Tom Jones

we have had our chances to be in the lead - three fast break layups that didn't go in. and we gotta stop fumbling the loose ball why or why won't announcers tell us who the fouls are on

yes, that's right. what was i thinking? I got minutes confused with a guess about # of possessions. Thanks for the alert. I will correct my post

HuskerPapa's possible explanations all are plausible - except maybe this one. "is she the weak link on an otherwise strong talented team, and is she being carried by that other talent?" I am guessing no. Any player averaging 12.1 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 2.4 steals per game while playing the the #1 team in the entire US has talent of her own. They may be a very unselfish team but still to some extent each player is competing for opportunities to display her skills and she apparently is earning her own opps. Seven rebounds in 48 minute games at 5-10 and with long team mates? I like it! Maybe she just has the hops (which would be ok too!) but probably she is getting those with speed, quickness, agility, and sure handedness ... which is just what we need. To the extent that steals in HS translate to steals at D1, next year's Huskers might be receiving arrest warrants. Olivia Hanlon, at maybe the 2/3rds point of her senior season, had 148 steals (!!!), and in her HS school career last i saw had 486 (and counting). In one game she was credited with 16 steals. How is that even possible? Presuming about 48 possessions (my guess) in a 32 minute game, that figures to her having stolen about a third of the opponent's possessions! Perhaps that team must didn't have a good ball handler, but still. So those two coming in ... and we have seen all season that BP is a constant steal threat. We have recruiting needs ... no doubt ... but the guard position looks solid.

Thanks, Bugs et.al. Seems like a step in the right direction - we need players! Maybe she can bring some of her teammates with her.

I don't think so. That sounds excuse -ey The players and the coaches very well know the importance of getting their focus on come game day. That should be more well practiced than any ball handling or shooting technique. And one would think that four seniors want very badly to go out on a high note - and the underclassmen want that for the seniors. And going to sleep on defense for 20 minutes is not moot. Wait, actually it was not just 20 minutes, it was game long, it just got worse as the minutes ticked on. Another topic - the recurring struggle to contain guards who are long, "athletic", ond and quick-nimble. In her freshman season and midway thru the next I really thought - or at least hoped - that Moriarty would fit that mold and be that weapon. She had the size, ball handling, speed, quickness, explosiveness, under the basket agility ... i thought the tool box was full. We saw glimpses of it every year, but only that. Yesterday, watching UW's Ladine, I was thinking "she is the picture of what I hoped Moriarty would become"

yes. but HOW incredible? Let's say that a shooter could consistently hit 40% of the her three pt attempts - which would be a rarity. And let's say that she has already hit the first one. Her probability of hitting the next seven, as i calculate it, would be .0.001638 or fewer than 17 successes in 10,000 attempts. So on average she would first succeed on her 294th attempt. I think I did that right, but I took algebra a long time ago

Went to bed thinking about it. Woke up thinking about it. Best and most exciting game since the two Iowa games last year. Had we filled up a praise bucket at tip off time, and had we been dishing out portions as the game went on, during the OT we'd have been saying "OMG we needed a bigger bucket - a LOT bigger bucket". Everybody made valuable (and essential contributions. Perhaps obscured by all the other impressive stats ... Petrie had five blocks and Markowski had six drawn fouls. Now we might expect that from AM but Hake had five DF of her own. In limited minutes Coley had five boards and Moriarty had defensive on their star. Maybe my amateur view of Nissley earlier in the season, has been unfair, but i have come away thinking "too often she just doesn't seem really engaged/involved". Not so last night - playing defense, getting rebounds, and shooting threes as tho it were her freshman season again. Some of us, me included, have commented on here that we wish we were seeing more improvement over the careers of some players. Not so for Callin Hake. She has come so far - giant steps - since her freshman year. About AM40 ... I have been watching UNWBB for 30 years. There have been a lot of players making sustained, never give up, great efforts. Yes, and i don't mean to diminish anybody's effort. But I can't think of any other player who has so obviously given it everything she's got (and was always looking for the chance to give a little bit more) every time she takes to the court. Let's do it again on Sunday.

SPEECHLESS! for the moment anyway!

and just as i say that, she hits three in a row - and on one of them draws a foul!

i wish that announcers would make it a point to tell us WHO THE FOUL IS ON

we are getting it to AM in the lane ... yes .... but that's starting to be almost like a turnover. Once she bit the bottom of the rim

it is the pregame story from today's JournalStar. The main point of the story is that in the last two games Rimdal's scoring has helped reduce the need for scoring from our main two scorers. And that this largely has resulted in her being more offensively aggressive by driving to the basket.

From the morning LJS in case someone won't otherwise see it .....https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/womens-basketball/more-aggressive-alberte-rimdal-helping-ease-scoring-burden-on-nebraskas-top-duo/article_fea147bc-a191-5e9b-83e5-196bd43cf05e.html#tracking-source=home-top-story First, no, I don't think I am smarter or more knowledgeable than the coaches. But in the shadow of that light I will say that I have wondered since the first few games why she is not turned loose - for perimeter threes of course, but especially for drives to the hoops. For those, I think she is the best we have. She has the sudden first step and then the speed to beat her defender to the hoop and, when so, can force a 2nd defender to choose between helping and just watching the drive. If 2nd defender chooses to help, that gets another husker open and if she chooses not to BR is likely to score. Sam Haiby often worked that technique successfully. So I hope we lean on her a little more.

i am even prouder than I am surprised. They looked tonight like the bunch that routed Minny. Hope they can keep it going.

it gets no easier tomorrow and this one is on the road. I would think that any problems with illness will have been resolved by then. and if the losing streak lasts all the way through this road trip, I hope we don't hear the "at this point in the season we have a lot of tired legs" explanation - as has been offered in previous years and as tho it doesn't affect opponents as well.