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I have a friend who teaches at IU in Bloomington. She said she considers Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers as "adjunct" Big Ten universities. (I just realized, after hearing this and my friend at KU — who said that the NCAA experience is overblown and we should just concentrate on making an NIT run — that I need better friends.)

Last night's picks still made my oatmeal hard to digest this morning so permit me this little screed and perhaps I'll feel better. First, let me congratulate Mr. Loonardi with a special nod toward his toupee. He was right and it appears that he and his ilk who have never touched a basketball not made of Nerf material have it figured out. This is how the game is played now and putting the pieces of a team together and building toward a peak at tournament time is no longer a viable paradigm. Who you play is now more important than how you play. So their made-up jobs are safe as long as the NCAA doesn't open the tourney to everyone and ban the league tournaments. Secondly, while I realize the economic and academic reasons for making the move, as a fan of the "major" sports of basketball and football, I wish we had stayed in the Big 12 where we were one of the originals. Certainly we would be in the NCAA tourney today if we had still been there. Water under the bridge, but we will always be considered a "stepchild" in the Big Ten (and I even consider Penn State in the same category). We should be grateful for our Volleyball and Bowling successes and not expect anything else. I have to wonder if the league might have kicked up more of a fuss if the team with our exact credentials would have been Indiana, Wisconsin, or The Ohio State University. Actually, I do feel a bit better now, but the only thing which would really cheer me up would be winning the NIT. With the virtually insurmountable seed we have inherited, I fear this will not happen.

"sure, coach! well, we hate you. we hate you and we hope you die! you good now?"

"Vegas" Over/Under 1 Noah121 29-2 2 jimmykc 26-5 3 nuhusker7 26-5 4 HB 25-6 5 LNKtrnsplnt 25-6 6 pmd9 25-6 7 REDZONEDAN 25-6 8 demone 24-6 9 AuroranHusker 24-7 10 ConkintheCorner 24-7 11 hal9000 24-7 12 HuskerPower #nato73 23-5 13 HolyBobpilgrimage 23-8 14 KenPom 23-8 15 aphilso1 22-8 16 Blindcheck 22-8 17 Busch Light 22-8 18 Chuck Taylor 22-9 19 cjbowbros 22-9 20 HuskerFever 22-9 21 Crush78 21-9 22 Husker4Life 21-10 23 runsoastowin 21-10 24 Vinny 20-7 25 basketballjones 20-9 26 Bugeaters1 20-9 27 hskr4life 20-9 28 1sdpad2 20-11 29 NeeandMe 20-11 30 trickey 20-11 31 huskerbaseball13 19-9 32 swoof 19-10 33 NUtball 19-11 34 brfrad 19-12 35 Buglem 19-12 36 TheNovice 19-12 37 twinswingohuskers 19-12 38 colhusker 18-10 39 Dead Dog Alley 18-13 40 jayschool 18-13 41 MichHusker 17-5 42 big red22 17-11 43 mrjam 17-11 44 khoock 16-13 45 4NUfans 16-14 46 UnicamMan 16-14 47 hhcdimes 16-15 48 MitchMcGaryMunchies 15-10 49 bigred4 15-13 50 emwilliams 15-16 51 HuskerCager 14-4 52 Nebrasketball5 14-10 53 jdostal 14-13 54 75unlgrad 14-14 55 Handy Johnson 13-10 56 BDL415 13-16 57 Silverbacked1 13-17 58 huskercwg 13-18 59 throwback 13-18 60 Nebrasketball1979 12-2 61 Ralph Wiggum 12-14 62 TheBowmaster 11-3 63 WestOHusker 11-15 64 Red Don 11-19 65 Neon Budreau 10-12 66 BjoeHusker 10-20 67 oly_10 9-1 68 boomer1 9-5 69 Jurgey 9-6 70 Cazzie22 7-0 71 dustystehl 7-5 72 NebrasketballJake 7-17 73 Erdbeereis 6-0 74 kdorn3 6-1 75 TheGolfGang 4-0 76 huskers29 4-1 77 Jugular 4-6 78 Skersby90 3-1 79 BigTate 3-2 80 LK1 3-2 81 hguy44 2-0 82 Section_316 2-1 83 BugeaterZ 2-2 84 ZAYWHAT! 2-2 85 noahjb24 1-0 86 Swan88 1-0 87 TomEadesSucks 1-0 88 Atupe 1-1 89 Lifetimesker 1-1 90 JBARGIE 1-2 91 Lnolley11 1-2 92 jason2486 1-3 93 nubest79 1-3 94 Papa Gordon 0-0 95 bkamler 0-1 96 Boots 0-1 97 busticket 0-1 98 Faux Mike Peltz 0-1 99 Minnesota_Husker 0-1 100 Rome4Lyfe 0-1 101 rwmctrofholz 0-1 102 SittinOnThatDallasMaverick 0-1 103 soxnskers 0-1 104 uneblinstu 0-3 105 cornfed24-7 0-8

