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That's a fairly standard Hoiberg non-answer. Really seems like JG got a 6 game suspension and we see him in South Dakota.

Sitting here McEaten my words. Credit to Rider for feeding the hot hand

This will be a team as opposed to the collection of players we have seen thus far

MTEs how can I explain it I'll take you frame by frame it To have y'all jumpin' shall we singin' it M is for Multi, T is for Team scratchin' temple The last E... well... it's actually quite simple

Nebraska 85 - Rider 62

Nebraska Cornhuskers (2-0) vs Rider Broncs (1-1) ** Cornhusker Classic ** Date: Monday Nov 13, 2023 Time: 7:00 pm Arena: PBA Broadcast: BTN Rider Head Coach: Robert McCullum (12th year) Location: Lawrenceville, NJ Conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Nickname: Broncs Mascot: AJ the Bronc Last time out: Lost to Marquette 95-65 Clothes not to wear: Cranberry, Gray, Thanksgiving themed items Opening Line: Nebraska by 15 Nota bene: Nebraska looking to start 3-0 for the first time in the Hoiberg era Nebraska has put together an on campus, non-bracketed Multi-Team Event (MTE) with Rider, Stony Brook, and Duquesne where each team will play each other. The purpose of this is that in order to play 31 games, you need to play in a MTE else the most regular season games you can play is 29. It's silly but it's how college basketball works. In the past few years Nebraska has travelled around Thanksgiving but this year opted to host their own event, which is what other fine institutions do as well. (The "Blue Devil Challenge" is Duke, Bucknell, La Salle, and Southern Indiana). This is the first ever meeting between Rider and Nebraska. Took a lot of searching to find out who the mascot was for Rider as Rider didn't decide on a mascot name until 2016 and no one has cared to update their Wikipedia page. It was named AJ in honor of Rider's first school president, Andrew J. Rider. Player to watch: Mervin James James emerged as Rider's go-to post player last season and has been tabbed as the MAAC pre-season player of the year. At 6'7" 215# James either slots at PF or as a small-ball 5. Active on the offensive boards and outstanding FT shooter. Player to watch: Allen Powell 6'2" Shooting guard who can't consistently knock down an outside shot though expect Rider to give him the green line. Powell is in his 5th year at Rider and was named to the Preseason All-MAAC first team. Others to watch Tariq Ingraham - The 6'9" 255# transfer spent 3 injury plagued years at Wake Forest before having an up and down season for the Broncs. Had a solid 11 points and 8 rebounds in 28 minutes vs Marquette. TJ Weeks - The 6'4" UMass transfer guard is the player most likely to make 3s against Nebraska though he's a career 36.5% shooter from deep. His brother Tyriek Weeks also transferred to the team from JUCO Miami Dade Corey McKeithan - 6'0" PG who isn't much of a scoring threat and turns the ball over quite a bit. Pesky defender though. UNL Game Notes Roster/infirmary report OUT 5 Ahron Ulis 6-3 190 lbs Junior - Waiting to hear from NCAA re gambling 15 Blaise Keita 6-11 257 lbs Junior - Ongoing ankle injury recovery QUESTIONABLE 4 Juwan Gary 6-6 221 lbs Junior - Violation of team rules 2 Ramel Lloyd Jr. 6-6 210 lbs RS Freshman - Knee Possible starters for Nebraska 10 Jamarques Lawrence 6-3 183 lbs Sophomore 30 Keisei Tominaga 6-2 179 lbs Senior 3 Brice Williams 6-7 213 lbs Junior 53 Josiah Allick 6-8 231 lbs Senior 51 Rienk Mast 6-10 248 lbs Junior Bench 0 C.J. Wilcher 6-5 214 lbs Junior 9 Jarron Coleman 6-5 213 lbs Senior 1 Sam Hoiberg 6-0 183 lbs Sophomore 11 Eli Rice 6-8 213 lbs Freshman 21 Matar Diop 6-10 213 lbs Freshman 31 Cale Jacobsen 6-4 200 lbs RS Freshman 35 Henry Burt 6-7 216 lbs RS Freshman 24 Jeffrey Grace III 6-3 197 lbs Sophomore Thanks to rules by the B1G about player availability we'll know around 4-5 pm which players won't be available for Nebraska. At this point going to assume that Keisei comes back whereas Lloyd and Gary still won't be available. Guessing that Keisei bumps Wilcher out of the starting lineup but really could see Williams or Allick coming off the bench to start this one as well. Nice to have this sort of depth. The Skinny: The competition turns up a bit as this Rider isn't super talented but it's easily the most experienced and put together team the Husker have faced thus far. Four of the five starters were with the team last year and transfer starter Weeks is a 5th year senior. They rank 26th in KenPom's D-1 experience ranking and this continuity is a big reason the Broncs were picked to finish so high in the MAAC. Similarly, it's part of the reason Nebraska is picked to have their best year under Fred Hoiberg. Unlike the Huskers, Rider isn't deep. Any sort of foul trouble will be very bad for the Broncs. Look for both teams to try and take away the 2 which should hurt Rider a lot more as they're a poor 3pt shooting team. Speaking of 3pt shooting, have you noticed that Nebraska is taking a lot of them? It's not your imagination that the Huskers are taking and even making more 3pt shots than they ever have in the Hoiberg era. This team likely won't best any of the Nebraska records for 3pt shooting percentage but right now they're well on their way to breaking the team's 3pt shot and make records. The wild thing is they're doing it without Keisei Tominaga. As far as tonight's game, this is the type of experienced team that could give you fits if you let them hang around. Look for Nebraska to have take care of business again. Prediction: Nebraska 85 - Rider 62 View full article

