2022 March Madness

[Navin R. Johnson]

44 minutes ago, Fastbreaker said:

So Nebraska is not beating Creighton anytime soon right.

 

I don't see it happening, unfortunately.  

[HuskerFever]

32 minutes ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

1 hour ago, Fastbreaker said:

So Nebraska is not beating Creighton anytime soon right.

 

I don't see it happening, unfortunately.  

 

That's why we play the games.

[FredsSlacks]

sallis played fewer minutes than tominaga did here. let that sink in. 

 

i think there's a good chance he transfer regardless what the backcourt depth is like at gonzaga next year.

 

given our lack of point guard depth and fred's reputation for producing nba talent, i think we have just as good of a shot at sallis as anybody if he decides to transfer.

Edited March 20, 2022 by FredsSlacks

[thrasher31]

Is there legit reaction with Sallis transferring? Or just speculation based on his minutes? Nembhard and Bolton should both not be back, so him and Hickman will both have the a great shot at the lions share of minutes at the two guard spots. 

[Art Vandalay]

25 minutes ago, thrasher31 said:

Is there legit reaction with Sallis transferring? Or just speculation based on his minutes? Nembhard and Bolton should both not be back, so him and Hickman will both have the a great shot at the lions share of minutes at the two guard spots. 

Would be shocked if he did. Parents moved there, he always wanted to leave the state to play and he will be in line for a lot of minutes next year. Plus Few is great at development 

[thrasher31]

Just now, Art Vandalay said:

Would be shocked if he did. Parents moved there, he always wanted to leave the state to play and he will be in line for a lot of minutes next year. Plus Few is great at development 

Yeah that's what I'm at. I never thought Sallis would start day 1 there nor get a ton of minutes. And that's not to any fault of him, Gonzaga is a powerhouse. 

[HuskerFever]

 

[roscoe]

Rough Sunday for Big 10. Illinois, Michigan St., Ohio St. & Wisconsin all knocked out with Purdue yet to play. Like to say it bothers me to see these teams lose but it doesn't. Especially when they are on bad end of questionable reffing. Don't see them complain when they get obvious calls go their way. Watching Brad Davison do worse than what Verge got t'ed up for and get away with it pisses me off. I'd love to see a/any conference commish come out and say something about holding refs (in all sports) being held accountable. It clearly hurts teams that get benefit of the doubt during the season from Carstensen, McJunkins, Garrison, Boroski, Cirotto, Pfieffer, etc only to see them react negatively when they don't get calls in NCAA tourney. 

Back to my porch and telling kids to get off my lawn after a glass of warm milk.

[hskr4life]

Really stellar day for the B1G

[throwback]

What a choke job by the Badgers - the NCAA basically gave them a Sweet 16 berth by default - they get to play in Milwaukee as a 3 seed (while Purdue doesn't get to go to Indy). In the 2nd round, the bracket gives them a layup, facing  the winner of a game between a broken, coach-less LSU team or an Iowa St team that lost its last 3 games before the NCAAs, one by 17 and another by 31, and went 7-11 in the Big XII --- and yet Wisky can't get it done. 

 

Wisky now gets to live with losing to a highly short-handed NU on senior day, with getting knocked out of the B1G tourney in the quarters, and with blowing a gift chance to move to the Sweet 16.  

 

It's amazing what happens to Davison and crew when they actually get officiated on a relatively even basis, versus what they get in B1G play.

 

I like it.

 

[Silverbacked1]

Have always thought that the way the Big is called, hurts teams when they get to the tournament.  
 

I know you should adjust but that is hard to do when you are very used to one style then it is changed on you.

[HuskerFever]

15 minutes ago, throwback said:

It's amazing what happens to Davison and crew when they actually get officiated on a relatively even basis, versus what they get in B1G play.

 

I'm really not looking forward to facing Davison next season...

 

(sarcasm. kind of.)

[throwback]

41 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

I'm really not looking forward to facing Davison next season...

 

(sarcasm. kind of.)

If the basketball gods truly have relegated Nebrasketball fans to hell, Davison and Bohanon will both receive another year of eligibility, plus Gibbs will find another year buried in his closet. Then Bohanon & GIbbs will transfer to Wisky next year ... and the B1G will decide to force NU to schedule the Badgers for all 31 games, all in Madison with Teddy Valentine and two of his clones reffing every game, in retaliation for daring to beat Wisconsin on senior day this year.

 

And they'll air all 31 games on FS1.

 

 

 

Edited March 21, 2022 by throwback

[throwback]

Lots of double digit seeds heading to the Sweet 16.

 

Too bad we had to focus on trying to get to double digit wins this year instead of hoping to be a double digit NCAA seed.

 

Maybe next year.

 

[HuskerFever]

It's looking like Buzz Williams's argument isn't holding a lot of water anymore with the way the SEC has performed in this tournament.

[49r]

It's looking like Buzz Williams's argument isn't holding a lot of water anymore with the way the SEC has performed in this tournament.

What argument is that??

