Successful Season

[kldm64]

What needs to happen to make this upcoming season be a success in your opinion

[ZAYWHAT!]

Big ten title and make a serious run in the NCAA tourney

[Blindcheck]

When looking at the season... I think we put to much emphasis on the NCAA tourney and not enough on the regular season.

 

The regular season is a grind and winning a conference title or finishing in the top 2 or 3 is to me far more impressive than getting to the sweet sixteen or elite 8....(those are just 2 and 3 game winning streaks in the grand scheme of things).

 

i wish that college basketball pundits, fans, etc paid more attention to accomplishments in the regular season...

[OmahaHusker]

Making the NCAA tourney and winning a game is the definition of a successful season for this program. Anything more than that is gravy (that I'd also gladly take).

[HuskerFever]

1 hour ago, OmahaHusker said:

Making the NCAA tourney and winning a game is the definition of a successful season for this program. Anything more than that is gravy (that I'd also gladly take).

 

I can recall many seasons that I would categorize as "successful" that don't meet this criteria.

 

We probably shouldn't label "success" solely as something that has never been accomplished before.

[Handy Johnson]

Contend for the B1G Title and make the Sweet 16... ( and no I'm not still hung-over from the 4th)

[Cazzie22]

Because NU has never won an NCAA Tournament game I placed winning a game in the tourney makes it a successful season.  In retrospect, last year with a 4th place B1G finish and 22 wins should be considered successful.  

[cipsucks]

2 hours ago, Handy Johnson said:

Contend for the B1G Title and make the Sweet 16... ( and no I'm not still hung-over from the 4th)

 

Still drinking, then? 

[Fullbacksympathy]

Win one game in the tourney.  But, really, continue to play hard and put a bunch of talented, high character athletes on the court.  Lay the foundation for the next decade of success with TM at the helm.  

[Norm Peterson]

This is the most talented team we've had in a generation.  If this team doesn't make the dance and win at least one game ...

[uneblinstu]

3 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

 

I can recall many seasons that I would categorize as "successful" that don't meet this criteria.

 

We probably shouldn't label "success" solely as something that has never been accomplished before.

If we weren't returning as much as we are...

 

Making the tournament is the bare minimum next year. 

[B-town hoopsfan]

Make the semis of big ten tourney. Be better than a number 10 seed in the NCAA tournament. Win a game in the NCAA tourney 

[aphilso1]

5 of the 6 choices provided in the poll would constitute the greatest season in program history.  That seems to be a giant flaw in this poll, since a season shouldn't have to be the best ever to be considered a success.  

• Just make the NCAA tournament - IMO this is the minimum benchmark for a successful season.  Got my vote.
• Need to win at least 1 game in NCAA tournament - if this happens, it makes this the best season we've ever had
• Need to win at least 2 games in NCAA tournament - this would constitute the greatest Nebrasketball season by a wide margin
• Win the Big 10 regular season conference title - ditto
• Win the Big 10 conference tournament title - this one's close, but I'd put a B1G tourney title over an old Big 8 title.  So again, would likely make it our best season ever
• Set the school record for most wins in a season - most = greatest in an over-simplified way

[nustudent]

Dont' think we will win 26 games or anything like 90-91 but we dont necessarily need too.   Id say to define it as a success....NCAA.   Anything less is a miserable failure and we should be coach shopping.

 

Any type of win in the NCAA, makes this our greatest season ever....that's always a hard bottom line to have but its hard not to have that as the definition of a successful season right now

[dustystehl]

Anything less than the Final Four would be a failure of epic proportions. They might as well dissolve the program if we don't win the National Championship.

[49r]

Anything less than the Final Four would be a failure of epic proportions. They might as well dissolve the program if we don't win the National Championship.

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[OmahaHusker]

23 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

 

I can recall many seasons that I would categorize as "successful" that don't meet this criteria.

 

We probably shouldn't label "success" solely as something that has never been accomplished before.

 

How many of those seasons had a roster as talented as this one tho?

[49r]

 
How many of those seasons had a roster as talented as this one tho?

Danny has several teams that would be considered at least as talented as this one...


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[HuskerFever]

42 minutes ago, OmahaHusker said:

How many of those seasons had a roster as talented as this one tho?

 

21 minutes ago, 49r said:

Danny has several teams that would be considered at least as talented as this one...

 

 

What 49r said. But I get it. That was 20+ years ago.

[big red22]

2 hours ago, 49r said:

 

 

Danny has several teams that would be considered at least as talented as this one...


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I disagree... Nebraska has never had 3 potential NBA players on a single roster

 

EVER!

 

Edit: And 3 more that have the skill to play professionally... just not in the NBA

Edited July 6, 2018 by big red22

[Huskerpapa]

Hmm.  We had a decade that included Strickland, Boone, Piakowski, Lue, Hamilton, Moore, Chandler, Boone, Ffriend, and a couple others that were NBA or very close to NBA level.  We had a decade of high quality players.

[Dean Smith]

36 minutes ago, big red22 said:

I disagree... Nebraska has never had 3 potential NBA players on a single roster

 

EVER!

 

Edit: And 3 more that have the skill to play professionally... just not in the NBA

1990-91: Tony Farmer, Rich King, Eric Piatkowski

1993-94: Eric Piatkowski, Eric Strickland, Mikki Moore

1995-96: Tryon Lue, Eric Strickland, Mikki Moore

 

Edited July 6, 2018 by Dean Smith

[Bugeaters1]

3 minutes ago, Dean Smith said:

1993-94: Eric Piatkowski, Eric Strickland, Mikki Moore

1995-96: Tryon Lue, Eric Strickland, Mikki Moore

 

Wasn't Tony Farmer in those classes?

 

[Bugeaters1]

5 hours ago, dustystehl said:

Anything less than the Final Four would be a failure of epic proportions. They might as well dissolve the program if we don't win the National Championship.

Really?

 

[big red22]

1 minute ago, Dean Smith said:

1995-96: Tryon Lue, Eric Strickland, Mikki Moore

Hence the edit

 

They did not have a Glynn Watson to go along with them.  Also Allen and Tshimanga have potential to excel beyond College... Need work though

 

Also Roby, Palmer and Cope are Jr., Sr. and Sr.

 

Lue was a Freshman when Strickland was a Senior and Moore was a Junior

 

So with that logic you could say in 2014-15 we had 3 too with

 

Webster, Petteway and Shields. 

 

Face the facts people this team is the best we have ever put on the court!