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Chills.. LET'S DO THIS TODAY!

My only destination today are Mt. Everest or Death Valley.

It's game day! This team is going to need every single one of us to support them, whether in the arena or sitting at home. Where are you planning to watch the win today? Inside FedExForum? Couch fisting your living room furniture? At a local bar? Too terrified to watch so you just listen to Kent on the radio? For those who want to be at the came but can, just know you're right there with each and every one of us. For those who are at the game, make 10x the noise for each and everyone who couldn't be there. LET'S GET A WIN TODAY!

Funny story...we are in Memphis and were walking back to our hotel last night after dinner. Out of nowhere, Tominaga and Burt came zooming past us on electric scooters. We of course told them Go Big Red and Tominaga, as always, was smiling as if he were having the time of his life. I left the encounter praying he didn't crash on his scooter. I've heard of no crash this morning so I believe my prayers were answered and I can claim a small piece of this victory today!

I’m here - it’s like 100% husker fans

They put THAT video out at 8 am? How do they expect me to get any work done today, knowing I'm now going to have to put that thing on loop until 5:50? They couldn't have waited til 3 or 4 pm? Seriously one of the best videos they've done, and they have done a lot of them this season.

I made it. Checked into the hotel. Going up the elevator with some people from Longwood and they commented about all the Nebraska fans that are here. They said the university reached out to their athletic department to pick up any unused allotment of tickets as soon as they were available. Then, some kid, another elevator was telling his dad how many Husker fans were here.

Planning to attend Nebraska playing in the Sweet 16...I kid not.

At home standing about a foot and a half away from a 70in TV screaming loud enough to make my dogs bark and the neighbors contemplate if they should call the authorities.

I’ll have Kent dialed in at Work tonight. Quietly confident we’ll make it PAST this weekend! #GBR

At home in the living with the wife. Dog will be downstairs as he hates basketball or me yelling at the TV, not sure which one. I don't like to watch Husker hoops at bars or with others as I feel like telling everyone to "shut up, I'm listening to the game"

LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wilcher needs to sit the rest of the game. Horrible matchup for this team and he's refusing to rebound.

