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Berek is so European. In a great way. Raises his hands when he fouls, claps a lot, hustles and very fundamentally sound. But the best was when he went down during the game, I knew he really was hurt as he gave the international soccer sign for a sub and doctor. The twirling the hands over the head. I love his game and hope he is back soon.

No way do you switch out Janowski for GG. That make no sense at all. It's way more of a risk to go with an unproven freshman over a kid with a year of Big 10 experience. Gavin was solid at Rutgers so give him some more time. He just needs to have a "break out" game like Conner did.

Bozan played the best out of the bunch IMO.

Not to toot my own horn but I've been on a Connor Essegian like streak since the Creighton game

Rienk, Connor and Berke. Look out.

Everybody does it. Especially if you don't have someone to toot your horn for you.

The team came out without intensity. Hard to believe. Amy must have "coached" them at the half. The intensity appeared in the second half. The lions threw up and made some REAL prayers in the first half, unbelievable. Others here will pick on specific players, so I won't. But the team has to move past Potts injury and get their collective sh*t together. Despite my angst, we came away with a 20+ point victory. In the past, we may have lost games like that. Win and advance.

I think she is missing Potts.

Second straight game where AM was outplayed for the majority of the game not only by an opponent’s big but also by two of her own front court teammates. Yes she had a good 4th qtr and finished with a misleading double double, but her numbers thus far are not as good as last year and we’ve only played one decent team.

Supposedly the Huskers had good practices. I'd hate to see what shitty ones look like.

I will add in to the chorus saying I don't think this is a controversial take at all. There are two things that Keisei had here that Connor doesn't seem to at least so far: 1). As others have mentioned Keisei had that flair and showmanship that made him just a joy to watch work. Connor is just efficient and will get you that sneaky 22 points, and that's obviously not a bad thing. Keisei would light up the scoreboard and let you know about it. Also not a bad thing. 2). Keisei had a really great passing big man (both Derrick and Rienk) to play that two man game with. Jury's out on whether Berke or Andrew can play that role as well. I am kind of rubbing my hands together thinking about Rienk and Connor on the floor together. Hope we get to see that next year.

Looking at Bart Torvik numbers this year compared to last year as of Dec. 3, we're very similar except much better defensively and worse offensively. However, we're trending up offensively the last few weeks...#28 offensively since the Bethune-Cookman game. One year ago today we lost by 29 vs. Creighton and then blew a 15-point halftime lead at Minnesota on Dec. 6. It was pretty doom and gloom on here and I'm sure no one was even dreaming of an NCAA bid. So I feel much better right now about this team than I did last year at this time. BT Rank ADJO O Rk ADJ D D Rk 2023 7-1 record 42 116.8 28 100.8 132 2024 6-1 record 40 111.6 64 95.8 24 NET KPI SOR BPI KP 2023 23-11 record 33 27 24 37 29 2024 6-1 record 43 28 40 37 47 When you compare our current resume numbers to our final resume numbers above, it's looking pretty good considering our schedule is only going to get harder. Last year our metrics were way, way worse this time of year and we spent all season climbing from the abyss. We just need to get through the 3 Hawaii games and Southern without a bad L. The one thing last year's team had going for it was no bad non-conference losses. Selection Sunday would be a lot less stressful if we go 3-0 in Hawaii, and given the field, we should be the favorite to win the tournament and I hope we play like it.

I should add a note about computer models: When we're good, we're almost ALWAYS underrated to begin the year. It takes the computers a while to catch up to how good we are. And I think that's the case again this season. I think we're probably better than what the computer thinks we are.

True. However, what I want to see is Essegian do it when the defensive game plan is to shut him down at all costs and the space he has to shoot is significant less.

Apples to oranges until Connor's sample includes a bunch of Big Ten opponents.

Fair point, but North Florida was also one of the worst defenses I have ever seen come through DONU.

