Bracketology 2024/2025

[cornfed24-7]

18 hours ago, Handy Johnson said:

At this point, if we went 4-10 down the Stretch it wouldn’t surprise me. 

Yeeeeah. This isn't a tournament team. Can't lie to my eyeballs any longer

[hskr4life]

26 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

Yeeeeah. This isn't a tournament team. Can't lie to my eyeballs any longer

Idk that I’m ready to make this statement already. We’re playing in one of the toughest (top 2) conferences in the country. A conference that will likely send more than half of its teams to the dance. A conference that will likely make up about 1/6 of the entire tournament field. Every game is going to be a grind.

 

This team has a road win over Creighton, beaten UCLA, taken St Mary’s to the wire, and fumbled two very winnable conference games. We’re as close to 4-2 as we are 2-4. Our “worst” loss is to a team with 2 top 10 draft picks.

 

We just need to get back to what got us to this point. Hard nosed D. Make teams uncomfortable. Make teams play OUR game. No shootout 80’s scores.

 

It’s tough, but we can’t let the last three games overshadow our overall body of work. We can completely play ourselves out for sure. We’ve seen this movie before. But maybe this team is different.

[HuskerFever]

41 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

Yeeeeah. This isn't a tournament team. Can't lie to my eyeballs any longer

 

This is why we can't have nice things.

[cornfed24-7]

1 hour ago, hskr4life said:

Idk that I’m ready to make this statement already. We’re playing in one of the toughest (top 2) conferences in the country. A conference that will likely send more than half of its teams to the dance. A conference that will likely make up about 1/6 of the entire tournament field. Every game is going to be a grind.

 

This team has a road win over Creighton, beaten UCLA, taken St Mary’s to the wire, and fumbled two very winnable conference games. We’re as close to 4-2 as we are 2-4. Our “worst” loss is to a team with 2 top 10 draft picks.

 

We just need to get back to what got us to this point. Hard nosed D. Make teams uncomfortable. Make teams play OUR game. No shootout 80’s scores.

 

It’s tough, but we can’t let the last three games overshadow our overall body of work. We can completely play ourselves out for sure. We’ve seen this movie before. But maybe this team is different.

All valid. I just don't see it this year. Something is slightly off. And I've felt this way from the beginning. I thought this team was probably about as good as last year in Norms poll. And I don't know that much of that perception has changed for me. We're about as good. Maybe a little less. We're close. Just not quite there. 

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

2 hours ago, cornfed24-7 said:

Yeeeeah. This isn't a tournament team. Can't lie to my eyeballs any longer

lots of ball to play. A road win at Maryland followed by a home win over USC can flip the mood around here 180 degrees. 
 

Our team needs to stop making it seem so hard to go win on the road. Creighton just won at UConn. We handled Creighton on their home floor in front of a sold out crowd. Tomorrow will be a sparse sleepy Maryland crowd at Noon ET on a Sunday. No excuses, go out and physically dominate like we did at Creighton. 

[Handy Johnson]

2 hours ago, cornfed24-7 said:

All valid. I just don't see it this year. Something is slightly off. And I've felt this way from the beginning. I thought this team was probably about as good as last year in Norms poll. And I don't know that much of that perception has changed for me. We're about as good. Maybe a little less. We're close. Just not quite there. 

I’ll reference “No Country for Old Men” you’ve seen the same Team play that I have, & it’s certainly left an impression. I’m NOT giving up on the Team or the Season, but I haven’t seen anything they makes me believe we can rattle off a string of Wins, not with that schedule. 

[hskr4life]

Looks like we maybe dropped one on KenPom… actually moved up 1 on T-Rank. 
 

For Bart T- this game was actually our best played “loss” and was better than some of our wins. So… I guess.

[thrasher31]

12 hours ago, hskr4life said:

Looks like we maybe dropped one on KenPom… actually moved up 1 on T-Rank. 
 

For Bart T- this game was actually our best played “loss” and was better than some of our wins. So… I guess.

We actually rose a spot in NET. So as good a paper loss as we could get. Went from 50 to 49

[hskr4life]

2 minutes ago, thrasher31 said:

We actually rose a spot in NET. So as good a paper loss as we could get. Went from 50 to 49

NET SOS is now 37 and our Non-Con SOS is up to 174.

[huskerkid21]

win all except for illinois/mich at home and go win at washington and either at penn st or ohio st and we make the tourney at 10-10 in conference... who says no?

[hskr4life]

One small bright spot is that our losing streak has occurred in a stretch of 3/4 on the road. Typically road losses are more favorable than a home loss. So we’re still in a position where (IF we could win out at home) we could steal a single road game and finish 10-10.

[Handy Johnson]

Gophers WIN in Iowa City, first time since 2015. Tied now for Wins with Nebraska. 

[hskr4life]

Thanks to our neighbors to the north, we are now proud owners of a Q1A win (for now).

[hskr4life]

Tonight’s game is a Q3 game once again.

[cozrulz]

15 hours ago, Handy Johnson said:

Gophers WIN in Iowa City, first time since 2015. Tied now for Wins with Nebraska. 

 

Also last night.  Ohio State won at Purdue (snapped 26-game home win streak)...  UCLA beat Wisconsin. 

 

Got to bring it every night and close out games.  Nebraska has so far failed the opportunity for 3 more wins...

[HuskerFever]

1 minute ago, cozrulz said:

Got to bring it every night and close out games.  Nebraska has so far failed the opportunity for 3 more wins...

 

We also salvaged some opportunities to not get ~2 losses. So at least there's that.