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  1. Hey guys, I will come up with another contest this season, but I'm not sure what or when. I wasn't going to say anything, but Mrs. Cip told me she posted this on her Facebook page, so I guess that gives me permission to share. I didn't watch any of the Washington game. Had to get up at 4 am Thursday to take her to Bryan West for a double mastectomy. They took 4 lymph nodes also, finding cancer in the first two. We have to wait a couple weeks for results on the other two. Why am I sharing this? To give people hope. We will win this battle. Just like we will win the MDS battle with Seth. Typically, life expectancy with his battle is 7 years from diagnosis. We just started year 15. When I said we will win this battle, it's not us winning, it is that God wins! So far, He is undefeated. That's why I'm so confident. We are all looking forward to Sunday. Church, a Huskers victory and the Super Bowl! Haven't decided what I'm cooking yet.
    17 points
  2. My friends, that was a blast! The place was half full, with red behind our bench, and then sprinkled throughout. Not sure how it sounded over TV, but I thought Big Red showed up. The facility was nice; but certainly small. I commented to someone near me, in red, that it was more of a small college feel. Their fans were, uhhh, rather mild. I did see Rich King. Man, I was worried for a bit. It seemed the losing string MOJO was coming back; but boy, a great second half turn around. Will climb on a plane and return home tomorrow; but what a great trip with two quality wins. The players who played...played well.
    16 points
  3. The 23 minutes, 10 points, and 7 rebounds were all season highs for Braxton Meah
    15 points
  4. We were 4 or 5 rows behind Delano and McGowans. Also had a chance to visit with Fred's wife, brother and sister-in-law. What good people.
    15 points
  5. Big win. Gives us a chance to get another road win Wednesday to get back even for the two home losses. That would be on pace for 10-10 in the conference which gets us in the tourney for sure. Would never have thought we could win at Oregon going 4-23 from 3 - particularly missing a number of good looks. Morgan and Gary both finished really well around the rim which helped make up for the poor outside shooting. Berke did not have a big stat game but he battled hard and other than not shooting great did not make mistakes. Meah also gave us some good minutes in the 1st half when we needed them. I have been one down on Rollie at times - but he was money tonight with some big shots when we really needed them. If he keeps contributing on offense we might finish pretty strong. All that said: A. Juwan Gary may well be one of my top 10 favorite huskers (and my Husker fandom goes back to the late 1960's.) He really plays with effort and is a great leader. Not the most skilled player - but he gets the most out of his ability and comes up big at big times. His arrival (along with Emmanuel Bandoumel) a couple years ago really flipped the culture of this program when it was in a very bad place. B. Brice Williams deserves to be 1st team all-conference. I know there are some very talented players in this conference - but I don't think there is anyone more important to their team and given our limited offensive threats on this team he just has to battle extra hard every game. I hope he gets some recognition for that at the end of the year.
    15 points
  6. A quick update: we were under the impression when the first two lymph nodes tested positive, they then removed two more. We were wrong. They actually removed 20 additional lymph nodes. Got the results back this morning. All 20 came back negative! Thank you all for your prayers! Got a good feeling about tonight's game....
    14 points
  7. All, Once again I am deciding to fall on the sword for Husker basketball. A couple years ago I noticed that if I picked a husker loss in the HHCC Competition, they won. If I tried to actually nail the score and thought we'd win, they'd lose. Due to my clear control and impact over the program, I had to make the choice to continue to pick them to lose at the cost of my HHCC ranking. I assume many remember. This lead to the nice run towards the end of the '23 season and then obviously the tourney birth in '24. For those of you who were paying attention, I actually started the year HOT in HHCC, and was still ranked pretty high through some of our losing streak. Well, we are in a dire situation, once again. I have noticed that if I don't participate in the HHCC Competition, and I continue making negative and dark remarks, suggesting Fred get fired, we play better. The more I text my buddies that "I'm out on this staff," the better we play. Therefore I have choose, once again, to tank my HHCC season, and include my reputation on the board, for the good of the team. From here until the end of the season you will see nothing but negativity from me regarding the team and the staff. I've even considered writing up a "Fire Fred" email to AD Dannen. It is my cross to bare, for the sake of the program. But I do it with great purpose and profound care for the program. So - as you guys continue to watch this loser, dead-beat program, with it's JV staff - I hope you know the sacrifice I am making. Your thanks and appreciation are assumed, no need to shower me with praise. Thank you all. And you're welcome.