To me, clearly better than last year. Our ability to rotate players at the post will be huge in the BIG. Our lack of depth last year hurt us in many games. I hear the argument about not having athleticism but we have a lot of length. That can overcome some of the athleticism. We also have Juwan playing at a different (higher) level of intensity and productivity. As he goes, this team goes. And Brice is better than last year and appears to be on track to average 18+. I'm probably drinking too much big red Kool-Aid but I fully expect us to be in the tourney and a better seed than last year.

When I went to bed they were ahead 30 to 7…

Phew, they won!

Coley is a 3 and not a 4. It wasn't til this off season that she spent time at her natural position. Only going back to a 4 since Potts injury. Had she been able to play the 3 I think she would have had a better college career. That said she will do whatever coach asks of her to I will give her props for being a great team player even if she has not produced much on the court.

A 16-0 run to put this one out-of-reach is never a bad thing. Maybe the test today will help in the B1G battles up next. GBR

NU played better on defense or at least with a little more effort. It would be nice if we blocked out, especially Markowski. Lindenwood made the most of what they had. Final score is misleading as it was not an easy game. Bozan and Petrie IMO got us the lead with some solid play in the third quarter. There should be a lot of teaching points on film of this game. If we play like this against 10-0 Minnesota our chances are slim.

Dix with the dagger and the win, wow.

I’ve watched the second half of this NW vs Iowa game, and I gotta say, I’ve found myself rooting for Iowa. NW has big guys that whine about everything to pair with Barnhizer who whines about everything. One of NWs bigs even got a foul upgraded to a flagrant by acting as though someone Essegian’s size threw him down. Martinelli is really good and can make something out of nothing.

Coach Loenser was on Sports Nightly for the first hour Monday night - big surprise is that he's an intense dude https://huskers.com/news/2024/12/2/mens-basketball-coaches-show-the-dig-on-sports-nightly-monday-december-2-2024

We have yet to give up a 10+ run per the Ken Pom run graphic We poured on 4 of those on North Florida in this game

Isn't this at least partly due to the fact we had more options to shoot those 3's last year? We had 3 other guys that could get hot and give you 4 or 5 threes in a game last year.

I'm just re-posting this instead of using different words to say the exact same thing as the reasoning for my vote.

Last game I noticed him giving Meah advice on how to post up better too. Really like this kid.

How real is us getting to the FT line and how real is the rebounding? The Creighton game was very promising for the FT line but let's start playing teams that play more than 0 to 1 post players and see what happens. The defensive effort against North Florida was encouraging to see us put forth effort against a lesser opponent.

On3 had us as a 9 seed playing Texas A&M

Robin Washut on 1240 today mentioned this post and said he got a chuckle out of it.

I hope it’s Berke once he’s healthy.

Connor shot 23 threes in the last 2 games... he has to be so elated with his decision to transfer.

I've been kind of afraid to say the same thing. Keisei did a lot. But, so far, Connor has shot it as well, probably plays better defense, is certainly longer, and I would say he's more athletic. Both moved really well without the ball. In fact, relentless movers without the ball. Connor's hoops IQ is way up there. Does he do more for you than Meah? If so, Meah to the bench, Berke to the paint and shift everyone up a spot to make room. But Connor's getting starters minutes anyway. Braxton is there for the opening tip.

I said a little better but more importantly, I think that they’re ahead of where last year’s team was at this point. Not shooting the three well the first few games made us have to figure out other ways to score. We can get to the line and are good once we’re there. On defense we’re long and can rotate a lot of guys in without much of a dip in performance. I’m almost talking myself into saying “better than last year”. Right now, maybe a little better than a year ago. But our ceiling appears like it could be much higher than last year. Just gotta keep climbing to it, and when we get there we’ll be better than last year.

It'll be more about HOW we lose IF we lose. If it's close and we lose by a bucket or two, not as much as if we lose by 10-15 points.

Don't look now, but Andrew Morgan is hitting at 40% (small sample size, but still.) Nevertheless, point taken. We need a semi-volume shooter hitting high 30s in addition to Essegian and Williams.

