Minnesota Game

[49r]

Minnesota's season to date:

Date	Rk	Opponent		Result			Location	Record	Conf
Fri Nov 10	36	297	USC Upstate	W, 92-77	77		Home	1-0
Mon Nov 13	38	37	Providence	W, 86-74	74		Away	2-0
Wed Nov 15	30	203	Niagara	W, 107-81	75		Home	3-0
Sun Nov 19	29	275	Western Carolina	W, 92-64	74		Home	4-0
Tue Nov 21	29	349	Alabama A&M	W, 100-57	72		Home	5-0
Fri Nov 24	27	157	Massachusetts	W, 69-51	76		Neutral	6-0
Sat Nov 25	23	32	Alabama	W, 89-84	74		Neutral	7-0
Wed Nov 29	21	14	Miami FL	L, 86-81	73		Home	7-1
Sun Dec 3	24	111	Rutgers	W, 89-67	80		Home	8-1	1-0

 

 

Nebraska's season to date:

Date	Rk	Opponent		Result			Location	Record	Conf
Sat Nov 11	97	211	Eastern Illinois	W, 72-68	72		Home	1-0
Mon Nov 13	102	288	North Texas	W, 86-67	73		Home	2-0
Thu Nov 16	100	47	St. John's	L, 79-56	72		Away	2-1
Sun Nov 19	112	239	North Dakota	W, 92-70	78		Home	3-1
Thu Nov 23	112	72	UCF	L, 68-59	68		Semi-Away	3-2
Fri Nov 24	114	308	Marist	W, 84-59	62		Neutral	4-2
Sun Nov 26	104	240	Long Beach St.	W, 85-80	74		Neutral	5-2
Wed Nov 29	111	98	Boston College	W, 71-62	64		Home	6-2
Sun Dec 3	104	3	Michigan St.	L, 86-57	67		Away	6-3	0-1

 

 

 

[hhcmatt]

We have a proper AD now. 

If we win this year, awesome and we'll roll it again with Miles. If we lose, we can count on Moos to spend money on someone who will win here.

Either way this June we should be right as rain and don't get too caught up with the bumps along the way.

[49r]

16 minutes ago, huskerbaseball13 said:

 

Hope you are right...but right now that game is around a pick em.  But indeed a game we should win at home.  They got hammered vs Ohio St but watching their game last night they did not look so bad and beat a Penn St team that I would say is probably a better team than we are right now.   

 

In fairness Penn State played like hot garbage most of the night last night until the run they made at the end.  That final possession though, putrid.  Why Chambers didn't take a time out I'll never understand.

[HB]

1 minute ago, hhcdimes said:

 

We have a proper AD now. 

If we win this year, awesome and we'll roll it again with Miles. If we lose, we can count on Moos to spend money on someone who will win here.

Either way this June we should be right as rain and don't get too caught up with the bumps along the way.

 

I agree .  The question, however, is how you define "win".    I believe it may be a higher criteria than I would have thought going into the season.  

[hhcmatt]

1 minute ago, HB said:

 

I agree .  The question, however, is how you define "win".    I believe it may be a higher criteria than I would have thought going into the season.  

 

It might be. It might be lower. Maybe it depends on how Thad Matta's back feels. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

All I really know is that games like tonight where we play a ranked team at home are the games that you remember and the reason that a lot of us buy season tickets.

[hskr4life]

We also have 9 home games in the conference including tonight.  We still have 4 home games in the non-con as well.

 

Defending the home court is huge.  If we can somehow find a way to go 12-1 with our remaining home games, that leaves us at 18 wins!

 

Steal a couple on the road and you are at 20 BEFORE the conference tournament.  

 

Our conference home schedule is not even close to cupcakeish.  However, it is the furthest thing from very very difficult. Purdue and Michigan State are two of the three tougher teams this year.  We play them each once and it is on the road.  We get Minny twice.  Our run to the dance started with defending the Vault.  I think that is what we are going to have to do to get there.  As you have noticed, we do not play well on the road right now.  That confidence can change with a few nice home wins though.  

 

Defend the home floor.  If we can go 12-1 at home the rest of the way and steal 2 on the road somewhere, we will dance.  For every loss at home though, we will need another on the road or in New York.  For a team that isn't playing well on the road, I will take all the wins at home that I can.  I think some of our best ball has come at home so far as well.

