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Rust Belt Shithole.

Come on, boys. Let's cover.

If this was 1983, we'd be chanting N-I-T! N-I-T! N-I-T! N-I-T! And loving it.

Crap. Crappity crap. Gotta go 7-2 the rest of the way. That starts Wednesday.

How long was Wesson in the lane? Eight seconds?

Not money.

Win or lose, Wednesday is going to be a death march.

I'm looking for some strychnine. I know there's some here ...

Dakich anagram: Ha! Dick.

We should foul Dakich hard. Just on principle.

Then it's Roby Jam.

That. Is What I. Am Talking. About.

I hate it when fat guys use their guts and their asses to make room.

Halftime Husker Headline: Scrappy 12-point underdogs fighting tooth and nail with undefeated league leaders

We should be way ahead. Or way behind. I can't quite figure it out.

I've been pulling out the pity card with KU friends and others to get them to jump on the Nebrasketball bandwagon this year and root for the ultimate underdog story, even better than last year's run by Northwestern. It got me to thinking about what other universities have men's basketball programs still seeking their first NCAA Tournament victory. Here's a quick rundown based on RPI conference ratings by RealTime RPI. I'll give the team(s) from each conference with the fewest wins in the tournament (full tournament record in parentheses). I stop after the first 15 conferences because the bottom 17 conferences have a host of schools still waiting, probably forever unless they get into a play-in game. Big XII — TCU (5-7) ACC — Virginia Tech (6-9) Big East — Creighton (12-21) SEC — Mississippi (5-8) Pac 12 — Washington State (6-6) Big 10 — Nebraska (0-7) American — UCF (0-4) and East Carolina (0-2) Missouri Valley — Evansville (1-5) Mountain West — Air Force (0-4), Boise (0-7) and San Jose State (0-3) Atlantic 10 — Fordham (2-4) Mid-American — Akron (0-4), Buffalo (0-2) and Northern Illinois (0-3) Colonial — Delaware (0-5), Hofstra (0-4), Towson (0-2), William & Mary (0-0), Elon (0-0) West Coast — Portland (0-2) Summit — IUPUI (0-1), North Dakota (0-1), South Dakota State (0-4), South Dakota (0-0), Fort Wayne (0-0), Denver (0-0), Omaha (0-0), Western Illinois (0-0) Conference USA — FIU (0-1), FAU (0-0), Marshall (0-5), North Texas (0-3), Southern Mississippi (0-3) Now, of the winless teams, which have a reasonable shot of getting to the tournament, which means they also have a reasonable shot of winning a game (by RealTime RPI ranking?) 27. Buffalo (13-5, 6-0 in conference) 34. Boise (15-4, 6-2) 55. UCF (13-6, 4-3) 58. South Dakota State (13-5, 5-0) 66. Nebraska (14-7, 5-3) 72. William & Mary (11-6, 6-2) 96. Marshall (13-6, 5-2) Lots of possibilities for teams to break through, but none of them rival Nebraska's history of futility.

OSU 72 NU 68

Nebraska was tired of getting beaten by Michigan.

Who had Thor, Nana and Malcolm playing tonight?

That'll work.

Both. I've paraphrased, of course, and added modern references as well as the idea that basketball could adopt the same plan. The idea was to just get rid of the hypocrisy and call major college football what it is: a developmental league for the big boys. If we're going to go the way of free agency, then why not? The NFL could pay, but also would then have some say in how players are allotted and placed. The voucher could be good anywhere within that system of major universities.

This is something that Rick Telander posited in his book "The Hundred Yard Lie" back in 1989: Let's just end the charade that major-college football and men's basketball at the top 100 universities has anything to do with academics. Make the NFL and NBA pay for the development of these players, and give the players vouchers to attend school now or after their playing careers are done. You can still have a team called the "Nebraska Cornhuskers" playing at PBA or Memorial Stadium, but the players aren't necessarily students at the local university. They're apprentices learning how to play professional basketball or football, earning a stipend ($50,000 per year?) to do so, and moving up to the big time (or moving back to the real world/school with the rest of us) when they prove ready. True "college" football and basketball would be played at what are now the mid-majors, FCS and lower-division schools.

NU 47-34 midway through the third.

There's this woman named Doyle, too, who's not too bad.

Beating Maryland is important because it's a home game we should win, but it could also be the difference between us and them if either team gets that far.