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  1. I just wanted to say I am happiest for you guys (and others who I unintentionally neglected who have been following Husker Hoops for way more years than Matt & Scott & I). EVERY SINGLE PERSON HERE - I feel great for ALL OF US. But man... I'm so happy for those who have been around since Cipriano and Iba and even before. I just wanted you guys to know I was thinking about you today leading up to the selection - especially you, Jimmy. I haven't met some of you but I consider you friends. OK, off to watch a Nicholas Sparks movie with all this sap.
    6 points
  2. One of things I like about this board is it's one of the few places I still feel young . I had never paid much attention to college basketball growing up; I liked the NBA at the time and only thought of Nebraska football. During my freshman year at NU I had a buddy from Virginia who was a big Nebraska basketball fan and convinced me to get student season tickets. This was in 1993 and I was hooked immediately. My first game was an exhibition against Pella Windows or Athletes in Action/Marathon Oil when they still did those...didn't matter. Those Nee squads played a fun brand of ball and I was shocked at how much more fun it was to go to basketball than football games. I watched all of the (Raycom-Phillips 66) road games on the big screen in the Selleck game room and had the high of winning the Big 8 tourney and low of getting smoked by Penn in the Big Dance that year. I figure if I could survive the Collier era after that exciting start, I can handle anything!
    6 points
  3. I sure hope it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Nebraska has had this experience 7 other times. You can only win your first NCAA tournament game once.
    5 points
  4. I've already told my story on my first Husker game in the Coliseum. I don't want to be " that guy" who keeps telling the same story over and over. But, I will say, I really like this team! My early memories following the Huskers: this had to be the 70-71, season. I watched the Huskers play on TV on a few Saturday afternoons, during the Big 8 season. Never on every Saturday but at least 3-4 conference games a season. Marvin Stewart was a senior, Chuck Jura a sophomore. Usually won in Lincoln. I remember Marvin Stewart being so good! Probably my favorite memory from that same time period, was Wednesday night games. I grew up in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and my dad was the organist for our church for 40 years. Of course, Lenten services could not be missed. They started at 7 pm, same time as Husker tip-offs. Remember, I'm 10- 14 years old, so I talk my mom into giving me the car keys so I can warm up the car the second the service is over. Usually caught the last 15 minutes of the second half.
    4 points
  5. ... in the old Coliseum. Joe Cipriano was the coach. Jerry Fort lost a contact lens and they stopped play for probably 5 minutes while people spread out on the floor looking for it. Never forget it. Guys, I feel like I've paid some dues and earned this.
    3 points
  6. My wife and I are in 114. I told my dad, we had to go, it’s a once in a lifetime experience. He quickly told me, I hope it’s not a once in a lifetime experience.
    3 points
  7. hhcmatt

    Trev

    Uh, didn't Trev keep Keyontae Johnson from coming here or did that come from somewhere else?
    3 points
  8. I don't know what my first game was, but I'm sure it was no later than Dave Hoppen's freshman year. I'm certain our family had season tickets that year, and together with my uncle's family we had nine in a row in section C16, row 22. I kept score along with a cousin who was my age. I distinctly remember the NIT games with the ABA ball and along with Hoppen, my favorite player was Stan Cloudy.
    2 points
  9. It will be a tough conversation but they'll understand why they'll all see you when you get back on Monday
    2 points
  10. Don't recall when I went or who we played or really anything other than going in likely the late 80s with my father and a relative who had tickets. I shall ask him on the trip to Memphis if he recalls.
    2 points
  11. I want to thank my dad who bought 4 season tickets in 1988. He said “I think this Danny Nee could get us pretty good”. Enjoyed a fun run in the 90’s. Saw some great finishes against KU and other teams. Endured the end of Nee’s tenure, was hopeful for BC and his “disciplined” style of coaching. Was a proud member of the “6500” as one writer from the OWH coined us. Marveled at the talent of seeing Michael Beasley and Kevin Durant in person. Was entertained by Doc’s personality and him rolling out a bunch of under 6’ guards. Still can hear him call Sek “Sack” And I remember his emotional last press conference like it was yesterday. Introduced my son to PBA and Florida gulf coast’s dunk city - as we continued our season tickets w Tim Miles and Tommy Lee and the UNL drum line - and got hot w the Petteway 26 footers in east Lansing. No Sit Sunday is still my favorite sports moment I’ve ever had with my family. I remember not loving the Baylor matchup and marveled how tall they were. Took my son to every single Nebraska Basketball Buddies with my kids. I was a Miles fan. But was excited and hopeful when we hired Fred. And now, 10 years after Coach Miles got tossed from the game and watched it from the Creighton locker room, here we are. I will cry if we beat Texas A and M. I’m almost 50 and will cry and won’t care who sees me. Go Big Red!!!!!
    2 points
  12. Thanks, Dave! What a long, strange trip it's been. While you guys are in Memphis cheering on the Huskers, we will be here declaring and decreeing the Huskers going to the Sweet Sixteen! I've already started. A&M and Houston have no idea what's headed their direction!
    1 point
  13. My kids had those floor-mopping jobs years ago. Great times. Glad a least one person was watching them!
    1 point
  14. Palm’s brackets drove me nuts the last couple months. Just put some effort into it, guy.
    1 point
  15. Damn when was the last time we played on CBS? I feel bad for not knowing this. It wasn't when KU hit the last second shot with Ballard back in the day was it? There you have it: https://youtu.be/vlKyqIIiTS4?si=3VbBGzOoxaFRb2lp
    1 point
  16. lang

