Tom Jones

Amen! She also has had a couple of timely steals and disruptions of opponents' attempts at fast breaks. Having had a few games with only 7 players would have been games with only six (yikes!) had WB not come our way as a walk on.

Was not able to watch this game live, but i caught the replay late last night. Truly impressive! KC has had some good games as a Husker But I have never seen play like she did yesterday! A true force in the lane. No one had a bad game and I loved seeing the teamwork. I really doubted that this team would climb the hill that was laid out in front of them, and I am glad to say that I was wrong. But I am saddened at the name calling and the juvie taunt of one commenter and would hate to see this forum deteriorate into personal attacks. Members are not "a-holes" for having expressed an opinion nor does any expression of opinion deserve to be answered by a playground taunt. I hope that member will withdraw his comment and, for the good of the board, will not do it again.

All around it was another great effort by the entire team. Everybody contributed. There is one thing I wonder about (and this comes out of curiosity not criticism), that maybe somebody with greater insight than my own can help explain ...... With a few seconds remaining, Huskers up by 3, Rutgers bringing the ball up court needing a 3 to go to overtime, clock ticking down... Huskers had accumulated either no fouls or only one foul in the 4th quarter thus having fouls to give before they would result in free throws. Instead of playing usual defense, why not interrupt Rutgers' rhythm and offensive plan by fouling? Seems to me that once a few seconds has run off the clock while the set play begins to unfold, a foul could force Rutgers to start the play over again. And then a few seconds later, another foul would start it all over again. seems like this could eventually force an inbounds play with only a couple seconds remaining. Anyone?

late in the 4th quarter, Whitney Brown's 3 pointer appeared to be the result of what LTF is hoping for. It came right after a TO, the inbounds pass, the movement of all 5 players to set the screen, and getting the shot off all came quickly and methodically as tho that's what Amy was drawing up during the TO.

What a performance! Huskers played with focus, organization, and effort all the way. This is what will be required to remain competitive with teams possessing more quickness and athleticism. Yesterday I saw the fight and determination that was evident during AW's second season but has often been hard to find since. GREAT JOB all around, ladies. It especially great to see Scoggins and Brown hit the 3s. Of course there are a few recurring problems that i hope we will see less of the most annoying to watch are 1) lazy lob passes over defenders capable of grabbing them out of the sky and 2) bigs holding the ball long enough and loosely enough for quick handed opponents to swat them loose.

Something else that I don't understand. I ripped on it last year and it showed up again today. I refer to our inability (or lack of intent) to execute a play when we get possession of the ball at the end of a quarter with no time left on the shot clock. Seems like every other team I watch handles the ball protectively until attempting to get off a shot with about 5 seconds remaining in the quarter. That way (I am playing Mr. Obvious here) the team possessing the ball either makes the shot or has one, maybe two, attempts at a put back or draws a foul while leaving its opponent with very little chance to get to the other side of the court to attempt a shot. Just about all teams do this .... but not ours. Over and over and over again last season, the Huskers would get such a ball possession and then either commit a turnover or shoot and miss early (thus giving the opponent a chance to score) or not get a shot off. This happened today at the end of the first quarter. Huskers took the shot with time remaining, missed it, Purdue got the rebound, advanced the ball, got a shot off in which the shooter was fouled and made a free throw. The result was that Purdue got a point and the Huskers got a foul on a possession that should never have happened. I think Huskers similarly failed to execute in the same situation at the end of the third quarter, but that time no damage was done. Seems like a simple thing to design, practice, and execute. I just don't get it.

I am a long time fan and observer. I am no X and O analyst, but I think I have watched long enough (not just UNL but in general) to know good basketball when I see it. And its absence is easier to spot than its presence and right now its absence catches the eye as would a buffalo in a flock of sheep. I have no inside sources of information so I can't credibly comment on the unmeasurables like program management and team chemistry. In the survey I answered "player development and roster turnover", but Sam's one word first sentence is more apt - that being "myriad". But Sam (Sam, your expertise and insight are far superior to my own but I will add ...) could accurately have added one more word ... so as to have said "recruiting/acquisition/RETENTION". What may first appear to be quality recruiting dissolves away if (1) the recruits don't stick around and play or (2) they don't get better both as individuals and as team mates. Two years ago when the Haiby/Brown/Mitchell/Verbeek class showed up, I thought that the future was bright - that in their junior and senior years, presuming some other missing pieces (PG) came along, we were looking at seasons contending for conference championship and certainly NCAA tourney trips. SH is the only one who stuck around and got better so what at first looked like a really good class turned into an empty bench. Of course, the the first job of a coaching staff if to get and retain talented players and the second job is develop them into better players and turn them into a team. There is a lot about our recruiting that I don't understand. First, we have so many unused scholarships. I keep seeing 7.,8,9 players on opponents' benches. We start out with too few players thus making ourselves vulnerable to losses due to injuries and transfers. Second, I don't understand our repeatedly having taken players with a history of injury problems who end up taking up a scholarship and not being able to contribute. Third is our experience in the "transfer market" the advent of which (by NCAA making it easier) created another arena in which coaches compete for players. And we have been losing in that market place -the quality of our losses having outweighed that of our gains. Considering all this one is left to wonder .... is our staff just unable to get the players needed to compete at this level? If the answer to that is "no", we are bringing knives to a gun fight. I will end this on a, hopefully, positive note .... next year's recruiting class looks solid - probably even better than the class of four of two years ago. That leaves the coaching staff to move from HAVING players to the task of retaining, developing, and molding them into a team. Moos' decision is whether to give them another 2 or 3 years to get that done or pull the plug and start over from near zero with a new staff. Not that my opinion on that matters, but I am 50-50.

