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Another fun game. We sat right in front of Tyler Stone’s family and local fan club. They were rightly all fired up.

Not to pinpoint one point of your much longer purpose, but I vividly recall we had zero support from BTN analysts. Never fought for us and, in fact, told all the reasons we shouldn't be in. I won't forget that.

In his last game Nick had 37 points, 19 rebounds and 8 assists.

Definitely before. But I'll leave it up to others on the board to comment to make sure I'm not falling in revisionist history. Was certainly vivid to be though.

Lots of sunshine on Sunday. Gophers will be singing this song! This guy was born in Aitkin, Minnesota. I saw something interesting today. Minnesota is 23-3 against the spread this season. I know we're part of the 23. Sunday we'll be part of the 4. GBR!

If my options are: 1. Play in Omaha against a 7 seed who should be a 4 seed 2. Play any other location against a 7, 8 or 9 seed that is perceivably not very good. Id take the Omaha game 100% of the time.

One of Cash’s best!

I’ve lost all faith in his leverage metrics. There’s just no way a Kentucky loss is more important than any game. I struggle to see why it even matters at all. Iowa State West Va doesn’t matter. Vermont vs Bryant? What? I think this is a case of diving too deep into numbers, like how games slightly impact other teams’ SOS rankings for example. I doubt his algorithm accounts for the value of Kansas State jumping into Q1, which IMO makes their game against BYU today the most important game of the day for us.

Big opportunity for k-state to move back into the top 75 today

Unless I'm completely missing something Blaise can just take a regular redshirt for this year if he does not play, given he has yet to redshirt. If he checks into one of our remaining games, he can do neither.

I'd rather have that 7-10 vs. South Carolina than Florida, but neither is daunting.

Beating Kansas could’ve been our ticket. I remember conversations in December after that loss about what a huge missed opportunity that could end up being. That’s the reason why I said before the Purdue game this year that we HAVE to win this game. Without that win we wouldn’t have a very strong argument right now.

Our start down in Phoenix coupled with how we looked last weekend has turned some heads nationally. Win or possibly sweep this series and we’d be really turning heads.

Bracketmatrix was around back then and we were a consensus out Syracuse and Arizona St were the surprise picks while USC and St Marys were the surprise snubs http://bracketmatrix.com/matrix_2018.html

Nobody thought we were in that year. I remember having zero interest on selection Sunday because it was known that we didn’t have a legit shot. It’s very different this year.

I shall not be left out of this one, either.... ladies and germs, mr. tom waits.....

That heartbreak ending against Kansas... this time around we have #1 Purdue on the resume.

From Duluth, Minnesota to the DelFest stage in Cumberland, Maryland: Ladies and gentlemen, Trampled by Turtles.

At least the song starts in Minnesota and there is a bunch of crying involved.

Too many fans are front runners, they only support a team that is winning and winning big. Even Nebraska Football has lost fans because they aren’t winning enough. Some of these front running fans will only follow VB because of the tremendous success. Note the sudden interest in Husker Softball which will likely diminish with Bahl’s injury. A fan should be a fan through thick and thin. I believe this State would go nuts over a championship basketball team.

Brackets predictions in February are just about as valuable as preseason rankings. They mean nothing, but people love them.

Add to that New Mexico going down.

NET #77 KSU wins by 10 over NET #11 BYU for a Quad 1 win for them, which should vault them back into being a Quad 1 win for us.

He’s drafted 31st on nbadraft.net, which is the site I usually refer to. I think that’s underselling him too. I’d bet a lot of money he goes 1st round if he enters.

No doubt about that. I will say bracketologists are pretty good at predicting the field, usually getting a couple wrong. But they are rarely good at predicting seeds, matchups, and locations. No reason to get excited about anyone putting us in Omaha. It’s a complete guess.

I think she will help us next year. There is a place for shorter guards that have a full range of skills and the desire to excel. Look at 5-2 Soph Ronnie Porter from Wisconsin. She hurt us with 10 pts, 9 rebounds and 7 assists in our game with them earlier this season. Kennadi may be a bit taller and is a better 3 point shooter. Staying healthy will be a key.

Could regret this later… but give me any Mountain West team right now. I think the conference is over-hyped.

I wouldn’t want to face Kentucky or Florida. Kentucky at their best could win the title. And Florida has been playing better than their side line the last month. I’m rooting for both to improve to a 5 seed so we can avoid them.

i have never seen her play - even tho I live within a few blocks of her school. Looking forward to seeing her in the state tourney.

