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I don't think I've ever been there, but I assume they also have Big Red theme?  If I were a business owner in Lincoln or Omaha, I wouldn't try to play one side to the exclusion of another.  That's silly.

What about grocery stores?  Do you people make sure your produce department is Creighton-free?

It's a free country, though, I get it.  As for me, I just can't see getting hung up on purging everyone out of my life that caters to the fans of another team.

It sounds like it's exclusively Creighton, from what the OP stated

Any e-mail?  I live in the Haymarket and have been a relatively frequent customer for the last 3 years.  No longer.

Not only is it "win and we're in," but it's against a top 10 team.  I don't think there's even a close second, really.  I certainly can't remember a game being this hyped up in my lifetime (25 years)

Be nice to get THAT guy.  Miles has done great and has proven he can coach up kids,  but we still need THAT guy.

Didn't Iowa finish fourth last year and not make the dance?

This doesn't seem like good news to me. ...

We still seem to have a lot of work to do.

It obviously won't be reflected in RPI or our "resume," but I think @ Indiana is a tougher game than Wisconsin at home.

Iowa just blew a 13pt halftime lead and is now trailing Purdue by 4 with 10 to play

People who dislike "bandwagon Nebrasketball fans" are nearly as pompous as Creighton fans.  Is the meltdown when we lose going to be annoying?  Yes.  But you can't ask for something to be successful and then get annoyed when people outside of your circle enjoy the success too.  That logic makes no sense.

It's like soccer fans in America that say they want soccer to become incredibly popular in this country, but then bash any new fans that pop up/would add to it's popularity.  Umm ok? What?

Plus, where does fuller play? Someone on here mentioned pf?

Atwood -> Louisville

Sell Dickerson and Deng on each other, both commit to us

Sounds good to me.

 

 

A guy on 1620 the zone got on and said that NU still has work to do because we don't have a lot of top 100 wins. Yet we are 6-7 in that category which is just as many wins as so many of these other teams.

The long and the short of it is, most people don't know what they are talking about.

This^^^^. Nebraska has come out of nowhere over the last month and there are a lot of 'experts' that still haven't studied up on the Nebraska NCAA tournament resume. You would think it would be simple enough to look but since they don't know, when asked the question they just spew standard answers like need some more wins, not enough big wins, too many losses, etc. They don't know. Gradually, this team is forcing more people to look. People will take notice. Just look at the bracketmatrix. Just last week we were in 1 bracket. Now somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 or so. The momentum is continuing to build and the experts will finally get it right.

 

I think there might be a lot of truth to this.  A lot of people probably see the 5 game winning streak + win @ Michigan State and assume that is all we have on our resume.  If they start digging a little deeper, they'll see that we look a lot better than quite a few teams they have ahead of us.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter right now.  We control our destiny.  Unless we finish 1-3, I'm guessing we have a chance.

The only thing different about Ray from last year to this year is that he's getting less minutes/taking less shots.  His percentages are nearly identical and his stat line probably would be too if he was getting as many minutes as last year.

Ray is who he is

I've been fading us the last few games.. Money line/happiness hedge. Money I'm more than happy to lose

BigTenNetwork

I can't see a team that goes 11-7 in conference play (19-11 overall) getting left out. Not with how soft the bubble is this year. 

Agreed.  That would be unbelievable.

 

 

Headlining the Bubble Watch with...North Carolina. Man this is an interesting time to be a Husker Hoops fan!

 

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bubblewatch

Not a very promising article.  Indicates 1 more loss will send us to the NIT.  Not sure I agree with it, but Eamon certainly knows more about it than I do.

I think he makes a valid point as he's also stating UNC is bubblicious.... time will tell (as will racking up W's incl. 2 more roadies). NU needs to earn a better spot in the pecking order w/ wins!

 

The common thought I've heard is- excluding Wisconsin, any game we lose from here out we'll need to make up with a win in the big ten tourney to cancel it out (1 loss = 1 tourney win, 2 losses = 2 tourney wins, etc).  Personally I think 4-1 gets us in regardless

Headlining the Bubble Watch with...North Carolina. Man this is an interesting time to be a Husker Hoops fan!

 

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bubblewatch

Not a very promising article.  Indicates 1 more loss will send us to the NIT.  Not sure I agree with it, but Eamon certainly knows more about it than I do.

It's going to happen again on Sunday.

It should happen at every game going forward for the next 1000000 years, IMO

Hope this becomes a staple and doesn't fade away if/when we lose a game we shouldn't.  I think it caught all of the players and coaches (from both sides) way off guard and set a little bit of a tone.

Even though we would have greatly exceeded expectations, I just think there's such a bias in favor of the coaches at the top that I would be surprised to see Miles honored even if we have a top-half conference finish.

I don't see the bias that you do, at all.  Miles has gotten so much love from the national media over the last couple weeks and is probably the leader in the clubhouse for COTY right now depending on how the rest of the season goes.  He's (at the least) in contention with Izzo and Beilein, who have also done incredible jobs this season.

We are wasting our time on this kid, IMO. (kidding)

Too show you just how funky the RPI can be, the Wildcats are currently 12th in said RPI. They are 10-6 against the top-100 (not bad, right?), but only 2-4 against the top-50 and have ZERO RPI top-25 wins. Nebraska is 6-7 against the RPI top-100 and have played TEN games against the top-50 (3-7 overall). The Wildcats have been feasting on teams between 51-100 on the RPI list. 

Sounds like they are essentially Iowa last year

 

Lunardi's a hack. No NU but WVU, FSU, and LSU? 

 

That's a pretty consensus call right now

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

 

Yea, I'm not surprised at all.  It was a good win, but we've still lost 10 games this season.  We're on the bubble of being on the bubble.

Get the next 2 and you'll see us on these lists.

It was really just the one ref that was atrocious and the other two had to make up for him with a ton of make up calls.  Not really sure what the deal was, but the one looked like he had just been called up from the YMCA league.