeHusker 1337 U1 * 26 throwback 1340 D3 * 27 brfrad 1349 U2 * 28 Noah121 1350 D3 29 Busch Light 1356 D12 30 BugeaterZ 1361 U1 31 AuroranHusker 1371 D1 32 twinswingohuskers 1373 U2 * 33 NebrasketballJake 1397 D1 34 HB 1399 U4 35 huskercwg 1402 D2 36 northwillriseagain 1408 D1 37 emwilliams 1415 D1 38 TheNovice 1425 U1 * 39 Row6Seat10 1426 D2 40 Blindcheck 1456 U1 41 hskr4life 1499 U2 42 pmd9 1500 NC 43 jayschool 1517 D3 44 Red Don 1662 NC 45 Jurgey 1678 NC 46 SkersHoops 1711 NC 47 NeeandMe 1817 NC 48 bigred4 1922 NC 49 huskers29 1963 NC 50 HuskerPower #nato73 2117 NC 51 Neon Budreau 2119 NC 52 big red22 2182 NC 53 soxnskers 2260 U1 54 Nebrasketball5 2271 D1 55 ShortDust 2352 NC 56 BDL415 2515 NC 57 nuhusker7 2540 U1 58 bball23 2556 D1 59 Red Rum 2617 NC 60 Handy Johnson 2643 NC 61 ajb5856 2705 NC 62 NU Follower 2718 NC 63 NoladrianSephier 2734 NC 64 Boots 2846 NC 65 Vinny 2847 NC 66 efhutton 2851 NC 67 KearneyMan 2935 NC 68 basketballjones 2990 NC 69 BLB115 2991 NC 70 HuskerCager 2998 NC 71 Lifetimesker 3033 NC 72 KarlHessEatMy…. 3039 NC 73 husker8282 3077 NC 74 cornfed24-7 3079 NC 75 PimpMario 3123 NC 76 huskas4real 3130 NC 77 thattimeofyear 3201 NC 78 Nighthawk 3208 NC 79 GATA4Miles 3210 NC 80 ConkintheCorner 3213 NC 81 Donkey 3213 NC 82 Thattimeofyear4 3218 NC 83 Wolv77 3225 NC 84 mrjam 3228 NC 85 New huskers fan 3228 NC 86 jason2486 3239 NC 87 Cornhoopers 3243 NC 88 Hoops_Legend 3255 NC Biggest Rise aphilso1 U10 Biggest Fall Busch Light D12 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change) ^ = Celebrity member: KenPom (Ken Pomeroy) * = Did not miss a game

Better hope NBA Scouts watch the NIT, cause it's too late to transfer again.

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In class A if you look at probably the best individual performance you had to be impressed with Kanon Koster who had a monster game for Kearney in their first round victory over Omaha Central. A good shooter who can play inside or outside and is one of those sneaky athletic types. He is also only a Junior.

Syracuse finished with a final NCAA rpi of #84. We came in at #108. I wonder ... if we could have drafted one player off of Syracuse's roster -- let's say their leading scorer -- and had him play for us instead ... where we would have ended up and where they would have ended up. I bet they would have finished worse than #108. And I bet we would have finished better than #84. Probably a lot better.

The official* Husker Hoops Central Bracket Challenge is back! For those interested, click on the link below and set up your bracket before the tournament begins! https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/105999/invitation?key=429f7ed9c729122b&soc_trk=lnk * Disclaimer: The use of the word "official" was never discussed and the express written consent was not provided by the owners of Husker Hoops Central. If you're still reading this fine print, then I should warn you that you're going to waste your time reading the rest of this fine print. Let me tell you a little story. You see, there was once this thing called 'Nebrasketball.' Nebrasketball was wondering around aimlessly looking for the perfect season. Nebrasketball tried out one season, but the result was too cold. It was riddled of low offensive scoring, blowout games, and a poor schedule. Nebrasketball said "look we're better than this, we need to keep looking for the perfect season." So then Nebrasketball went onto another season. When that season winded down, Nebrasketball said that the season was too hot. There was too much instability, the team dynamics were haywire, key players transferred, and there was too much pressure on the team that they weren't able to perform. Once again, Nebrasketball said to itself, "there's gotta be a better season." So off Nebrasketball went looking for that better season. The type of season that is full of great competition, a culture of strong will and endurance, and a team dynamic that is uncanny. A season that gets Nebrasketball into the NCAA tournament and able to compete with the big boys. A season where teams fear playing Nebrasketball because of its talent and camaraderie. A season that is juuuuuust right.

Its GREAT no Syracuse!!!!!!!! Serves you right AWIII!!!

In other words, the PSU freshmen were slightly more productive because they had to be. They still finished below us in the standings.