102 pages of games that basically didn't mean anything. I love this Nebraska team, and as a die hard fan this year is harder to take in then the really bad ones. As good as this season was the team and fans should not feel down. Yet here I sit after 22-10 season feeling worse this year then after a 12-19 season. I guess that is the worst part of all of this!

Can we please still laugh about Iowa? I'll grant you the rest...

As a dog returns to it's own vomit, so to have the Huskers returned to Starkville...

According to the other metrics outside of the RPI # of Top 100 teams per conference Massey Rating System: (9) 6 teams in the Top 50 and 3 more in the Top100 - Nebraska 37 Team Rankings: (N/A) Site information is gone, they had 10 teams from the Big 10 in the Top 100 last I checked - Nebraska 63 Kenpom: (11) 6 teams in the Top 50 and 5 more in the Top 100 - Nebraska 57 BPI: (12) 6 teams in the Top 50 and 6 more in the Top 100 - Nebraska 63 SOR: (10) 5 teams in the Top 50 and 5 more in the Top 100 - Nebraska 31 You know what! I am sick of proving how shitty the RPI is. You are a 1000% correct,and it should be tossed out the window next year!

The metric (RPI) that determines who is strong and weak is what is flawed. The numbers aren't flawed because that is what the committee uses. The metric is what is flawed. According to everyone the Big 10 was weak. Their thinking wasn't flawed if they were using the numbers that are used in College Basketball. The metric is what is flawed and needs changed. I 100% agree that the Big 10 was not as weak as everyone says. But the numbers said otherwise. Those flawed numbers screwed us over, but that is what they use and we (Big 10) didn't do a very good job of exploiting that.

I'd say the change of our offense this year shows the adaptability of Tim Miles. With the amount we pay assistants how do you know we couldn't find another guy who can recruit just as well as Hunter?

Preferably ones that don't rhyme with Deuce Assmanson.

And good luck to you in the NIT, Catfan. If you win it you can have sole possession of 65th place!

YEAH! I'm number one in one of the categories!

Can't lose 7 out of 10 down the stretch and having losing conf record and expect much love from committee

Last Friday I did a trade show at the Clink (still trying to get the smell off me), and a buyer from Kansas came up to my booth. Asked what I had, I said, "Let's talk important things first. KU or K-State?" He replied, "KU, of course." So we had a 5 minute discussion on all things college sports. He asked how NU was doing in the B1G, and I said alright. He then tells me NU and MU made a mistake leaving the Big 12. I said that I understand that argument but Texas really sucks and pretty much forced our hand. He understood, but really missed the old rivalries. I said, "Me too." The reason I share this discussion is we were never a part of the Big 12. We were a huge part of the Big 8. The other 7 members of the Big 8 abandoned us when negotiations to form the Big 12 happened. We didn't fit with Texas. We don't fit with Delaney. So jimmy, I wish the "originals" had stayed with us.

Congrats to the Huskers! And OU never should have made it in.