How does that last line fit in with the percentages given... it doesn't make sense, especially when K-St. winning over BYU is the biggest factor to NU gaining another Q1 victory. But, alas, the numbers.

just like Nebraska. Win out and get one in the tourney. That seems would get us at least to a 6 or better.

In the training department at where I work. Love using AI for some of the examples below. Like you said, you can't ignore it. We've got to learn how to use it... especially if we are not near retirement age. Like it or not, it's here to stay and if we don't learn how to use it, someone will. "Making this paragraph more concise" "Change this paragraph to the tone of a..." "Summarize these paragraphs and put into three main bullet points" to eliminate text

If playing in Omaha is assumed, the chances are near zero of us losing to a 7 seed.

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#10 seed in Omaha

You're not and they did. Every chance they could as a matter of fact. Them and the d-bag Lunardi.

He somehow didn't allow more, I thought it was gonna be at least 4 R.

Carey with a nice knock in the 8th, but is caught at the wall... he's had one of those games tonight where nothing will drop in there.

I literally fixed it 30 seconds after I posted. lol bug

Dude from Arkansas has 17 K's through 6 innings. AGAINST OREGON STATE!!

Bayern Munchen all the way in the early 70s. Glued to the tv during the 74 world cup run with Kaiser Franz, Gerd Muller and Sepp Maier. These dudes were giants to us kids then.

I look at that '17-'18 schedule and it's still unbelievable to me that we didn't get in. 13-5 in conference finishing 4th and didn't get in which was a conference first. We won 22 regular season games which is tied for second most in program history and was also a conference first. Longest losing streak was 2 games. I know I know Q1 wins...blah blah blah. Before this season I always thought that the committee really wanted us to make the NCAA's just so we'd finally get that win. We were a freaking 5 seed in the NIT with 22 wins. The very next season we won 2 games in the conference tournament, and barely lost to Wisconsin in the quarter finals, which is the only time we've ever done that in the BIG. Before that the last time we won 2 games in a conference tournament, Nee was our coach. That season was looking good before we went on a 7 game losing streak starting in mid January. We followed that up with 2 wins before going on a 4 game losing streak. That same season we actually won an NIT game, which we hadn't done since 2008 under Doc. We were a 4 seed...a 4 seed, with a 19-17 record, thanks to those 2 conference tournament wins, with a 6-14 regular season conference record, yet the prior season we where a 5 seed! Make it make sense. All of that is to say... If the committee wanted us in they would have put us in 2019. I think at the edges the committee is corrupt and 2019 shows that and no one will ever convince me otherwise. I don't care what anyone says, we are bubble team, until we are officially in the tournament, and I wouldn't be surprised if we finished out the season going 2-2 and losing our first game in the conference tournament and then not make the NCAA's. The talking heads on ESPN, etc. will get their marching orders from the committee spokesperson who will rail on about winning only 1 conference road game with only 1 Q1 win. See below for how that can happen. If anyone thinks there would be some sort of outrage or hue and cry over us not getting in then you are sorely mistaken. Remember there is a precedent here. See 2019. If there is any saving grace it's that we have KT, which will surely bring in a huge Japanese market to watch games. I also think HCFH has a lot more name cache than Tim Miles. We aren't in until we are in. As info, both Wisconsin(21, remaining games at IU, Illinois, Rutgers, at Purde ), losers of 5 of their last 6, and MSU(23, remaining games OSU, at Purdue, NWU, at IU), coming off a home loss to Iowa, are barely Q1 wins and if they slip then we are in big trouble. Remember the talking heads in 2018 though we where in as well and then the talk of a down year in the conference and the lack of Q1 wins. Does all this sound familiar. I'm not going to play the role of Charlie Brown thinking I kick that ball while it's being held by Lucy. The only way I kick that ball is if it is on a tee.

To be fair, I’m sure most of Keisei’s shots are considered bad… but there’s very few shots he takes where anyone is upset.

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.

Much appreciated

I thought somebody was going to resurrect this thread when Indiana cut it to 3.

Yeah, definitely not arguing that from any former Missouri Valley fan. The old Big East is arguably better. But the new Big East has some high quality teams that I've enjoyed watching over the decades. I'm sure that's just a fun hoops conference to be part of. But to come out to say a conference is averaging 3.2 bids a year is laughable. I am curious to see how BPI conference rankings will differ from tournament play. It was noticeably wrong in college football bowl games this last season. Should be a fun one.