    14 points
  8. I’m going to give the guy who gets criticized a lot - a lot of credit for his play down the stretch, and that’s Brax. You can’t teach 7’1” with a wingspan like that. He had a few plays where altered shots and his break up of that lob was absolutely huge. And his FT shooting was good too. I know it’s matchup based, but he helped us win today. And a Q1 win is a Q1 win. And another road win in conference. Huge.
    13 points
  9. Berke will be fine. I have a pretty good track record on injuries. Remember Gary out for the rest of the year? I said two games max. Who was right? I decree and declare Berke plays against Maryland this Thursday. GBR!
    13 points
  10. 13 points
  11. 22-28 on 2 point attempts...pump that into my veins!!
    13 points
  12. not that there's a very realistic chance of that happening, but hypothetically that would potentially put us at 10-6 in Q1. Here were the teams last year who had 10 or more Q1 wins: UConn (13-3) 1 seed Purdue (12-4) 1 seed Houston (16-4) 1 seed Iowa State (10-6) 2 seed Baylor (10-9) 3 seed So of course if Nebraska pulled that off, we'd be a 7 seed.
    12 points
  13. Uber talented, but they don’t have the mentality to win in march. A healthy Nebraska would’ve won tonight.
    11 points
  14. Myers Leonard spent the 2nd half crying listening to Bruce Weber call that game
    11 points
  15. For what it's worth, we'd already be on our fourth head coach in 2024-2025 if they listened to everything said on this board.
    11 points
  16. Juwan was so big in turning that thing around - just refused to let us continue playing so poorly. Essegian was a very willing rebounder in the second half - he turned up the physicality versus how he's been playing & that was a big difference, too. I think I'll attend NW's graduation ceremony to make sure Berry walks across the stage finally.
    10 points
  17. Sometimes you play a team that is better than you are and plays great on a given night. This was one of those times. The effort was there. Not much need for over analyzing things in this spot.
    10 points
  18. THAT is why it pays to be "old".... THAT is why it's good that Bryce and Juwan probably don't show a TON of emotion. That's a 20 point comeback ON THE ROAD in the Big 10 in a Q1 game. Northwestern was only 10 spots behind us in the NET. This won't do a ton for the metrics, but it has to do a ton for the psyche.
    9 points
  19. 9 points
  20. Yeah I started taking all 3 of my boys to games when they were like 5 years old. Morgan has kept with me. He stated paying for his own ticket (pays me) since he was 13. Mowed lawns scooped snow to make money. He is now 33 and I asked him last night the last game he remembers missing was maybe the upset of Purdue. Was that when there was a major snow storm? He works for Todd's Lawn Care and does both mowing and snow removal. I myself have been to a minimum of one game, except the covid year since 1965. Have only missed about 10 games since I became a season ticket holder in 1988. Always loved Husker basketball even better than football. Have seen some great and not so great basketball over the years. I do wish we could play a game each year at the old Colosseum but it only holds what 3,000. Maybe an open scramage with the popcorn machine in the corner of the court. Got lots of good stories, it also helped me bond with my boys at a different level.
    9 points
  21. Maryland is 4-0 in its last four games against teams with "Corn" in their names. Dec. 12, 2023 — Maryland 105, Alcorn State 65 Jan. 27, 2024 — Maryland 73, Nebraska Cornhuskers 51 Dec. 1, 2024 — Maryland 96, Alcorn State 58 Jan. 19, 2025 — Maryland 69, Nebraska Cornhuskers 66
    9 points
  22. Rollie-- my man. HUGE HUGE HUGE game. TOTAL GLUE GUY TONIGHT.
    9 points
  23. Should be 17-5 but here we are fighting to be on the last four in. (This is gonna be exhausting to keep up)
    9 points
  24. There are a lot of opinions out there right now, many of them probably from people who watch 2 or 3 Nebraska basketball games all year, if that. Lots of people calling for Fred to be fired too. He is under contract through 2028-29 and we would owe him somewhere around $18-20 million. In an era where athletes are about to start being paid by the university...and a year after being named Coach of the Year. Miles was owed about $2.5 million. There's no way, unless we lose every game, players quit, and someone offers a ton of money to buy him out. In which case if they cared that much they'd probably already have given it to 1890.
