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I took a guess at the expected average minutes played per game in total and at each position for our 2014-15 roster. Compared to 2013-14, minutes for Shields/Petteway are virtually unchanged, minutes for Pitchford, Webster, Rivers and Parker are each up approximately 3-5 minutes per game (absorbing minutes from Leslie Smith's lack of availability) and the newcomers (T. Smith, Fuller, Abraham and Hammond) basically replace the roughly 20% of court time from players no longer on the roster (largely Gallegos and, to a lesser extent, Biggs and Hawkins). I'm interested in other's opinions on the topic and what the implications are for player groupings and other factors. For instance, I would anticipate we will almost always see 2 of the 3 of Shields, Petteway and Pitchford on the floor at any given time, except in the case of foul trouble or when the outcome of a game has already been decided. Player / Position 1 2 3 4 5 Total Shields 32 0 32 Petteway 24 8 32 Pitchford 8 20 28 Webster 10 16 26 Rivers 22 22 Parker 18 18 Smith, T. 12 12 Fuller 10 10 Abraham 12 12 Hammond 8 8 Smith, L. 0 Other Returnees 0 Total 40 40 40 40 40 200

Fucking once a week night class.

Illballerz.com is a website dedicated to following illinois basketball. They ranked Roby the second best in 2016 for the state. They have Ben Coupet a Simeon teammate of Morrow #1 and Benson is #6.

Well put or normy! I'm glad this site came about as I had no where to discuss hoops. I don't remember how I came about it, but very glad I did. I even got my wife to get an account as she wondered why I'm on this site so much thanks to everyone that makes this possible.

7:05 p.m start time......Got it.

I check this board about 10 times a day to see what is new. I love people's insights to what they know, and for the most part I think most people are pretty honest about our team. Some get loom and doom, some maybe see rainbows and butterflies all the time, but for the most part, people give a good honest opinion on our team/players/coaches/fans. I like that. We could all get on here and bitch and moan when things aren't going well, and we could all talk about trying to compete for B10 titles, but for the most part people speak their mind to what they see. We call a spade a spade. If something isn't going well, most don't sugar coat it. But they also don't jump off a bridge. I like the way people discuss the game of basketball and what they think our team needs to improve on, etc...

Noob here. Found this site thanks to one of your posters, HB; Post here because it is a great source of Nebraska BB information (and the community is welcoming). I'm a poster (and longer-time lurker) on another board, Husker Max. Football's my first interest, only really starting to follow Basketball after Tim Miles was hired (had never heard of him before; but, there is just something about him that grabs your attention, at least mine). I was getting frustrated by the paucity of BB information on HM (particularly during the off-season), wanting to learn more about Basketball, not knowing much about about the game (come to think about it, don't know a lot about Football either! ) Amazed at what Miles has been able to accomplish in such a short time at Nebraska. I was lucky enough to make a trip back to Lincoln last February and had to go to a game at the new PBA (vs. Penn State @ 'The Vault') to find out what all the hub-bub was about. Great Trip, Great Venue, Great Atmosphere, Great Game (we won)! The future for Nebraska Basketball is bright, indeed! Go Big Red!

I don't remember just exactly what brought me here in the first place, honestly, it's been so long ago now. I think I signed up like 10 years or so ago. *shrug* But, there are many reasons why I choose to keep coming back here (full disclosure, this is one of only a few message boards I'm even actually registered for, and literally the only one I actually post on), in fact there are reasons too numerous to really mention, besides I'm sure my feelings will be encapsulated by others' comments in this thread. But if I were to choose one reason why this is the only place for me to go to discuss Husker hoops it would be the following. There has never been, nor will there ever be a poster that tries to make the "Wait...Nebraska has a basketball team?" joke here. That's why I keep coming back. Well, that and reading about a0t0w0 and his torrid love affair with the couch.

WE WON THE BIG TEN POSTER CHAMPIONSHIP!!! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!! Can't nobody say we've never won a conference championship in basketball. #Justdidit.

On a related note, the team that snapped their Title streak was NC State with David "Skywalker" Thompson & Chuck Nevitt.