Nebraska Cornhuskers (23-10) vs Texas A&M (20-14) Date: Friday March 19th, 2024 Time: 5:50 pm Arena: Fed Ex Arena, Memphis, TN Broadcast: TNT Texas A&M Info Head Coach: Buzz Williams (5th season) Location: College Station, Texas Conference: SEC Nickname: Aggies Mascot: Reveille X (long haired collie) Typical Rotation Depth: 8+ Point Spread: Nebraska by 1.5 Last Time out: Lost to Florida in the SEC semifinals KenPom rank: 45 Nota bene: Nebraska leads the all-time matchup with TAMU 12-8 Texas A&M is easily #1 in offensive rebound % at 42.0% which means they roughly rebound 42% of their misses Both the men and women play Texas A&M in the first round of the NCAA tournament, a story that developed in-between Nebraska AD Trev Alberts leaving and being introduced as the TAMU AD. Despite being one of the worst shooting teams in D-1, TAMU runs one of the most efficient offenses because of shot volume and points at the FT Line Texas A&M started the season ranked #15 in the country in part due to returning 8 of their top 9 players from a team that ran through the SEC on the way to a 7 seed. Though they had a fine year in some ways has been a disappointing team that had to rally in March to make the tourney. KenPom most used lineups PG SG SF PF C Pct 1 4 Wade Taylor 6-0 175 Jr 23 Tyrece Radford 6-3 190 Sr 35 Manny Obaseki 6-4 195 Jr 13 Solomon Washington 6-7 220 So 11 Andersson Garcia 6-7 215 Sr 24.0 Player to watch: Wade Taylor The Junior was named first team All-SEC and is one of the most feared PGs in the conference. Taylor doesn't shoot at a great percentage but has Keisei Tominaga type range and shot selection. Elite at getting to the line and generating steals. Is a pick and roll waiting to happen. Player to watch: Tyrece Radford Arguably the most important player for Texas A&M in terms of wins and loses as the team tends to go as he does. Much like Wade Taylor he's a poor shooter though gets to the FT line. Player to watch: Andersson Garcia Typically the first man off the bench, Garcia is a terror as TAMU's glue guy to the point he made the All-SEC defensive team. A ferocious rebounder and rim protector, he makes a high percentage of the few shots he does take. His 153 offensive rebounds is the same number that Zach Eddy has. He occasionally will pop a 3. Player to watch: Manny Obaseki The Junior guard was expected to be a starter coming into the season but didn't start his first game until March which has also seen the Aggies win 5 of their last 6. One of the rare A&M players where you can say he's makes a good % of 3s as he's hitting 37.8% for the year and 47.6% in conference though at 45 total attempts it's hard to know how much that maters. Player to watch: Solomon Washington Another undersized rim protector/rebounder. Converts at a high percentage in the paint Others to watch The Aggies start 6'11" 250 center Wildens Leveque though his playing time is sparse. He's out there to block shots. 6'8" 245# center Henry Coleman is yet another big body that TAMU rolls in. 6'6" Illinois-Chicago transfer Jace Carter started a lot of games for the Aggies but his inability to make shots has limited his playing time recently. Same deal for 6'6" wing Hayden Hefner. UNL Game Notes Out indefinitely 5 Ahron Ulis 6-3 190 lbs Junior - Likely out for the season Emergency use 15 Blaise Keita 6-11 257 lbs Junior - Ongoing ankle injury recovery Possible starters for Nebraska 53 Josiah Allick 6-8 231 lbs Senior 30 Keisei Tominaga 6-2 179 lbs Senior 3 Brice Williams 6-7 213 lbs Junior 4 Juwan Gary 6-6 221 lbs Junior 51 Rienk Mast 6-10 248 lbs Junior Bench 10 Jamarques Lawrence 6-3 183 lbs Sophomore 0 C.J. Wilcher 6-5 214 lbs Junior 9 Jarron Coleman 6-5 213 lbs Senior 1 Sam Hoiberg 6-0 183 lbs Sophomore 11 Eli Rice 6-8 213 lbs Freshman 21 Matar Diop 6-10 213 lbs Freshman 35 Henry Burt 6-7 216 lbs RS Freshman 2 Ramel Lloyd Jr. 6-6 210 lbs RS Freshman 31 Cale Jacobsen 6-4 200 lbs RS Freshman 24 Jeffrey Grace III 6-3 197 lbs Sophomore The Skinny: For the first time, I'll be doing a write-up where Nebraska is the favorite to win a NCAA tourney game. The last time Nebraska was in the NCAA tourney was 10 years ago as an underdog to Baylor. The last time the Huskers were favored in a tourney game was 30 years ago as a 6 seed. Nebraska will have their chance to make history on Friday and hopefully it's a first step towards sustained success. Standing between Nebraska and destiny is an up and down Texas A&M team. The Aggies have wins over teams like Iowa St and Tennessee and loses to Vanderbilt and Arkansas. While Fred Hoiberg has a Sweet 16 run on his resume, TAMU coach Buzz Williams has an Elite 8 run at Marquette back in the day on his. Any outcome is on the table for this game which is why most have this as a coin-flip type game. Despite being one of the worst shooting teams in D-1, A&M runs one of the best offenses thanks to shot volume and trips to the line. The Aggies have been a perennial leader in offensive rebounds during Buzz's tenure and their experienced guards take care of the ball. A lot of what they're doing offensively is dribble drives or pick and roll type actions with their stable of posts all rolling in for rebounds. By default, Nebraska's paint packing defense is geared towards stopping this. Probably the biggest key is to keep out of foul trouble as it's often necessary for Texas A&M to supplement their scoring at the charity stripe. Defensively TAMU runs a similar scheme to Nebraska where they deny the middle and attempt to close out on 3...thus they also give up 3s like the Huskers. Unlike the Aggies, Nebraska is capable of knocking down 3s on a consistent basis. If the Huskers are passing to the next man they're likely to have wide open looks. Rienk Mast seem like he could be pivotal with his ability to direct traffic out of the post. However, this is one game where he will not have a huge advantage on the perimeter because the Aggie posts are comfortable guarding in space. As cliche as it sounds, it really might boil down to how much Nebraska can persist and one has to be optimistic given how the Husker have looked coming off of 5+ days of rest. Prediction: Nebraska 84 - Texas A&M 74 View full article

What up @hhcdave

Get the word out: we need to do the Husker power thing for introductions.

