2018-19 Husker opponents

[hskr4life]

Illinois 5* from last year is starting to come alive and they are punching Minny in the mouth!

[trickey]

Check out ESPNU with Iowa St 52 Texas Tech 43 in Texas with 12:30 left

The announcers like MJ.

 

[49r]

I'm watching Clemson try to get off the schneid against Georgia Tech.  Clemson leads 47-33 with 14:30 left in the game.

[trickey]

Iowa St   68

T Tech    64

in Lubbock

MJ had 14...and the love of the announcers.

[TomEadesSucks]

Clemson holds off GT 72-60.

Edited January 17, 2019 by TomEadesSucks

[HuskerFever]

It looks like Minnesota forgot how to play basketball. Road games are tough.

[TomEadesSucks]

Might be a turning point for both the Illini and the Gophers.

[B-town hoopsfan]

1 hour ago, hskr4life said:

Illinois 5* from last year is starting to come alive and they are punching Minny in the mouth!

They have two top 130 posts coming in this year too. 1 is a 5 star on rivals I think. Idk if underpants can coach but he certainly appears to be able to recruit

[AuroranHusker]

 

 

  

[OmahaHusker]

I watched some of that Creighton game last night. Without a top tier player like they've had in the past their offense looks a lot like our offense before we had Palmer who can go get his. Just a lot of swinging the ball around until the shot clock practically runs out and they have to throw up an ugly shot. Pretty hard to watch. 

[jayschool]

59 minutes ago, OmahaHusker said:

I watched some of that Creighton game last night. Without a top tier player like they've had in the past their offense looks a lot like our offense before we had Palmer who can go get his. Just a lot of swinging the ball around until the shot clock practically runs out and they have to throw up an ugly shot. Pretty hard to watch. 

Gonna have to disagree with you on that last point. 

[hhcmatt]

10 hours ago, TomEadesSucks said:

Might be a turning point for both the Illini and the Gophers.

 

Illinois tends to always play like they've been fired out of a cannon so the Gophers thinking they can sleep walk in there and win was their mistake.

Minny will need to watch out because Penn St matches up well against them and they'll need effort to win.

Illinois? Everything they are bad at is what Iowa is good at and I'd be shocked if the Hawkeyes didn't put up 90+ on them.  Is Illinois going to score that much again? No way.

[jayschool]

5 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

Illinois? Everything they are bad at is what Iowa is good at and I'd be shocked if the Hawkeyes didn't put up 90+ on them.  Is Illinois going to score that much again? No way.

After losing at home to Wisconsin, Iowa is doing everything it needs to do to make the tournament.

• They're beating bad teams on the road (Northwestern and Penn State)
• They're beating other mid-level conference teams at home (Nebraska and Ohio State)

If Nebraska follows that formula from here on out:

• Three wins on the road against bad teams (Illinois, Penn State, Rutgers)
  • The assumption is that we'd also beat those bad teams at home, so add one more win (Northwestern)
• Six wins at home against mid-level teams (Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin)

That's 10 more wins to put us at 13-7, 23-8 going into the tournament. Add any win against Michigan or MSU, and we're a top 3 seed. That's why tonight's game could be such a huge boost. It's our only home game against that pair of "elite" teams.

Edited January 17, 2019 by jayschool

[tcp]

I'm content to respect how nutty hard this conference is right now. Anyone can beat you. You can almost beat anyone. PSU isn't a bad team. They have a win against VT and they generally play us tough. Illinois just proved their homecourt isn't a fast food drive thru. Rutgers made OSU cry. 

 

Can't assume anything from the schedule except the odds. And they're not always that comforting. 

[jayschool]

Thursday's games:

• Michigan State at Nebraska, 7 p.m., FS1
• Omaha at Western Illinois, 7 p.m.
• UC Riverside at Fullerton State, 9 p.m.

[49r]

There's only one game tonight

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[AuroranHusker]

5 hours ago, 49r said:

There's only one game tonight

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Omaha at WIU as well as NU vs MSU, that's 2.

 

[jayschool]

Friday's games:

• Maryland at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m., FS1 (Honestly, Maryland might as well run the table until we kick their asses at PBA)
• Northwestern at Rutgers, 6 p.m., BTN (Winner will be only one game behind Nebraska in the standings; oy)

[49r]

16 minutes ago, jayschool said:

Friday's games:

• Maryland at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m., FS1 (Honestly, Maryland might as well run the table until we kick their asses at PBA)
• Northwestern at Rutgers, 6 p.m., BTN (Winner will be only one game behind Nebraska in the standings; oy)

 

Can't they all lose?

[tcp]

both road teams won. maryland crushed OSU. Buckeyes in a bit of trouble. 

[jayschool]

11 minutes ago, tcp said:

both road teams won. maryland crushed OSU. Buckeyes in a bit of trouble. 

Agreed. At this point, I would add Maryland to the top tier and Ohio State to the conference's bottom tier.

Top

Michigan

MSU

Maryland

Middle

Nebraska

Minnesota

Iowa

Indiana

Purdue

Wisconsin

Bottom

Ohio State

Northwestern

Illinois

Rutgers

Penn State

[49r]

13 minutes ago, tcp said:

both road teams won. maryland crushed OSU. Buckeyes in a bit of trouble. 

 

Rutgers exploited the hell out of Northwestern's biggest weakness, which is that they do not have a PG.  Yet they still weren't able to overcome and pull out the win.

[jayschool]

Saturday's games:

• Michigan at Wisconsin, 11 a.m., ESPN
• Indiana at Purde, 1 p.m., Fox
• SE Louisiana at McNeese, 1:30 p.m.
• Oklahoma State at Iowa State, 5 p.m., ESPNU
• Texas Tech at Baylor, 5 p.m., ESPN2
• Mississippi Valley at Alcorn, 5:30 p.m.
• IPFW at Western Illinois, 7 p.m.
• DePaul at Seton Hall, 7 p.m., FS1
• Penn State at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m., BTN
• Fullerton at Long Beach, 9 p.m.

[hskr4life]

Woah Wiscy.

[jayschool]

6 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Woah Wiscy.

Very similar game to MSU-NU except for the final stretch. Tied at 43 (Nebraska tied at 44), Wisconsin started hitting threes, and Happ took over inside. Michigan couldn't hit until it was too late. 

 

Props to the Wisconsin Floppers.