Notre Dame, I believe. And that's without looking. You would be correct. I met Bill Walton at a meet and greet two years ago and he was talking with the guy in front of us about that game since he had the Sports Illustrated with it. Speaking of I went and found the old photo. A couple months before The Kamdy Man himself joined our world. So, Bill Walton is like 6 feet 12, so if you look at the back wall and estimate the angle of the camera versus the shoulder height of the woman next to him, I think you can pretty well calculate that baby's gonna be huge.

Notre Dame, I believe. And that's without looking. You would be correct. I met Bill Walton at a meet and greet two years ago and he was talking with the guy in front of us about that game since he had the Sports Illustrated with it. Speaking of I went and found the old photo. A couple months before The Kamdy Man himself joined our world. Kamdy now we know where the good looking kids come from!

It wasn't really accurate for me to call it a channel. It really was a network back in the 70's that broadcast games - mostly on a regional basis - around the country. On any given Saturday in January and February, you could watch the Big Eight game of the week with Jay Randolph and Gary Thompson on KMTV or KOLN. That's what I remember anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVS_Television_Network

Pert' near 100% what I would guess. Smith is the wild card to me. I'll be interested to see if he flips your estimated minutes with Benny or takes more minutes from Tai. ...Or he could take fewer... Or he could sell gasoline out of the back of a van....WILDCARD BISHOPS

Wasn't sure quite where to put this (forum) or quite how to put this (words) so I'll just stick it here and say it this way. There are other message boards out there where you can discuss Husker hoops, and some of us post on them, but we all post here and probably mostly here when it comes to basketball. And I'm curious, from y'all's perspective, why. Why here? And, if anywhere else, where else? I have my reasons and this question was prompted for a reason, but I don't want my answer to influence anyone else, so, until others have had a chance to answer, I'll just hang up and listen. Guys and gals, what brings you here?

Just a word to the wise (so, the fools can just ignore and move on to a different thread). We return pretty much the same team we had last year. What's that definition of insanity people keep using? I expect most of our players to be incrementally better this year than they were last. In fact, I think it's reasonable to anticipate that Tai Webster, in particular, has made some good strides. I think we add some elements, including the shooting ability of Nick Fuller, that will give us some additional firepower. As some have noted, we've lost a big contributor in Leslee Smith whose productivity is not likely to be replaced by Moses Ayegba. There's been a lot of hype about this team, but the bottom line, people, is ... DON'T LET REALITY BITE. DON'T GET TOO CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE. I think we'll be good again. We should be even marginally better. But we haven't brought in any lottery picks and the Big Ten didn't suddenly get weak during the off-season. Our schedule will be tougher. There are a lot of reasons to think we'll be better this year than last, but I would suggest some measured optimism. Where KenPom has us to start the season, #34, is probably a pretty realistic place for us to start. If that holds true, we're maybe in the 8 vs. 9 game in the NCAA tourney and not a lock for a tourney win, either. Hey, I'm probably as optimistic and hopeful as anyone. I just don't want to see the board melt down after our first loss. That's all.

University of Illinois' basketball arena, State Farm Center, which is currently undergoing a mega-renovation project was flooded by stormwater early today. They had just put the basketball floor (which had also just been refinished recently) down. No determination yet of whether the floor will need to be repaired or replaced. Still, pretty crappy timing for them. News release: http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/102814aac.html Fan reaction: http://www.illinoisloyalty.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=21783 Link to live webcam of the construction project, both inside and outside the arena: http://www.fightingillini.com/statefarmcenter/webcam.html

