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Clawing our way back thanks to Northwestern's offense turning the ball over like crazy

That's pretty much why I picked us to lose. I walked out of the arena thinking we'd lose by 20 to whomever we played next though when I found out it was Northwestern I couldn't pick us to lose by that much.

Mack is really pressing today

If Yvan has to guard one of their bigs outside of the paint, he's in trouble

He's the only one who hasn't taken one

If the game stays at this pace we should win

Northwestern 71 - Nebraska 67

Nebraska Cornhuskers (7-8) at Northwestern Wildcats (5-9) Date: Saturday Jan 11th, 2020 Time: 3:30 p.m. Arena: Welsh-Ryan Arena (7,039, 168th largest in D-I) Broadcast: BTN Nothwestern Info Head Coach: Chris Collins Location: Evansville, IL Conference: B1G Nickname: Wildcats Mascot: Willie the Wildcat B1G: 0-4 Typical Rotation Depth: 7-8 Line: Northwestern by 5.5 KenPom rank: 100 Offensive Style: Passing into the paint Defensive Style: Zone/non-aggressive Key Injuries: SG Anthony Gaines - Out for season with shoulder injury PG Boo Buie - Out indefinitely with a foot injury Players to watch: Pat Spencer If you don't know who Pat Spencer is you'd probably be a great candidate for jury duty. Spencer is a graduate transfer from Loyola where he was one of the best lacrosse players in Div-1, winning the Tewaaraton Award last year. Instead of moving on to a professional lacrosse career, Spencer decided he wanted to play college ball and chose Northwestern. Up until recently he was splitting time at the point with frosh Boo Buie but now finds himself playing the majority of the game with Buie injured. While he struggles with his shot, he's an excellent FT shooter and leads the team in assists. Players to watch: Miller Kopp The 6'7" Soph F is currently playing at SG due to injuries. Kopp is the team's best 3pt shooter and leading scorer. Roster points PG SG SF PF C Pct 1 12 Pat Spencer 6-3 205 Sr 10 Miller Kopp 6-7 210 So 31 Robbie Beran 6-9 205 Fr 22 Pete Nance 6-10 225 So 15 Ryan Young 6-10 235 Fr 9.6 Yet another shorthanded team. The Purple came in with just 10 scholarship players and are down to 8. They're also young, starting 2 sophomores and 2 freshmen Forward Pete Nance comes from a NBA family where his father played for 13 seasons and his brother is currently playing. Nance is a 3 and D guy except he can't hit 3s. Robbie Beran is the highest rated recruit in NU history and finds himself in the starting lineup with the injuries. He's capable of shooting 3s, driving, and blocking shots. He's doing none of that particularly well right now. Also not aggressive with his shot. Young leads the team in rebounding and shoots at a high percentage in the paint when he gets the ball. 6'7" Boston College grad transfer F can play point and did so at BC. Can't buy a bucket this year but plays a lot of minutes off the bench. 6'10" freshman center Jared Jones is just depth Soph G Ryan Greer is guard depth with limited offensive game The Skinny: This young Northwestern team has been just as inconsistent as Nebraska, losing pay a couple of pay games to start the season and dropping another one during the winter break. Injuries have also hurt, especially losing promising freshman PG Boo Buie. Chris Collins has built up recruiting after winning the Wildcat's first NCAA tournament game. This has not translated into winning. I expect Northwestern to try and grind this thing and for the most part be successful. Defensively they'll most likely throw out a lot of zone and see if Nebraska can jack up 3s over their length. While there are offensive rebounds to be found against Nebraska, expect Northwestern to retreat to limit the Huskers transition. The Wildcats are going to make the Huskers most of their points on Saturday. Nebraska will try to push the pace but it will be difficult with Northwestern selling out and what should be your typical dead Ryan-Welsh crowd. The Huskers tend to let off the gas after wins and this Northwestern team is hungry for a win. In what will probably be a close game, here are a couple of Northwestern stats for you Northwestern shoots 76.3% from the FT line, 31st in Div-1 Northwestern is 1-12 in their last 13 games decided by 10 or less Prediction: Northwestern 71 - Nebraska 67 View full article

Charlie grabbing the bull by the horns

Robin confirming

I can account for that.

I am fairly confident this only applies to guys that are initially on scholarship

I'd assume this is for just the semester unless it's announced that it's for the rest of his time here

I'd say so

Inevitable given his play and us not landing Charles O'Bannon. Congrats, he very much earned this

Junior year at Nebraska Leslee could finish. What will junior year Yvan look like? My man, you have a thread called "Maybe I should put this on the recruiting page" where you detailed how young the guy is and how much he has the potential to develop.

This one isn't quite as discouraging as it seems because Post-Up PPG isn't fairly meaningful to a team that isn't looking to post up. The rare times we are posting up he's at least converting at a decent rate. His Finishing (shooting%) is low because when he does shoot outside the paint, he's very bad (17.4% on 2pt jumpers). Between that number and his FT numbers he very much looks like a guy who struggles to score more than 3 feet away from the basket. Once again I think he looks a lot like a healthy Leslee Smith without the ups and let me expand on that. Leslee his freshman year at SMU was fairly below average as well but played significant minutes on that team. His junior year at Nebraska he puts up serviceable numbers after spending the previous year at a Juco. He's rebounding, protecting the rim, and converting at a decent clip as the 4th-5th scoring option on the team. His senior year numbers are those of a guy gutting it out after returning from an ACL tear. If Yvan stays healthy doesn't it seem like he can replicate the value of Smith as a reliable defender of other post players and someone who can finish at 50-55% from the floor? He seems like he won't have a very high ceiling but he also seems like he won't have a very low floor. A year in the weight room might help a bit with those ups he seems to be lacking.

Cochran on the ticket today thought that Green wasn't a good style fit

Didn't they just extend Prohm so that Alabama wouldn't steal him? I wouldn't expect Johnny Orr 2.0 nor hiring back the only coach not to make the NCAA tournament there in the last 40 year anytime in the near future.

Ah thanks for a great idea for our next matchup!

I thought Thor would be a contributor but never thought he'd be able to shoot like this.

This pass...wow

Here are the numbers for the team with Jervay on and off the court. There isn't much context here but it backs up what we're seeing. Some of the context is who comes off the court when Jervay is in. When we started the season, we had a 4 guard rotation that included everyone except for Cross and Yvan at center. (sometimes Kavas was at center when we wanted to go small). Some sort of combination of us getting our teeth kicked in at GT, Cross transferring, and Green getting suspended found us shifting to a 3 guard lineup with Thor and Kavas platooning at the 4. Green is the odd man out in that shift. Mack, Cheatham, and Burke are playing well. They should be starting. That makes Green all of their backups and in the role of backup, Easley is doing a better job. Unless someone gets injured, his best bet is to buy in defensively (the numbers imply he has not) and work his way into the backup guard rotation and go from there.