"Vegas" Money Line (Correct Winner) 1 jimmykc 30-3 2 Husker4Life 29-4 3 trickey 29-4 4 khoock 28-3 5 aphilso1 28-4 6 HuskerFever 28-5 7 swoof 27-4 8 hhcdimes 27-6 9 REDZONEDAN 27-6 10 TheNovice 27-6 11 bigred4 26-4 12 Bugeaters1 26-5 13 HB 26-6 14 NUtball 26-6 15 AuroranHusker 26-7 16 Chuck Taylor 26-7 17 cjbowbros 26-7 18 Dead Dog Alley 26-7 19 hal9000 26-7 20 jayschool 26-7 21 KenPom 26-7 22 runsoastowin 26-7 23 HuskerPower #nato73 25-5 24 BDL415 25-6 25 BjoeHusker 25-7 26 demone 25-7 27 UnicamMan 25-7 28 brfrad 25-8 29 Buglem 25-8 30 ConkintheCorner 25-8 31 HolyBobpilgrimage 25-8 32 NeeandMe 25-8 33 Noah121 25-8 34 jdostal 24-5 35 colhusker 24-6 36 4NUfans 24-8 37 Crush78 24-8 38 Silverbacked1 24-8 39 emwilliams 24-9 40 huskercwg 24-9 41 LNKtrnsplnt 24-9 42 throwback 24-9 43 twinswingohuskers 24-9 44 Blindcheck 23-9 45 1sdpad2 23-10 46 nuhusker7 23-10 47 pmd9 23-10 48 MitchMcGaryMunchies 22-5 49 75unlgrad 22-8 50 basketballjones 22-8 51 big red22 22-8 52 huskerbaseball13 22-8 53 Busch Light 22-10 54 Red Don 22-10 55 Nebrasketball5 21-5 56 WestOHusker 21-7 57 Vinny 21-8 58 hskr4life 21-10 59 MichHusker 20-4 60 mrjam 20-10 61 NebrasketballJake 19-7 62 Ralph Wiggum 18-9 63 HuskerCager 17-3 64 Neon Budreau 17-6 65 Handy Johnson 15-8 66 boomer1 13-3 67 TheBowmaster 13-3 68 dustystehl 11-1 69 Jurgey 11-4 70 Nebrasketball1979 10-4 71 oly_10 9-1 72 BigTate 6-1 73 kdorn3 7-0 74 cornfed24-7 7-1 75 Erdbeereis 6-0 76 TheGolfGang 4-1 77 huskers29 5-0 78 Jugular 5-5 79 JBARGIE 3-1 80 uneblinstu 3-1 81 BugeaterZ 4-0 82 nubest79 4-0 83 ZAYWHAT! 4-0 84 LK1 4-1 85 Cazzie22 4-3 86 Atupe 2-1 87 Section_316 3-0 88 Skersby90 3-1 89 bkamler 1-1 90 Boots 1-1 91 busticket 1-1 92 Faux Mike Peltz 1-1 93 Minnesota_Husker 1-1 94 noahjb24 1-1 95 Papa Gordon 1-1 96 Rome4Lyfe 1-1 97 rwmctrofholz 1-1 98 SittinOnThatDallasMaverick 1-1 99 hguy44 2-0 100 Lnolley11 2-1 101 soxnskers 1-0 102 Swan88 1-0 103 TomEadesSucks 1-0 104 Lifetimesker 1-1 105 jason2486 1-3

"Vegas" Against the Spread 1 LNKtrnsplnt 30-1 2 ConkintheCorner 29-2 3 KenPom 29-2 4 REDZONEDAN 29-2 5 4NUfans 28-2 6 Bugeaters1 27-2 7 BjoeHusker 27-3 8 HolyBobpilgrimage 27-4 9 Dead Dog Alley 26-5 10 emwilliams 26-5 11 HB 26-5 12 huskercwg 26-5 13 HuskerFever 26-5 14 jimmykc 26-5 15 BDL415 25-4 16 swoof 25-4 17 Crush78 25-5 18 NUtball 25-5 19 UnicamMan 25-5 20 hal9000 25-6 21 hhcdimes 25-6 22 Husker4Life 25-6 23 jayschool 25-6 24 NeeandMe 25-6 25 trickey 25-6 26 Ralph Wiggum 24-2 27 Blindcheck 24-6 28 demone 24-6 29 Silverbacked1 24-6 30 1sdpad2 24-7 31 AuroranHusker 24-7 32 brfrad 24-7 33 cjbowbros 24-7 34 Noah121 24-7 35 twinswingohuskers 24-7 36 bigred4 23-5 37 huskerbaseball13 23-5 38 khoock 23-6 39 Busch Light 23-7 40 TheNovice 23-8 41 throwback 23-8 42 Nebrasketball5 22-2 43 MitchMcGaryMunchies 22-3 44 colhusker 22-6 45 Vinny 21-6 46 aphilso1 21-9 47 nuhusker7 21-10 48 runsoastowin 21-10 49 Neon Budreau 20-2 50 jdostal 20-7 51 HuskerPower #nato73 20-8 52 mrjam 20-8 53 WestOHusker 19-7 54 big red22 19-9 55 basketballjones 19-10 56 hskr4life 19-10 57 Red Don 19-11 58 Buglem 19-12 59 pmd9 17-14 60 HuskerCager 16-2 61 MichHusker 16-6 62 NebrasketballJake 16-8 63 75unlgrad 16-12 64 Chuck Taylor 14-17 65 boomer1 13-1 66 Jurgey 13-2 67 Handy Johnson 12-11 68 dustystehl 11-1 69 TheBowmaster 11-3 70 oly_10 10-0 71 Nebrasketball1979 10-4 72 Jugular 9-1 73 Cazzie22 7-0 74 BigTate 5-0 75 kdorn3 5-2 76 ZAYWHAT! 4-0 77 huskers29 4-1 78 LK1 4-1 79 Erdbeereis 4-2 80 cornfed24-7 4-4 81 Lnolley11 3-0 82 BugeaterZ 3-1 83 jason2486 3-1 84 nubest79 3-1 85 Atupe 2-0 86 JBARGIE 2-1 87 Section_316 2-1 88 Skersby90 2-2 89 TheGolfGang 2-2 90 Boots 1-0 91 Faux Mike Peltz 1-0 92 Rome4Lyfe 1-0 93 rwmctrofholz 1-0 94 SittinOnThatDallasMaverick 1-0 95 soxnskers 1-0 96 Swan88 1-0 97 TomEadesSucks 1-0 98 hguy44 1-1 99 Lifetimesker 1-1 100 uneblinstu 1-2 101 Papa Gordon 0-0 102 bkamler 0-1 103 busticket 0-1 104 Minnesota_Husker 0-1 105 noahjb24 0-1

