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Maybe we need to run and gun and forget about half court offense. Press and run. Take the first good shot and go. Because our half court looks are awful.

Good to see we made the smart decision to go smaller and *not start one of our best shooting threats.

small crowd it appears.

Shutting him down??

What's the word on Mason?

Bubble Watch: Georgia @ South Carolina: South Carolina has become like our best friend. They are a bad loss for teams, but also not a win that would bump a team up over us. They also took down Arky. Keep the Gamecock train rolling. Rutgers @ Purdue: No bubble implications here, but a huge loss for Rutgers would probably knock them down to a Q3 game for us. We don't need another Q3 loss. North Carolina @ Va Tech: UNC is one of the teams we are absolutely fighting with on the bubble. We need them to lose. Period. Their resume isn't "that" impressive at 1-10 in Q1 games. This would be a 2nd Q3 loss though. St. Louis @ Dayton: Dayton has a chance to backdoor their way in if they keep winning. Need them to take an L. VCU @ Duquesne: VCU likely in barring a major collapse, but mucking things up at the mid-major level is always a good thing. Creighton @ Seton Hall: Need CU to keep rolling so that win stays looking good. Texas @ Mississippi St: Texas is still within striking distance and this would be a huge road win for them. Baylor @ TCU: Baylor continues to drop and the resume isn't great by any means. Same number of Q1 wins as us, but no Q3 losses. This would be a TCU sweep for the year though if it happens. TCU still has a ways to go so I think we want them here. Nova @ GTown: Nova still a ways to go, but a loss wouldn't hurt us. WVU @ Utah: Think we want Utah here. A mucked up B12 is possible and how will the committee handle that being not a great conference this year? Syracuse @ SMU: Could use Syracuse to beat SMU and make it two L's in a row. SMU still right there on the bubble. SJSU @ Colorado St: Come on Tim, help an old friend out. Colorado St is on a heater and could play their way in with the MW being a decent conference. New Mexico @ Nevada: Come on Nevada, need the MW to not look as good as many are saying they are. Remember what happened last year though with the MW come tourney time. They looked awful. Does that affect their bubble teams this year? Boise St @ Air Force: Fly HIGH Air Force and do us a favor by giving Boise an AWFUL loss. Indiana @ Oregon: I'd rather have a fellow bubble team lose than be a Q2A win, so come on Oregon. Do us a favor and beat the Hoosiers please. Arky @ Vandy: With Vandy pretty much a lock now, I'm going to say we want them to just keep winning rather than giving another bubble team life. Arky is reeling after their defeat at South Carolina. San Diego St @ UNLV: See above notes on a mucked up MW. Some are saying this could be a 3-4 bid league with the weak bubble.

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Bryce Gary Sam Connor Berke That's the best lineup to provide a possible scoring punch to start.

While I partly agree-- We control our own destiny there with our game vs Iowa. No matter what happens vs OSU. And if we can't win a single fricking game out of Michigan, Minnesota, @OSU, Iowa to seal a deal in the B1G tournament, maybe we don't deserve to be there either.

Bubble Watch: Wake Forest @ Duke: A win would put Wake in a really good spot and a loss likely means they must win the ACC tournament. Biggest game of the night for us. UCLA @ Northwestern: I don't think our NW win will drop to a Q2, so we definitely need UCLA as they are right on the cut line right now for a Q1/Q2 win.

USC inching back closer to a Q2 game. They are at 76. With a game vs Washington on tap, we could use them to win that one for our bubble resume. We also still sit at 5 Q1 wins and a win vs OSU would give us 6 Q1 wins again. A win vs OSU would bring us to a 10-10 Q1/Q2 record which is pretty good for a bubble team. It's not over-- win both and we're likely still in. Lose both and the season is likely over. Win 1 and we likely need to win the B1G tournament (or at least make Saturday) to give ourselves a chance. Our wins are up there with some of the better bubble teams if not better than and our losses are down there with some of the worst losses for bubble teams... we've flopped on all of our chances to seal the deal. But we're still right there.

We were in well over half of the brackets updated on 3/2. I counted (I Think) 22/28 brackets updated on 3/2

I know Burke has sucked the past few games. For sure. But you can't honestly think that he's less of an offensive threat than Meah or Ullis? Injuries do funny things. Let's let this play out and see what happens.

Finally-- I figured you started having hope again.

UNO should be easy to reschedule/move up. Wouldn't mind us trying to get that game in at like 11 AM/Noon... or even see about playing today... but probably won't happen and I know it's not that easy. I'd be on the horn with SDSU right now trying to get that thing rescheduled already.

A really good chance to pick up a couple of wins for seeding purposes and then get a shot at UCLA. Don't know that we'll be able to win 5 in 5, but we shall see.

We're going to have to find a way to score some runs against good pitching and win games when Jordy isn't pitching. Seems like most of our losses are when Jordy isn't on the mound OR when we can't score and Jordy is on the mound.

Who would have thought back when we played North Florida, with how their season started, that they’d be the first team out of their CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT!

While I disagree with saying things to anyone like what has been said (regardless of whether they are kids or not), I do struggle sometimes these days saying "they are just kids". Today's group of college athletes can be as old as 25+ and earning 7 figures. That's not "just a kid" in my eyes anymore. Back in the day when it was an 18, 19, 20 year old doing nothing but trying to earn a degree and play ball for your uni... maybe. Now it's a business and it's hard viewing them as "just kids" now. But still it shouldn't matter whether it's someone playing college ball or someone working in the corporate world. You don't send messages like what was sent.

Just a disaster of a first few weekends. Hopefully we forget about things like rankings and hosting and just go out and play ball now. We can still be a really scary two seed but we’re going to need bats and we’re going to need Mason.

Never thought that I’d be harder on the Huskers than bracketologists. But here we are. I would have said we’re out currently, but many of them still have us in including Joe. Wild.

100% you’re playing OSU for your NCAA and B1G tournament lives. Weird spot to be in.

Our metrics updates as of this morning. The good news is that results metrics are hanging in the low 50’s. To do what we need to do to get in (win 2), those should rise into the 40’s and that’s where we need them to be. USC’s big loss knocked them down to a Q3, so we went from 0 Q3 losses yesterday to 2. Ouch. They play Washington at home and @UCLA, so still a small chance they could finish Q2. Rutgers plays @Purdue and home against Minny. As long as they don’t get blown out at Purdue and beat Minny, they should stay Q2. Anyways…

Im not sure any bubble team does this year lol. It’s like bubble teams are fighting to NOT dance this year.

Thankfully, most of the bubble decided to play to our level today. Want to add, I do believe we’re on the wrong side of bubble currently… as we should be. But we’re still right there.