What a performance by this team; nearly two 100+ point games. However, as HHCC participants we're slipping. Ken Pomeroy just moved up to #2 in the standings. Hold strong, @hskr4life! HHCC Standings - End of Week 04 1 hskr4life 209 NC 2 KenPom 220 U1 3 AGHANSEN 223 U1 4 aphilso1 227 U3 5 basketballjones 234 D3 6 SkersHoops 235 NC 7 Huskerpapa 239 U3 8 NeeandMe 239 D3 9 CanadianHusker 258 U30 10 BjoeHusker 261 U4 11 Vinny 261 U1 12 75unlgrad 263 U9 13 Bugeaters1 263 D2 14 HuskerFever 263 U5 15 roundball3 263 U12 16 NU Follower 264 U7 17 hhcmatt 265 U16 18 Nebrasketball1979 265 D3 19 LNKtrnsplnt 268 U1 20 cornfed24-7 270 D3 21 bigred4 274 D8 22 demone 275 NC 23 nuhusker7 276 D14 24 Handy Johnson 278 D16 25 MichHusker 278 U4 26 Silverbacked1 281 D10 27 AuroranHusker 286 D9 28 Crush78 288 U4 29 twinswingohuskers 293 U1 30 4NUfans 298 U6 31 throwback 298 NC 32 EAbby 300 D6 33 TheNovice 301 D8 34 TourneyBound 303 D10 35 Cazzie22 309 NC 36 Busch Light 311 D2 37 jimmykc 320 NC 38 UnicamMan 322 U3 39 colhusker 324 D1 40 emwilliams 332 U4 41 MJW82 336 U7 42 Woody Boyd 337 NC 43 Ralph Wiggum 339 U6 44 roscoe 340 U1 45 MitchMcGaryMunchies 344 U8 46 BLB115 345 U1 47 BugeaterZ 345 D4 48 BigTate 348 D20 49 REDZONEDAN 351 D9 50 HuscurAdam 354 D4 51 Noah121 365 D1 52 brfrad 400 D1 53 hal9000 426 D1 54 HuskerMB 466 U1 55 Sidelines - Nebraska 479 D1 56 NUtball 565 NC 57 Faux Mike Peltz 630 NC 58 1sdpad2 651 NC 59 mmackey5 672 NC Biggest Rise CanadianHusker U30 Biggest Fall BigTate D20 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

They've certainly seemed to gel more quickly than in year's past. I expected Keisei would be difficult to replace, but it seems Connor has stepped up. And, with a healthy Berke, he might not even start. Berke seems to be at least as capable as Josiah Allick but different strengths. Braxton is a step down from Rienk, though. As is Andrew, quite frankly. But we have a bunch more length than a year ago, and that doesn't hurt at all. Brice, Juwan and Sam are all a year older and more experienced. And we have not just one PG but two. On paper, I feel like they should be slightly better than a year ago. And the results on the floor with beating CU and absolutely crushing Northern Florida make me feel at this point like I'd be majorly disappointed if we don't get a return trip to the NCAA tourney.

The subtle jabs at Creighton on this board make me smile

Have to beat someone better than UTRGV

I should have added: "Before you answer, be aware that Jamarques is currently averaging over 40% from 3 while Rollie is under 30%; also, Jamarques is currently dishing more assists per game and scoring more points per game while playing roughly the same number of minutes as Rollie. And Jamarques would have another year of eligibility." I'm not saying I would answer differently than everyone else so far. I'm just thinking it might be a closer question.

Hard to win games when all you can make are garbage three-pointers.

Cornhuskers 75 - 70 14

Well, one's a PG and the other is a tweener. I still wish NU had J.L. on the team, as he was a good player who could get hot and always seemed to give a great effort. A team can never have enough of those types of dudes on the roster. GBR

I'm more entertained with that show than any other entertainment.

Natalie is scheduled to undergo surgery on Dec. 4 and is expected to regain the season of eligibility.