Dead Dog Alley

Hate to correct you, but: he did play his freshman year. And how is it that, from his recruiting class, he wasn't the one that played in the NBA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Marsh

For all that Joe McCray did to financially support the local McDonald's establishments, you'd think McDonald's would owe us.

Shon Morris is a fucking tool. That fucking douche has never fucking seen a bad fucking call in his entire fucking life. Fuck that guy.

If the rim would have been five feet wide, Yvan would have made that free throw.

The last two foul calls were bullshit. It must be time for an RIR (Ref-Induced Run) by Purdue.

If they wanted to get serious about the sport, they'd outbid Rutgers for Pikeill. Most likely, they aren't.

That is not a good way to look at this. The referees can decide a game before it starts just by deciding how they are going to call it. For instance, if Illinois is playing Iowa and the refs decide you can murder somebody before a foul is called, Illinois is going to win. If they call it tight and don't allow physical play, Iowa is going to win going away. Similarly to football, if the officials decide they are going to allow a lot of defensive holding in by both sides in a Wisconsin game, Wisconsin will win, because their entire defense is based on holding. If they call it tight, Wisconsin will lose. So called "consistent" officiating can still dictate the winner. That aside, the foul called against McGowens down the stretch was just plain awful. Whether it was due to implicit bias of thinking Dosunmu was the best player in the conference so obviously it was a foul, or if it was done to protect Illinois NCAA seed, that call was still complete shit.

Total fuck job on that foul. There's no denying it.

We're outgunned and outgooned

If Davison had a Nebraska jersey on, he'd average a foul a minute.

Davison leg sweeps McGowens and knocks him to the ground, no foul called, turnover. Next possession Stevenson gets grabbed, hacked, and bodied, fouled by three different people, no call. The refs are doing what they're paid to do, which is to make sure that Wisconsin wins. What a fuck job.

Shon Morris can choke on a bag of phallic objects, for all his papering over bad officiating.

I swear that Kelly Pfeiffer must think that the priest that molested him was a Nebraska fan. Because he officiates every game with a vengeance, simply being a crooked official doesn't explain how bad he is.

If you're looking for one reason why we don't shoot worth a damn, remember, when you're playing against Nebraska, this is not a foul.

I was feeling pretty proud of myself because I thought I'd came up with something that was really f**king funny, but now I'm sad. Because no matter how I try, it will never overcome the fact that the officiating in this conference is the biggest f**king joke in the history of the universe.

He's Facetiming with Sack.

We still have ten chances to win a game before we would match Northwestern's record 32 game Big Ten regular season conference game losing streak... Maybe if Teddy Burgers turns back into Teddy Buckets we can win one...

I'm sure that the recruiting pitch to get him to Stillwater was honest, and that they told him " you're not going to play much, you probably won't be able to score against college defenses, and given your injury history it's likely you'll have season ending knee surgery half way through the season."

If we are limited to Yvan and Eduardo, I would suggest employing the 1-0-1 zone defense. It leaves some open shots on the wing, but it also confuses the offense because they never practice against it. I have actually seen this defense employed, with my high school's girls' basketball team. There were seven players total on the team, and in one game all five starters fouled out, so it was five on two for the last two and a half minutes.

With the proper precautions that shouldn't be an issue...

That was the fewest losses Nebraska has had in January since the 1990-91 season! We are turning the corner...

We all know how it's going to end. Nebraska and Rutgers will be the only teams able to field a starting five for the Big Ten tournament. One of Rutgers five available scholarship players will foul out, and Noah Vedral will come off the bench to hit the game winning three. Kent's call of "Noah from the arc" will not have as much excitement as it did last year.

99% chance of losing, Roby fouls out in regulation, win in overtime...I think I've seen that happen before. Except I don't think the OKC game was won by a guy from Iceland blocking a shot as time expired.

A cynic would say that if any of these opposing teams needs a win to make the NCAA Tournament, those games will be played; otherwise, no.

Can you simplify your message a bit so some of us cognitively challenged folks can better understand? I visit this site for quick takes, not expansive tracts like this full of profound concepts that I have no chance of grasping.