[Silverbacked1]

1 hour ago, dustystehl said:

 

That gorilla weighs WAY more than 100 pounds...

 

you called?

[TimBuck2]

Our Fan Base tends to look too far ahead IMO.  We tend to be jumping ahead to Selection Sunday way too early.  Let's get this one and move on from there.  One game at a time is much more fun as a fan than worrying about our final record now.

[khoock]

I will be pleasantly surprised if we win tonight. Hope the team is ready to play. GBR.

[cozrulz]

From a conference standpoint this one is pretty big.  The next three of four are road games.  Just being competitive would give some confidence.

[hskr4life]

1 hour ago, TimBuck2 said:

Our Fan Base tends to look too far ahead IMO.  We tend to be jumping ahead to Selection Sunday way too early.  Let's get this one and move on from there.  One game at a time is much more fun as a fan than worrying about our final record now.

 

I think it's a good goal to have.  It isn't something that I want the players to say "Well we won/lost that one so we will/will not be dancing this year."  I think it is something that we should be looking forward to though.  We should play like every game will get us there, because we won't win 30 games.  There is such a fine line between dancing and no post season for us that we need to at least have it on our radar.

[tcp]

2 hours ago, hhcdimes said:

We have a proper AD now. 

If we win this year, awesome and we'll roll it again with Miles. If we lose, we can count on Moos to spend money on someone who will win here.

Either way this June we should be right as rain and don't get too caught up with the bumps along the way.

 

Moos has started strong, and I don't think this AD will care two figs if he has to clean house of both revenue sports in the same season. I'm pretty sure that was the mandate he got from the Chancellors and the President when he was hired specifically to turn the entire department around. 

 

This is a good approach to the season. 

[Norm Peterson]

4 hours ago, dustystehl said:

 

That gorilla weighs WAY more than 100 pounds...

 

Yeah. It's an 800 pound gorilla.

 

As opposed to an 800 pound guerilla. 

[Dean Smith]

5 hours ago, TimBuck2 said:

Our Fan Base tends to look too far ahead IMO.  We tend to be jumping ahead to Selection Sunday way too early.  Let's get this one and move on from there.  One game at a time is much more fun as a fan than worrying about our final record now.

And the same bunch of people are way too quick to turn around when something bad happens and start talking about who we are hiring next when we fire this guy. 

Edited December 6, 2017 by Dean Smith

[hhcmatt]

WE'RE GOING TO THE FINAL FOUR NOW AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[nustudent]

Halfway tempted to do this for the Creighton game.

 

No illusions or thoughts about winning at Creighton or upsetting KU.   Last night gives me hope though that we can make a run.  That we can protect home court against the average to good teams in the conference.   We'll be sitting at 10-5 entering January, with a final 8 games that really give us a chance to gain a lot of momentum down the stretch.

 

Especially if we defend like we did last night.

[royalfan]

Just saw this thread.  Couldn't agree more.  It was huge for the reasons mentioned and really huge for the fan base.  It was one of the last chances at having the majority of them believe in a great season.  With belief comes more noise and a better home court advantage. 

Edited December 6, 2017 by royalfan

[uneblinstu]

Every home game is winnable here on out (save maybe Kansas, but you never know). With what I've seen from the B1G so far this year, we've played our toughest conference home game. NU brings what they brought last night to the rest of the conference home games, they'll be just fine. Can't fall asleep for any of those 3 between KU and Wisconsin, though.

[49r]

You've got a decent point @uneblinstu

 

Sat Dec 16		2	Kansas	L, 79-67	71	13%	Home
Wed Dec 20		226	UTSA	W, 82-70	73	86%	Home
Fri Dec 22		350	Delaware St.	W, 80-56	66	98%	Home
Fri Dec 29		313	Stetson	W, 83-66	71	94%	Home
Tue Jan 9		47	Wisconsin	L, 66-64	64	45%	Home		×
Mon Jan 15		96	Illinois	W, 76-72	73	63%	Home		×
Thu Jan 18		43	Michigan	L, 67-65	63	44%	Home		×
Sat Jan 27		85	Iowa	W, 74-71	69	60%	Home		×
Sat Feb 10		110	Rutgers	W, 68-63	67	67%	Home		×
Tue Feb 13		39	Maryland	L, 72-69	68	40%	Home		×
Tue Feb 20		82	Indiana	W, 73-71	67	60%	Home		×
Sun Feb 25		42	Penn St.	L, 73-71	71	40%	Home		×

 

Looks like after Kansas and the cupcakes, every other home game is pretty much a toss-up.  IIRC, we had about 33% chance of winning last night.

