Ben Zobrist Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 If we are truly a team deserving to be in the tournament, we'll find a way to beat Penn State at home and Michigan in the tournament. I have faith that we will. That will shut up the mega nerd Lunardi for sure. I'm going to ignore him for now. However, this thread trashing Lunardi is quite comical, and if you do a quick Google search "Joe Lunardi sucks", you'll find we aren't the only college hoops thread that likes to rant about this overrated poindexter HolyBobpilgrimage, Red Don and Coaches kid 3 Quote
big red22 Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 20 minutes ago, Ben Zobrist said: If we are truly a team deserving to be in the tournament, we'll find a way to beat Penn State at home and Michigan in the tournament. I have faith that we will. That will shut up the mega nerd Lunardi for sure. I'm going to ignore him for now. However, this thread trashing Lunardi is quite comical, and if you do a quick Google search "Joe Lunardi sucks", you'll find we aren't the only college hoops thread that likes to rant about this overrated poindexter You know we all feel that way, but in turn why doesn't anything that we have already have done matter? I get it that we need to keep winning, but I don't like the fact that if we lose to a hot Michigan team in the tournament we supposedly are not even in consideration with a 22-9/13-5 regular season? Why does Nebraska have to play with that much pressure? Then a team like Oklahoma can go 1-8 to finish a season and finish with 13 losses not have to worry about anything! We get it, just keep winning. While I am getting extremely annoyed at the fact that teams in the Big East, Big 12, SEC and ACC don't have to worry about it. Brick and royalfan 2 Quote
Section_316 Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 2 hours ago, big red22 said: You know we all feel that way, but in turn why doesn't anything that we have already have done matter? I get it that we need to keep winning, but I don't like the fact that if we lose to a hot Michigan team in the tournament we supposedly are not even in consideration with a 22-9/13-5 regular season? Why does Nebraska have to play with that much pressure? Then a team like Oklahoma can go 1-8 to finish a season and finish with 13 losses not have to worry about anything! We get it, just keep winning. While I am getting extremely annoyed at the fact that teams in the Big East, Big 12, SEC and ACC don't have to worry about it. Or Creighton.... How have they not played themselves on to the bubble?? Only win in the last three weeks was a 29 foot buzzer beater to beat the worst team in the league. Quote
Red Don Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 Saw this elsewhere and thought it was too good not to re-post! Seems like this is a good place to put it! Oh, and Btw, an up-arrow to Ben Zobrist just for good useage of 'Poindexter!' NUtball and HolyBobpilgrimage 1 1 Quote
AuroranHusker Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 24 minutes ago, Red Don said: Saw this elsewhere and thought it was too good not to re-post! Seems like this is a good place to put it! Oh, and Btw, an up-arrow to Ben Zobrist just for good useage of 'Poindexter!' Someone needs to recreate something like that for Nebrasketball. It's so true. HolyBobpilgrimage 1 Quote
Handy Johnson Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 I heard this morning the Big XII is getting 8 bids and the B1G just 4, with one of those going to a team we beat by 20 points? Like Lucky Ned Pepper said to Rooster Cogburn, "I call that mighty BIG talk for a one eyed fat man." Quote
hhcmatt Posted February 22, 2018 Report Posted February 22, 2018 A nice read on the history of the RPI https://web.archive.org/web/20160307062212/http://basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2085 Quote
Huskerpapa Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 I am just wondering if anyone posting here is on the selection committee, or perhaps is a relative of someone who will be in "the room." If not, nothing much is certain. Elytron and atskooc 2 Quote
FredsSlacks Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 (edited) lunardi leaving us out of his field of 68 is one thing, but moving penn st ahead of us after a home loss makes me question if he knows anything about college basketball. Edited February 23, 2018 by TimSmiles Quote
ajb5856 Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 Don't know if this is posted elsewhere but did anyone catch Jerry Palm on 1620 this afternoon? He actually said that outside of Nebraska winning the Big Ten Tournament that we have no shot at a bid. He said due to the logjam of medicore major conference teams that even with wins over Penn State, Michigan in the quarters, then Michigan State or whoever, and then losing to whoever in the championship game, that still wouldn't give us enough quality wins. So there's that... HolyBobpilgrimage and northwillriseagain 2 Quote
hskr4life Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 1 minute ago, ajb5856 said: Don't know if this is posted elsewhere but did anyone catch Jerry Palm on 1620 this afternoon? He actually said that outside of Nebraska winning the Big Ten Tournament that we have no shot at a bid. He said due to the logjam of medicore major conference teams that even with wins over Penn State, Michigan in the quarters, then Michigan State, and then losing to whoever in the championship game, that still wouldn't give us enough quality wins. So there's that... Haha! That's good stuff man. Smoking the good stuff.... Handy Johnson and HolyBobpilgrimage 1 1 Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 Here's the likely scenario: We beat Penn State and beat Michigan. Lunardi: "Well, we can't have a 10 loss team from the Big Ten. The conference is down." REDZONEDAN 1 Quote
northwillriseagain Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 47 minutes ago, HuskerFever said: Here's the likely scenario: We beat Penn State and beat Michigan. Lunardi: "Well, we can't have a 10 loss team from the Big Ten. The conference is down." “Don’t lose to top 3 teams then”—Lunardi in a week. Quote