OK, my story. I started out, maybe 15-20 years ago, as a lurker on HuskerMax. Didn't join because I didn't want to pay for it, frankly. Then, I found HuskersIllustrated (when it was still the Rivals site) and joined the free board. This was about the time Keith Brumbaugh, the 5-star left-handed PF from Florida, was taking a visit to us under Barry Collier. He was an '04 recruit, meaning it was '03 that he came for his visit. And that's when I joined what is now HuskersOnline. Half or more of my posts were on the basketball side and I was a regular fixture over there for a time. I've said a few times that I don't post over there anymore but that I still lurk. I don't think I've ever told anyone why I don't post over there anymore, but as I was lurking there today, I saw a thread about the "secret scrimmage" and, in looking at that thread, someone wondered why the thread was posted on the general discussion board and not on the hoops board. And, in response to that, someone else said the hoops board had basically died a few years ago because a moderator over there had run everyone off who wanted to talk about hoops. I'm not trying to advertise for Rivals by starting this thread, but I can categorically say that explanation is total BS and 100% wrong. And seeing who said it pissed me off just enough to start this thread. I've been doxed twice in my life while posting on various message boards and both times it was on the Rivals Nebraska site. The first time it happened was over on the hoops board and it was done by Adam Barnes. Some of you may have wondered why I don't seem to care for the guy and that is why. I have no idea how he learned of my identity. I was told by someone else that there was a mod over there who would divulge IP addresses to people he was friends with who would then have others look up those IP addresses to find out who they belonged to. Maybe that's how Adam got my real name, I don't know. But he used it in a discussion he and I were having in a thread where I had the audacity to disagree with him on something. Imagine my shock seeing my actual, real name, that I had never disclosed to him and never given anyone permission to divulge or share publicly, pasted in a response by him to a quoted post of mine. That's when I first joined HHC. But I still kept posting over on Rivals because there remained people over there who weren't yet posting over here and sometimes there was discussion that happened there first. And, being Rivals, you could occasionally engage with fans from opposing teams when they'd come to the Husker Rivals board or when you'd go to theirs. So, I kept posting over at Rivals. The second time I was doxed was about 3 years ago. Two members over there whom I'd met at a tailgate years earlier and who, therefore, knew who I was, started to dox me. It happened in a thread in which a mod whom I knew to be a friend of theirs was actively posting, so I knew the mod had seen what they were doing and not only didn't delete it but let it continue. I've totally lost all respect for that mod, by the way. But, because the mod didn't do anything about it (and was their friend) I took screen shots of the posts and sent an e-mail to Mike Matya with the screen shots along with not only Rivals' privacy policy rules that they had violated, but also Yahoo's privacy rules that they had violated. The thread now pinned at the top of the Rivals board about strict prohibition on divulging private info is there because I had to complain to Matya about them doxing me. At that point, I left Rivals. I changed my account password to something I would never remember and changed the e-mail address in my Rivals profile to something that was nonsense so that I couldn't get a recovery e-mail in the event I was tempted to ever post there again. And I left. It takes at least two people to have a conversation and, from that point forward, any discussion that would have otherwise moved forward with a reply from me tended to die on the vine. Take away a volume contributor and a significant amount of discussion ends up just not happening. And so it was with the Rivals hoops board. If you don't have people over there willing to contribute to a thread, you wind up with a lot of single-post threads that go nowhere. And go take a look at that board and that's what you'll find -- a lot of one post threads. And, so, today, while I was lurking on the Rivals main board, I see a post by one of the guys who started to dox me back then suggesting that the reason the hoops board is dead over there now is because of the behavior of a mod who now posts here. Au contraire, mon frère. That board is dead because good posters who were willing to engage in decent conversation got tired of dealing with the bullcrap. And it seems like a lot of the posters I used to see posting over there post primarily here now. Just the good ones, though. Fortunately, the a-holes seem to have stayed over there for the most part. And I just hope it stays that way. Thanks for letting me vent. P.S. Doxing someone on a message board is about the lowest thing ever and should result in immediate banning.

This is THEE only message board where I don't feel like I'm wasting 50% of my time sifting through a thread. *edit* To answer the question... I post here because I'm drunk. If I post, I'm drinking. Three things are guaranteed in life- death, taxes, and a0t0w0 drunk HHC'ing

Compared to the other sites, Husker Hoops Center is the most informative. HHC is well organized, and positive. Keep up the good work and GBR!

I haven't been posting for a while but I found this site thanks to Huskercwg and I really fell in love with it. I don't have an account on Husker Max or that stuff because I enjoy watching football but I don't need the whiners that we lost or the constant recruiting talk of 65 different guys. Plus I just prefer basketball as a sport. So the reason I post here is because all of YOU guys make it fun and enjoyable for me to talk about my favorite sport and team.