Hard to foul when you're 5 feet away from the shooter.

To be fair, we don't know that didn't happen.

Actuarial tables give me between 20 and 30 years. A single win in the NCAA Tournament in the next 20 years will make eternity more satisfying.

What I expect doesn't really matter. What does the admin expect? Aye, there's the rub....

And neither did Cuse. HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crap! We didn't make it!

ACC = 9 teams; avg. seed 5.1; Highest: 1; Lowest 11 Big East = 7 teams; avg. seed 7.4; Highest 1; Lowest 11 Big Ten= 7 teams; avg. seed 6.7; Highest 4; Lowest 9 Big 12= 6 teams; avg. seed 5.7; Highest 1; Lowest 11 SEC= 5 teams; avg. seed 6.0; Highest 2; Lowest 9 Pac 12= 4 teams; avg. seed 4.8; Highest 2; Lowest 11

No Cuse! No Iowa!

In this day and age why not have an open scholarship. Who knows when you might land a guy like Copeland. Not sure guy #13 matters.

Gallegos didn't redshirt as a freshman.

Still not quite sure where you're coming up with this stuff. Their roster ranks 337th in experience, ours is 289th. Not a terribly significant difference despite them having more Fresmen and us having more Sophs, PSU also didn't have a Tai Webster going for 17 PPG, they also didn't play as deep a rotation as we did. Ed Morrow missed a significant portion of the year with a foot injury, and never returned to previous form. In the end they only averaged 72 PPG to our 70. I still fail to see a whole lot of difference between the two teams.

Talking nothing about rankings in terms to comparing freshman. PSU has 3 freshman who were extremely productive, more so than all of our sophomores. We had zero freshman who were productive, outside of 2-3 glimpses of hope all year. I think we are falling behind, not catching up or passing these teams in our similar lower tier predicament.

They said the same thing when we made the tournament a few years ago.

Well, it used to be four of us (RU, PSU and Northwestern) mired at futility level in the B1G...Northwestern has now left us in the dust with PSU and RU... Getting out of the basement seems to become a more daunting task each year.

...ever???

That's where you whiff on a guy and then use his scholarship and THEN tell him he's gone. At worst we're Beileining someone here.

Had the same thought, @Silverbacked1 It's possible they peaked too early and that may begin to fizzle out after putting so much emotion and effort into winning the B1G Tourney. Their hot shooting will have to continue to stay hot if they want to make a deep run.

...when we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Anytime we have a Hamlet reference, color me a happy guy.

Me, as well. GBR

Also my first time participating, add my thanks for doing this!

Speaking of 'Cuse, Boeheim took shots recently at the ACC holding the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, NC. He thought it was dumb, does nothing for their conference, and the tournament, he thinks, should be held in a big city. Like NYC. So, guess who 'Cuse is matched up against in the first round of the NIT? You guessed it: UNC-Greensboro.

I would think their measuring stick would be Bruce Weber who didn't win enough to keep his job but more than Groce.

Thanks, Fever. Your efforts are appreciated. You made it interesting in addition to ministerial! Well done.

What they said.

The 2016-2017 Roller Coaster on HHCC: Game Result Picked NU% Majority vs. Sacramento State NU 100% Correct vs. University of Mary NU 100% Correct vs. Louisiana Tech NU 97% Correct neut. Dayton NU 52% Correct neut. UCLA Opp 29% Correct neut. Virginia Tech Opp 77% Incorrect at Clemson Opp 47% Correct vs. South Dakota NU 100% Correct vs. Creighton Opp 47% Correct at Kansas Opp 11% Correct vs. Gardner-Webb Opp 100% Incorrect vs. Southern NU 100% Correct at Indiana NU 10% Incorrect at Maryland NU 25% Incorrect vs. Iowa NU 83% Correct vs. Northwestern Opp 69% Incorrect at Michigan Opp 39% Correct vs. Ohio State Opp 85% Incorrect at Rutgers Opp 90% Incorrect at Northwestern Opp 24% Correct vs. Purdue NU 6% Incorrect vs. Michigan State Opp 73% Incorrect at Iowa Opp 26% Correct vs. Wisconsin Opp 35% Correct vs. Penn State NU 96% Correct at Ohio State NU 66% Correct at Michigan State Opp 48% Correct vs. Illinois Opp 89% Incorrect at Minnesota Opp 21% Correct vs. Michigan Opp 54% Incorrect neut. Penn State Opp 65% Incorrect HHCC majority performance: 19-12

