cozrulz Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 32 minutes ago, Handy Johnson said: Did our NIT Title Team in ‘96 have an 11 or 9 game losing streak? We couldn’t remember @ the Zoo Bar today while watching our season melt away. We went from getting Top 25 Votes to OUT of the B1G Tournament in the snap of a finger. 9. just have to start a 5 game win streak sooner. Handy Johnson 1 Quote
Cazzie22 Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 I believe this thread is for the eternal optimists. Handy Johnson 1 Quote
HuskerFever Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 Just have to give a quick shout out and special thanks to @hskr4life for giving us some early season Bracketology life early in the season. She left as fast as she came. Que sera sera. hskr4life and Handy Johnson 1 1 Quote
AuroranHusker Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 6 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said: I believe this thread is for the eternal optimists. Find a way to win the next one. Then do it again. It's not an impossible task. That winning mindset has to start with effort, attitude, and positive body language from the squad, and ultimately, it takes 1 win to potentially turn this around. Silverbacked1 and HuscurAdam 2 Quote
Shawn Eichorst's Toupee Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 Just now, AuroranHusker said: Find a way to win the next one. Then do it again. It's not an impossible task. That winning mindset has to start with effort, attitude, and positive body language from the squad, and ultimately, it takes 1 win to potentially turn this around. Let me be very clear. Do I think a turnaround is going to happen? No. Is there a path to the tournament? Yes. 8 of the remaining 11 are Quad 1 games. Protect home court with an upset win against Michigan or Illinois, steal a road win or two at Washington/Penn State/Northwestern/Ohio State, and Nebraska's firmly on the bubble. One underrated benefit of the bottom 3 teams not going to the Big Ten Tournament is that I don't have to convince myself that 5 games in 5 days for the auto bid is possible. Handy Johnson 1 Quote
hskr4life Posted January 26 Author Report Posted January 26 18 minutes ago, HuskerFever said: Just have to give a quick shout out and special thanks to @hskr4life for giving us some early season Bracketology life early in the season. She left as fast as she came. Que sera sera. Happy to help! Hopefully it gave everyone some good fun through New Years! Handy Johnson 1 Quote
AuroranHusker Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 10 minutes ago, Shawn Eichorst's Toupee said: Let me be very clear. Do I think a turnaround is going to happen? No. Is there a path to the tournament? Yes. 8 of the remaining 11 are Quad 1 games. Protect home court with an upset win against Michigan or Illinois, steal a road win or two at Washington/Penn State/Northwestern/Ohio State, and Nebraska's firmly on the bubble. One underrated benefit of the bottom 3 teams not going to the Big Ten Tournament is that I don't have to convince myself that 5 games in 5 days for the auto bid is possible. I'm kind of in the same boat, I wouldn't expect a turnaround to happen but it's not out of the realm of possibility. It will take a lot of soul searching by the squad. I do expect a spirited effort against the Illini, similar to what we saw from USC last time in a bit of a desperation mode. I guess we'll find out how resilient these guys truly are in the weeks ahead. I am still hopeful for things to happen that we probably wouldn't expect to happen at this particular moment in time. GBR Handy Johnson and Shawn Eichorst's Toupee 1 1 Quote
hskr4life Posted January 26 Author Report Posted January 26 16 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said: I'm kind of in the same boat, I wouldn't expect a turnaround to happen but it's not out of the realm of possibility. It will take a lot of soul searching by the squad. I do expect a spirited effort against the Illini, similar to what we saw from USC last time in a bit of a desperation mode. I guess we'll find out how resilient these guys truly are in the weeks ahead. I am still hopeful for things to happen that we probably wouldn't expect to happen at this particular moment in time. GBR Lightning in a bottle? We’ve done it before! millerhusker and HuscurAdam 2 Quote
AuroranHusker Posted January 26 Report Posted January 26 Just now, hskr4life said: Lightning in a bottle? We’ve done it before! Anything is possible. Gotta believe !! huskerkid21 and millerhusker 1 1 Quote
