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We need PBA to be completely rocking these next two home games. Playing 2 very dangerous teams and can easily lose to either of them. The average fan might not realize it. We have to help bringh these guys home.

His biggest play tonight? That sweet, sweet dish to Gary inside.

Can't wait for the media to stop talking about our winless road wins in conference play and start talking about our winless record in the NCAA tournament. Don't bet against this team.

My first reaction is I'm SO glad for Lawrence. He's had a very up and down season and picked a great time to figure his role out. Even though he didn't start, he played most of the second half and closed the game. Great perseverance on his part.

Or.....hear me out....keep doing what they're doing

I am on record saying we need Lawrence when people were calling for him to be benched for Hoiberg. He gives us things nobody else does. So happhy for him that he had a game like this. He is a big part of our future as well hopefully.

Honestly-- might have been best case scenario for us to get punched in the mouth that second half and then stretch it back out.

Two years ago, we were coming off the worst three-year run in the modern history of the program. Maybe ever, but I'm not going to go back to the beginning to verify. Twenty-four wins combined in his first three seasons here and I'm of the understanding Fred thought he was done, which was why he didn't schedule a youth basketball camp that summer after his third season. The only thing that probably saved his job was a potential need to keep our powder dry in order to fire Scott Frost at the helm of the flagship football program. That spring, we picked up a portal commit from a Lincoln kid who wanted to come home and play his last season of college basketball in front of the hometown crowd. Turns out, that pickup was transformational, as Fred recently acknowledged in comments about Sam coming back to watch our game against Penn State. Sam Griesel, according to Fred, changed the culture of the team. It was unselfish ball, and it allowed people (including potential recruits) to see what the finished product was supposed to look like when we ran our system instead of running hero-ball. There was another Summit League standout who was looking for a new home that same spring. A kid who grew up just west of here. We tried to get him to Lincoln. And he was gracious in turning us down. He observed that, while we're starting to build a culture here at Nebraska (which was a nice way of saying we didn't have one), another team just east of us already had one established. Hard to hold that against him. After three of the worst years in program history, it would have been a tall ask to get anyone to believe we were on the cusp of turning things around. You could get a local Lincoln kid to spend his last season of college ball here because it's literally his home. But drawing a kid with more extended eligibility was obviously not as easy. Last season, though, we, as fans, could get a better glimpse of how the pieces fit together when the system was run the way it was intended. And so could recruits. Big men and backcourt players alike could watch our film and envision what their role would be in a Husker uniform. We have a system. We have a culture. We finally have an identity. So, a little more than a year ago, I suggested the following: Fred has said the way things played out last year and the success on the floor that we had at the end put us in position to land guys like Rienk Mast and Brice Williams. And, frankly, Ahron Ulis, but that's a different matter. We got everything from the portal that we needed -- a skilled post to replace Walker, a solid point guard to replace Griesel, and an athletic wing to provide some scoring punch -- we just didn't plan on the extracurriculars that would keep Ulis from participating this year. And now, this year, it's hard to argue the trajectory of the program. And, again, potential recruits can watch our film and -- IMPORTANTLY -- they can easily see how they would fit within our system. I think that's huge when it comes to recruiting. It's like sales. You want the buyer to envision driving that car or drinking that beer. And I think kids will be able to imagine how they would fit in our program and how they could contribute. And the doors we're unlocking with the way this season is playing out ... the NET might not factor in the story lines, but kids hitting the portal sure will. All of this is just to say I think we'll enjoy our portal experience this spring. We have a FAR better chance of landing the kinds of players we were just missing out on a year or two ago.

My favorite moment in the game was when the stooge 35 feet away from the play with a 100% blocked view comes running in and overrules the baseline stooge who had a clear view of the play 3 feet directly in front of him.

Opponents could shank Allick and he’d get T’ed up for excessive bleeding. He takes a beating and does the dirty shit. It’s so appreciated.

Brice is so good at the end of games.

We'll have our program's first NCAA tourney win. That's it. That's the post.

My thing has been that if we make the dance and win a 1st round game, I pity the fools who'll have to play us the next round. We have to be a very tough team to scout on short notice. Some might call our defense junk, but it's different than most teams run and it's effective. And how do you game plan for 7 different guys who can uncork from deep?

The earth is over 4 billion years old. Those are recent wins. Next question.

Keisei was feeling it tonight.

