Conference play

[Cazzie22]

On 12/7/2024 at 8:31 AM, 49r said:

It's Collins's influence.  They've been like that the whole time he's been coach.  They've always been one of my least favorite conference opponents because of it, and Chris Collins is a not good guy.

It’s the Duke influence.

[millerhusker]

7 minutes ago, B-town hoopsfan said:

It truely is amazing the skill Malik Reneau has a picking up totally not needed fouls for Indiana 

This Indiana team is unwatchable. I actually kind of feel bad for their fans. 

[B-town hoopsfan]

43 minutes ago, millerhusker said:

This Indiana team is unwatchable. I actually kind of feel bad for their fans. 

Feels like they had a shit ton of NIL money and instead of filling in around the potential stars they already had they went out and just got stars from other teams with no care on how they fit together.  They woulda lost today vs Winthrop at home if they didn’t dominate the offensive glass, they were 1/17 from three at one point and just kept shooting them 

[Ron Mexico]

UCLA is really good. Opportunity for tournament resume builder level game.

[TourneyBound]

How we feeling headed into conference play..  I’m still unsure how we will stack up..  January schedule looks brutal. Need to beat UCLA. They should be in top 15 when they come here next weekend

[hskr4life]

Every game will be a grind, but there are very few opportunities after tonight to "slip" up.

 

Southern: Q4 (Must win)

UCLA: Q1

@Iowa: Q1

@Purdue: Q1

Rutgers: Q3 (Must win)

@Maryland: Q1

USC: Q3 (Must win)

@Wisconsin: Q1

Illinois: Q1

@Oregon: Q1

@Washington: Q2 (Good opportunity, but not a must win because road game and Q2 currently)

tOSU: Q1

Maryland: Q1

@NW: Q1

@PSU: Q1

Mich: Q1

Minny: Q3 (Must win)

@tOSU: Q1

Iowa: Q2

 

- As of now, all of our Q3/Q4 games are at home and we have to win all of them. Adds 4 wins.

- Our lone Q2 games are @ Washington and Iowa at home. Split those two. Adds 1 win.

- Winning just 4 of the remaining 5 home games would give us 4 Q1 wins with 19 total wins. Bubble, but probably in with 8-10ish Q1/Q2 wins.

- Pick up a game or two on the road and we're safely in, but seeding wise might be surprising. We'd be at 20-22 wins, have 7-10 Q1 wins with another 3-5 Q2 wins.

 

 

So tough... but there's a lot of opportunity and not many chances for slip ups.

[AGHANSEN]

Winning 10 or 11 should be the goal (at least for the fans). 

 

That will put us firmly in the tourney, with a good amount of Q1 wins.

 

We won 12 games last year in conference, but the Big Ten was a lot weaker. 

[Huskerpapa]

Hmm

 

 

[Handy Johnson]

Beat UCLA & Win 4 of the Next 5 & then suddenly NU is the late night “knock on the door.” Nebraska becomes the STORM that the Rest of the B1G must account for…!