Cazzie22 Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 I need to see some evidence that a turnaround is possible. Handy Johnson 1 Quote
Norm Peterson Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 I really hate doing this. OK, I almost hate doing this. In a way, I hate doing this. But I feel compelled to do this: 11 11 Texas Tech Big 12 15-4 4-0 1-2 3-2 2-2 4-0 6-0 Quote
huskerkid21 Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 I still have hope - at least until the final whistle blows against Illinois. Lets just say we play our frickin tales off and hang on to win that one. one would hope that would be a confidence builder. at that point the rest of the year becomes win out at home by any means necessary (yes even Michigan because in this scenario in my head (which will definitely happen) we are sniffing a tourney appearance by the time they come to Lincoln and the boys know it so they go out and win that as well. On the road then its all about beating Washington while probably losing all our other road games. In that scenario we get to 19 wins and were at least on the bubble with a chance to make some noise in the Big ten tourney. And WHO KNOWS in this fantasy land dream scenario we could go out and win TWO on the road and were safely in with 20 wins!! On the other hand if we lose to Illinois in humiliating fashion we may not win another game this year. That's all I got at this point and as always go Skers #optomist millerhusker 1 Quote
hskr4life Posted January 29 Author Report Posted January 29 We're notable!! Shawn Eichorst's Toupee, HuscurAdam and cornfed24-7 3 Quote
OmahaHusker Posted January 29 Report Posted January 29 57 minutes ago, hskr4life said: We're notable!! Honestly reminds me of this scene lol Quote
HuscurAdam Posted January 29 Report Posted January 29 3 hours ago, hskr4life said: We're notable!! Same energy... hskr4life and cornfed24-7 2 Quote
Navin R. Johnson Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 Cue the "Don't Buy" stock report on Bluth Industry from the Arrested Development episode. roscoe 1 Quote
HuskerFever Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 3 minutes ago, Navin R. Johnson said: Cue the "Don't Buy" stock report on Bluth Industry from the Arrested Development episode. There's. Money. IN. The. Banana. Stand. roscoe 1 Quote
Navin R. Johnson Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 34 minutes ago, HuskerFever said: There's. Money. IN. The. Banana. Stand. roscoe 1 Quote
Handy Johnson Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 On 1/29/2025 at 12:55 PM, hskr4life said: We're notable!! Lot of Blue Bloods on that List, bout time we got our Props…! Silverbacked1 1 Quote
HuskerActuary Posted January 31 Report Posted January 31 Currently the last team in the tournament in Torvik's projections. Quote
hskr4life Posted January 31 Author Report Posted January 31 Our team sheet heading to Oregon. - for the time being, we again have no blemishes as Rutgers and USC are both Q2 games. - UCLA has again moved into the Q1 realm. That now gives us a 3-6 Q1 record with 2 Q1A wins! - Our overall SOS is approaching Top 25 in the nation and Non-Conference SOS is respectable at 157. -Definitely have metrics work to do, but in order to dance, we need to win, and those will naturally increase. Quote
hskr4life Posted January 31 Author Report Posted January 31 As things stand now, here is what we have left for Quad games. Should we beat Washington, Minnesota, and Iowa and somehow find ourselves with 19 wins, I wouldn’t be shocked if we get a strong look (even at 19-12). Should all else remain the same we’d have quad records of… Q1: 6-10 Q2: 4-2 Q3: 3-0 Q4:6-0 I don’t know what the numbers are, but 10 Q1&2 wins would probably be pretty tough to leave out. Multiple of those Q1 wins would probably be Q1A too. Cheer for Rutgers and USC to limit the blemish on our quad record. Quote
HuskerFever Posted January 31 Report Posted January 31 3 hours ago, HuskerActuary said: Currently the last team in the tournament in Torvik's projections. I'd imagine we'd have to win at least 6 of our remaining games to be in the hunt. Then goes +/- by conference tournament time. Quote
hskr4life Posted January 31 Author Report Posted January 31 8 minutes ago, Silverbacked1 said: What quad are we? Asking for a friend We're in that weird space where if we play someone at their place we're a Q2 game, but if they play at ours we're a Q1 game. If the conference tournament were to start today, we'd be a Q2 game on a neutral court as well. Silverbacked1 1 Quote
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