[hhcmatt]

BUMP

 

This team is 13-3 with Lynch, 1-8 without him.

Murphy is good but without Lynch he's dropped off during conference play.

Nate Mason is the guy you need to worry about the most though the one guy that kept them from being 0-9 without Lynch was Dupree McBrayer. He went off for 24 at Penn St.

 

The Gophers play at Michigan on Saturday afternoon

[49r]

On 12/5/2017 at 3:55 PM, 49r said:

Minnesota's season to date:

Date	Rk	Opponent		Result			Location	Record	Conf
Fri Nov 10	36	297	USC Upstate	W, 92-77	77		Home	1-0
Mon Nov 13	38	37	Providence	W, 86-74	74		Away	2-0
Wed Nov 15	30	203	Niagara	W, 107-81	75		Home	3-0
Sun Nov 19	29	275	Western Carolina	W, 92-64	74		Home	4-0
Tue Nov 21	29	349	Alabama A&M	W, 100-57	72		Home	5-0
Fri Nov 24	27	157	Massachusetts	W, 69-51	76		Neutral	6-0
Sat Nov 25	23	32	Alabama	W, 89-84	74		Neutral	7-0
Wed Nov 29	21	14	Miami FL	L, 86-81	73		Home	7-1
Sun Dec 3	24	111	Rutgers	W, 89-67	80		Home	8-1	1-0

 

 

Nebraska's season to date:

Date	Rk	Opponent		Result			Location	Record	Conf
Sat Nov 11	97	211	Eastern Illinois	W, 72-68	72		Home	1-0
Mon Nov 13	102	288	North Texas	W, 86-67	73		Home	2-0
Thu Nov 16	100	47	St. John's	L, 79-56	72		Away	2-1
Sun Nov 19	112	239	North Dakota	W, 92-70	78		Home	3-1
Thu Nov 23	112	72	UCF	L, 68-59	68		Semi-Away	3-2
Fri Nov 24	114	308	Marist	W, 84-59	62		Neutral	4-2
Sun Nov 26	104	240	Long Beach St.	W, 85-80	74		Neutral	5-2
Wed Nov 29	111	98	Boston College	W, 71-62	64		Home	6-2
Sun Dec 3	104	3	Michigan St.	L, 86-57	67		Away	6-3	0-1

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting to see how the turntables:

 

Minnesota

Tue Dec 5	23	56	Nebraska	L, 78-68	76		Away	8-2	1-1
Sat Dec 9	29	50	Arkansas	L, 95-79	75		Away	8-3
Mon Dec 11	35	174	Drake	W, 68-67	65		Home	9-3
Thu Dec 21	41	206	Oral Roberts	W, 77-63	70		Home	10-3
Sat Dec 23	42	236	Florida Atlantic	W, 95-60	73		Home	11-3
Sat Dec 30	41	186	Harvard	W, 65-55	65		Home	12-3
Wed Jan 3	43	95	Illinois	W, 77-67	70		Home	13-3	2-1
Sat Jan 6	43	91	Indiana	L, 75-71	73		Home	13-4	2-2
Wed Jan 10	48	82	Northwestern	L, 83-60	69		Away	13-5	2-3
Sat Jan 13	57	3	Purdue	L, 81-47	66		Home	13-6	2-4
Mon Jan 15	68	53	Penn St.	W, 95-84	79	OT	Away	14-6	3-4
Thu Jan 18	62	36	Maryland	L, 77-66	67		Away	14-7	3-5
Sat Jan 20	69	14	Ohio St.	L, 67-49	66		Neutral	14-8	3-6
Tue Jan 23	83	82	Northwestern	L, 77-69	65		Home	14-9	3-7
Tue Jan 30	84	94	Iowa	L, 94-80	70		Away	14-10	3-8

 