northwillriseagain Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 Btw, the best way for me to express how I’d like to deal with Lunardi & Palm. (FYI Mild language) Quote
royalfan Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 Okay, our RPI if we simply had not played Marist, Stetson, and Delaware St would be 41 right now instead of 60. I am curious if some spreadsheet expert would be able to do it like NCAA hockey with minimal effort. Where games you won that hurt your RPI are removed. I would like to get this data to the selection folks somehow. Granted, other teams will be minimally impacted by these types of games, but ours has to be extreme. We didn't even schedule Marist. I just want to make sure the committee gets a more clear picture of this nonsense. There is no way in hell winning three games should hurt our RPI by 19 spots. Quote
The Polish Rifle Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 33 minutes ago, royalfan said: Okay, our RPI if we simply had not played Marist, Stetson, and Delaware St would be 41 right now instead of 60. I am curious if some spreadsheet expert would be able to do it like NCAA hockey with minimal effort. Where games you won that hurt your RPI are removed. I would like to get this data to the selection folks somehow. Granted, other teams will be minimally impacted by these types of games, but ours has to be extreme. We didn't even schedule Marist. I just want to make sure the committee gets a more clear picture of this nonsense. There is no way in hell winning three games should hurt our RPI by 19 spots. If you take the worst 2 RPI games off all these bubble teams schedules to this point in the season, this is how their RPI will be adjusted....Wash +1, Prov +12, Texas +18, KState +12, Oklahoma +7, Baylor +12, Syracuse +3, Va Tech +18, Nebraska +12. Pistol00 and hhcmatt 1 1 Quote
The Polish Rifle Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, The Polish Rifle said: If you take the worst 2 RPI games off all these bubble teams schedules to this point in the season, this is how their RPI will be adjusted....Wash +1, Prov +12, Texas +18, KState +12, Oklahoma +7, Baylor +12, Syracuse +3, Va Tech +18, Nebraska +12. To give a little bit more context to this, all the teams I removed were RPI 250+. Meaning Teams like us and Va Tech are being punished for playing "bad/bad" teams. Where as Washington and Syracuse are seeing no effect to their RPI for playing "good/bad" teams. For example if we were to play Syracuse's two worst teams (Texas Southern & Cornell) instead of Marist and Delaware State, currently our RPI would be 49th instead of 59th. Quote
NUtball Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 20 hours ago, Red Don said: Saw this elsewhere and thought it was too good not to re-post! Seems like this is a good place to put it! Oh, and Btw, an up-arrow to Ben Zobrist just for good useage of 'Poindexter!' I used poindexter in a different thread earlier today. Actually, the plural form - poindexters. Can I get an up-arrow also? Quote
Red Don Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 Sure, If it is not plagiarism! But I have to find it first (tcp used 'poindexter' in a post on Nov 27, 2015 ) Done! (Found It) Quote
Handy Johnson Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 Whatever happened to the "Eye" test? How can you watch a Nebraska game and say with a straight face there are 64 teams in the Country better than them? Quote
HuskerFever Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, Handy Johnson said: Whatever happened to the "Eye" test? How can you watch a Nebraska game and say with a straight face there are 64 teams in the Country better than them? Slightly skewed. There are 32 automatic bids, so they don't have to be better than you. They just have to win their conference. But again, "How can you watch a Nebraska game and say with a straight face there are 36 at-large teams in the country better than them?" northwillriseagain and Handy Johnson 1 1 Quote
northwillriseagain Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, HuskerFever said: Slightly skewed. There are 32 automatic bids, so they don't have to be better than you. They just have to win their conference. But again, "How can you watch a Nebraska game and say with a straight face there are 36 at-large teams in the country better than them?" -don’t go off of last 10 games -don’t go off of how they did in conference -don’t take teams in red, from Nebraska -go by RPI, unless it’s Penn State -go by quadrants, only on years where Nebraska plays 80% of quad 1s on the road. Think I got the formula? Bugeaters1 and big red22 1 1 Quote
big red22 Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 6 minutes ago, northwillriseagain said: -don’t go off of last 10 games -don’t go off of how they did in conference -don’t take teams in red, from Nebraska -go by RPI, unless it’s Penn State -go by quadrants, only on years where Nebraska plays 80% of quad 1s on the road. Think I got the formula? I'm fairly certain you and I are pretty much thinking along the same lines Quote
cipsucks Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 16 hours ago, ajb5856 said: Don't know if this is posted elsewhere but did anyone catch Jerry Palm on 1620 this afternoon? He actually said that outside of Nebraska winning the Big Ten Tournament that we have no shot at a bid. He said due to the logjam of medicore major conference teams that even with wins over Penn State, Michigan in the quarters, then Michigan State or whoever, and then losing to whoever in the championship game, that still wouldn't give us enough quality wins. So there's that... It's apparent Jerry is spending more time with his wife Rosie than he is watching college basketball. big red22, Bugeaters1 and Brick 1 2 Quote
Bugeaters1 Posted February 23, 2018 Report Posted February 23, 2018 It's apparent Jerry is spending more time with his wife Rosie than he is watching college basketball.I see what u did there.Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Quote
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