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8 hours ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

Danny and the Miracles....

 

Danny dribbled the ball off his leg out of bounds giving Nebraska the ball for the game winning shot by Beau Reid, who sored "just 2" according to the PA running down the points by player as we filed out.

I recall my parents missed the game because of a business trip to Vegas so my grandparents took us.

Nebraska Cornhuskers, leading the nation in off-season champions. 

16 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

I will admit, I actually shed a small tear when Purdue won.  Well deserved and well earned.  Plus, we beat them which further confirms, we are not that far away.

Same. Plus I win the HHC bracket challenge if Purdue wins it all. 

5 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

Sorry, the hurt is still present.  Won't golf today.  Won't watch any basketball.  Hard to even be on this site.  Thank gawd we won in Corvallis last night.  Took out a little frustration on a fellow fan who said Amy was outcoached last night...yada, yada, yada.

This basically sums up how I feel. Most demoralizing Husker loss in any sport for me probably since the football team gave up 70 to Wisconsin in the B1G championship game. Just on the brink of something big, then lay an egg. Volleyball is the exception, but it's not one of the sports I came to love as a child like basketball and football are. This one will bum me out for several days to come.

Looking forward to learning what the makeup of next year's roster will be but still have to heal from this one before I can be engaged again. 

10 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

The board of regents has nothing to do with hiring an AD

I highly doubt they had no input under the circumstances. At least asked for the go ahead

He was AD at UNI when they were good at basketball. Two 30 win seasons

2 hours ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

#45, Stan Cloudy, he could bully his way through the lane... an earlier version of a Chuck Barkley, sorta.

 

In my memory he's hitting baseline jumpers. Probably on a kickout from Hoppen. But I was about 9 years old, so I'm not sure about that.

I don't know what my first game was, but I'm sure it was no later than Dave Hoppen's freshman year. I'm certain our family had season tickets that year, and together with my uncle's family we had nine in a row in section C16, row 22. I kept score along with a cousin who was my age.

I distinctly remember the NIT games with the ABA ball and along with Hoppen, my favorite player was Stan Cloudy.

Huskers 74

aTm 65

1 win

20 hours ago, HuskerBB said:

I get your point - but that 1994 tournament was a magical 3 days - particularly for those of us that were there.

Amen. Remains the only conference tournament I've ever attended.  Unless you count the days they played the 1st round on home courts 

10 minutes ago, PimpMario said:

 

For a counter point another way to look at it is if a team is tied with 5 minutes but loses by 10 is that more impressive than a team that was down 10 the entire time?  

No but that's much harder to measure.

Also, the time is a fixed factor that dictates strategy.

GameDay just had a segment on this topic. I was somewhat surprised that Hoiberg's name wasn't mentioned for any openings.  Otzelbeger and Moser were each brought up.

I don't think Fred would leave this year since Sam has one more year, but I am surprised he isn't a hot, or at least warm, name. 

I am pleased by this lack of developments.

Seems intuitive to me that losing by 10 in overtime is better than losing by 10 in regulation. In the former you were one play from winning and in the latter several things would have to be different. 

Nebraska 77

Illinois 71

The big margin of victory  allowing us to limit minutes tonight will be the difference tomorrow

11 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Downside of winning... we all have to watch Coleman Hawkins tomorrow.  Sigh.

Runner-up for the B1G Craft/Davison most unlikable POTY. But then again they'll have to change the name soon to add Sandfort's name to the trophy

Huskers 77

Hoosier 68

1 win

6 minutes ago, cipsucks said:

No overtime games tomorrow.  Nebraska tips off at 8:45 at the latest.  

Well the baseball game starts at 6:05 and I plan to leave about the time the OSU-ILL game ends so a bunch of OTs will let me stay longer

4 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

I literally just said that.  What would be best is if this game goes to 4 overtimes.

I'll settle for 3 if Ohio St and Illinois match that tomorrow 

After a tough day in Huskerville yesterday,  seeing Iowa and Creighton both lose tonight made today a little bit brighter

I confess I did forget Chris Logan. I was 11 and my Nebrasketball Fandom began in Hoppen's freshman year. I was devastated by his injury.

I also loved keeping score at the games and Logan must not have scored enough to register in my pre-teen brain.

3 minutes ago, lang said:

I’m gonna be a little contrary on that…others can correct if I’m wrong.  You are correct pre season Moe and the squad got caught practicing early.  Anyhow, went onto have a pretty good season and then Hoppen got hurt out at Colorado with 6-10 games to go.  The guys regrouped and earned that NCAA bid.  Some of the guys on that team would have been-> Carr, Harvey Marshall, Ronnie Smith, Claude Renfro, Bill Jackman, John Matzke, Anthony Bailous ?  Need help again, anyone ?  Too lazy to look it up and that’s not as fun.

Bernard Day took on much of the scoring after Hoppen's injury. Did a nice job scoring in the post as a very undersized center

I am not upset at Painter being honored. Last I checked, coaches put their teams together and should get credit for meeting expectations with the great players they recruit. Also, Edey wasn't exactly a top recruit. 3 stars and not an overly impressive offer list and Painter developed him into a national player of the year.

Sharing the honor with that guy is good company for Fred.

He must really want to be in Chicago. I can't believe he's getting a raise. If he is, where is the money coming from that can compete with SEC cash?

24 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

It's also important to state that this is the time of the year where just about every bubble team has key win opportunities to improve their resume. We're not alone in that.

I acknowledge this and my unstated point is that most won't change their resume much. The few that do, should be rewarded.  Substantially if appropriate. Two top 10 wins would qualify

4 minutes ago, OmahaHusker said:

 

They have most the seeds decided on and bracket set by the end of Friday. Most weight is put on what you did in the regular season. Only last minute changes they make are for bid stealers that were never projected in the field. 

You may be right, but it that sounds extremely lazy. Not that hard to make adjustments of a seed line for a handful of teams each day in a case like this. Say Wisconsin or Michigan St lose on Thursday and Nebraska or Northwestern win the B1G tournament...you can't swap the seeds because you were pretty much done? 

Not just lazy, but negligent. How many games are there Sunday before the announcement? I checked, it's 5. Not very many and plenty of time to make adjustments and if/then decisions before those games are done.