    The Official Media Thread

    I’d be totally on board with this. I do like the idea however of some having byes and some sort of play down at the start. 128 would too radical for some. How about top 32 and then another 64 play down to 32 and reseed into final 64 ?
    1 point
  17. lang

    The Official Media Thread

    Here’s a proposal that would maybe satisfy the “ don’t expand the dance b/c it will water it down” crowd ( which is most ? ). Why not have your top 48 in. Then have an NIT type field of 64. Play 2 rounds and get that to 16 and seed those with the 48 into your 64 field. Ideally eliminate any other tournaments. Ideally you go out of your way to include solid mid majors as apposed to just loading more major conference teams in ( some certainly)…. I think this would be super cool. Change can be good !
    1 point
  18. Eliminate the NIT and CBI and put 128 teams in the NCAA tournament. It would only add one more round.
    1 point
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  20. Besides watching those few games from the mid-to-late 70s throughout the 80s, I specifically had season tickets during the 90s run (both football & basketball--WHAT A TIME!!!) and have now had season tickets for football since 2005 and in hoops since PBA opened in '13. The best part of all of this is that I've always gone to games with my bro, and the past few with my son, who's now 16. Individual memories of games could be mentioned, and there have been many, but the best memories are talking about every facet of every single game until we can't discuss it any further, that's for both FB & BB. And I analyze everything! lol
    1 point
  21. My memories of individual games is not very clear, but Bernard Day has always been my favorite player. Much later in life, I remember sitting with my kids during a media timeout. They were all staring intently at the floor. I asked each, one by one, what they were looking at. My oldest daughter, a cheerleader, said she was watching the cheerleaders and the dancers. My younger daughter, a dancer, was watching the dancers and the cheerleaders. My oldest was watching the band. No surprise. But my youngest son said he always watched the boys mopping the floor. My best memory even though it wasn’t about the game.
    1 point
  22. As another movie, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", states "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend".
    1 point
  23. Bugeaters1

    Trev

    1 point
  24. The movie says otherwise.
    1 point
  25. I always liked Mott The Hoople. David Bowie was a fan of this band. He wrote All the Young Dudes for them. This song is one of my favorites.
    1 point
  26. By far Cipriano's best team, from what I've read. I was only 5 at the time.
    1 point
  27. My first game in the Coliseum was the great Tom Baack, Grant Simmons, Willie Campbell, Nate Branch and Stuart Lantz team in 1966 against a Tex Winter coached Kansas St. That Husker team would have been an NCAA Tourney team and would have won a tournament game but only conference champions qualified. Kansas had JoJo White and Walt Wesley. It was fun for a High School Freshman to witness. Texas Western was the champion in 1966.
    1 point
  28. Bugeaters1

