Norm Peterson

He also scored the game-winning layup on an assist by JTB.

Starters look like this: PG A: Glynn Watson PG B: Johnny Trueblood SG/SF: James Palmer PF: Isaiah Roby Center: Tanner Borchardt Bench: Backup backcourt: Justin Costello Backup utility guard/forward/post: Thorir Thorbjarnarson Backup front court/SG: Brady Heiman

Jordy transfers before school year starts. Karrington Davis tears his Achilles before the season starts. Dedoch transfers right about beginning of the season. Isaac out with season-ending knee injury beginning of January. Thomas Allen suffers ankle injury beginning of March and likely out for B1G tourney. Nana violates team rules and gets himself suspended second week of March. Amir? And Tim Miles is coaching for his job. What excuses are the Miles apologists going to come up with next? I have no idea because reality is more creative than anything I would have tried to write as fiction going into this year.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

I love these mixed sports metaphors. I do it all the time and I always kind of shake my head and chuckle, like, did I really just write “end zone dance” in a post about basketball?

He has a lot to learn but he's got fantastic size and that's something you can't coach. He also appears to be pretty athletic for a guy his size. Seems to be not to sure how his piece fits into the puzzle.

I am totally down with this. Lefty like Jordy. Very similar in size. But this guy seems to have some swagger and a little bit of nasty to him, which I kinda like with a big man.

Yes. And they got worse as the game went on. At the outset, it was more of a smug "we know we're going to win, so we'll be sort of nonchalant about our cheering." Then, we go on the run in the 2nd half and they start arguing calls and she's (the lady next to me) nervously slapping her knees and stuff. OMG she was a wreck. She acted pretty confident going into overtime, and who could blame her. But they stayed all the way to the end. In fact we left before they did and I stayed to take pictures of the celebration after the final shot. When I left, they were still just sitting there in stunned disbelief.

No Sit Sunday and No Quit Sunday: Probably the two most electric environments I've seen at PBA.

I'm trying to decide if the "unsung hero play-of-the-game" should go to Johnny Trueblood assisting Roby for a layup, then stealing the inbound and dishing to Roby for a dunk OR if we give it to Thor and his Hammer of the Gods block on Bohannon to seal the W.

No quit Sunday. Indeed. What a joy.

I gotta be honest: I had a feeling before the game. Our limited bench reminded me of knocking off Iowa in Miles’ first year. As long as the odds must’ve been, I thought, well, we’ve done it before.

I’ll quote myself so you can down arrow me again.

The good news is Thor still has five fouls to give.

Good thing there’s not as much quit in this team and the coaches as there is in much of the fan base.

And she’s loud and obnoxious. Maybe @DOATHLON sold them to his sister.

To add insult to injury, the jack wagon who has seats next to me sold his tickets to some Iowa fans. ?

Y'know, it's obnoxious to spike the ball and pretend you were right about something that didn't happen two years ago. It's mendacious to pretend you didn't remember starting a thread two years ago with basically the exact same thread title. And it's crass to gloat about a coaching staff about to lose their jobs. You're nearly hitting for the cycle. But ... you go right on ahead being you.

Congratulations to Charlie and to Pius. On the 30th Anniversary of when your dad's team blew a 10-point lead in the final minute to eventually lose to ... did anybody hear about that during the broadcast? ... Wahoo, you avenged that loss and came through with a State Championship. Good on ya, buddy. I will say that when you're up 10 in the final seconds of the game and the other team has stopped trying to foul and is allowing you to bring the ball up the floor freely, it is EXTREMELY BAD FORM for one of your teammates to go in and dunk on them. Extremely bad form. Puts a damper on what was otherwise a quality and gritty performance.

Fact or fiction: When Craig Smith was on our bench, man, we had a great offense and it's totally gone down the shitter since he left. Now, we have middle-school, clear-out, hero ball; before, we actually ran an offensive system. Smith was the offensive genius behind Miles' first NCAA tourney run and we've never been as good since he left. I don't have a subscription to KenPom so I don't know how to read his data. But I keep reading comments by people essentially claiming the above. But the above doesn't really square with my recollection. My recollection was we had Terran Petteway getting isos and taking a crap-ton of ill-advised shots, a bunch of which happened to fall. Can any of you data/metrics types answer the question of whether our offense is materially different since Craig Smith left? P.S. I'm not saying Smith isn't a good coach. He's clearly turned things around at SDSU and now Utah State. The guy can obviously coach. But was he the offensive mastermind he's being credited as being, the departure of whom has left us in our current lurch?

So, last March, we felt we were more the team that finished the season going into places like Wisconsin and coming away with Ws than the team that lost early on to St. John's and UCF. But the committee basically said we're going to judge you on your whole body of work, including the early loss to a St. John's team that ended up tanking later on. So, sorry Huskers, but you don't get in. Then, if I'm to understand what people are saying now, we again feel we're probably more the team we've been over the last 2 months than the team we were before Copeland got hurt. Yet, this time … we're not to be judged on our whole body of work but rather just the games since we've gone into the crapper in the last half of the season. I mean, either you judge a team by its whole body of work or you judge a team by what they looked like the last half of the season. But quit changing the standards depending on what keeps us out of post-season.

So if I bought something at wholesale for $10 and turned around and listed it for $100, what is the mark up?