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Excellent article. For those that opined about his five game absence at the beginning of the season, the rumors are dispelled here. Heck of a man and player! He has been a pleasure to watch and will be missed on multiple levels. https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/mens-basketball/how-nebraskas-derrick-walker-got-out-of-the-dark-place-and-began-playing-his-best/article_47d9c093-3635-5a00-a965-93f4b26d8c89.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

The longest active winning streak in the Big Ten belongs to the 12th place team

Amie Just did a great job on this lead article in the LJS. It shows Derrick, Fred, and the whole basketball program at NU are class acts. Kudos to everyone involved

Time for my "old man get off my lawn" thoughts. Raiola, Rhule and Tominaga parents get screen time and huge cheers. Why is 4* recruit John Bol not getting shown any love?

Thanks to Wiscos loss… we’ve moved up to 11th. If Rutgers beats PSU tonight, we’ll be in 10th

Glad to hear the real story get out and Derrick comfortable enough to share it

Exactly - I especially loved today when he was feeding Walker in the post, he always took a purpose dribble to improve the angle before he made the feed. No lazy pass, no poor-angle pass. He made sure he was in the perfect spot to make the pass without risk of turnover. Just little things that you have to be a gym rat to do correctly every time.

Hope Bol didn't get upset the crowd didn't chant his name when he walked in.

That little kid in the background looks a smidge taller. Are we sure he's 7'2"?

Walking into the Vault today see 5 Asian gentlemen outside taking pictures and seemed vvveeerrryyy excited to be here. Then go inside and see 2 more Asian gentleman looked like brothers with their Brand new red 30 Husker jerseys. I do believe he had reached the level of HERO.

It takes a Big MAN to admit that he needed help in such a public way, but this Team clearly wouldn’t be where it is now without him.

Exactly my thoughts. I really hope he wasn't offended by not getting the same love. Our students need to get it together.

On a day that Walker and Tominaga didn't have their best games, we got solid game from Breidenbach, good games from Lawrence and Wilcher and awesome games from the two Sam's. Add in good minutes from Oleg and Dawson and well, bring on Sparty.

Ha - just saw Fred's postgame interview on BTN. "Ben Johnson is doing an amazing job, etc, etc, etc..." Sure is nice to have our coach be the one to heap false praise on the coach of the team that's in last place for a change.

Very physical game and a good job (I thought) by the refs of letting the game play out. Once again it appeared Keisei had issues with cramps. Those buggers are getting a tad worrisome. Everyone who played had good contributions. Great to see. Especially great to see Oleg with some good minutes given his parents are in town. Man, Sam Hoiberg does a lot of little things well, and quite frankly, many big things too. Big cheers today for the couple Dylan Riola appearances...a Rhule shot and numerous shots of Mr. And Mrs. Tominaga appearances. Man he is a big dude...and she is a small lady. Did I mention he is huge. Heck, Oleg's parents are 6'11 and 6'4...so BIG parents. By the way, a certain recruit that was directly behind our bench was pretty darn tall as well. Nice win men. Keep it going!

Box Score: https://huskers.com/sports/womens-basketball/stats/2022-23/northwestern/boxscore/21862 Attendance: 6,232!!! (not as high as for the Iowa Game, a record, but quite respectable @ > 5,000)

Naga family members enjoying themselves at Gate before the game. Classic. Griesel’s folks as well. Then Raiola holding court after the game on the corner by Mello. Fun day.

I did feel Minnesota had a very good game plan and we were fortunate to win this one. We always seemed to have an answer when they cut it close!! fyi I was listening to post game and Fred said they were taking keisei and Oleg and their parents out for supper tomorrow night. That would be a very interesting table to sit at! Lol

Minnesota stuck to him really well with a longer defender. Good job by them and good job by KT to not force things.

Give the kid credit for making the most of his opportunity. I was dead wrong about the depth on this team and was critical about our depth after Bandoumel and Gary went down and it looked bleak. Credit to the coaching staff for developing our depth. Sam H. and JLaw look like great pieces for years to come and I would have questioned my own sanity for thinking that three weeks ago.

