GhostOfJoeMcCray

so you’re saying the league office called in and said “guys, end this comeback. We need Nebraska in the Big Ten Tournament” ??

Rigsby had scored 17 total points in his last 7 games combined before dropping 20 on us. It was a good run. Maybe next year. Probably not.

I think this is all of our HS recruits since 2019. I believe we haven't had a single HS scholarship recruit spend more than 2 years here. If Janowski and Frager were to complete the 2025-26 season and not transfer, it would be unprecedented. And I do have high hopes for Frager, Janowski and Rhymes. But if you are the staff looking at the success of last year, the success of this year (so far), and the list below (sans McGowens), you probably figure you're better off recruiting the transfer portal than swinging and missing at HS guys. I do think with Frager and Janowski and hopefully Rhymes they are really emphasizing "fit" and "quality over quantity" now. Maybe I'm naive, but I can easily see Frager and Janowski playing key reserve roles next year and coming back for a 3rd year in the program. Nick Janowski - TBD Braden Frager - TBD Eli Rice - transfer after 1 year Matar Diop - transfer after 1 year Ramel Lloyd - transfer after 2 years, never played Jamarques Lawrence - transfer after 2 years, decent rotation player Denim Dawson - transfer after 2 years, barely played Bryce McGowens - NBA after 1 year, impact player Wilhelm Breidenbach - transfer after 2 years, below average rotation player Oleg Kojenets - transfer after 2 years, barely played Quaran McPherson - transfer after 2 years, never played Elijah Wood - transfer after 1 year, barely played Eduardo Andre - transfer after 2 years, below average rotation player Samari Curtis - transfer after less than 1 year, barely played Akol Arop - transfer after 2 years, barely played Kevin Cross - transfer after 1 year, decent rotation player Yvan Ouedraogo - transfer after 2 years, below average rotation player

Can you imagine a team looking like that?

Well yes because there are still a lot of games to be played. Bracketologists are projecting if the season ended today. If the season ended today, we should feel really good. But it doesn't, so we need to keep winning games to stay in brackets.

If anything, most Husker fans are way too negative about our chances overreacting to last night. I saw this on twitter: The first six teams out of the projected bracket via BracketMatrix are a combined 7-52 in Quadrant 1 games...we have 6 Quad 1 wins by ourselves. The bubble is pathetically bad this year. 3+ regular-season wins: you can throw a Selection Show party because we're just waiting to see who we play and where we go 2 regular-season wins: enough that you can feel pretty good, but have something ready to throw at your TV if we get left out because we probably got screwed 0-1 regular-season win: we've put ourselves in an awful situation and deserve whatever fate we get

There are way too many good bracketologists (without Nebraska bias) out there now to not have a pretty darn good idea of where we stand, and I'm not talking about Lunardi or Palm. For example, the cumulative Bracketmatrix nailed all the 1-4 seeds in the committee top 16 reveal. Some guys put as much work into it each week as they do at their jobs (T3 and JBR on Twitter for example). We ended up last year right about where most of the really good ones thought we would. In my opinion, it has never been easier to know relatively where you stand.

To echo your point, he finished with 3 fouls.

If Juwan isn’t playing well, we aren’t very good. Today was one of his worst games of the year.

Don’t think he was ready in November but sounds like he’s been doing well lately, but too late to burn a redshirt.

Wish we could have seen Nick Janowski this year. If for no other reason than his name isn’t Ahron Ulis.

We only lost by 17. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’ll take it

I think the number of nights this team has spent in a hotel this month has caught up with them. If I’m counting correctly, they’ve spent 9 out of 18 nights in a hotel. In the next 18 days, 1 night in a hotel. Need to get home and get rested and get Berke back, most importantly.

Glass half full: we played like absolute garbage for 60 of 80 minutes this road trip and went 1-1.

they gave us a nice soft one there to take away a layup.

There is no way I thought we could ever play a worse first half than we did at NW. Took us one game.

Sam has 3 turnovers.

This team drives me insane

Brice and Juwan will go down in history as two of the more puzzling players we’ve ever had. They can completely take over and win us games. They can also take random days off where it appears they have zero interest in doing the things they know they need to do.

Ty Berry has shot 14 threes. 14! And this game isn’t close to being over.

It’s called not giving a crap

14 offensive rebounds allowed in one half. There is no better stat to signal your lack of effort than that.

Just get it under 10 by halftime

If we get blown out by NW it’s much more than a Q1 loss. Our metrics will take a big hit.

Sure let’s just go ahead and put ourselves firmly back on the bubble. What an effort today.