Nebraska

Tue Dec 5	105	92	Minnesota	W, 78-68	76		Home	7-3	1-1
Sat Dec 9	91	23	Creighton	L, 75-65	70		Away	7-4
Sat Dec 16	92	8	Kansas	L, 73-72	69		Home	7-5
Wed Dec 20	86	180	UTSA	W, 104-94	74		Home	8-5
Fri Dec 22	85	351	Delaware St.	W, 85-68	70		Home	9-5
Fri Dec 29	94	313	Stetson	W, 71-62	76		Home	10-5
Tue Jan 2	97	82	Northwestern	W, 70-55	62		Away	11-5	2-1
Sat Jan 6	81	3	Purdue	L, 74-62	72		Away	11-6	2-2
Tue Jan 9	81	90	Wisconsin	W, 63-59	66		Home	12-6	3-2
Fri Jan 12	81	53	Penn St.	L, 76-74	76	OT	Away	12-7	3-3
Mon Jan 15	81	95	Illinois	W, 64-63	66		Home	13-7	4-3
Thu Jan 18	85	24	Michigan	W, 72-52	59		Home	14-7	5-3
Mon Jan 22	67	14	Ohio St.	L, 64-59	61		Away	14-8	5-4
Wed Jan 24	65	149	Rutgers	W, 60-54	65		Away	15-8	6-4
Sat Jan 27	63	94	Iowa	W, 98-84	70		Home	16-8	7-4
Mon Jan 29	61	90	Wisconsin	W, 74-63	70		Away	17-8	8-4

 

 

[49r]

On 12/6/2017 at 4:47 PM, 49r said:

You've got a decent point @uneblinstu

 

Sat Dec 16		2	Kansas	L, 79-67	71	13%	Home
Wed Dec 20		226	UTSA	W, 82-70	73	86%	Home
Fri Dec 22		350	Delaware St.	W, 80-56	66	98%	Home
Fri Dec 29		313	Stetson	W, 83-66	71	94%	Home
Tue Jan 9		47	Wisconsin	L, 66-64	64	45%	Home		×
Mon Jan 15		96	Illinois	W, 76-72	73	63%	Home		×
Thu Jan 18		43	Michigan	L, 67-65	63	44%	Home		×
Sat Jan 27		85	Iowa	W, 74-71	69	60%	Home		×
Sat Feb 10		110	Rutgers	W, 68-63	67	67%	Home		×
Tue Feb 13		39	Maryland	L, 72-69	68	40%	Home		×
Tue Feb 20		82	Indiana	W, 73-71	67	60%	Home		×
Sun Feb 25		42	Penn St.	L, 73-71	71	40%	Home		×

 

Looks like after Kansas and the cupcakes, every other home game is pretty much a toss-up.  IIRC, we had about 33% chance of winning last night.

 

Tue Dec 5	105	92	Minnesota	W, 78-68	76		Home	7-3	1-1
Sat Dec 16	92	8	Kansas	L, 73-72	69		Home	7-5
Wed Dec 20	86	180	UTSA	W, 104-94	74		Home	8-5
Fri Dec 22	85	351	Delaware St.	W, 85-68	70		Home	9-5
Fri Dec 29	94	313	Stetson	W, 71-62	76		Home	10-5
Tue Jan 9	81	90	Wisconsin	W, 63-59	66		Home	12-6	3-2
Mon Jan 15	81	95	Illinois	W, 64-63	66		Home	13-7	4-3
Thu Jan 18	85	24	Michigan	W, 72-52	59		Home	14-7	5-3
Sat Jan 27	63	94	Iowa	W, 98-84	70		Home	16-8	7-4
Sat Feb 10		149	Rutgers	W, 68-57	66	83%	Home		×
Tue Feb 13		36	Maryland	W, 70-69	66	55%	Home		×
Tue Feb 20		91	Indiana	W, 72-65	66	73%	Home		×
Sun Feb 25		53	Penn St.	W, 71-68	68	61%	Home		×

[Handy Johnson]

Gophers have the look of a team that's playing out the string. We need to capitalize and rub their nose in it. Should win this one then take care of Rutgers at home...

[B-town hoopsfan]

Anyone know if Coffey is back from injury? Is he playing at a high level if he is? 

[Agsker]

Anyone know if Coffey is back from injury? Is he playing at a high level if he is? 

He was still in street clothes against Iowa on Tuesday.


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