The long and the short of it is, most people don't know what they are talking about.
This^^^^. Nebraska has come out of nowhere over the last month and there are a lot of 'experts' that still haven't studied up on the Nebraska NCAA tournament resume. You would think it would be simple enough to look but since they don't know, when asked the question they just spew standard answers like need some more wins, not enough big wins, too many losses, etc. They don't know. Gradually, this team is forcing more people to look. People will take notice. Just look at the bracketmatrix. Just last week we were in 1 bracket. Now somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 or so. The momentum is continuing to build and the experts will finally get it right.
I think there might be a lot of truth to this. A lot of people probably see the 5 game winning streak + win @ Michigan State and assume that is all we have on our resume. If they start digging a little deeper, they'll see that we look a lot better than quite a few teams they have ahead of us.
At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter right now. We control our destiny. Unless we finish 1-3, I'm guessing we have a chance.