Tom Jones

i wonder if Clark will intentionally score less than 39 at PBA tomorrow so that she can break the record at home in front of her own fans against Michigan.

Tix on CraigsList are posted for $1000 each. This is fantasy, right? Is anyone actually buying tix at that price?

what to me is the problem area is 31.1% shooting percentage on 3 point shots. As much as the Huskers depend on hitting from beyond the arc, that has to improve if we want to climb the standings ladder.

Right. I watched her against Indiana. She took a not much more than ordinary bump in the midsection while securing a rebound. A few seconds later she fell to the floor, doubled over in pain, and wore a look of it being excruciating. And 60 seconds later she was back running the court.

i will be there. Thanks for the alert. Now I will be sure to bring my barf bag.

Markowski 4 for 14 with 7 or 8 of the 10 misses having been really good looks. Is it time to move away from the lob in passes to her? I mean the last few games (at least) her conversion percentage is so low that her shots are almost like turnovers. time after time after time after time the ball lingers on the rim and falls out. Just one of the misses by either her or Jazz and the Huskers would probably have escaped. But hard to beat a team shooting 60% overall and nearly 50% on 3s

This is from the UNL Game Day/Game Notes for today's game. Really interesting to see season stats for Hake. "Callin Hake is proving herself as one of the Big Ten’s most improved players from a year ago. The 5-8 sophomore from Victoria, Minn., already owns more points (+10), assists (+27), free throws made (+18), rebounds (+20), steals (+7) and blocks (+1) than all of last season in 18 fewer minutes. She is also shooting 45.8 percent (27-59) from three-point range while averaging 6.9 points per game compared to 4.3 points per game last season."

i agree with all of this. I watched LSU vs Miss St and I hope our coaches have time to take a look. Somebody is driving to the basket and either finding a shot or kicking out on almost every possession. I know that the Huskers don't have the kind of athletes that I saw in that game, but neither are we playing against so many of them. Seems like we could mix double or triple the drives to the hoop and just see what happens.

oh, surely not. if they were, the coaches would be expressing their frustration that players are not following instruction. I believe that the players are playing as they are coached.

as does White

Easy on the ref's over on this side. You will be told that they did a good job. REF'S SUCK ASS!!! Yes, I am going to stand up for the refs once again. I know that the number of fouls called will never tell the whole story, but it's worth pointing out that fouls today were evenly divided between the teams. The chief reason that that statistic can be misleading is because it ignores the possibility that one team was more physical/aggressive than the other. I did not see that today. But, wondering if bad reffing is just escaping my perception, I watched the entire game again and replayed every call - every single call - that seemed in any way questionable. There were four or five that could be questioned but those were evenly divided, and IMO, Iowa has a better case for complaining than do the Huskers. Some fouls occurred in an area not on the TV screen at the time so none of us can comment on those. Often on here there are "bottom line" statements that the refs did a poor job, but seldom are these assessments supported by any specific examples. For today's game, if anyone has examples of particular calls that seem wrong, feel free to identify them and I will look again. I have seen every game this year and cannot recall any whose outcome seemed to have been the result of bad officiating.

Refereeing basketball is a very difficult chore. I do not believe the conference intentionally hires incompetent or prejudiced officials. The conference hires the best it can find And I think that with very rare exception officials do the very best job they can. They contend with a few obstacles. For one, they have to make split second decisions. We get to watch the slow mo replay, they don’t. Also, I truly believe that spectators sitting in the lower rows, and sometimes all of us on TV, have a better view of the action then do the officials standing within a few feet of the play. And application of so many of the rules is so judgmental. It would be unreasonable to expect 100% of decision-makers on judgmental matters to all agree with each other. It would be an interesting experiment To show video of 25 or so charge/block close calls to 100 officials and see how often 90% or more of them come down on one side. Sure there are going to be errors This is inevitable. For example the charging call on Markowski was egregiously wrong. But I find myself agreeing with the vast majority of calls and very seldom have I seen erroneous calls on one team badly out of proportion to its opponent.

i want to see something offensively other than 1) throwing to AM in the lane and 2) just coming across the center line, making two or three passes and then casting up a three. That is pretty when it works but it can't be counted on working. And when it doesn't it sets us up for getting far behind real fast.