Big Ten Tournament Wins Bonus Highest Prediction: 5 Lowest Prediction: 0 Average Prediction: 1.2 Actual Wins: 0 Number of Winners: 15 1sdpad2 aphilso1 Blindcheck BugeaterZ hal9000 HB hskr4life Husker4Life huskerbaseball13 KenPom MichHusker Noah121 NUtball Ralph Wiggum REDZONEDAN swoof UnicamMan

Game #31 neut. Penn State (67-76 L) Picked NU: 30 (65%) Average NU Score: 68.6 Average Opp Score: 68.0 Average HHCC Score: 34.5 Median HHCC Score: 40.5 Mode HHCC Score: 42 1 MichHusker -22 2 aphilso1 5 3 swoof 5 4 1sdpad2 10 5 HB 12 6 Blindcheck 13 7 REDZONEDAN 13 8 Husker4Life 14 9 huskerbaseball13 17 10 hal9000 21 11 NUtball 21 12 BugeaterZ 22 13 KenPom 24 14 Ralph Wiggum 25 15 AuroranHusker 33 16 Buglem 33 17 UnicamMan 33 18 hskr4life 36 19 Noah121 37 20 twinswingohuskers 38 21 Handy Johnson 39 22 pmd9 39 23 emwilliams 40 24 Bugeaters1 41 25 TheNovice 41 26 BjoeHusker 42 27 hhcdimes 42 28 NebrasketballJake 42 29 nuhusker7 42 30 Row6Seat10 42 31 soxnskers 42 32 Crush78 43 33 huskercwg 43 34 HuskerFever 43 35 brfrad 44 36 colhusker 44 37 jimmykc 44 38 northwillriseagain 44 39 Red Don 44 40 4NUfans 45 41 trickey 45 42 Silverbacked1 46 43 cjbowbros 48 44 throwback 52 45 Jugular 53 46 Jurgey 59

He should consult with Pelini and Cotton.

Just to add my two cents on the Jays...I don't think they get past Rhode Island. And even with the bias, I just don't think it's a good pairing for them. URI is a team that can get to the rim at will and plays extremely tough defense. Gonna be really hard for Creighton if the 3's aren't falling/Foster is off.

Wisconsin has made both the NCAA tournament and participated in a football bowl game (something like) 19 years straight years. That my friends is a good program.

I'd say in a five year span: -1-2 NCAA tourneys -1-2 NITs -1-2 subpar /// rebuilding seasons some combination of those 3 would be acceptable to me... for a while. After a few cycles of making somewhat regular tourney bids and hopefully wins and I'd like to see more consistency.

SEC drastically overseeded

10 year expectations. 4 NCAA tourney bids 4 NIT Bids 2 subpar years (no NIT/NCAA) 2 Top 4s in Big Ten, 1 Big ten tourney run to finals. 2 in Bottom 6 6 years in the middle

Yes, I agree our facilities are going to wear off. It saved Miles' job, to be quite frank. If he had 4/5 losing seasons in the Devaney, fans are not coming to the games. If fans don't come to the games, the coach is not going to be there, any longer. However, if we are going to the NCAA tournament consistently, with some trips to the NIT, and maybe an occasional losing season, people will still come to the games. That's why when people claimed Moe did not play a style for fan entertainment, I laugh at them. It wouldn't have mattered if they were going to the tournament most years.

I just hope next year we are watching the selection show to see where we are going to play our NCAA tournament game. C'mon Tim and team, let's make that happen.

That stat right there is what separates the post-season teams and the sit at home and watch teams.

nah Nebraskatball has us in her "Friends Zone" right now. We are so deep in that zone she sends us nude pictures asking which are the best to send to her boyfriend.

And a bag of cement weighs 94 lbs. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

This or someone needs to check what's in the water bottle he is using.

Gonna break this down a little bit here: It's pretty safe to assume that letting a coach go and hiring someone new (read: the coach isn't taking a job elsewhere...he's getting fired) leads to starting all over again. Rarely is this not the case. It's not so much the head coach, losing Kenya and Mo might cause more defections than there would be otherwise. The entire Big 10 is not immune to players transferring or not panning out. Don't make the mistake that so many others make by discounting Nebraska's roster and overplaying others because you think it makes you sound "unbiased". Overcompensating is not objectivity. Plus, since when has any journalist been an expert on X's and O's? Or any fan or message board geek for that matter? Did Rich Pitino all of a sudden become an X's and O's genius this year because he started winning? No. He's still the same guy we took to the woodshed last year. It makes me sick to see people whine about a coach that lost a game getting out coached. So lazy. If he (or you, or I or anyone for that matter) knew even a fraction about coaching basketball from an X's and O's standpoint that any P5 coach knew, we'd be out there making many more hundreds of thousands of dollars a year than we do sitting here being giant douchebags on the internet.