agree with Bugs. It's gone WAY nuts. I mean I can see why 1000s of people are not admitted to PBA but ONE game caller per media?? seems like Matt could have socially distance times 20 at least!

is anyone else having trouble seeing this on BRN plus? I get about 5 seconds of action and than i get the reload circle. over and over again

IMO, Markowski will be top 100 before this HS season is over

OMG what wonderful news this is. We (or at least I) needed something to take the stink and stain off the lost FB season. I have written earlier on here what I observed of Ms. AM at the state tourney. Her performance in those three games was on the short list of the most impressive display of talent, focus, determination, and outright dominance that I have ever seen among girls BB players. Not one bit of show boating either ... She was part of her team not a one girl show. Congrats to coach Willliams and her staff and recruiting this outstanding athlete.

umm, super WOW to that! To READ that she is top 40 - that's one thing. But to SEE that kind of talent and determination. Can't wait to see her in scarlet and cream!

she is a jewel. I saw her play a few times this year - and all three of her games at the state tourney. In my non-pro opinion she, along with JH, JS and MI of course, will go down as one of the four best girl's hoopsters this state has ever produced. She looked to me to have it all .... physical structure, composure, reflexes & body control, court movement, teamwork, and endurance. Of all those, i would stress composure. She just looks as tho she is totally in control of what happens in the lane. It is a quiet confidence that she will dictate what happens. And she can back it up. IMO, on athletic ability, she belongs in a P5 conference. But i am sure she has her reasons for having chosen SoDak and i hope everyone respects her choice

what we heard just before the season started and then early on was that the substitution pattern would permit playing aggressively on defense for the entire 40 minutes The idea was that fatigue would not be a factor

how do we know that that wasn't part of her decision?

the writer thinks that George Carlin's birthday is a NATIONAL holiday? ???? I think that requires a vote of Congress. Anybody can name any day anything they want but c'mon, a national holiday? I quit reading that goofy article at that point

thumbs up to this, Whoop. Although I have my concerns about whether this staff has the capability of making UNL a nationally relevant team, I have no doubts at all about passion, enthusiasm, effort, and want to.

I still hope for a big. I will be hopefully optimistic on this one. The video of her skills drills and of her play (thanks Whoop) is more impressive than are her stat lines. Enthusiasm about her highlights must take into account that we don't know anything about the level of competition, but still she showed some moves, quickness, and sharp shooting. I am going to mention one aspect that concerns me a little. She is 2016 HS graduate, born Dec. 28, 1987. That will make her 22 when she arrives on campus. Assuming 3 years of eligibility, she will be 26 in her senior year competing against some players as young as 19. This is rare in college athletics, not unheard of, and I have questioned the fairness of it when our team are the young ones. I can't remember which team or which player it was, but I do recall watching a game the year in which Nicea, Hannah, and Grace were freshmen when our opponent's squad included two players with tremendous advantages in physical maturity. I looked up their ages at the time and confirmed they were way older. Way back in the Yori years when playing at Devaney I wondered about a few of the brutes on the PSU roster.

I find myself wondering what other schools were trying to recruit her.

yup!

good to know. thanks to both RedDon and Redhac for the info. So looks as tho there is plenty of room for another transfer or two if players are interested

I think that she now has 11 on scholarship along with one walk on. There seems to be potential for all three transfers, but also reasons to wait and see before getting too excited. One was honorable mention in the Big Sky Conf, one may continue to be hampered by knee problems, and one was a meaningful contributor at Texas Tech but hardly a difference maker. With only one senior and one junior (not counting status of the transfers), seems as though there is room for more transfers without limiting future recruiting. I still hope for one or two "sudden impact difference makers" with the physical maturity that developments after age 18 and who are proven performers in major conference competition. Situation looks better than it did two weeks ago.

that's encouraging! I hope on the other ends of the phone there are some long lean cat quick thoroughbreds with springs in their knees who are allergic to mountains and beaches and have spent their whole lives yearning to see cows and cornfields.

Caveman, I agree with ALL of that. I grant you the hypothetical (we can overcome the talent loss with better teamwork), But what reason is there to believe that any of that will change? What if we mired down with all those same teamwork deficits but with less talent?

As I recall, she replied "no comment" when asked if there were reasons other than being closer to home.