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Funny story. I once took a pickle, died it red, and, because of its shape, it looked like a kidney.

Interesting first post. Time to head back under the bridge.

It's amazing just how easy coaching basketball at the highest levels is, surprise more people don't do it.

His shell rotation doesn't cause any turnovers as it only comes in to play on baseline drives. Everyone else has the bottom helpside come over to stop the baseline drive and then the weakside top drops down to help the helper. He leaves his helpside bottom on the bottom and has the weakside top rotate down diagonally to help stop the drive. He says that is one less man to screw up a rotation. As well, the normal bottom man is usually a post. That means you have a big man trying to stop a drive and usually a gaurd dropping down to replace him which leads to weakside offensive rebounds. This way you only have one rotating and now you have a guard who should be better at stopping drives coming and your big man stays in weakside rebounding position. If there is a ballside post (he guards the posts with a front) their defender stays and does not leave their post. The diagonally dropping gaurd comes down and traps the driver along with the original defender who gave up the drive in the first place. The defensive post only steps out at the last moment if the weakside rotation is late. If that happens the man dropping down and over would then dive in front of the offensive post to replace the helping defensive post. This is the opposite of what NC does as they want the fronting defensive post to be the first man to step out, stop the drive and then trap the ball. The bottom helpside man rotating over would then pick up ballside post. In his M-4-M he wants to create a box for his players to guard and to try to continually shrink that box. This can lead to turnovers. The box is determined by the helpline and the depth of the ball off the baseline. You force the point out of the middle and don't deny any pass as long as it goes the same direction. So you don't deny the wing pass and if the wing wants to pass to the corner you allow that as well. The deeper the ball, the smaller the box you are guarding. Every player should be no more than one big step away from the box. Once the offense has shrunk their box, you keep it there. That means you deny hard the pass from the wing back to the point and the pass from the corner back to the wing. Both of those passes are back in the opposite direction and are making your box bigger, meaning you have more area to cover and guard. Its a a lot easier to draw these up than to try to explain them with words .

Major props go out to these four studious Huskers! Four Nebraska women's basketball student-athletes were honored for their achievements on the court and in the classroom by capturing Academic All-Big Ten accolades on March 22. Allie Havers, Jasmine Cincore, Emily Wood and Maddie Simon all represented the Huskers on the conference's winter academic honor team. They were among 61 women's basketball players across the 14 Big Ten schools to claim awards. Overall, the Big Ten recognized 787 student-athletes competing in conference winter sports. To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners who are in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher. Havers, a 6-5 center and psychology major from Mattawan, Mich., earned the third Academic All-Big Ten award of her career. On the court, she started all 29 games for the Huskers and averaged 6.9 points and 5.3 rebounds per game in 2016-17. Cincore, a 5-10 guard from Arlington, Tenn., who is majoring in advertising and public relations at Nebraska, claimed her second straight Academic All-Big Ten honor. Cincore joined Havers in Nebraska's starting five for all 29 games in 2016-17, averaging 6.7 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists. Wood, a 5-5 guard from Salina, Kan., appeared in all 29 games for the Huskers as a junior. The management major carries better than a 3.9 GPA and was a CoSIDA Academic All-America nominee for the Huskers in 2017. She is on track to earn her degree in just three years and plans to attend graduate school at Nebraska while completing her eligibility as a senior in 2017-18. Wood averaged 2.1 points per game while earning her second straight spot on the Academic All-Big Ten team. She was also a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in 2016. Simon, a 6-2 forward/guard from Lincoln, Neb., earned her first Academic All-Big Ten award. The sophomore communication studies major was also a CoSIDA Academic All-America nominee in 2017. She appeared in all 29 games and averaged 4.1 points and 2.3 rebounds per game while transitioning from the guard to forward spot in 2016-17. http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/big10/genrel/auto_pdf/2016-17/misc_non_event/2017_Winter_Academic_AllB1g.pdf

Pretty sure Uconn only used one sub today....depth may be a problem before it's all done......but.....maybe not

I wish he'd been right. Archie Miller >>>>> Steve Alford

We also... outside of this year... have owned them on the court.

Doug is an idiot.

How is Beilein not coach of the year? I mean it was amazing with the lack of talent he has. (yes sarcasm)

Did I mention that Tom Izzo has the clap? And pimps his players out to the professors in the sociology department? And he's secretly suffering from congestive heart failure and might die next month, in which case, Michigan State is likely to replace him with Jud Heathcote's dimwitted bastard son? These are things I'd want to know if I was looking at different programs for my college career. And someone ought to tell Izzo that Mark Smith has been known to practice celibacy before marriage. And reportedly may have inhaled. Just saying.

I'm loving this UCLA Kentucky game. And to think we held our own with UCLA.

True, yet the QB we were recruiting named us in his top three, and then just two days later gave a verbal commitment to a team that wasn't in his declared top three. These days kids go where they want, how they want and when they want, and oftentimes there is no logical reason behind it...or so we think.

One playing against Div 1 college players one against, well

I wish Doc had not confused baselines with sidelines

He did sign with NC State

I want to see that stats he used to come up with his correlation (sorry science geek in me). I just have a hard time believing a guy standing wide open that can step into his shot makes just as many as a guy who has someone in his face or closing out quickly.

I have a feeling the crowd is going up be pretty tame next year in wait and see approach. Having a lame duck coach will do that.

That's the sign of a good fanbase. Thanks for the compliment!

I absolutely cannot stand the Adidas ball. Heck, even the Baiden ball high schools in Nebraska have to use are better than the Adidas ball.

If I'm Indiana, I'm not leaving the state for this next hire. My first phone call is to Indianapolis to see if the Butler A.D. wants to get back into coaching.

Hello Husker community. I'm sure you all with me wondering when, exactly, I'm actually gonna have a team to get behind in the tourney again. Frustrating, but as is life. I've watched college basketball and attended Husker men's games for the better part of 30 years. When you really boil down to what makes or breaks a consistent NCAA tourney-level team, the most common denomenator is the coach. I don't necessarily mean the teams at the top (although the example works). More so, I mean Xavier, Michigan, Wisconsin, Creighton, St. Mary's, Wichita St., Iowa St. All of these are teams that we can become. The problem as I see it, is that all of them have better coaching and subsequently, an identity. They don't screw around with multitudes of lineups and rotations year over year. They know who they are, and they consistently are in the tournament as a tough out. Watching what Beilein did at Michigan this year is nothing short of remarkable. Michigan could have tanked as we did, but they found their identity (check out the minutes of the Michigan rotation over the past 10 games..6-7 rotation max, starters 30+ minutes for all). My good buddy is a loyal Husker fan, goes to games, and drums up the tired excuses of location, youth, this guys coming in, that guys coming, in, year over year it seems. It's time we give that up. Our location is good enough. Our facilities are better than anyone in our mid-tier. Our talent is OK. A great coach finds a way. Winning cures all, and let's be honest, Miles has over promised and under delivered. We deserve better results.