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Tai's mom was indeed holding a New Zealand flag after the game, while Tai walked off with the team into the locker room, to a rousing cheer from the Red Zone. He was a rock star all night. Good job Red Zone. FWIW, Tai watched Red Panda intently. She brought her A game.

What they all said

If you get to the game, give us your report! Thanks Bugeaters.

With Tai's saturday arrival, we could not have had better weather for his visit. Hopefully the stars are aligned.

USC-- 60 NU-- 57

Jess Shepard, sophomore at Lincoln Southeast. Committed just prior to her freshman year if you can believe that. A basketball family; I think her mom was a very good player at Lincoln Christian but I'm not sure about that. Her brother starts at guard at East and is 6'6. She is a very sturdy 6'2". I watched her in a few games last year and was very impressed. A true post player but is mobile and has skills. Would be perfect in Connie's system IMO.

That is accurate. But there's a fine line between having certain standards and having a bare cupboard. Or being stubborn. Shimmy shows up presumably to coach the posts, and there are none. I suspect there will be some attempts to get Connie to be a little more flexible. White will either be a huge get, or a huge loss. She would have 3 years with Shepard, so we would have some post action going on with those two!

Don't act like you can say some phony good feeling stuff about Husker basketball and be a Creighton fan smacking Nebraska football. And we don't need the disingenuous advice on beating USC, recruiting Webster, blah blah. While there are some Husker football haters on here, for reasons I will never understand, most of us are Husker fans in all sports. So we really don't need Creighton fan piling on. We'll have enough of our own fans doing that for the next few months.

I echo the comments--special coach, special guy, very unique, intellectual, and interesting guy. Norm, the public dinner didn't quash the Majerus deal, it was Collier getting the Butler AD job and resigning in the summer rather than getting whacked after the following season. Majerus couldn't take the job until after the season, and we couldn't go the "interim" route and had to hire a permanent coach given the timing of things.

Whoops, played the threads from bottom to top this morning and didn't realize there was an identical thread on the main forum.

Excellent basketball coach, superb intellect, loyal and quite interesting person. Would have been intersting to see what would have happened had Pedersen's plan to hire him to replace Collier panned out. There is a good article on Majerus' death by Gene Wojokowski out there if someone can link.

Idaho State was good defensively and was very physical. Not really athletic or quick. We saw a preview of what we'll see a lot of this year--let us shoot 3s. Another pitiful performance shooting the 3 today--2 of 15 I think. Cady continues to struggle as a sophomore. We don't have much right now after Moore and Hooper.

That's too bad. It didn't look good at the time.

Have seen Quick Change numerous times, and never have been able to figure out how they do that. Simply amazing.

Did both of you guys graduate from Creighton?

Row 6, I understand where you're coming from. I try to be understanding of how hard it is to recruit here. And Connie deserves lots of credit for going out and getting players like Griffin and Moore. But I will never understand how it was that our November 2011 recruiting class had 1 player (Theriot). It was obvious that we needed some servicable post depth. And we signed no one. Zero. Nada. We lucked into Murren in the spring when her coach left WGB, so that class swelled to 2, but still no bigs. So, we know we need players, and have the opportunity of a generation with 3 great or potentiallyplayers. A great senior point guard doesn't happen often, with a national top 15 player in Hooper and a special player (who is in a bit of a sophomore slump but who will give us a lot). Those 3 with some post depth and another shooter could really be the deal. Theriot will ultimately be a very good player and point guards are everything in college ball. But how do we sign zero bigs. Have no idea how that happened.

Normy, you are having a good couple of days on here.....

And stay out of foul trouble. I see a bunch of this in Andre's future, against teams with a post presence. I hope his time on the floor is only limited by his stamina, and not fouls. Although the two may relate; some of his fouls are probably due to fatigue or the feet not working to carry around what they have to.

Norm, you are correct. In the context of the answer Miles was giving when he made the comment about extending the bench, it was as subtle as a sledge hammer for poor Menke. Miles was talking about giving up the 3s to Fischer in the first half--at least 2 of which were over Menke.

Very well done, Kaz! Hopefuly you will be able to buy many more after road games

The shot that I think got him going, right at the start of the second half, hit all kinds of rim--front iron, back iron, and down. After his misses in the first half, it may have really helped him to get the shooters roll on the early second half possession. After that he was just plain unconsious.

That's some funny stuff right there, Dave.

Classic, saying our loss to Kent State was on a neutral-court. I was there, and I can understand why they would say that.

Right. Nice try.

205 meets 218. Oughta be a barn burner!