    9 points
  25. Hell of a comeback !!!! Great team win !!!!! Great composer in the 4th !!!!
    9 points
  26. Today was Fred Hoiberg's 80th win at Nebraska, in the greater Chicago area, where he coached the Bulls from 2015-18. In fact, Fred coached a preseason game at PBA in 2015, and at that time, I wished there was a world in which Hoiberg was the Huskers head coach at some point in time. Didn't know that day would come about 4 years later. So, we all know the start of Fred's coaching in Lincoln was atrocious, going 21-66 before the turn in 2022 with a 3-game road winning streak (which was matched in 2025 with NU wins at Oregon/Washington/Northwestern). Those three games were all on the opponents' Senior Night: PSU 93-70, OSU 78-70, and Wisc. 74-73. Since the start of that 3-game road win streak, Nebraska's been 59-37 under Fred Hoiberg. Almost incomprehensible the turnaround there's been in the 3 years since the prior 3-road-game win streak had occurred. Primary reason for the turnaround, imo, is that Fred's coaching staff has changed (for the better, obviously), and the NU leadership has committed to recruiting more gritty & complementary players who aspire to be better than they were the day before. I have had a lot of faith in this team, now it's time to grit & grind our way to that big dance victory. GBR
    8 points
  27. These threads are better than therapy. I vote that anything angry we write based on emotion and love doesn’t get used against us in these threads. It’s venting and commezerating between fellow minds. should not be used against us lol
    8 points
  28. That was our biggest comeback in the B1G era. (20) We've had a couple of 19 point comebacks at home - Wisconsin last season and Iowa in 2013 Upon further research, the 20 point comeback ties a school record
    8 points
  29. For the bracketology nerds out there, this is a good article talking about how the committee will be using WAB and the Torvik rankings as new metrics this year, in addition to the previously used ones. https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2024-11-01/ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-committee-discusses-team-evaluation-process#:~:text=The adoption of the Torvik,expect to have against the If you look at every one of our metrics right now we sit at: KPI: 30 (8 seed) SOR: 40 (10 seed) WAB: 38 (10 seed) RES AVG: 36 (9 seed) BPI: 44 (11 seed) KP: 39 (10 seed) TRK: 41 (11 seed) PRE AVG: 41.3 (11 seed) The committee weighs the resume averages a little stronger than the predictive averages too based on last year's data, so I think we're right on the 9-10 line right now.
    8 points
  30. Gary sat the last 10 minutes of the first half with 2 fouls—we were ahead by 5 when he left and down 5 at the half. With Gary in the game, we were clearly the better team. Without him . . . not so much.
    8 points
  31. Can I put you in charge of write ups?
    8 points
  32. Simply put, Meah and Ulis have mostly been eliminated from the rotation and most of those minutes have gone to Sam. It's more complex than that game to game, but that's the simple take. We were mostly there, but functionally we've moved mostly towards just playing one big at a time (Berke/Morgan/Meah) Unless there is foul trouble, Brice and Juwan are out there at the 3 and 4 all game. For the last 3 games, Sam has been out there all game at what I'll call the "point guard guarder" as he isn't a PG per say though you've finally seen him take on that role at times. Thus Rollie and Connor are in a timeshare for "guard". When Juwan was out with foul trouble last game you could say that Rollie was in at PF if you wanted to. If you count up the bolded names, you'll find that we're at a seven man rotation.
    8 points
  33. Cutting into that lead so quickly to start the second half did as much to inflate our guys as it did to deflate theirs. From that point on you could just tell that we were the hunters and UW was always on their heels. They started to force a few bad looks, rush shots, overthink and pass/dribble out of open looks, etc. For all of the faults our D philosophy may have, one thing it absolutely feeds off of is indecision. When teams overthink whether to pass, shoot, or dribble… even for just a second… the rotations are already there and you have to set up a whole new skip around. Also— I know there were a few grumblings about Sam starting and that if he was starting on a Big 10 team…. Yada. That dude has absolutely earned a starting role and is as confident as ever right now on O and D and is also playing well. He’s averaging 36 MPG during the past 4 games and his stats are perfect for a role/glue guy. 4.5 PPG, 2.5 RPG, 2 Assists/game, 1 steal/game, 100% FT, 40% FG, 37.5% 3Pt, but the biggest one for me? 0.75 TO/game He’s shooting fine, taking care of the ball, and playing confidently. He’s earned that starting spot. I believe he presents enough of a threat that he needs guarded but also one that will hurt you if you sag off him. This has allowed Rollie to blossom off the bench and be much more effective I think.