[HuskerFever]

1 minute ago, 49r said:

What argument is that??

 

That the committee wasn't valuing the late season SEC wins. (And if I recall, the committee said they didn't put as much value in conference tournament performance). And now we see that the top 3 seeded SEC teams didn't make it past the first weekend.

Big 12 and ACC looking like the teams to beat this go-around.

[49r]

 
That the committee wasn't valuing the late season SEC wins. (And if I recall, the committee said they didn't put as much value in conference tournament performance). And now we see that the top 3 seeded SEC teams didn't make it past the first weekend.

Big 12 and ACC looking like the teams to beat this go-around.

Got it. Yeah I think the SEC and the Big Ten suffer from similar problems. The conference season is brutal and teams are worn out come tournament time.

[The Polish Rifle]

1 hour ago, roscoe said:

It clearly hurts teams that get benefit of the doubt during the season from Carstensen, McJunkins, Garrison, Boroski, Cirotto, Pfieffer, etc only to see them react negatively when they don't get calls in NCAA tourney. 

Back to my porch and telling kids to get off my lawn after a glass of warm milk.

I've thought about that today during the Iowa/CU woman's game as well. 8 FTs to 8 FTs when Iowa started to foul late, so not like it was a one-sided foul show. Iowa coach after the game says there wasn't enough fouls called, they didn't shoot enough FTs. Thought back at the game, seemed like they spent a lot of time pleading for calls, almost like they were more worried about trying to draw a foul, where CU was more focused on scoring. It does seem like the B1G darlings get babied for the entire regular season, then don't know what the hell to do when they aren't getting bailed out. 

[HuskerFever]

Conference performance after the Second Round (Round of 32):

 

Rank	Conference	Teams	Remaining	Wins	Losses	Pct
1	MAAC	1	1	2	0	100%
2	ACC	5	3	8	2	80%
3	Pac-12	3	2	4	1	80%
4	American Athletic	2	1	3	1	75%
5	Big 12	6	3	9	3	75%
6	West Coast	3	1	3	2	60%
7	Big Ten	9	2	9	7	56%
8	Big East	6	2	5	4	56%
9	Horizon League	1	0	1	1	50%
10	Ohio Valley	1	0	1	1	50%
11	SWAC	1	0	1	1	50%
12	WAC	1	0	1	1	50%
13	SEC	6	1	4	5	44%
14	Atlantic 10	2	0	1	2	33%
15	America East	1	0	0	1	0%
16	ASUN	1	0	0	1	0%
17	Big Sky	1	0	0	1	0%
18	Big South	1	0	0	1	0%
19	Big West	1	0	0	1	0%
20	CAA	1	0	0	1	0%
21	Conference USA	1	0	0	1	0%
22	Ivy League	1	0	0	1	0%
23	MAC	1	0	0	1	0%
24	MEAC	1	0	0	1	0%
25	Missouri Valley	1	0	0	1	0%
26	Mountain West	4	0	0	4	0%
27	Northeast	1	0	0	1	0%
28	Patriot League	1	0	0	1	0%
29	Southern	1	0	0	1	0%
30	Southland	1	0	0	1	0%
31	Summit League	1	0	0	1	0%
32	Sun Belt	1	0	0	1	0%

[HuskerFever]

Upcoming match-ups:

 

WCC vs. SEC

Big East vs. Big Ten

ACC vs. Big 12

Pac-12 vs. AAC

 

Big Ten vs. MAAC

Big 12 vs. Big East

Pac-12 vs. ACC

ACC vs. Big 12

[jimmykc]

Is it safe to say the Big Ten is always overrated by NCAA choosing time? Last NCAA title was two decades ago. (doesn't make any difference if you count Maryland in 2002 who was ACC at that time or Michigan State in 2000). 

Edited March 21, 2022 by jimmykc

[Chuck Taylor]

9 hours ago, The Polish Rifle said:

I've thought about that today during the Iowa/CU woman's game as well. 8 FTs to 8 FTs when Iowa started to foul late, so not like it was a one-sided foul show. Iowa coach after the game says there wasn't enough fouls called, they didn't shoot enough FTs. Thought back at the game, seemed like they spent a lot of time pleading for calls, almost like they were more worried about trying to draw a foul, where CU was more focused on scoring. It does seem like the B1G darlings get babied for the entire regular season, then don't know what the hell to do when they aren't getting bailed out. 

^^^^ This. I watched part of that and all Iowa did was whine, whine, whine. Wasn't surprised at all to find out they lost.

 

btw, the noise at Carver was unbelievable, you could barely hear the announcers. 

[hskr4life]

Ironic that the Big 10 team many thought shouldn’t be in… is one of just 2 left standing.

[Ron Mexico]

7 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Ironic that the Big 10 team many thought shouldn’t be in… is one of just 2 left standing.

Many may not agree with this but the one school in this conference that is most like us is Michigan.

Fan bases are very similar. Whenever we have played them in Lincoln I've always enjoyed interacting with them.