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This sounds uncomfortable.

KenPom's preseason rankings are released. We are #34. I'll let 49r do his usual, thorough analysis if he wants to. There are 11 Big Ten teams in the top 40.

BTW, 49r, thanks for doing this every year. This is always one of the best threads throughout the season. I don't have a Kenpom subscription and, while I could scan the database to come up with what you post, it's a whole lot easier with you putting it all in one place, and it also allows us to track how we're doing throughout the season and compare where we are with where we were. So, big round of applause. I do have to say that I look forward to this thread that you do every year, 49r.

Interesting article. Reading between the lines, it sounds like Moses is struggling at the moment. The number one thing that concerns me about the team this year is the loss of Leslee and the lack of a quality backup big man. I know Leslee struggled a bit down the stretch last year with some lingering injury issues, but he was a huge player early in the year and still was a very valuable backup later in the year. I do not see him returning at all this year (no matter what the coaches are saying about him shooting for January). I have never understood all the hype and excitement over Moses. He averaged 1.9 pts and 2.8 rebounds on a mediocre Georgetown last year as a redshirt junior in 13 minutes per game. Leslee averaged 5.4 pts and 4.8 rebounds per game in 16 minutes per game.. Leslee was easily twice as good. Once a player is a RS junior, there is no need to go back and look at what his high school ranking is. HS rankings are completely irrelevant at that point. There is a reason he only played 13 minutes a game on a mediocre team last year. Why should we expect him to come to a top 25 team and suddenly be a major factor? I realize people only hope/expect him to come in and rebound and play good defense, but I have even questioned that because based on all reports Moses was a foul machine at Georgetown (and his rebounding numbers are not good either). One of my biggest pet peeves is the saying "Well, at least he is good for 5 fouls." There is NOTHING good about a sub coming in and getting 5 fouls. Last year, especially early in the season, NU lost games because it was fouling so blasted much that it was putting the opponent in the bonus with more than 10 minutes to go in each half. Accumulating too many fouls was probably the biggest hindrance of the team. Why in the world would be want to put someone in who will foul even more? We do not need someone to come in and foul the opponent. With that said, I hope upon hope that Moses is simply struggling to grasp the new system and concepts and that he can get better and be a valuable defender and rebounder. I hope upon hope that Molinari can do his magic and in one short preseason can turn Moses into something that he has never been in 4 years of college basketball. But I am not counting on it at all. And I just feel like the Huskers are gong to be trying to work around that gaping hole (of a lack of any semblance of a big man) all year.

We're winning secret scrimmages?!?!? TEAM OF DESTINY

We in here...talkin' 'bout practice! How silly is 'dat?

Just stumbled across this and I can't find any mention of Michael Thomas in any of the other threads. Has anyone seen any additional information about this recruit? http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Michael-Thomas-168193 I thought I would honor the wishes of the majority regarding the title format following Norm's fine idea in his poll.

I like this 49'r kid.

@daesf is a Kansas Jaysker

I fixed this one. I recently applied a software fix and i recall this being a problem in the past. I couldn't duplicate here but I might not have posted the same way you did. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Post #169 above was from March 2013. There's no posts from the '13-'14 season. Appears someone tagged this onto the end of the '12-'13 season thread. Weren't we doing a new one of these for each season? Should we make this its own thread for this season? Or at least tag it onto the one from last year?

BTW, Northern Kentucky is the first opponent for both the Huskers and the Badgers. Wisconsin should give us a blueprint on how to handle the Norse.

Welcome to the 2014-15 preseason KenPom rankings. Of note is the B1G, with 10 top 40 teams, and all but one team in the top 100, the conference is going to be a dogfight each and every night. Virtually every team in the conference, with the likely exceptions of Wisconsin and Rutgers should expect to finish anywhere between 2nd and 13th, depending on how players develop, injuries and whatnot. Nebraska falls firmly in the middle of the KenPom pack to start the season, and our early cuppiest of cake non-con schedule isn't going to do us any RPI favors. The four-game stretch starting on December 1st with FSU, Creighton, UIW and Cincinnati will likely go a long ways towards telling us just what kind of team we're going to have this year, I would expect to go .500 during that stretch. Diamond Head Classic will be lots of fun, it should be better than the Charleston Classic was last year. I would be disappointed with anything less than 2 wins there. And now, here are the initial 2014-15 KenPom rankings: KenPom rankings as of 10-27-14. =========================== B1G (0-0): 6. Wisconsin 12. Michigan State 14. Ohio State 15. Michigan 26. Indiana 32. Iowa 33. Maryland 34. Nebraska 37. Minnesota 38. Illinois 40. Purdue 56. Penn State 77. Northwestern 103. Rutgers Non-Conference (0-0): 317. Northern Kentucky 340 Central Arkansas 105. @Rhode Island 246. Omaha 334. Tennessee-Martin ---B1G/ACC Challenge--- 41. @Florida State 47. Creighton 289. Incarnate Word 46. Cincinnati ---Diamond Head Classic--- 163. Hawaii 10. Wichita State, 206. LMU 62. GWU, 63. Colorado, 146. Ohio, 197. DePaul

Eleven in the top 40 and all 14 in the top 103. That's frickin' amazing. Rutgers is 3 spots away from all B1G teams being in the top 100 of Kenpom's pre-season rankings. Unreal. The 13th team in the B1G, Northwestern, is ranked #77 and the 12th team, Penn State, is #56. Think back to a couple of years ago when we were ranked outside the top 200 to start the season. Last year, IIRC, we started out somewhere in the 150s. This conference is loaded.

Six teams on the rise entering the 2014-15 season http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/six-teams-on-the-rise-entering-the-2014-15-season-143648105.html Nebraska (19-13, 11-7): Between the raucous sellout crowds at its sparkling new arena and an unexpected late-season surge to slip into the NCAA tournament, Nebraska enjoyed its most successful season in at least two decades last year. Now the Huskers will try to build on that success and show it was no one-year aberration. Nebraska has every chance to make loud crowds, marquee wins and national headlines its new normal thanks to the return of Big Ten player of the year candidate Terran Petteway, slashing wing Shavon Shields and most of last season's core. The addition of Georgetown transfer Moses Abraham will also help, giving the Huskers a physical defensive presence in the paint to pair with finesse-oriented stretch forward Walter Pitchford. If all Nebraska's returners merely improve incrementally and a season-ending knee injury to forward Leslee Smith doesn't leave the team shy of frontcourt depth, the Huskers should return to the postseason and maybe even notch their first NCAA tournament win in program history. If Tai Webster takes a big leap at point guard, a third big man emerges to solidify the frontcourt and Petteway develops a consistent outside shot to go with his knack for attacking off the dribble, Nebraska is fully capable of accomplishing even more than that.

Moses has attempted more than 3 shots in a game once in his career. It would be surprising to see him score much more than garbage points. As long as he's not on the floor with a couple more non-scoring players it won't be that big of a deal. His main focus should be to keep guys from scoring easily inside with minimal fouls....I'd assume his playing time will depend upon this. Any sort of shot blocking or rebounding are nice but not at the expense of fouls. We're going to need him in a few games to pre-conference like Florida St. and anyone else with size. Hopefully we hit on at least one of Moses, 2014-15 Hammond, and Leslee's knee rehabilitation.

Nice find. And nicely done on the formatting. Looks about perfect.

https://twitter.com/HuskerExtraBR/status/526538162081103873 https://twitter.com/HuskerExtraBR/status/526541821682647041

Hopefully some promising info "secretes" out to the members of this board!

thanks Swan

Maybe...Just maybe...by 2018 we are one of those type schools! Well, minus the OLD tradition.