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This game is really kind of a “playing with house money” situation. Especially with the Iowa win. We got our big win and they shouldn’t feel much pressure. We’re now solidly inside the bubble. Hopefully that means they come out and just play loose. No pressure situations sometimes allow a team to just out and play, not think about things, and just have some fun. I think that’s why you see a lot of upsets in early March conference games and early rounds of conference tournaments. Most of the time, teams playing on Day 1 and Day 2 have no pressure.

Im thinking that too. Its about 10 days old.

Results (2/13/24): Big 10 Games Michigan 68 @ Illinois 97 OSU 54 @ Wisconsin 62 Non-Con Opponents Games Duquesne 59 @ Dayton 75 Georgetown 72 @ Creighton 94 Other Bubble Games Marquette72 @ Butler 78 UNC 79 @ Syracuse 86 Iowa St 68 @ Cincinnati 59 Illinois St 80 @ Indiana St 67 St Johns 72 @ Providence 75 Texas A&M 73 @ Vandy 74 Drake 78 @ Evansville 75 LSU 80 @ Florida 82 UCF 88 @ BYU 90 Ole Miss 63 @ Kentucky 75 New Mexico 83 @ Nevada 82 Games To Watch (2/14/24): Interesting game in the B1G as it’s basically an elimination game for very fringe bubble teams in Iowa vs Maryland. Good chance for Oregon St to pick up a win. The Big East bubble is huge so pick your poison in Seton Hal vs Xavier. A Xavier win would give them a huge road win, but they are further away from bubble. A Seton Hall win basically keeps them in serious bubble contention. Big 10 Games Michigan St @ Penn St Iowa @ Maryland Non-Con Opponents Games Oregon St @ Arizona St Other Bubble Games Miami @ Clemson Xavier @ Seton Hall

They do look at Quad 1A type wins a little differently when looking at the quad as a whole. From what I gathered, that’s going to be a Top 15 home and Top 36 away win. We used to have two of those until Wisco crapped the bed.

It’s not just that Redway flopped either. Its how quickly if flopped that will scare off future thoughts of flights into Lincoln. However, that drive from Omaha airport (30ish-45 minutes) is probably your a comparable commute from the airport to the hotel in some of the big cities that host.

Big night for Huskers! We moved… *checks notes*… down in the NET. Result based and predictive metrics remained relatively the same.

Good judge will be how far Ind State drops tomorrow. A Q4 home loss by more than 10. Only dropped them 9 spots in Pom.

If Ind St wins out and loses conference championship game to Drake… mayyyybe two. But man. A Q4 home loss in Feb hurts bad. They have absolutely 0 room for error now and probably need help from others on the bubble. They only fell 9 spots in Pom to 47. Not a huge drop. We’ll see what happens with result based metrics.

Watched that Vandy game live. Didn’t see the shot get blocked initially so thought he traveled. Virginia losing does move Cuse closer to bubble but also probably eliminated Wakes chance at a Q1 win now too. Indiana States loss is huge. We most likely jump them in the NET or at least get very close. One way for us to stay ahead of being on the bubble (outside of winning) is other bubble teams losing bad games and not picking up quality wins. That’s happened for the most part tonight.

Texas A&M with a bad loss to Vandy!

Indiana State lost to a bad Illinois St team At home. A Q4 loss! Hopefully the Mo Valley ends up a 1 bid league.

Lot of bubble games coming down to the wire here. Pitts playing their way into the bubble conversation too!

Didn’t realize I forgot the Creighton game in my analysis above. Shows how much I care about that program lol!

Coach Jones and Radio got flagged for the exact same thing in the Hannah High football game. Dude should have paid more attention and known you can’t do that.

Honestly, we’re going to probably have to throw everyone most weekends. I’m not sure we have those “go to” starters for our weekend series just yet. We have a lot of new arms Im excited to see and some vets that aren’t starting either. Need everyone focused and ready at any point in the game this year. Short leash.

Tuesday it is

Iowa at a 2 too

Sadly, Jordy is out for the season. Tough, Tough break.

A lot will depend on how physical the refs allow the game to get— especially in the beginning.

Unfortunately they looked like dog poo at the start of conference losing 5 straight and then winning 5/6. They are firmly in the middle of the A10 standings but wasted a huge opportunity early in conference.

New Mexico still has @SDSU, CSU, @Boise St and @Utah St in addition to a few cupcakes Nevada still has @UNLV, @CSU, @Boise and UNLV in addition to a few cupcakes. I would say Nevada has the easier schedule going out so they have more opportunity to stack wins and less room for error. NM schedule is tough outside of their cupcake games. We need to pull for Tim to knock off a few of these MWC bubble teams.

Q3 will remain unless they can climb back up into the top 75 to move to a Q2. HOWEVER, at 161 they’d drop to a Q4. I don’t think a move up or down in quads is in the cards barring a huge win/loss streak. Having them win and jump up in the NET would be more for metrics improving than anything.

JLaw said he’s liked coming off the bench, so if it gets JLaw going, I’m all for it.

Lunardi’s latest bracket… I’d take this all day, every day.

Yeah— I think a close OSU loss would be the best we can hope for there. Maybe OT.