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Good news is (or bad news) that a loss to Iowa likely ends the season and we don’t even make the B1G tournament so we could put this thread to bed and not rack our brains on how we “get there”.

After three weeks of play, Here are the current records. Not that the records mean much as RPI is definitely more important. There are currently 7 teams in the top 100 RPI and 4 in the top 30. I put the top 30 in bold & underline and top 100 in just bold. RPI's under 200 are in red. RPI's 100-199 are just plain text. # 1-Oregon (11-2) # 2-NEBRASKA (4-6) # 3-Indiana (6-7) # 4-Penn St (9-1) # 5-Michigan* (6-5) 6-Maryland* (7-5) 7-UCLA* (10-3) 8-Illinois (5-4) 9-Iowa* (4-6) 10-USC* (9-3) 11-Ohio St (2-8) 12-Minnesota* (5-5) 13-Purdue* (12-1) 14-Rutgers* (5-7) 15-Mich St (9-2) 16-N'western* (5-5) 17-Washington* (5-8)

Going to have to have some arms step up in the mid-week. With the first few weekends we've had, those are going to be important games to win.

We are in many. We are actually in some brackets that have been updated since our game. Our big wins are holding us up well. That's one reason why, if we manage to beat Iowa and win our first round BTT game, I'll at least be tuning into Selection Sunday.

We weren’t crazy. Really good breakdown here. I even missed a couple “misses” on Nebraska.

I still get Nebraska as a 16 seed here.

No full update today and might not be one for a while as we just need to worry about beating Iowa. Let’s make the B1G tourney before we talk NCAAs. This is mostly because other bubble teams are taking care of business and picking up huge wins. And it makes me sick to see that but we can’t catch a break and win one. If we beat Iowa, I’ll revisit for conference tournament week.

my guess would be 2-3 bid steals this year looking at this graphic. Not confident in Drake, Irvine presents a challenge in Big West, San Fan in the WCC, and Colorado St in the MWC. Throw in one shocker and a few of those…

Just saw this. Brutal. We have got to be the unluckiest mens athletic program since 2000.

Exactly— I said something in the game thread about how we shouldn’t even be in the position of having this game mean so much to us. This should have been a playing for seeding type of game.

Forget this route— playing IU/Ohio St would require us to lose to Iowa and USC to lose twice. So a win wouldn’t get us Dayton. Carry on. Going to have to win the next 3. What’s going to really suck is winning our next two and then seeing our name pop up in the first 4 out group on selection Sunday.

I mentioned this last night. There is a scenario where we get the 15 seed and play Indiana as the 10 seed. That would of course require us to beat Iowa. Should Ohio State beat IU this weekend, that is the only situation where I could see two wins for us possibly getting us to Dayton. It would mean beating another bubble team for the second time this season. Outside of that, no first round game is going to move the needle much. So 3 wins is a must for Dayton. Hard disagree with the post above saying we need to win the whole thing. But it won’t be easy for sure.

Rutgers dropping to 77 bumped USC to 75. So… still 2 in this department. But our metrics are rough rough. Going to probably take winning the next three to even be considered for Dayton.

Wasn’t a flagrant until they reviewed. Part of the flagrant problem is that players have started to take advantage of the rule by flailing with any contact near the head. It’s like a flop trying to take a charge. They know the refs will always usually review it and it’s rarely called flagrant in real time. So either change how the rule is enforced or make more things reviewable. End of game situations, obvious officiating errors, technicals, etc.

Was playing around with the B1G tourney generator... there was a scenario where we end up the 15 seed and play Indiana the first round. Should we beat Iowa and Indiana lose to OSU, that could be another play-in type game. Most any other game the first round wouldn't give us much of a boost.

I do hope I am wrong. It just feels like too many gut punches to come back from. Iowa 86 Nebraska 74

I have to do it here because my wife had enough after Saturday's loss and my kicking of a bag full of dirty diapers that broke open.

I'm just... damn man. The boys fought so hard tonight. So many close calls this year. We just can't finish close games. It's the Nebrasketball version of the "best whatever number win football team" we had a few years back under Frost. So many gut punches.

I know a guy you'd get along with great-- he made a couple posts in the game thread if you want to DM him. LOL

Bad news-- we're likely to wake up with a 3rd Q3 loss tomorrow too thanks to Rutgers getting the doors blown off.

Man-- that scene was brutal to watch the first time. Damnit Upham!

I think Iowa and a first round B1G win could get us Dayton. Boys, let's bring it on Sunday. We need to be loud and we need to win that one.

I've had a feeling for a while. His posts are either shit or they shit on the Huskers. The one "positive" post was a sarcastic woo hoo for Fred after we won.

And if an inadvertent hand to the face is cause for a review with so many minutes left... how is an obvious error NOT with seconds? What are we doing here?