Just about a year ago I set out on the road Seekin' my fame and fortune Lookin' for a pot of gold Thing got bad things got worse I guess you will know the tune Oh Lord, stuck in the NIT again I rode in on the Greyhound I'll be walkin' out if I go I was just passin' through Must be seven months or more Ran out of time and money Looks like they took my friends Oh Lord, I'm stuck in the NIT again The man from the magazine Said I was on my way Somewhere I lost connections Ran out of teams to play I came into town, a one night stand Looks like my plans fell through Oh Lord, stuck in NIT again If I only had a dollar For ev'ry song I've sung And ev'ry time I had to play While people sat there drunk You know, I'd catch the next train Back to where I live Oh Lord, I'm stuck in NIT again Oh Lord, I'm stuck in NIT again

It would even be a better back court. But don't forget about Thor and Nana. Both fit into the back court picture...along with James, who of course is staying one more year.

...and now when I see it, makes me upset all over again. One can argue that losing to both Creighton and Kansas perhaps put us out of the NCAA tournament; and when we lost to Ohio State, that simply put a bow on it. So we were fooled into thinking all the other games mattered. Heck, Penn State was sort of a play in game...NOT. Rasmussen was at the PBA because...because what? It didn't matter. So...can you tell I am STILL seething.

The problem with the Big 10 has 4 teams in the top of the NCAA tournament argument for us is that we only played those teams once.

It's sad that I've seen all of these teams play this season except maybe Wagner and SE Louisiana.

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Remind your Hoosier friend that Nebrasketball is 5-4 against Indiana in Big Ten hoops. And NU is 1-0 in football, too. 'Adjunct' that up the wazoo, IU.

I haven't seen these short videos posted yet.

Bilas is right. They need to get some basketball guys on the committee, not just a room full of administrators. It needs to be a mix. Don't go full on media, but get some guys who cover the game. Get some out of work coaches. Get some ADs.

i would say that currently our condition is n very good condition

BTN feels the same way about the three schools.

Well that would be a tough go. But I would hope that the Big would give us at least one home game in our first 10.

