Last 7 Games

[hhcdave]

Since I was quoted in this post, let’s make this clear. I NEVER said tonight was must win and the season was over. 

 

I assumed this a loss and said if so, we HAD to beat Creighton and OSU. Which was true. I don’t think any rational person would disagree. 

[nustudent]

very Satisfied.

 

Record is what I expected it to be (with results flip flopping from Tech and Clemson).   But we've beat the bad teams worse than I expected we would.

[jimmykc]

Very satisfied. No UMBC, Grambling, Little Sisters of the Poor upsets. No major injuries or disgruntled players. No one expects an undefeated season. I suggest this same poll after the Creighton game to see how answers change, though.

[TourneyBound]

I answered satisfied.  I feel like with our returning nucleus and these guys having played a year together we should have a heads up on teams early in year whom are still trying to get used to playing together.

[bigFRED]

I can easily see us 12-1 heading into January

[49r]

11 minutes ago, noahjb24 said:

I can easily see us 12-1 heading into January

 

According to Pomeroy, there is a chance that happens:

 

Date	Rk	Opponent		Result			Location	Record	Conf
Tue Nov 6	38	346	Mississippi Valley St.	W, 106-37	78		Home	1-0
Sun Nov 11	35	296	Southeastern Louisiana	W, 87-35	74		Home	2-0
Wed Nov 14	33	54	Seton Hall	W, 80-57	70		Home	3-0
Mon Nov 19	29	187	Missouri St.	W, 85-62	70		Neutral	4-0
Tue Nov 20	23	11	Texas Tech	L, 70-52	66		Neutral	4-1
Sat Nov 24	32	238	Western Illinois	W, 73-49	70		Home	5-1
Mon Nov 26	31	29	Clemson	W, 68-66	60		Away	6-1
Sun Dec 2		95	Illinois	W, 78-67	70	84%	Home		×
Wed Dec 5		50	Minnesota	W, 71-70	69	52%	Away		×
Sat Dec 8		34	Creighton	W, 75-71	70	67%	Home
Sun Dec 16		53	Oklahoma St.	W, 72-68	69	64%	Neutral
Sat Dec 22		146	Cal St. Fullerton	W, 78-63	70	91%	Home
Sat Dec 29		NR	SW Minnesota St.	W		100%	Home

 

But it's probably just a tad under 20% that it does happen.  However, I'm sure @HuskerActuary will (and should) correct my math on that.

 

 

[hskr4life]

14 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

You can see who voted not satisfied. Just don't think that they will live up to the hype. I'm looking at the big picture here.

 

 

Interesting.  What through the first 7 games made you feel that way?  I mean we’ve laid one egg at a neutral site against a pretty good Tech team.  We also followed that up by winning a road game at Clemson.

 

6-1, beat 2/3 power conference teams we’ve played,  No close games against crap teams... just wondering what makes you think we can’t do it?

[HuskerActuary]

19 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

According to Pomeroy, there is a chance that happens:

 

Date	Rk	Opponent		Result			Location	Record	Conf
Tue Nov 6	38	346	Mississippi Valley St.	W, 106-37	78		Home	1-0
Sun Nov 11	35	296	Southeastern Louisiana	W, 87-35	74		Home	2-0
Wed Nov 14	33	54	Seton Hall	W, 80-57	70		Home	3-0
Mon Nov 19	29	187	Missouri St.	W, 85-62	70		Neutral	4-0
Tue Nov 20	23	11	Texas Tech	L, 70-52	66		Neutral	4-1
Sat Nov 24	32	238	Western Illinois	W, 73-49	70		Home	5-1
Mon Nov 26	31	29	Clemson	W, 68-66	60		Away	6-1
Sun Dec 2		95	Illinois	W, 78-67	70	84%	Home		×
Wed Dec 5		50	Minnesota	W, 71-70	69	52%	Away		×
Sat Dec 8		34	Creighton	W, 75-71	70	67%	Home
Sun Dec 16		53	Oklahoma St.	W, 72-68	69	64%	Neutral
Sat Dec 22		146	Cal St. Fullerton	W, 78-63	70	91%	Home
Sat Dec 29		NR	SW Minnesota St.	W		100%	Home

 

But it's probably just a tad under 20% that it does happen.  However, I'm sure @HuskerActuary will (and should) correct my math on that.

 

 

Your math looks good 

[cjbowbros]

11 hours ago, hhcdave said:

Since I was quoted in this post, let’s make this clear. I NEVER said tonight was must win and the season was over. 

 

I assumed this a loss and said if so, we HAD to beat Creighton and OSU. Which was true. I don’t think any rational person would disagree. 

Again I probably shouldn't have used that wording in the question. My bad.

But anyway I would disagree that we needed to beat Creighton and OSU if we lost this game. If you are saying to simply make the tournament which you could have a different goal in mind and that's fair. But if we beat OSU fall to Creighton and win every other game until the new year we would be 10-3 and 3-3 or 2-3 (depending on Seton Hall) against Q1 or Q2 opponents with 18 games left against solid opponents. We only had 3 Q1 or Q2 wins all season last year. If we just go 11-9  overall in conference we get 3 more Q1-2 wins easy and maybe that's enough.

[HuskerFever]

I just don't want another season where we are building our resume all season just to find out we've been catfished this whole time and the selection committee points at our resume saying we didn't do enough between November and mid-December.

[hhcmatt]

I voted for very satisfied and unfathomably satisfied in a Thomas Allen wildcard-like scenario

[Chuck Taylor]

I've seen enough to know this is a tournament team, making me unfathomably satisfied. 

[cipsucks]

I'm as satisfied as a mouse eating cheese in a mouse trap.  I just hope the damn thing doesn't go off... 

[Huskerpapa]

18 hours ago, cjbowbros said:

Let me throw another one at you in my pre-season predictions I said that Copeland would be the most improved player after not being injured for an offseason. Through 7 games would you say that's been true so far this season?

He is in the running.  I also think Nana, Tanner and Glynn have all elevated their games.