Tears are running down my face. And I don’t care!

Two things about tonight 1) I will always remember this team for how hard they played and how together they were. It has been a joy to cheer on this guys who came to my team from all over and wanted to be here to play for us. 2) never too low, never too high oh, and I might cry tonight

I'm watching this one at home. Every part of mental being will be there with you all at the game. GBR! As a reminder don't forget that the Women's team is also playing later in the evening after the Men's game is over.

Made it!

We're down 14 at half. Screw all of you who have given up.

A&M never should have mocked Keisei.

Hosting a small gathering including wife, brother, daughter and a couple of longtime season tickets holders. Regretting that I didn’t go to Memphis, but this will suffice. Waiting until tip-off to start drinking. Feel like I did before game 7 in 2015 when the Cubs were trying to break a 107 year drought. We’re gonna do it.

Listening/watching at home. Listening to Kent on the radio, and sticking my head around the corner to watch what Kent called a minute later. Best of both worlds: get to listen to Kent and post here live time in game thread, and still see the highlights. BTW, I wouldn't miss Kent's call for anything tonight.

Yep. I can’t watch with casual fans who are going to say stupid things and spill beer everywhere.

In Deadwood, SD with the Degenerates!

FedEx Forum with my brother and parents!! Can't wait!!

I’ve heard of peanut butter whiskey, cinnamon whiskey, apple whiskey. Pizza whiskey is a new one.

Watching this one from home.. trying not to wear a hole in the carpet from pacing around the living room..

I will be at home in Sioux City, IA. One ?, do we meet at 72nd & Dodge to celebrate a victory?

Bottle of whiskey pizza and heading to my Dad's Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Well, all I can say is I hope my secretary doesn't come in here right now and see what that video did.....

I’ll be here in the frozen tundra on my couch watching with my 3 sons and smiling from ear to ear and also probably with a few tears of joy when the clock hits zero tonight. GBR!!!

Probably watch from home, but might walk up to the Grapevine in Lincoln to watch.

It's the day. I missed the last time we were in the tourney as I was overseas, so this is the first time I'll see them in the tournament. Positive vibes. Positive thoughts. And don't get too high or too low. It's time.

When Fred says everyone is all in, they are all in. I've heard nothing less. If anyone is leaving, they are being all in on being teammates until the end. After that, good luck to them. GBR Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk

He was extremely engaged at practice today. So bizarre. Eli Rice looks great. No brace or wrap. Looks close to 100%. Hopefully he comes in when we are up 20 with 2 minutes left.

I’m stunned at how well they are shooting. Hopefully halftime cools them off.

Here at home with the wife. Watching via YouTubeTV. Meatballs, little smokies and veggie tray with dip. My wife is unreasonably health conscious. Jug of Mt Dew to offset it. GBR!

Driving first leg to Florida so most likely listening to Kent. IF we were not heading south, I would be in Memphis cheering there.

I'm planning to watch at Big Red Sports Bar in on Cass, so I'm declaring that the unofficial watch site for Omaha. Sadly, I wasn't able to swing the road trip to Memphis, but I have to be surrounded by Nebrasketball fans for this history-making game.

mousketeer roll call! please, Lord, don't make me be Cubby..... Anyway, SGT tcp reporting for duty.

Jealous of you all. Could not make it. Was in Minneapolis this past week and it was amazing. GBR! Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk

Any truth to the rumor that Trev is in Seattle applying for the open AD position @ Washington?