    8 points
  34. If he defended as good as Sam, he'd still be at Wisconsin
    8 points
  35. hhcmatt

    Bracketology 2024/2025

    One game at a time
    8 points
  36. A lot of downers in this post game chat considering we just handled a top 20 team and are firmly on the bubble in February. We don't have any bad losses this season. Some alarming blowouts, sure, but no devastating resumé losses. We also have some very good wins. Illinois will stay Top 25. Creighton will play its way back in to the Top 25 because their conference sucks. Beat Oregon and we're talking seeds again, IMO.
    8 points
  37. Back to your original point tho, the people that get all “Bent Out of Shape” about the Basketball Program DON’T follow it anyway. If they did, they would know this level of futility & disarray is Old Hat to most of us, & we’ll eventually Soldier On regardless…
    8 points
  38. These last five games have sucked. The two home games were absolutely awful performances. However, our resume as it stands is still pretty strong and-- should we continue to win-- will only get stronger. I'm not kidding you when I say that 19 wins probably has us firmly on the bubble (even with a 9-11 conference record). We still have a lot to play for. With 9 Q1 (2 Q2, 1 Q3) opportunities still out there, we can play ourselves back in. So I hope the team doesn't give up on the year just yet. Rutgers, as it stands, still remains our only Q3 loss. Should we finish 9-11 and win our Q2 and Q3 games... if everything remained the same, we'd head to the B1G tournament at 19-12/9-11, and our Quad records would be Q1: 5-10 Q2: 5-1 Q3: 3-1 Q4: 6-0 Now, we could very realistically lose every game we have from here on out. But I'm hopeful we can still turn this ship around... no matter how much it's sinking. (This could all just be me hoping that the tickets I bought to the Iowa game later on this season isn't for a game that doesn't mean anything either)
    8 points
  39. What I'm realizing is Rienk Mast was a bigger loss than I anticipated. Here are some fun facts: -Mast averaged 0.5 blocked shots per game. Rim protector Braxton Meah averages 0.4 blocked shots per game. -Mast averaged 7.5 rebounds per game. Meah averages 3.5. Morgan averages 4.6. Berke leads the team with 5.9. -Mast led the team in assists at 3.0 per game. True point guard Rollie Worster averages 2.6 per game. -Mast had an A:TO ratio of 1.64. Worster is marginally better at 1.81. -Mast shot 34.4% from 3 and made 1.3 per game. Only Connor and Brice are making that many 3s per game on our team.
    8 points
  40. I’m just sorry that Bluder bailed on her team and she didn’t have to suffer that L at home.
    8 points
  41. If there's some way of getting Maryland again in the Big Ten tourney when we're hopefully health once again I do so want a piece of their @$$.
    7 points
  42. Hopefully a game where the team steps up big in Berke's absence. We'll need it. Maryland is/can be a very good team. Nebraska with a chance to get most wins against ranked teams in a season. Getting this one would be huge. Big game. Hope the crowd is ready. Real possibilities.
    7 points
  43. That's what winning teams do. In the first half it just felt like if we could start defending and get some stops. Our next two games are tough. Getting just one would be big but two would be huge. Looking at the schedule looks like we may have to get at least one more road win. Hopefully we just start a big win streak here. Great energy to start the 2nd half and had the game tied in the first 4 minutes. Brice with the dagger three was sweet. Then the smooth layup. Essegian's three with 6 minutes left to push the lead to seven was another one. Those are the kind of shots winning teams make.
    7 points
  44. Steveh4

    Need a win

    Dropped four straight, need a win tonight vs USC BAD Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    7 points
  45. Ladies Night promotion level post
    7 points
  46. It’s fair to expect more out of Fred at this point.
    7 points
  47. 7 points
  48. Aw, McCabe missed her 3 point attempt. You hate to see it
    7 points
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