Loved the way our guards were willing rebounders - especially Lawrence - that made a big difference and let our big guys tie up their big guys, rather than focusing on grabbing the ball. They still got us on the boards, but without that effort from our guards, it would've been a lot worse. When we went to that small-ish lineup coming out of the timeout after IU cut it to 3, I thought the coaches were crazy, but that was just the right antidote - swarming their big guys got them out of their comfort zone and let us stretch the lead back. Brice was so good after IU cut it to 3. Lawrence was too, but -- to dust off an oldie but a goodie -- that was Brice figuring out how good he can be. Nice to show some grit on the road after IU made its run. Bodes well for these final few weeks. Now 24-10 over our last 34 games. That's insanely good.

It's nice having that guy who makes clutch plays all the time. Sam Hoiberg is just a wizard when it comes to that.

Lawrence is being seriously developed by this staff. Awesome game.

Great post Norm. I would say though - and not to take anything away from Sam - but that culture change also doesn't happen without Emmanuel Bandoumel and Juwan Gary coming in with the play hard team first attitudes they exhibited. Also FWIW probably not without a leader like Derrick Walker coming back for another year when he easiliy could have left.

Yikes, Fred caught clapp....

Zac and Brooks Taylor. The Best.

In his postgame btn interview he said coming off the bench is what turned his game around. He likes that role. Goodness if he keeps that up and if CJ could find his mojo, this may be a fun month.

Now start Operation Wake Up CJ, and this team is heating up at the right time.

When Pfeiffer is the good one, holy shit

Right now at this very moment it would be an absolute travesty if this team can’t get into the tournament the way they are playing. makes me tear up a bit watch how well they work together, work so hard, embrace their rolls. This truly a TEAM. ”and that’s all I gotta say about that” Forrest Gump

Just a vicious foul by Keisei there, I can't believe that guy's not dead. Actually he didn't touch the guy, only a clown like DJ Carstensens calls that shit.

As is demonstrated by the fact that, suddenly, all of our remaining home games are sold out.

Indiana needs to find players willing to get on the floor for loose balls. Every time there was a loose ball where the teams had to get on the floor, it was always Nebraska. Not once did Indiana get on the floor. Indiana has to find those players. It took Fred a few years to realize it's not just the number of stars the player has, but the effort those players give.

They don't know what rock bottom.

I'll believe it when I see it. KT gets mugged and strip searched multiple times every offensive possession. Those 3 Stooges tonight are the cream-of-the-crop when it comes to incompetence.

They were not going to let Keisei get to the line. They tried to intentionally foul him late, and they didn't even call it.

Don't forget, we may have some competent refs who won't let the other teams grab our cutters all game.

hhaha. J Law with the FU at the end

The old fuck ref is worse than Carstens and Pfeiffer...he's fucked us about 5 times this half

I fully believe that Indiana will make run. Need to keep up the intensity. First five minutes will tell the big story.

No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota. No repeat of Minnesota.

It is a bit of a head scratcher whether we can cite just a single player as the pivot point to possible success. I would be content to credit Sam G as the soul of the transformation but Derrick Walker as the heart of it. If we had just one of the two, last year would have been VERY different and FH would be gone IMO.

Don’t know what’s less believable, us getting the 2 seed, or Illinois falling to the 7 seed.

Brice is nice, I've been telling you guys that all season. We need to pump the brakes on the Brice hate. He's a darn good player, and he'll take over games next season. GBR

Maybe I'm tired, but didn't Kesei miss? Looked like Allick's shot was the one that went in.

Nice to send another team to rock bottom for a change.

Here's Your FINAL!!! ~~~~~~~ HUSKERS BY FIFTEEN (On the Road ) Indiana never had the Lead! (The Garb)

Going to bed happy for the first time since before Christmas after a road game.

That old bastard again! See that one from 40 feet away better than the guy right there.

If JLaw's happy, all Nebraska fans are happy.

Not good enough. NET rankings demand a bigger lead.

I have to admit that I didn't make it through the last five minutes of this, it just hit me too hard. I had more f Just one story to show what an honor it was to know Josiah's stepfather: In the fall of 1990 the papers all ran a story about Tom Osborne talking about the starting nose guard, Pat Englebert, and how he had great feet. A couple days later, Bill, Pat and I are sitting around waiting for some engineering class to start, and Bill points down to Pat's shoes and says, "Kevin! Look at those feet!" Maybe you had to be there but it was genuinely hilarious. One of the last times I ever saw him, after I hadn't ran into him for a few years, he introduced me to his new wife (Josiah's mom) and said, "She's the greatest thing that ever happened to me."