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Rock Bottom's good news: 90 percent of Husker Nation go back to worrying about Rising Senior All Purpose Backs and Four-Star Juco Mike 'Backers.

Rock Bottom is a brew pub. And it's when Coach Ernie Kent leads the team to a 9-23 record next year.

Tuesday's games: Clemson (+6) at Florida State, 6 p.m., ESPNU Texas Tech (+1.5) at Kansas State, 6 p.m., ESPN2 Minnesota (+12.5) at Michigan. 6 p.m., BTN Indiana (-1) at Northwestern, 8 p.m., BTN

I'm usually an optimist, but I'm at a (seven-point) loss for words right now. Please, Saturday, come soon.

Monday's games: Maryland (7-1) at Michigan State (7-0), 5:30 p.m., FS1 Nebraska (3-4) at Rutgers (1-6), 7 p.m., BTN MVSU (3-15) at Southern (2-16), 7:30 p.m. Creighton (1-4) at Georgetown (2-3), 7:30 p.m., FS1 Interesting Big XII game: Iowa State (4-2) at Kansas (4-2), 8 p.m., ESPN, winner moves into first place

Iowa 15-21 from deep against Illin. Oy.

Sunday's game: Illinois at Iowa, noon, BTN

Very similar game to MSU-NU except for the final stretch. Tied at 43 (Nebraska tied at 44), Wisconsin started hitting threes, and Happ took over inside. Michigan couldn't hit until it was too late. Props to the Wisconsin Floppers.

Saturday's games: Michigan at Wisconsin, 11 a.m., ESPN Indiana at Purde, 1 p.m., Fox SE Louisiana at McNeese, 1:30 p.m. Oklahoma State at Iowa State, 5 p.m., ESPNU Texas Tech at Baylor, 5 p.m., ESPN2 Mississippi Valley at Alcorn, 5:30 p.m. IPFW at Western Illinois, 7 p.m. DePaul at Seton Hall, 7 p.m., FS1 Penn State at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m., BTN Fullerton at Long Beach, 9 p.m.

Nebraska 71 Rutgers 61

Agreed. At this point, I would add Maryland to the top tier and Ohio State to the conference's bottom tier. Top Michigan MSU Maryland Middle Nebraska Minnesota Iowa Indiana Purdue Wisconsin Bottom Ohio State Northwestern Illinois Rutgers Penn State

Yeah, I don't know how to program scoreboard timers either, but I assume someone does.

The same issue arises in college football in the final quarter if a player runs out of bounds at 2:01 or 2:00, which requires that the officials restart the clock when the ball is ready for play. Had the player run out at 1:59, then the offense gets the full 40 seconds to run a play before the clock starts again. That's why the NFL's two-minute warning, which seems like just a commercial break opportunity, actually has some utility.

I guess the answer is that if a basket is made in the second half at 1:06, 1:05, 1:04, 1:03, 1:02, 1:01 or even 1:00, that it ticks down to 59.9 and stops unless the ball has been inbounded before then, but doesn't require a whistle to stop play. The clock resumes when the ball is touched in bounds. In that case last night, MSU could have screwed around all they wanted until the ref started his count, and it wouldn't have cost Nebraska nearly 10 seconds of game time.