2018-19 Husker opponents

[hskr4life]

2 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

 

There's a joke involving Standhardinger in here somewhere...

 

You knocked that one out of the park!

[jdw]

6 hours ago, jayschool said:

The BJs looked like $100,000 out there today.

What would a $100,000 bj entail.

[HuskerActuary]

13 hours ago, 49r said:

Creighton helped us big time today.  We gained about 1/3 of a point on KenPom.  We're now 0.18 of a point away from jumping Wisconsin to go back into 14th!

They are inching up in projections/metrics/etc. Only one spot behind us in KPI, and they are now projected to be an 8 seed.

[jayschool]

Wednesday's games:

• Seton Hall at Xavier, 5:30 p.m. FS1
• Texas Tech at West Virginia, 6 p.m. ESPNU
• SE Louisiana at Stephen F. Austin, 6:30 p.m. ESPN+
• Missouri State at Southern Illinois, 7 p.m. ESPN+
• Northwestern at Michigan State, 7:30 p.m. BTN
• Iowa State at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m. ESPN News

[AuroranHusker]

Ahh, I see the New Year started with cheap crap for sale:

 

 

 

[hhcmatt]

On 1/1/2019 at 1:15 AM, jdw said:

What would a $100,000 bj entail.

 

According to urban dictionary that's where you offer a recruit a bunch of money to a recruit who turns you down

[Red Don]

12 hours ago, AuroranHusker said:

Ahh, I see the New Year started with cheap crap for sale:

 

 

 

Must be Dropping Basketball!     

 

[Huskerpapa]

1 hour ago, Red Don said:

Must be Dropping Basketball!     

 

They have to distance themselves from the Creighton School of Law, and need to find a good attorney --- from the Nebraska Law School.   Money is needed as they depleted their slush funds paying for players.  Ewwww, was that too harsh?

[HuskerFever]

Texas Tech is losing to West Virginia with 5 minutes to go.

[hskr4life]

Seton Hall won @ Xavier

[49r]

19 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Seton Hall won @ Xavier

 

Big win for the Pirates and for us too.  KenPom has us back at #14 (hasn't yet recorded our game tonight so we will eventually move down some).  Tech getting the win at WVU should also help us out some.

[49r]

Just now, 49r said:

 

Big win for the Pirates and for us too.  KenPom has us back at #14 (hasn't yet recorded our game tonight so we will eventually move down some).  Tech getting the win at WVU should also help us out some.

 

And just as I posted that I refreshed KenPom to see that we did move down after tonight's game.

 

Back to #15.

 

We were 1 one hundredths behind Wisconsin before the game tonight.  Now we are 2 one hundredths back.  So, doom and gloomers, that's what happens in basketball.  You can lose a game and the season miraculously isn't over.

[Bugeaters1]

9 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

And just as I posted that I refreshed KenPom to see that we did move down after tonight's game.

 

Back to #15.

 

We were 1 one hundredths behind Wisconsin before the game tonight.  Now we are 2 one hundredths back.  So, doom and gloomers, that's what happens in basketball.  You can lose a game and the season miraculously isn't over.

What!! you saying that there are gloom and doomers on this board. I din't know that.

[49r]

2 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

What!! you saying that there are gloom and doomers on this board. I din't know that.

 

It's hard to know since they only post when we lose a game...so, you know, like not very often.

[49r]

Wow, MSU is brutalizing Northwestern tonight.

[AuroranHusker]

17 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Texas Tech is losing to West Virginia with 5 minutes to go.

 

TT won 62-59.

 

 

[jayschool]

Thursday's games:

• Illinois at Indiana, 6 p.m., FS1
• Iowa at Purdue, 6 p.m. BTN
• Penn State at Michigan, 6 p.m. ESPN
• Minnesota at Wisconsin, 8 p.m. BTN

[Fastbreaker]

19 hours ago, 49r said:

 

And just as I posted that I refreshed KenPom to see that we did move down after tonight's game.

 

Back to #15.

 

We were 1 one hundredths behind Wisconsin before the game tonight.  Now we are 2 one hundredths back.  So, doom and gloomers, that's what happens in basketball.  You can lose a game and the season miraculously isn't over.

Yeah sure, we did not drop far, but how far up would be now if we had not pissed two winnable road games away. 

[hhcmatt]

29 minutes ago, Fastbreaker said:

Yeah sure, we did not drop far, but how far up would be now if we had not pissed two winnable road games away. 

 

KenPom works based on score differential so there isn't much of a difference between us winning by a couple or losing by a couple.

Something like NET or polls put a lot more weight on wins

[49r]

Like @hhcmatt says we probably wouldn't see a lot of difference between where we're at now and if we had won @Minnesota and @Maryland.  If I had to guess I'd say if he had won both of those games we'd probably be right around #12 KenPom.  Win one of the two gets us the #14 spot.

[HuskerFever]

56 minutes ago, Fastbreaker said:

Yeah sure, we did not drop far, but how far up would be now if we had not pissed two winnable road games away. 

 

Stepping back for a second, I do find some satisfaction that every road game is winnable for us this season. That's a refreshing change of pace.

[49r]

Not to mention we are FREAKING NUMBER FOURTEEN IN THE NET AND KENPOM!!!

 

At this time last year we were #97 in KenPom and God knows what in RPI.  We never got above #50 in KenPom last year at any time and were never realistically anywhere near the bubble.

 

I mean, sure, be disappointed in a road loss against a team that is hovering near the AP top 25 if you must.  But also realize we are in a totally different situation right now than we have been in damn near 25 years!

Edited January 3, 2019 by 49r

[jayschool]

Interesting first halves tonight:

• Iowa without Garza is playing defense like it's 2018 again; Purdue up by 17 at half in WL.
• Michigan dicking around at home with the Gritty Nits, up only 25-20 at half.
• Illinois has led almost the entire first half at Indiana, and is up 32-30 with 47 seconds left.

[nuhusker7]

Well apparently it’s impossible to win on the road in the big ten. Minnesota is getting screwed. Murphy just fouled out standing there not moving, along with quite a few other questionable calls.

 

Also if this game is being discussed in another thread hmu 

[nuhusker7]

10 minutes ago, nuhusker7 said:

Well apparently it’s impossible to win on the road in the big ten. Minnesota is getting screwed. Murphy just fouled out standing there not moving, along with quite a few other questionable calls.

 

Also if this game is being discussed in another thread hmu 

Apparently not impossible. But it took a hell of an effort from Minnesota to battle through some adversity. They are a pretty damn good team and a respectable team to lose to on the road. We just need to take care of them at home now.