Sidelines - Nebraska

I really want to see Rhymes and Nick J off the bench next year. Get a portal big guy similar to Andrew to come off the bench and that's pretty good depth

I also have triples in the barracuda

He has already gotten a lot of praise on this thread, but Braxton Meah has been playing with his hair on fire these past couple of games

Abdi is likely headed to Auburn as well

Bridge veteran portal PG that is a scorer next year with Nick as the backup then it will be the Nick J show

Played about as good as we could've play considering the circumstances we were under with Berke out, Brice and Conor having the flu. Maryland just hit insanely tough shots down the stretch, can't be to mad at that when the other team is just hitting shots. Not out of it getting these next 2 would pretty much solidify our tourney hopes and put less pressure on those last 4 games.

Ankles are tough just hope its a low sprain and not a high sprain. Swelling is generally a good sign that's it is healing. Hope we get him back for Michigan at least

Braxton also seemed to play way more aggreesive than he ever has in the minutes he got yesterday. He is a real threat when he is going downhill, but he seems to just be okay with not doing that most of the time.

Really hope BK is okay. Similar to November when he got hurt with his hamstring he was starting to play really well and figuring out his role then he cam back and struggled for a bit. He has played really well lately. Need Andrew and Braxton to step up on Thursday if we want to win that one

Houston is a beast I would love to give that kid a walk on opportunity, but I think he should go JUCO or a prep year like the Bashir twins did

I want Andrew to just pull a three. His stroke doesn't look bad

I don't agree with we don't have any bad losses. The USC and Rutgers game are both Q3 home losses those are eye sores on our resume to the committee. With our brand we have very little room for those slip ups

Pick n roll defense looked light years better than it has during our losing streak. Claude, Braden, Harper all got whatever they wanted when we were hard hedging or playing drop coverage. We really neutralized KJ in the pnr who I think is one of the most talented guards in the entire country and he'll be a top 10 pick. It looked like we were switching more and did a little softer hedge. The defensive intensity was there our rotations were clean all night. We still gave up open looks but Illinois hoisted a lot of contested 3's. Really wish we had a point guard worth a crap though on offense.

It's very weird to me that this fan base just loves to dunk on the men's basketball program. But when football has 9 straight losing seasons say anything bad about the football program and you might as well get sent to guantanamo bay. It's almost like they want us to fail just so they have something to talk about and make fun of. I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of the fan base actively roots for us to fail outside of jayskers of course.

UW - 85 Neb - 68 9

I thought Rollie did what he could. Where we got in trouble was on pick n rolls. Andrew is lost when defending pick n rolls. Then they stopped playing drop and hedging to just straight up switching. Then Claude went off. Idk none of our bigs seem to know what they are doing when they hedge. Then they go to drop and we get out of rotation.

Anyone else notice Andrew and Braxton sitting on the bench instead of being in the team huddle towards the end of the game?

Would be a good game for Berke to get back on track as USC has nobody that can match up with him

I will never give up on Gavin being an impact player here. He’s just to talented and too good of a fit for our system

Just imagine if we can get that from Berke consistently… we are so tough to beat if he can play to his potential during B1G play

“Undisclosed injury” sounds like he’s not happy kinda similar to what happened with him here

I'm all in on #ExtendWoodson I might start a movement

There are really not any true bottom feeders this year besides Minnesota that's what makes it so tough. USC and Washington have enough talent to beat any team and Northwestern is well enough coached to beat anyone. Usually there are about 4 bottom teams you can chalk up to a W. Not this year.

Bold prediction: Berke plays limited minutes (8-10 minutes) and gets hot from three randomly on Saturday.

With the ACC talk imagine if Forbes fails to make the tournament again at Wake. Guy has been on the bubble for like 5 straight years now, what a waste for Hunter. he could've come here and been a legend forever instead he's sitting on the bubble at Wake Forest.