    2024 NCAA Tourney

    This guy likes to have fun.
    1 point
  29. jdw

    Happy Transfer Portal Day 2024

    If you got say a point guard in the portal today or tomorrow could they hypothetically play on Friday. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk
    1 point
  30. National Civil Rights Museum | At the Lorraine Motel Anyone with time to spare might want to check this out. Not exactly a pleasant experience but certainly of historical significance. The definitive book on the subject is Hampton Sides' "Hellhound On His Trail".
    1 point
  31. OurDecay

    2023-2024 AP Ranking

    Let the record show we received 7 votes in the final AP poll before the tourney. Bet nobody had that on their bingo card. Great, great regular season. Now let’s go make some history. Edit: we received 12 votes in the final coaches poll
    1 point
  32. Listen to Little Feat playing Dixie Chicken and they will recommend the Commodore Hotel!
    1 point
  33. I just want to point out that it's really nice that we can still have a lot of dialogue on this board this late into the season. It's been five years. Ten if you only include NCAA tournaments.
    1 point
  34. Those of you who are there need to coordinate some creative costume and signage options so you can get on TV! This is no time for half measures! We'll be rooting for YOU as much as the team.
    1 point
  35. I hope this doesn't hijack this thread because I will feel bad if it does. I lost my Dad to cancer in 2002. A big part of his influence on me was his love of Husker athletics. This song by Bread is about losing a father and captures how I feel about my Dad very well. What a great example I had. It makes my heart ache for so, so many young people who have no father active in the lives. If you want to read a powerful book on the topic I recommend "Fatherless America" by David Blankenhorn.
    1 point
  36. Quit messing up with all of our conspiracy theories! I suppose now you are going to claim we actually walked on the moon!
    1 point
  37. Chuck Taylor

    2024 NCAA Tourney

    I'm going to step into it here. I don't know how the women's committee works, but imo the men's matchup was just a fluke. I've been tracking bracketology for weeks, and this matchup has been out there waiting to happen. I checked right after the Trev news and thought, "oh, boy." The committee had a hard enough time figuring out who was in. Then it had to avoid matches through a couple rounds among Mountain West teams (4), Big Ten (3), SEC (2) and Pac 12 (2) in the 7-10 slots. Bracket Matrix had us paired with 9 seed Michigan State. Go up a line, and we're paired with Northwestern. Those don't work, so go down a line and ... TEXAS A&M. Please try completing a seed list without regard to conferences and then get them to fit into a bracket while avoiding conference matchups for 2 rounds. If you think that sounds like too much work, then try doing it by committee. The committee members were up until 2 a.m. Sunday completing the field, and it's hard to believe they spent any time discussing how to arrange this matchup because it fit some kind of narrative. Finally, what would be the motivation for the matchup? Committee members hate Trev? Seems like he gets along well with his people, aside from the entire state of Nebraska now. TV? I hate to break it to you, but 95%+ of the viewers don't know about Trev or care. His departure is a big story here and that's about it. The women's process is not as transparent, and there aren't many bracketologists. But I'd guess their committee faces the same difficulties in the process and would not spent a lot of time on "interesting matchups."
    1 point
  38. I want to thank my mom who took me to my first game in 1965. The only thing that scares me is the Huskers winning a game, because watching them win an NCAA game is the second to last thing on my bucket list…
    1 point
  39. Amen, brother. We deserve this. Nebrasketball needs to perform on the court, and the fans nationwide will be there every second of the action. It can be a glorious Friday night in Memphis at FedEx Forum, home of the Grizzlies. Let's all have an awesome week of anticipation, enjoy the moment, life's fleeting, breathe every breath. Savor it all. GBR Always.
    1 point
  40. *A bit off topic, but topical to NE & BB** Husker fans in Omaha should meet up between the early & late sessions, at say, Let It Fly, to break down the Ags in person!!
    1 point
  41. If this is in person, It was 86-87 Nit game against Washington. I took my dad how had never been to any big time college games. Whether it was basketball or football, sadly my dad passed away in 89 from cancer. It was so great to be able to spend that time with him.
    1 point
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  43. Nebraska 76 Texas A&M 68 What the hell. 6.
    1 point
  44. Shawn Eichorst's Toupee

    Trev

    Lol at these reactions
    1 point
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  46. First time we played on Saturday. First time in 22 years we played on CBS. The absolute most disappointing part of this game? No onions.
    1 point
  47. Everyone goes by ticket sales unless Lee Barfneckt can shame them into releasing actual attendance.
    1 point
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