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Some big ones tonight on tap for us... 6 PM- OSU @ Rutgers-- Need OSU in this one. Want them as high as possible when we beat them at PBA. 6 PM- Marquette @ Creighton-- Need Creighton to continue to hold serve at home and make that win look as good as possible. Quad 1 win isn't out of the question. 7 PM- Clemson @ Syracuse-- Road wins are gold as we know. Could really use Clemson to pick up a solid road W. Would be a double win for us as that would knock down the Cuse a little bit. 7:30 PM- Butler @ Seton Hall-- Need the Hall to rebound and keep that win looking good. 8 PM- Iowa @ NW-- Really need the Hawks to continue winning now. We have the chance to avenge our three losses in conference at home. 11 PM- Cal State Fullerton @ Hawaii-- Some Big West after dark action. Could use CSF to pick up a few wins. Other games of note ASU @ Cal in the Pac 12-- Could use a Cal win and make that conference even more likely to be 1 bid. 9 Top 25 matchups (10 teams in action with TCU vs KU)... Of those 10 Top 25 teams playing tonight... 7 are on the road. Could be some shakeups as we know road wins are tough in conference play.

This is a good point. It’ll take a complete collapse to miss the dance this year. These last two games you should only be really disappointed if you were hoping for a top 3 seed and making it easier on ourselves. With that being said, we should make the dance and a top 4 seed isn’t even out of the question with the schedule we have left. It’ll take a lot of wins and that means winning on the road. It’s something we haven’t done this year. But we’ve made it that much harder on ourselves with a 1-3 start. We we also have the Big 10 tournament that we could gain some more quality wins in. Hell... we could win that thing. The season isn’t lost. Not even close. We’ve said this whole year that we need to enjoy the ride. The ride wasn’t going to be smooth for 31 straight games. We can do this.

Where have you been all this year!?!? Life just hasn’t been the same without you. I’ve missed you. No one to downvote... no posts to laugh at because they are so crazy... has our bar for this really increased to two losses in a row instead of every loss? Do better KMan.

Our opponents are doing their job. Time for us to do ours on Thursday.

And Tim Miles has done it for multiple weeks across multiple years in his stint at Nebraska. Kind of puts things into perspective.

I'll play... OVER. We'll re-enter on 2/4 with a record of 17-5 (7-4) and our loss in that span will either be to MSU or @Indiana.

A common trend that I see, not just on this board, is that players get praised for wins at Nebraska and the coach gets chastised for losses. It's actually a head scratcher really. And then on top of all of that, when a coach does get praised, it's an assistant who drew up a play or had the scout on the game, etc. Tim's in a lose/lose situation with some people. Honestly don't know if those people would ever be happy...

I was curious, so in case anyone was wondering, home teams are currently winning 65% of their games in the Big 10 this year, and the home losses are as follows... Iowa Rutgers X2 Northwestern Penn State X2 Illinois Wisconsin Ohio State Those with a road W... WIsconsin X2 MSU X2 Michigan Indiana Ohio St Minnesota Maryland

http://rpiratings.com/homecourtrec.php Where I got the info for the above post BTW.

Out of 351 teams, there are only 14 teams that win less than 50% of their home games. Minnesota wins 72% of their home games, Maryland wins 82% of their home games, and Iowa wins 76% of their home games. It's tough to win on the road in college basketball. Especially in this conference. So what do we need to do? Take care of our home games. Currently we win 71% of our home games which ranks 129th overall. However, that number only includes PBA and drastically improves if you take out a season or two. Next, we need to steal a few on the road. The following are our remaining road games and the teams home winning percentage... Indiana- 83%- #21 best winning percentage. Rutgers- 64%- #218 Illinois- 77%- #57 Purdue- 82%- #27 Penn State- 62%- #258 Michigan- 79%- #42 Michigan State- 86%- #6 I think it's fair to say our best opportunities are Rutgers and Penn State this year. Then, Illinois is having a down year, so that would be another good opportunity. However, the rest of our road games... much like the previous three we have already had... will be tough to win. The Big 10 is up this year and on top of that, home teams have a huge advantage historically. Don't get disappointed in road losses to good teams. Take care of business at home and steal a few on the road and we should be fine.

I agree... You need one for every game at half from here on out. And then hope like hell the game does't go 3 OT. If it does... YOU DON"T GIVE UP!

Not a problem! Can I still keep my -5 for catching the error? Gotta stay above KEN POM ya know? ?

The nice thing is that this team can still compete with every team left on our schedule both home and away. That is huge. Competing and winning are two different things... yes I know... but to win, we have to be competitive and we are. The wins SHOULD come.

All the stats on ESPN are correct. It looks like they just messed up the starters. We started our original five... so I would just count whoever scored that wasn't in those five.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=401082404 Official box score is wrong. It has Tanner and Brady starting with Watson and TAllen coming off the bench.

Ken Pom going to try and give me a run for my money. There's something I didn't expect to say when this thing started in November.

Stay off of Facebook too! Especially the comments on the official Husker Basketball posts.

Ohhhh my goodness. We dropped from 15 to 16!!! Two things... 1. Still a ton to play for. We only have four losses total fellas!! 2. We have the chance to avenge each loss at home in conference play.

It’s a long walk to the end of the season for a flat tire. Once we get that baby changed, we won’t have time to stop and pick ya back up. May want to stay on the bus.

Huskers 74 PSU 61

1. We lost a game that we could afford to lose. It’s not the end of the world. 2. We’re probably only 1 game lower than where we should/expected to be at this point. It was always going to be a rough first 4 games. 3. PSU now becomes a huge game. Huge. Lose that one and we are staring 1-6 right in the face. Win and we could gain the mojo and confidence back that we need to become 3-3. 4. Conference road games are tough to win. Period. We played a fringe Top 25 team on the road each of the past two road games. We’ve played three road games against probably Top 10 Big 10 teams. We’re 0-3. We have some winnable road games left. 5. I agree that these are the types of games that matter for seeding in March. I disagree that this game and Maryland will make or break us in how March and the rest of the season play out. 6. May do us some good to not have a number by our name for the next few weeks.

Actually I haven’t said we had must win game yet this year. A road Top 25 game isn’t a must win. No road game is. But Thursday... Penn St at home. Feels like a must win fo confidence.

Alright... 1-3. I had us at 2-2 at this point. Only one game off. Need to pick one up that I didn’t have us winning.

Also, we’ve lost two fringe top 25 games on the road. Step back from the ledge and see that it isn’t all lost. We’ve played the most Top 50 NET teams out of anyone and we are 3-4. Not too shabby.