I think I do But please let's keep the focus here on what the members say ... rather than on the knowledge or intelligence of those who say it. There is so much ad hominem in this world already, please let's not let it in the door here.

yes, there is some of that. I think most of the bad mouthing is about her lack of any punch offensively and that certainly is a fact and therefore a fair point. As for me, I am impressed with her defensive play and trust that the coaching staff knows far far more than i do about the extent to which she contributes.

she is a four-star recruit ranked No. 55 in the USA by ESPN and #39 by Prospects Nation so probably not.

If "in the circle" means the restricted area ... it doesn't matter anymore. As of this season it is irrelevant.

three things: 1) the end of the 3rd quarter - failure to rebound a missed FT led to 3 pointer on a possession that never should have happened; 2) that was not a charge!; 3) Krull's giveaway at just under two minute point with a really lazy past cost loss of a possession and two points - coulda well been the game. Oh ... and the much of the game total absence of an offensive plan - just brought the ball down and threw up a three w/o even trying for a quality shot.

I hope that AM will attack the hoop forwardly only - no fade aways and converts 60%+ of under the hoop possessions to points; that NP keeps it up with the put backs; that Jazz keeps shooting; and that Jazz, Nissley, and Hake can hit a combined 35%+ of threes; and that NP does not come out of the game at the first 4 minute point or that, if she does, the Kendalls prove me wrong. Sounds trite and obvious to say this, but i will anyway - this game probly comes down to 3 pt shooting. I loved the way AM fought for rebounds against the Illini.

How Good Is the Big 10 - the title of this thread .... Well, one team makes all the others look like weaklings in comparison. What a decisive take down that was last night! Indiana - the team that shot 14 for 23 on three pt tries agains the Huskers, managed only 5 for 20 at Iowa. Sydney Parish who shot 6 for 7 at PBA shot 1 for 4 at Iowa. Sarah Scalia, 5 for 10 here in Lincoln was even worse at ZERO for 4 in Iowa City. All in all, a 27 point rout. Open looks for Indiana were about as rare as spectators in beach wear. And although Clark did get her 30, it was not her 3 point shooting (6 for 16) that did it. Wonder what would happen in a special "cap off the season" contest .... Iowa vs the Big Ten All Stars.

rebounding (45 to 29) saved us from poor shooting and too many turnovers.

2009-10 was indeed a magical season. It was Yori's eighth year at NU, and it all came together. She had two elite players, two other consistent and reliable seniors with a lot of experience, a talented junior, and a full bench. But, in perspective, the record in the previous season was 15-16 and in the following season was 13-18. Successful seasons did follow with 6th, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, and 7th place finishes in the (then smaller) conference. She was, IMO, an excellent coach. One observation from her record is how difficult it is to get past the sweet sixteen.

i too am glad you brought this up. I have absolutely NO problems with ANYone stating disagreement with ANYthing I say. I might SMH, but get hurt feelings ???? Never! I almost always appreciate hearing other points of view and never take it personally.

I am happy! and optimistic! Looking forward to good times ahead!

I don't know that getting a markedly better coach is doable at Nebraska And I doubt it. Where was this better coach when Williams was hired, and who would this better coach be now? Finding an alumnus ala Kim Mulkey or someone with a Husker connection like Fred Hoiberg or tempting away a rising star from far away is a huge long shot. Take that leap of faith and we risk having to start all over - quite possibly with an exodus of the existing talent and loss of the incoming recruits. Let's think back to Steve Pederson's forty days of nothingness after having fired a 9-3 Frank Solich, the national disdain that followed for having fired a successful coach, the desperate Callahan gambit at the end of those 40 days, and the parade of failed coaches that followed. No thanks to a re-play of that.