Dead Dog Alley

So, does Jervay Green have his groove back, or was this a Demetrius Buchanan moment? And, if anyone actually understands the Demetrius Buchanan reference, +1 to them.

Watch a game where you have no rooting interest, and you'll see crooked officiating on a regular basis. Not just in the Big Ten, I admit. Watch a Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, or Michigan State games and their coaches get irate when the officials are not actively screwing their opposition.

One thing to remember about whether we'll over be good: the officiating in this conference is so f**king crooked that you can't count on anything. Get hit on the elbow when shooting a jumper: not a foul. Get knocked to the floor on a layup: not a foul. WTF is a foul in this conference. Well, touch fouls on Nebraska are called fouls, we know.

There was one other time that we redshirted a Piatkowski. That year the team tied the school record for most losses in a season. The only good news generated that year was the rumor that the scout team, full of redshirts, was consistently beating the starters. The next year it turned out that this was all a bunch of hype. The next year they won a school record number of games.

A comparison of notable players' freshman seasons: Season School Conf G GS MP FG FGA FG% 2P 2PA 2P% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS 2011-12 Texas Tech Big 12 28 11 368 32 87 0.368 20 47 0.426 12 40 0.3 12 26 0.462 13 44 57 20 6 5 35 45 88 2014-15 Miami (FL) ACC 38 5 504 52 126 0.413 29 63 0.46 23 63 0.365 15 23 0.652 14 40 54 25 5 9 28 28 142 2016-17 Nebraska Big Ten 30 4 457 37 94 0.394 33 74 0.446 4 20 0.2 16 21 0.762 36 52 88 22 16 25 36 58 94 2018-19 Western Kentucky CUSA 31 12 469 39 97 0.402 31 60 0.517 8 37 0.216 19 34 0.559 16 76 92 65 14 16 52 27 105

I saw "good news" and expected to see this, sorry...

He did get to live out a dream that a lot of us here have - he got to clock Zegarowski. Echoing everyone else: best of luck to him.

No, we aren't very good, but the officiating in this conference is shameful.

Pritzl is the biggest f**king flopper in the history of flop. If every team in the country played Wisconsin's style the NCAA Tournament final would be broadcast on TrueTV.

When wasn’t he?

I hope I live to see the day when we leave this crooked fucking conference.

Fixed, this game is.

Crooked, these refs are.

Suck, these refs do.

If Thor was to hit the game winner in Nebraska's first ever NCAA win...well, if Kent's call on the radio wasn't ranked among the greatest in history, I'd be disappointed.