I was at the game and it was just as you described. There was 3 plays in a row where they just mugged us out front and no call. Getting a technical is one thing but the timing was disastrous. It was a 5 pt. turn around but could have been a 7 point one if we make a buzzer beater without the technical. Momentum just handed to them. That being said I listened to the Amy and Matt post game interview hoping for a bit of explanation from her something like "I just got very frustrated and getting a technical is never good but the timing on that one really cost us some momentum." In other words take some blame for a poor decision.

I think after reading the article on Jaz yesterday there is a small chance she will be back. I think it hinges a bit on how we do the rest of the season.

Ask the University doctors and administrators.

Lose the ball and give up 5 points? Wait 20 seconds, then chew their asses. Terrible coaching decision.

I don’t get BTN+ so I’m watching Indiana at Iowa on ESPN while following this game thread. My word, we have a ways to go to reach the level of these 2 programs in terms of talent, athleticism, depth and coaching. (Especially coaching, IMO)

Been saying that for two seasons. Just needs floor time....more chances to play. Think she'll be a big factor next year.

Moriarity is a very Good Player!

Oh Amy. You don’t get a technical when you have the ball. This game is tied because of poor coaching.

Sam dribbling out the quarter, again results in turnover. Is Amy just stubborn?

All I can say is Math r hard

This may well be another of NW's chaos full court street ball fiascos. I hate these kinds of teams. Hated them when I used to coach. Endless fouling instead of playing the game. Maybe I'm wrong...hope so. We can not lose to a 2 win B1G team Hope some of these "seniors" come back next year, but...if not we will move on and conquer. ...Buy that?

Seriously, that was disturbing. He has some really bad underlying emotional problems. Fran's tenure is not going to end well. I know he's a coward deep down, but one of these times his 'boys' aren't going to hold him back, and he's going to forget that it's all an act and take a swing at someone. I see a Woody Hayes finish coming.

November 25, 2020: Nebraska vs. McNeese State, 102-55, Win. Mayen: 13 Banton: 14 T McGowens: 14 Allen: 14 Webster: 13 Stevenson: 14 The last time all 5 starters were in double figures was: February 27, 2022, Nebraska at Penn State (93-70, Win). And then January 10, 2021, Nebraska vs. Indiana (76-84, Loss). From the McNeese State game to the Minnesota game we have had 6 players in double figures twice, 5 players in double figures 8 times. 5+ Players in Double Figures: 2022-2023: vs Minnesota (6 players), vs Queens, vs Boston College, neut Florida State 2021-2022: at Penn State, vs Minnesota, vs Indiana, vs Doane, vs South Dakota, vs McNeese State (6 players)

We are officially on a heater!

11 points, 6 boards, 5-5 from the line, 2 steals, just 1 TO in 23 minutes.... from Sam Hoiberg. That's amazing. GLUE GUY!

Maine won... FSU beat Miami... The Johnnies played UCONN close. Thanks Creighton.

That was my worry. It would be the most Nebrasketball thing to do. They couldn't put the Goophers away, but never let them get real close, either.

Loved Walker leading the break, And i'm yelling give it up. Then I said ok that worked out okay.

Your sacrifice is appreciated

All five starters had double digits. Then add in Sam Hoiberg as a bonus.

Great effort today when the 3s weren't falling and when Keisei was struggling with cramps and when Minny just refused to lay down. So many different guys stepped up, very impressive. I don't think anyone played poorly. Great job doing what we were expected to do today. The stakes go up big time Tuesday night. These seniors deserve to go out with a win, so we need to make it happen.

Not this year.

Had a big long conversation with my father about my irrational fear that we're going lose this because we're Nebraska and that's what we do. And it did not happen

This changes nothing about our postseason outlook from before this game. But that's not a bad thing. A loss would have changed everything.

Any relation to the onion announcing the game?

So this will be our Bol game?