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Speaking of USC, they just announced their second leading scorer is out for the remainder of the year with a patella injury. This will surely be factored in come Selection Sunday.

Again, assuming we win out...a win vs KU would have improved our RPI by roughly 19 spots. Our predicted RPI would be #24 right now and a sure lock for the NCAA tournament.

Let's assume we win out in the regular season. Right now, if we do that our RPI/SOS is predicted to be 43/101. Had we beat UCF and played WVU/St Johns our RPI/SOS would predicted to be 43/82 with a loss to St Johns. With a win vs St Johns that changes to 29/82. So, a pretty big difference in terms of SOS. But, had we not taken care of business against St Johns the second time around our RPI would be around the same. But, a win vs St Johns we are talking about 10+ spot difference in the RPI.

It was in the OWH.

I think you are correct...and Western Kentucky has one of those. Vs Purdue early on in the season. Great win...but they also have FOUR tier 3 losses. They have losses to Mizzou St/Ohio/Wisconsin/UTSA. Their overall metric scores is 67 with an average RPI win of 181 and losses at 110. Compare that to Nebraska who has an overall metric score of 52 with an average RPI win of 181 and average RPI loss at 35. Sorry, but Nebraska>>>Western Kentucky. And I'm not claiming Nebraska should be "in" right now. I think everyone on this board agrees we need to win the next three. But having Western Kent in(and I usually like Palm's take) is a joke IMO.

Jerry Palm doesn't have Skers in his first four out...he has Boise St/Bonnies/Utah/Temple. Also has Western Kentucky as his last team in. I think you could make a solid case right now that Nebraska should be ahead of Western Kentucky and Boise St. Western Kentucky being "in" is a joke IMO.

Win out in the regular season that is. That's according to March Boehm who said he spoke with a member of the NCAA selection committee. Two wins puts us at a 72% chance. Those numbers seem to be pretty generous...especially the two wins portion but if true we are very good position despite what other outsiders may claim.

Not foul....not sure what the right word for it is...sneaky maybe? That win @Buffalo and vs Vermont carries a lot of weight unfortunately with both being top 50 RPI wins and one on the road. Had we say....got Vermont to travel to Lincoln as opposed to Deleware St it would have been the difference of nearly 20 RPI spots. Hell, we probably wouldn't even be talking about the bubble all that much right now if that was the case. We are one Vermont win away from nearly being a "lock."

A hell of a lot of truth to it. Mich has two Quad 1 wins...winning @Mich St was a very very good win. But winning @Texas? Nice win..but honestly that should not be what separates Michigan from Nebraska.

We are +1 now. Wtf....that’s quite the line shift

I hope this pushes him to come back next year. Unfortunately I’ve heard he and Copeland returning is not a sure thing at this point. The hype for next year will be higher than ever if we return most of our production.

NU 75 Maryland 67

Have not watched much of Maryland this year but looking at their last couple box scores...depth is not something they have. If we get some whistle happy refs or jump on them early I feel this may be a comfortable win for us.

Speaking of Creighton. Their fans may want to be careful about beating the ole you can't get into the tournament with no tier 1 wins drum. Their two tier one wins are Seton Hall and St Johns. Both are teetering on the edge of falling out of that category and just a few weeks ago the talk out of them was how St Johns was such a bad loss for Nebraska.

I don't think 2-2 is going to cut it. If we can have some help with other bubble teams losing I think we will be feeling okay with a 3-1 finish heading into the Big 10 tournament. With that said, with how we are playing and having 3 of the last 4 games at home and an Illini team that now looks like it may be throwing in the towel it will be a bit disappointing if we don't win out.

NU 69 Rutgers 61

Anybody see the ESPN stats response to the Huskers question on twitter? BPI says if we win out before the Big Ten tournament we have a 99% chance of getting a bid. Lose just one and we have a 72% percent chance. I would take that in a heartbeat.

Speaking of Craig Smith, any chance him and his team would want to become a regular in visiting PBA in the winter? It's not a cakewalk of a game by hypothetically had we scheduled South Dakota over Deleware St our RPI would be projected to finish seven spots higher than it is now.

Not a great night for us with KSU and Marquette winning. We really needed those two teams to go away. Marquette's schedule is very favorable for them down the stretch. Hopefully they lose @ St Johns.

I was going back and forth on this earlier...do we really want PSU? I know Maryland is a bubble team much like we are but I was kind of thinking that we may want them to rack up some wins so our potential win over them looks "good."

The tournament is all dependent on matchups. IF, and it appears we are still on the outside looking in...IF we get in anything is possible . Baylor was just a bad bad draw for us.

What a fricken choke job by New Mexico last night. Really could have used a Boise loss.

The computers may say otherwise but that's a good win at a very tough place to play. Also, Minnesota is not a team I want to see in New York. I'm glad we are looking good for the #4 seed to avoid them. If Amir Coffey makes it back that's a team that could make a run at MSG. Mason/Murphy are a load and Washington is really getting hot.

As of yesterday Coffey was still not practicing. With that in mind, I would be surprised if he played. And if he does, will he be at full strength?

Gophers-76 Skers-71