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The Record was: 8-8 Big wins: Beat a (5-4) Miami team at home? Bad losses: UAB, UMASS, Boat-raced by the PukeJays, Lost to Ohio St. by 31 (can you imagine) We were (0-4) in B1G I know the run that followed was magical, and I'm not saying its going to happen with this team, BUT...... Hopefully the boys are ready to play Sunday (Taking my boys to their first Nebrasketball game), get a win, get some momentum going, and you never know. If you have some free time, go take a look at the message board in December/January '13/14. I wish I could tell all those people to hang on. One last thing..... Our 2nd to last Conference Game this year is against Wisconsin....... on a Sunday. GBR

Walker > Smith. And I also just wanna use this post to show a little appreciation to Derrick Walker. He’s 41/51 (80.4%) from the field this year. Shooting nearly 70% in his Nebraska career. That’s crazy. Free throw shooting is much improved. Makes good decisions. He’s a true team player on a team that desperately needs one (or several). I feel bad for him. He’s the type of guy who could be a real solid role player on a really good team.

It feels to me like we have come across the dreaded "circular reference" error in Excel

The thing is if you take any of these lineups and replace Fred Hoiberg with any other Nebraska basketball coach from the last 25 years, that team would beat Fred's team.

The most Nebrasketball post I’ve read today. Cheers to you, Handy!

You're factoring in Matej's time at Seattle and Bear Jones at Northern Kentucky and Derrick Walker at Tennessee as evidence that they are equally as talented as these other guys? Why do we care what somebody did at Seattle? Or Texas Tech? Or Northern Kentucky? Or playing in garbage time at Tennessee? Or at LSU? Or at Arizona State. That's irrelevant whatsoever. Bear Jones at Nebraska 08-09 1.8 ppg in 11.5 mpg 09-10 6.0 ppg in 16.9 mpg 10-11 4.1 ppg in 12.4 mpg No idea where you got 8.3 ppg. Keisei is not even halfway through his first season at Nebraska and is averaging 7.7 ppg in 20.0 mpg shooting 33.9% from 3. Bear shot 33.8% in his third year in the program. Yes productivity wise Keisei is ahead of Bear. Other than a couple big games Keisei has been largely disappointing and his percentage is still what Bear's was in his 3rd and last year in the program. Derrick Walker at Nebraska 20-21 5.9 ppg and 4.7 rpg 21-22 9.1 ppg and 6.4 rpg but you have him at averages of 3.1 points and 2.7 rpg? Yes he's better than Leslee Smith. Really no question IMO. Bo and Zo's Nebraska only numbers have Verge better in every category except 3-pt and FT accuracy. Otherwise though he's entirely more productive especially in rebounding (5.7 to 2.6) and assists (5.5 to 3.3) and that's saying something considering how everyone says he doesn't pass and how much we suck at shooting. I would definitely entertain Lance Jeter over Verge based on intangibles alone, but not Bo Spencer. And the thought of having Matej Kavas in any starting lineup in Nebraska history makes me cringe. I dislike Lat as a player probably as much as anyone on this board, but he has started 37 of 37 career games as a Husker (thanks Fred), and Matej started 1 whole game. Lat averaged 8.6 ppg on 34.8% from 3 last year. Matej averaged 5.3 ppg on 33.8% from 3 in his one year at Nebraska. Yeah Lat has been terrible this year, but Matej was terrible as well and even more useless on defense and rebounding.

Jaron Boone is the guy Bryce reminds me of most.

Toney McCray as your comp for Bryce McGowens is a crime against humanity. Everyone else is pretty spot on tho, hahaha.

I think we will have Brandon Richardson replace Bear Jones in about a month

I've been to so many men's games for 2 decades that it was strange rooting for a good team. It almost felt wrong.

Fan introductions at the CHI center:

He once came to my ELEMENTARY school, as a player, and told us he was so good at free throws cause he imagined a beautiful naked woman in the crowd. That absolutely stuck with me.

Please stop doing this. Stop putting the blame on players. I'm all about players having accountability when it is warranted. These guys are coached to play this way, or haven't you been paying attention this season. Putting any sort of blame on Verge is just wrong. He's the best scoring pg we've had a Nebraska since Lue. He passes the ball to his teammates a lot in the 1st half and they jacked up +17 3's only making 2 or 3 of them. At least he was trying to get to the rim. Most of his shots where contested because no one on this team sets a decent screen. Still he managed to go 12/21 most of that in 2nd half. Every shot Lat took was a 3. 4 of 9 shots by Bryce where 3. Derek had 2 shot attempts. This all is by design. This is what they do in practice. This is what Fred wants. If he didn't want this he would have sat some guys on the bench. Re-watch the game and pay attention to Verge.

We are veterans of "long, terrible seasons". We got this!