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Nebraska 72 Butler 65 1 win

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Clearly we're better this year, right? It's still a head-scratcher on its face: a 22-10, 13-5, fourth-place Big Ten team is a No. 5 NIT seed in 2018. an 18-16, 6-14, 13th-place Big Ten team is a No. 4 NIT seed in 2019 All because a bunch of Big Ten teams lost games in November 2017 and a bunch of Big Ten teams won a lot of games in November 2018. Thus the conference season started each year with the perception that (2018) the Big Ten is down or (2019) the Big Ten is up. Yet the 2018 post-season proved that perception wrong — Michigan the national runners-up, PSU the NIT champ.

The Bluebribes are a 2 seed, playing Loyola-Chicago.

4 seed against Barry Collier's team.

It's Nebraska; like it or not, it's never gonna go left.

Can I borrow this for my sports writing class? ?

Only the indica variety.

Agreed, especially since the highly rated power conference teams were 16-16, 18-16, 17-15 and below sea-level with their conference records.

Iowa finished at 44 in the NET to Nebraska's 48. Even a single game going another direction could have switched those positions.

That's the unofficial #Nebrasketball slogan: "The margin is rather thin. Sickeningly so."

I'm reading that last year they played four quarters, but this year, they'll play halves. Note the differences in what's below and what I posted above for 2019. Here are the 2018 special rules: • The three-point line will be extended by approximately 1 foot 8 inches to the same distance used by FIBA for international competition (22 feet 1.75 inches). • The free throw lane will be widened from 12 feet to 16 feet, consistent with the width used by the NBA. • The games will be divided into four 10-minute quarters as opposed to two 20-minute halves. Teams will shoot two free throws beginning with the fifth foul of each quarter. • The shot clock will reset to 20 seconds after an offensive rebound instead of the full 30 seconds.

Highest NET rankings left out: 35. Clemson 38. Texas 41. Furman 48. Nebraska

BTW, Nebraska finished 48 in NET rankings.

Basically turns the game into quarters, and you shoot two shots after the fifth foul in each quarter. In the last two minutes, if you're not already over the limit, you put yourself over the limit with the second foul. They should have just adopted the women's quarters rules.

I was actually hoping for a matchup with the western CU. They've finished strong, but in a crap conference.

NIT rules changes (the first three were in place last year): • The 3-point line will be extended by approximately 1 foot, 8 inches to the same distance used by FIBA for international competition (22 feet, 1.75 inches). • The free throw lane will be widened from 12 feet to 16 feet, consistent with the width used by the NBA. • The shot clock will reset to 20 seconds after an offensive rebound instead of the full 30 seconds. • Team fouls will reset at the 10-minute mark of each half for the purpose of determining free throws and one-and-one free throws will be eliminated. Teams will shoot two bonus free throws after the fifth team foul of each 10-minute segment. Additionally, teams will be awarded two bonus free throws after the second team foul committed under two minutes remaining in each half if that foul occurs before the fifth team foul of the segment. In each overtime period, team fouls will reset, and teams will shoot two free throws beginning with the fourth team foul or the second team foul committed under two minutes remaining if that comes before the fourth team foul of the overtime period.

7:30 ESPNU

And the Bluebirds?

Iowa 5-11 against tournament teams: 0-2 vs. MSU 0-2 vs. Purdue 1-1 vs. Michigan 0-2 vs. Maryland 0-2 vs. Wisconsin 1-1 vs. Minnesota 1-1 vs. Ohio State 1-0 vs. Oregon 1-0 vs. Iowa State For reference, Nebraska was 4-12.

So Duke is the overall #1, which means MSU is the overall #8 even with a better conference record than Michigan and a 3-0 head-to-head record.

If I'm figuring this correctly, we finished 4-12 against tournament teams: 0-2 vs. MSU 0-1 vs. Michigan 0-2 vs. Purdue 0-2 vs. Wisconsin 1-1 vs. Maryland 1-1 vs. Iowa 1-1 vs. Minnesota 0-1 vs. Ohio State 1-0 vs. Seton Hall 0-1 vs. Texas Tech

April 5, during the NIT championship celebration at PBA.

Furthermore, @ladyhusker has proven she knows the proper usage of a semicolon. Mad props.