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When I saw "new target", I thought it was about Grand Island getting another venue to shop at. Never mind.

If I'm reading this tweet right, Ryan Anderson's gonna get a shot to make a NBA DLeague roster. Duane Rankin ‏@DuaneRankin Ryan Anderson is 8th camp invite for #Erie BayHawks. Was in open tryout. Played for @HuskerHoops. In @nbadleague last season@SFSkyforce

This is maybe more trouble than it's worth, but I do have 2 cheap seat tickets to Wednesdays game that I'd give away if somebody wanted to use them. Probably should have put this in the marketplace section...figured no one would see it there. Scold me and move it if need be. Would just need to get them to you somehow. I live in East Lincoln and work in SW Lincoln, if those may be possible pick up places for you. Maybe I could even mail them. Anyhow, PM me if interested.

Hey, thanks for the effort, guys. Had a good time. People aren't going to tell you your product sucks, but everyone seemed to like our all natural beef brats, polish and hot dogs. Jimmy and his designated driver stopped by, and I had the pleasure of meeting two very nice lurkers. I expect posts from them soon! If anyone wants to try them, you can find all three at the fresh meat counter at Ideal. Also, if you have a hankering for one of our burgers or steaks, the new Barry's serves them. Sometime this season, this board needs to figure out how we can all get together. I'll provide the beef. Get to work on that, Dimes.

You play to win the game. If I'm Miles, I stop just short of forcing Biggs to play. At the end of the day though, you have to respect the decision of the kid.

Is it best player based on their legacy during and after college or best performance? Anyway no one mentioned Sek Henry? Kidding, relax....it's Chief Kickingstallionsims

The notion that every major conference team is better than any mid major team is completely inaccurate. If your comments are serious, you do not know what you are talking about. Without question, the top progams in the major conferences have more talent than teams that aren't in major conferences, barring an exception or two (e.g., UNLV or Memphis (who will soon be a major conference team)). And, those top major conference teams are generally better than virtually every non-major conference team. Of course, such elite programs still lose occasionally to mid major or small conference teams (e.g., Duke losing to a Patriot League team and not quite elite losing to a squad from the MEAC). This should be well understood to anyone who follows college hoops. But, once you start talking about entire leagues of teams, the truth is that the lesser teams in those leagues do not compare favorably to the better teams outside of those major conference teams. Since you have been referencing the ACC, look at what Boston College did last year. BC lost to 7 non-major conference teams and 4 of those teams failed to make the NCAA tournament. Elsewhere in that league, Wake Forest lost to 3 non-major conference teams that did not make the NCAAs, and Georgia Tech lost to 4 such teams. Similar results can be found throughout the major conferences. And, the majority of such major conference losses are home or neutral-site games, so it is not as if these are tricky road game losses. Back to the Jays: Last season, Creighton played three of the Big 10 teams that did not make the NCAAs, and Creighton won all three games. But, supposedly McDermott would struggle to score 10 points a game in the ACC (he put up 20 and 9 against UNC, even though he didn't play very well, and that was a really long UNC team for him to match up against), and no other Creighton player would get any playing time on any major conference team? In case you care, Echenique’s numbers at Rutgers, when he was less experienced than he is now, were actually slightly better than his numbers have been at Creighton. Also, the Big East to Creighton transfer before him, Chad Millard from Louisville, was more productive as a Freshman in the Big East than he was while in Omaha. None of this is to argue that every Creighton player would be logging minutes for Duke, Syracuse or Michigan State, or that Creighton recruits the same caliber players as the top tier major conference teams. Or, even that Creighton is definitely going to blow out Nebraska in Lincoln this year. I do not believe those things, and doubt that most Jays fans do. But, it is ignorant and false to claim that Creighton is inferior to every major conference program. It is not as if we're talking about SEC football vs. Sun Belt football, here. There is tons of parity in this sport, as many people's preseason pick for national champion can attest if they dare remember their 2012 trip to the Bob. Personally, I hope Nebraska improves in the next couple of years so there can be two high quality teams in the state. It is not as though there is only room for one. Moreover, Nebraska fans need to focus on Big 10 rivals, not Creighton. Regardless of what happens between those two programs, recruiting and on-the-court battles with Penn State, Northwestern, Minnesota, Iowa, Purdue and Illinois will determine whether Nebraska can at least get back to a Nee level of quality. Finally, I agree with the topic from another forum about moving these threads to that forum.

Not quite sure why this thread is here, and as a Creighton grad/fan I sort of wanted to ignore it, as I do not want to be viewed as a message board troll... but your comment is ridiculous. Based on your name, I'm assuming you like or at least follow Maryland. I have no ill feelings towards the Terps. I actually kind of like them, and think Turgeon has them headed in the right direction. Maybe next year or the year after they'd finish something like 15-3 or 16-2 in the MVC. But, the notion that Maryland is 20 points better than Creighton right now is bizarre. I expect the Terps, like Creighton, to be a bit, but not drastically, improved this year. With that in mind, remember that last season they lost to Alabama (mentioned earlier in this thread in context of their close loss to Creighton) by 20, Iona by 26, and Illinois at home by 9 out of conference, and then lost 10 or 11 conference games in a down year for the ACC. There simply is no basketball evidence that supports your claim. FWIW, I think 15 might be a tad high, but I'll be surprised if they're not at least somewhere between 20 and 25 at the end of the year.

You're kidding, right? They did exactly what an 8 seed is supposed to do. Won the 8-9 game, and played well but lost to the 1 seed in a tough game. Doing nothing with it would have been losing the first game. I'm no Creighton fan, but that "nothing" of reaching the round of 32 was more than we have ever done.

Well they got an 8th seed and did nothing with it. Agree they will be ranked but not that high.