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Western U.'s basketball offices were in the Lory Student Center at Colorado State University. The externals of the gym were of Moby Gym on the same campus.

Then I'll go with this year -10 on a neutral court. Wait. I guess virtual PBA is a neutral court for two Husker squads.

Oh, and Yvan Ouedraogo is now 16 years old.

No Sam H.? He's more a part of the rotation this year than Rice going forward.

FWIW, rotation Huskers' ages: Wilcher 22 Hoiberg 20 Williams 22 Gary 22 Coleman 24 Lawrence 20 (in a couple of weeks) Tominaga 22 Mast 22 Allick 22

Having taught undergrads (ages 18-21) and grad students (ages 22-30), I know that Fred must be thrilled to have actual mature adults in the locker room, in meetings, at press conferences, etc. Makes life so much easier.

So do the Utah media or Aggie fans express even the slightest concern that this may not turn out well for USU?

Great points. However, the Big XII has had a title football game despite just 10 members the past several seasons. If it's the Pac-10, then, I would guess the top 6 from the list above plus Wyoming and New Mexico to add those states to the list of markets and to keep the I-25 travel corridor intact from Laramie to Albuquerque. UNM and Wyo would have to bump attendance somehow, but the addition to the Pac-10 just might do that automatically.

Yes. I checked the media markets, though, and it's (a nearly invisible) part of the SLC TV market. "Kearney with mountains"! LOL

My preference is the same, but I wonder if OSU and WSU would rather partner with the 6-8 MWC programs that are most likely to bring value to a new conference (potential viewership, football stadium size, overall athletic performance and number of sports offered) and reconfigure a new Pac-8 or Pac-10 and leaving 4-6 current MWC schools out in the cold or available for AAC, CUSA or Sun Belt membership. The top grossing MWC programs in 2022 and their average home football attendance in 2022, along with market size: Air Force ($76.6 million) 26,926 (Colorado Springs #86) San Diego State ($65.9 million) 29,225 (San Diego #30) UNLV ($64.2 million) 22,112 (Las Vegas #40) CSU ($61.2 million) 26,891 (Denver/Fort Collins #17) Fresno ($54 million) 39,067 (Fresno #52) Boise ($50.6 million) 33,538 (Boise #97) Wyoming ($50.3 million) 19,707 (Cheyenne/Laramie (#196) Hawai'i ($49.4 million) 23,454** (Honolulu #68) Nevada ($47.9 million) 14,905 (Reno #102) New Mexico ($44.9 million) 14,966 (Albuquerque #49) Utah State ($43.2 million) 16,954 (Salt Lake #27) San Jose ($39 million) 16,422 (Bay Area #10) ** Hawai'i average in 2019, the last season at Aloha Stadium. They're building a new stadium and currently playing in a 10,000-seat venue. New 25,000-seat stadium opens in 2028. If WSU and OSU want to be on board with only the strongest programs in the best media markets, they might just take the top six on this list. Wyoming and Hawaii add too few eyeballs (Wyoming) and complicate travel (Hawai'i). Utah State and San Jose are in huge media markets, but are virtually invisible up against BYU/Utah/Jazz and everything in the Bay Area. New Mexico and Nevada add some basketball cachet, but little else. What would happen to Wyoming, New Mexico, Hawai'i, Nevada, San Jose, Tim Miles and Utah State? All could fit somewhere, or a few could be added selectively. Hawai'i is already a member of the Big West Conference in everything but football already, so they could go independent, especially with the 13th-game incentive serving as a football scheduling boon for them. SJSU doesn't really excel in anything, though I hold out hope that Tim Miles keeps them improving in basketball. In football, they'd be a tough add for any conference given their historical lack of success and dismal attendance. I'd guess a four-team Mountain Time addition to Conference USA would work best. It will be a 10-team league starting in 2024 with a footprint that reaches from Lynchburg to Las Cruces. Four more Mountain Time schools (Wyo, UNM, Nevada and USU) might work as a 14-team league with two divisions, one with the "MWC Four" plus UTEP, NMSU and Sam Houston State, and a second with the teams located in Virginia (Liberty), Kentucky (WKU), Tennessee (MTSU), Alabama (Jax State), Florida(FIU), Georgia (Kennesaw) and Louisiana (Tech).

In football, WSU and OSU will get six games against MWC teams and will play each other. So that's seven games guaranteed for the next couple of years. WSU's Apple Cup game against UW will give them eight guaranteed. Football won't be a problem. Basketball isn't mentioned in any of the scheduling agreement stories, so that could be an issue over the two-year period of the agreement for both WSU and OSU to put together competitive basketball schedules, especially in January and February when everybody settles into heavy conference rotations.

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3-0 Huskers at HT.

Actually, one from Falls City and one from Kansas City, KS.

Iowa — L (mixed emotions only begins to describe how it made me feel)

"WE AREN'T!" "PENN STATE!"

WB: 3 points and 8 boards in 21 minutes. 1-2 from the field, 1-2 from the line. 2 fouls. P Mulcahy: Who cares?

When I first read that Lindenwood had a player named "Nathan Johnson Jr.," I thought: "Hey, he has the same name (mostly) as my favorite Husker from the early 2000s!" I had no idea until Jessica Coody mentioned it on BTN+. To Nate! And his son!

If Diop drains that 3 after that monster dunk, we're talking Naismith Award today.

What's the sound of a basketball violently bouncing off the backboard, a foot from the rim? "DIOP!"

What's the sound of a basketball being violently thrust through a rim? "DIOP!"

Ndembe!!