This is why I'm leery of going overboard on the OOC scheduling. Looking back at the last 5 years.... The Big 10 had 7 100+ RPI teams this year. The most of any year in the last 5. In fact the conference average the previous 4 is just 4.25. A significant difference. It also only had 2 teams rated from 51-100. Only one other time in the last 5 years has it had that. The average is 3.75. Again...nearly cut in half compared to the average. The average RPI rating per conference team was 90.36. Two years ago, the average was 96.5, heavily skewed by Rutgers (294) and Minnesota (254). The other 3 years....66, 74 and 63. That's a lot of Q1/Q2 opportunities right there. We had 4 Q1 opportunities in regular season conference play this year (@MSU, Mich, @Ohio State, @Purdue). If you use the RPIs from last year with this year's schedule...we would have had 8 opportunities. 7 opportunities each from 13-14, 14-15 and 15-16. Averaging 7.25 opportunities a year. Again...nearly cut in half this year. That's where the difference is coming from. That and losing the opportunities we did have in the non-con. People are frustrated and I get that....but the vast majority of the issue came from stuff completely out of our control. As I mentioned last week....we got dealt a ton of bad luck this year that you can't account for. And we didn't make any luck for ourselves early on either. Odds are....it won't be this way again. The question then will be....what is the criteria the committee is using in the future. The changing goal posts of the committee is where my frustration lies.

This made me literally laugh out loud. SOOOOO true, it's funny.

24-8 is a great record but I don't know if I had enough Q1 games. Poop.

So you're saying I went 21-9 ATS, 22-8 on Over/Under, and 28-4 on the money line? Dang it, now I wish I had put my money in Vegas rather than my 401(k).

Next year I expect heartache. Not sure in what form, but I know what's coming. For the 57th time in my life.

Congrats to the ladies for making it in the Tournament! All your hard work, time spent and determination allowed you to turn this program around from where it was last season. You earned this!!

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OK, then let's lace up our bowling shoes and settle the question of who rightfully belongs in this league once and for all... on the lanes.

I was listening to an analyst on the CBS Sports HQ app (don't know who it was). He was asked why only four team made it into the Dance. He didn't mention Nebraska, but he said that the conference had only four bids is because the following teams weren't as good as expected: Northwestern, Minnesota, Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin. The implication was, of course, that it was Nebraska — and to some extent, Penn State — who was good, and thus easier to overlook. He wasn't dissing Nebraska, because he then went on to say the Big Ten was a really good conference, and that he wouldn't be surprised to see two conference teams in the Final Four. At the same time, he said he didn't expect any Big 12 teams in the Final Four. We've speculated that Nebraska's lack of historical basketball success had to play at least an unconscious role in our NCAA non-selection and eventual bizarre NIT seeding. I'm beginning to think that argument has some merit. It certainly didn't churn anyone's butter on BTN that we're not in. And while Beilein and Painter both noted that more Big Ten teams should have been in, they weren't adamant. (And they weren't Adam Ant.)

well at least the women's road wins over ranked teams counted for something. barely. amazing job by williams this season.

This is partly right. Had we beaten UCF but lost to WV, we get St. Johns. Our SOS improves from 95 to 81. Had we beaten WV somehow, we get Missouri. Our SOS improves another four points to 77. Better...but not night and day better, and considering how WV was playing at the time and how we were too, that doesn't seem like a super safe bet. But... Let's say we scheduled Western Carolina instead of Delaware State, another low-major (Southern Conference) with a losing record. Only their RPI is 215 instead of 351. That move alone improves our SOS from 95 to 86. Leave that game off entirely and play a D2 instead, and we're at 83 -- comparable to beating UCF and likely winding up with two more losses (not that those matter in the metrics necessarily, but potentially in team confidence heading into that rough stretch). For kicks, if we drop that game AND beat UCF but lose to WV (and so get St. John's again), we're up to 67, and starting to approach an actual bubble team SOS. But that still only gives us one Quad 1 opportunity in WV...UCF and St. John's were not. Personally I think our SOS was hurt more so by Lovett and Tacko getting hurt than by losing to UCF, but it's hard to project that into actual numbers. Had we beaten UCF, that impact becomes even more amplified. The conference really killed us too, but as you pointed out, that's not the norm. But the D2-for-Delaware State swap and subsequent bump in SOS (not to mention RPI) shows how broken this stupid system is.

SPOT-ON, we are relegated to 2nd class citizen status in this Conference, and the nauseating degree of fawning over at the BTN regarding THE Ohio St and Michigan makes me weep for the sound of Jay Randolf's voice. I'm proud to say I own a degree from a legendary Big 8 institution and not some watered down, bastardized, hodge podge of schools we belong to now.

Cool for Roby though, wasn't it him that had family down in Mississippi that he was able to meet for the first time?

Lunardi wasn't right. He was dead wrong. We were way more out than even he thought. He sucks!

Turns out that Delaware St game against Morgan St. didn't matter too much.