Your posts Norm! Also love arguing with nustudent back in the Sadler years

This is the only message board that I follow or post to. That said, I enjoy the size of this community. Some of the bigger message boards (specifically football) get bloated with too many posts. As a member who doesn't engage in every thread and only checks in every day or 2, I like the fact that I don't have to dig through 20 pages just to get caught up. This board allows me to stay connected to the conversation without requiring hours upon hours of my time.

I don't post a lot, but I've been coming to HHC for a long time because this is THE BEST message board when it comes to Nebraska Basketball. I haven't seen a better Husker message board for Nebrasketball. There are a lot of great discussions (and information) here, and I believe this is where a lot of the diehard Nebraska basketball fans have been coming for years.

Because when I started posting here there seemed to be only four or five other true Husker basketball fans. I wanted to discuss Husker basketball with those who shared my love of Husker basketball. After a very short period of time, that list has grown exponentially. A big thank you to HB who introduced me to this site, Same for huskerinconneticut who stopped posting (in part) due to being slammed by some of the naysayers during the growth of this site.

I'd expect there to be "Event parking" but in the $3-$5 range

I'll be there, Game 7 will still be on when it is over and I will be able to listen to it on my way home. I have a 6 year old that loves basketball, and I think he would love the autograph session!

What brings me to this site for basketball Norm is what is stated at the top of the page, Husker Hoops Central. When I want to talk football I do Husker Max. I guess these are the only sites I really pay attention to.

i began posting here i think about three years ago, mostly out of necessity because i wanted to talk, discuss hear husker hoops, and none of my friends would oblige, and i came to this site during a Google search, other sites that i noticed seemed very clunky and sometimes intimidating; this site even on the old site was very clean, organized and seemed open to new posters, and im very happy to be on this site, listening to people like Norm, nustudent, huskercwg, silverback, the admins, and the first years when sadler was still here and were werent on tv a lot, i liked hearing those post game discussions. I even liked the trolls like Bradguru, icedragon, and others because even though they were insane or just weird in the stuff they said i still found it quite funny. the thing i most appreciate about this site is that the admin allow it to be for the most part free flowing, clean and provide quality information so much so that we've all seen writers use info from this forum. i love this forum and GBR!

because its predominantly hoops talk for the most part whereas the other places I post may only have one or two hoops discussions. Just gives me more options to really talk hoops than the others present.

Hey, now! I'd like to think it was a team effort, Norm! Didn't say I didn't have help.

Hey, now! I'd like to think it was a team effort, Norm!

A tweet from Brian Rosenthal reads: @HuskerExtraBR: KU transfer Andrew White will indeed be participating in tonight's Big Red Tip-Off at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Now all we need is for Gregg Marshall to get fired between now and then...

Got mine yesterday. Still waiting on Utah tickets.

So, you notice how I hijacked my own thread? Pretty solid, huh?

We proved last year it's not.

So, Bill Walton is like 6 feet 12, so if you look at the back wall and estimate the angle of the camera versus the shoulder height of the woman next to him, I think you can pretty well calculate that baby's gonna be huge. I don't know if you should trust the photo, Norm. Look how they have cleverly positioned the table so you can't see the angle of their knees! Are you saying she's kneeling there so as not to show anybody up?

If we added a bad opponent at home, even if we won, our RPI would be worse because of it. This is because 75% of the RPI formula focuses on SOS and opponent's SOS, and for the actual W/L portion, a home win is only worth 0.6 wins. I think it's debatable if the juice would be worth the squeeze here.

So, Bill Walton is like 6 feet 12, so if you look at the back wall and estimate the angle of the camera versus the shoulder height of the woman next to him, I think you can pretty well calculate that baby's gonna be huge. I don't know if you should trust the photo, Norm. Look how they have cleverly positioned the table so you can't see the angle of their knees!

Notre Dame, I believe. And that's without looking. You would be correct. I met Bill Walton at a meet and greet two years ago and he was talking with the guy in front of us about that game since he had the Sports Illustrated with it. Speaking of I went and found the old photo. A couple months before The Kamdy Man himself joined our world.

Notre Dame, I believe. And that's without looking.

Really? We can sell Kidney on the black market and make $25,000? Sounds too good to be true. Are you sure it's not having to pay $25,000 to get rid of him?