Oregon (18-8) vs. Nebraska (17-9) Game Thread

[AuroranHusker]

Just now, HB said:

And zero turnovers   Amazing.

 

She was balling out, no doubt.

 

[Tom Jones]

SPEECHLESS!  for the moment anyway!

 

[redsteve]

Another great team win.  We are going to miss Alexia next year. She plays with a shear will to win.  35 points...don't recall anyone scoring 35 for Nebraska. Someone needs to scour the record books.

 

 

[longtimefan]

When this game started out and we were behind 10 to nothing And Britt Prince is not playing I honestly didn't think we were going to have a chance at winning. Markowski usually has a hard time against much taller players than her so I didn't think she'd have a good night. Boy was I wrong. Kudos to the whole team!!

[All About the Corn]

Karen Jennings is at the top with 48 points against KSU in 92.

Edited yesterday at 03:21 AM by All About the Corn

[AuroranHusker]

Alexis knows her time at PBA is drawing nigh. She balled out in the big, big way. Likely her best game of her career when NU had to have it. Six threes, even. And no turnovers. Only 2 fouls, one of which was a bit questionable near the end of OT. Anyway, props to Markowski for taking this team on her back, along with Callin, late.

[All About the Corn]

Hake is a streaky shooter. Glad she was on tonight.

[AuroranHusker]

Logan Nissley with a steady 16 pts 7 reb 5 ast. She helped a lot, too.

 

[mwm89]

This is huge! So many that needed to contribute did. Of course as Coatney said, Markowski carried us on her back!  Anything less than that from her and we probably don't win tonight.  Really proud of the women tonight - this one could have gotten away from us. I hope we get at least one of the next two, perhaps both! GBR! 

[AuroranHusker]

And Rimdal with 15 pts and 5 assists. Good stuff.

 

[Cazzie22]

Did Rimdal start tonight?

[AuroranHusker]

2 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

Did Rimdal start tonight?

 

No, Moriarty did.

 

[Nails]

2 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

No, Moriarty did.

 

Good thing too. If Rimdal would have started, we wouldn’t have much bench production at all. 

[AuroranHusker]

2 minutes ago, Nails said:

Good thing too. If Rimdal would have started, we wouldn’t have much bench production at all. 

 

Rimdal had 34 min. while Moriarty only played 17. So, it turned out Alberte basically played "starter's minutes."

 

[AuroranHusker]

Tonight was Markowski's 50th double-double of her career. She only has 1 game left at PBA. GBR

 

[AuroranHusker]

Alexis went from 11 for 48 on threes on the season (22.9%) all the way up to 17-57 (29.8%), a nearly 7% increase based on 6-9 tonight. That's an amazing turnaround, resulting in a B1G dub. She sees that her time left is closing in, and doing something about it. GBR

 

Edited yesterday at 04:55 AM by AuroranHusker

[Cazzie22]

IF we can win our last two games it would put us at 11-7 in the B1G.  I would have taken that at the beginning of the season.  Beating Washington without Prince will be a challenge.  I hope she can play against NW with a full week to recover.  

[AuroranHusker]

Nebraska was 8 for 8 on threes in the 4th/OT. That's incredible. They needed all of them, too.

 

[Tom Jones]

Went to bed thinking about it.  Woke up thinking about it. Best and most exciting game since the two Iowa games last year.  Had we filled up a praise bucket at tip off time, and had we been dishing out portions as the game went on, during the OT we'd have been saying "OMG we needed a bigger bucket - a LOT bigger bucket".  Everybody made valuable (and essential contributions. Perhaps obscured by all the other impressive stats ... Petrie had five blocks and Markowski had six drawn fouls.  Now we might expect that from AM but Hake had five DF of her own.  In limited minutes Coley had five boards and Moriarty had defensive on their star. Maybe my amateur view of Nissley earlier in the season, has been unfair, but i have come away thinking "too often she just doesn't seem really engaged/involved".  Not so last night - playing defense, getting rebounds, and shooting threes as tho it were her freshman season again. 

 

Some of us, me included, have commented on here that we wish we were seeing more improvement over the careers of some players. Not so for Callin Hake. She has come so far - giant steps - since her freshman year. 

 

About AM40 ... I have been watching UNWBB for 30 years.  There have been a lot of players making sustained, never give up, great efforts.  Yes, and i don't mean to diminish anybody's effort. But I can't think of any other player who has so obviously given it everything she's got (and was always looking for the chance to give a little bit more) every time she takes to the court.  

 

Let's do it again on Sunday. 

[Tom Jones]

9 hours ago, AuroranHusker said:

Nebraska was 8 for 8 on threes in the 4th/OT. That's incredible. They needed all of them, too.

 

yes.  but HOW incredible?  Let's say that a shooter could consistently hit 40% of the her three pt attempts - which would be a rarity. And let's say that she has already hit the first one. Her probability of hitting the next seven, as i calculate it, would be .0.001638 or fewer than 17 successes in 10,000 attempts. So on average she would first succeed on her 294th attempt. I think I did that right, but I took algebra a long time ago 

[All About the Corn]

Yes Hake has taken a step up in her play this year. What we need going forward is for her and Nissley to both bring it every game. Both have had games where they have been a non factor. Also we have enough guards even if Allison calls it a career. Will need to hit the portal for our 4-5s. We have good pieces coming back. Need to finish strong with 2 more wins before going into the B1G tourney. 

[Huskerpapa]

3 hours ago, All About the Corn said:

Yes Hake has taken a step up in her play this year. What we need going forward is for her and Nissley to both bring it every game. Both have had games where they have been a non factor. Also we have enough guards even if Allison calls it a career. Will need to hit the portal for our 4-5s. We have good pieces coming back. Need to finish strong with 2 more wins before going into the B1G tourney. 

Zero excuse, Nissley had surgery on both feet during the off-season, severely affecting development.   Just a fact with no strings attached.

[AuroranHusker]

 

[Bugeaters1]

1 hour ago, Huskerpapa said:

Zero excuse, Nissley had surgery on both feet during the off-season, severely affecting development.   Just a fact with no strings attached.

Least we forget that. That and some would call it the Sophomore slup. 

[Bugeaters1]

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