Like watching Mel Kiper vs Todd McShay!

That post was in reference to the inaccurate thought that Frager was starting school in January

It's nice to think we can win enough games to be a 4 seed in the conference!

Oregon St survived Troy at home in double OT. I think we blow their doors off in what will be a home game for us in South Dakota and our first real test is against a Duquesne team that looks quite good.

Thanks, should be good now

Box Score

If Pittsburgh beats Binghamton by 40 instead of 18, they'll likely move past us because they've exceeded the amount Kenpom thought they'd beat Binghamton by. That has nothing to do with our previous history. Otherwise, it's the previous year, not years, that are included for part of the season because it simply gives better results overall than not including them. https://kenpom.com/blog/preseason-ratings-why-weight/

He said they hoped to get Keisei back on Monday. He probably will be back but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

Notes from UNL Nebraska Notes *-Rienk Mast collected his 19th career double-double with 20 points and 16 rebounds. Mast nearly had a double-double in the first half alone with 12 points and eight rebounds. Prior to tonight, the last Husker to have at least 20 points and 15 rebounds in a game was Aleks Maric, who had 32 points and 16 rebounds against Missouri on Feb. 13, 2008. Mast had Nebraska’s first double-double since Sam Griesel (16/12) against Minnesota (3/8/23), *-Mast’s 16 rebounds was the most by a Husker since Yvan Ouedraogo had 19 rebounds against Northwestern on March 1, 2020, and the second-highest rebound total in Hoiberg’s four-plus seasons at Nebraska. *-Nebraska’s 55 rebounds was the most since also collecting 55 against Doane on Dec. 17, 2020. It was the most against a Division I team since having 55 vs. Mississippi Valley State on Nov. 6, 2018. *-Nebraska has had double-figure scoring runs in each of its first two games (10-0 vs. Lindenwood; 12-0 vs. FAMU) *-Nebraska had double-digit 3-pointers for the second straight game, the first time it happened since March 4-7, 2001 (at Iowa, at Northwestern) *-In all, 64 of Nebraska’s 81 points were scored by first-year Huskers, as well as 30 points scored by players coming off the bench *-Freshman Eli Rice reached double figures for the first time in his career with 16 points, including 11 in the first half *-Jamarques Lawrence set a career high with three steals, topping his previous best of two set a pair of times in 2022-23. He also tied a career high with four assists (at Iowa, 3/5/23) *-Sam Hoiberg had a career high four steals, as his previous best was two set on four occasions. *-Nebraska’s 25 free throws were the most since also making 25 against Maryland on Feb. 18, 2022.

Post game presser

Part of the reason we're playing the schedule we're playing to start the season is so that it can be ugly and we're still likely to win.

It's the crux of the difference between efficiency and shooting percentage

If anyone is, it's him.

We did enough to edge past Pitt There actually is an archive function to go back day by day https://kenpom.com/archive.php?d=2023-11-09 This part of the season is so fluid though that we could move up or down 5 spots before our next game on Monday

Brice might have been forcing things but his 15 points on 9 shots wouldn't qualify as inefficient.

The kicker here is that we have 3 games next week

He came off a bit wooden so relative to Danny Nee he came off as petrified wood. Too bad we didn't hire him as our basketball AD instead because he certainly knew who to hire.