Dead Dog Alley

The counter-example that fits that criteria would be Ohio State in 2016. They were 11-7 in the conference, 1-1 in the Big Ten tournament, and 20-13 overall. They finished 7th in the Big Ten; the Big Ten put 7 teams into the tournament (the teams that finished first through sixth plus Michigan, that finished eighth with a 10-8 record). The records of the teams at the top in the standings that year were inflated due to Rutgers, Minnesota, and Illinois all having historically bad seasons, which accounts for an 11-7 team finishing seventh. Ohio State that year did beat Kentucky (27-9, 4 seed in NCAA), but their next best non-conference win was against Northern Illinois. They lost in the non-conference to Virginia (29-8, 1 seed), UConn (25-11, 9 seed), Memphis (19-15), Louisiana Tech (23-10), and UT Arlington (24-11). Their remaining nonconference wins were against South Carolina State, Mercer, Air Force, Mt. St. Mary's, VMI, and Grambling. In conference they beat 12-6 Iowa and 10-8 Michigan, and went 9-0 against the bottom six teams in the conference (8-10 Northwestern, 7-11 Penn State, 6-12 Nebraska, 5-13 Illinois, 2-16 Minnesta, 1-17 Rutgers). They finished 3-10 against teams that made the NCAA Tournament and 17-3 against teams finishing with an RPI below 100. Their RPI was 78.

Any projection that gave us a 47% probability of winning at home against Wisconsin, and a 50% probability against Iowa, should be discounted. It appears that whatever the formulas he's using to rate teams needs some tweaking.

Okay....

Lamont Simpson and Kelly Pfieffer are embarrassments to the human race.

I thought it smelled like I stepped in dog shit, then I realized it was just Lamont Simpson stinking it up.

NU (the state) 72, NU (the direction) 69.

NU 84-69, 5.

In fairness, I have a set of neighbors who, most years, finish harvest near the end of March. They never seem to be in much of a hurry. Combines would have been fairly new, and still rare, in 1958. Pull behind or front mount corn pickers, which picked ear corn, would have been more prevalent. Most early combines would have picked 3 rows at a time; so even with farms being much smaller then, harvest would have taken a while. A lot of combines at the time would not have had a cab, though, so I'm not sure that having a passenger or a radio on it would have been common. The recorded high was 50°F that day in Lincoln - so I guess it's plausible?

85-61 NU.

To be more specific, he looked like an offensive lineman from a team other than Nebraska (or Kansas), because he didn't miss the block.

Switching defenses for a possession there might not have mattered anyway, Kansas could always have ran that play the next time we went zone, and they were having a lot of success against man-to-man. It didn't help that the referees allowed Azibueke to play offensive tackle on that.

I don't know how much you weight you can put on the Oklahoma game since UTSA's coach Steve Henson played for Kruger for 4 years and then worked for him as an assistant for 16. (Kansas State went 8-2 vs Nebraska when he was playing, btw, I remember being at a few of those games and wondering how we couldn't stop that guy.) They do have a kid originally from Hastings, who graduated from Norton KS who is their third leading scorer.

88-75 Nebraska.

Here's some more nitpicking: shouldn't have stayed in zone the time Kansas called timeout and had the lob play called, should have played Allen more, should have had Roby initiate the offense some when Azibuke was guarding him and should have told him to attack the rim instead of settling for that last 3, should have used a timeout before the last KU possession to make sure whatever you do you don't give up a 3, could have used a timeout on the last possession when it looked like we weren't going to get a good shot off. But, that's nitpicking that you could do after any game, overall it was a solid job.

If the core of the roster comes back (Watson, Copeland, Palmer, Roby, Allen) then Miles will be back.

At least Tom Eades won't be slapping around a hooker tonight because he's mad he didn't let Kansas win. Instead he'll be slapping around a hooker just because that's the type of fella he is.

Eades looks pissed

Bad calls by crooked refs are mounting

Fuck job

Got no problem putting Jordy against this guy a little just so Jordy sees how effective a big guy can be when he knows how to play. But from now on they need to go small against Azibuke, not even really guard him. Then make him try to cover Copeland so he picks up some fouls.

Foul on Roby was bullshit

How is he not in prison?

Let me take a guess...we'd have been better? Well, obviously, even though it might have been a four or five year stay we'd probably gotten at least one sweet sixteen team out of it. And maybe with a successful basketball hire Bill Byrne doesn't feel the urge to get out of dodge so quickly after the football team went south in 2002, in which case Bill Callahan never moves to Lincoln.

It was all downhill after Schissler left. 6 seasons over .500 out of 43 years. Truly a dark era.

Jumbo Stiehm dominated Kansas from 1912-1915, going 6-3 against them. But then, at the age of 29, the allure of more money drug him to Indiana where he only had to coach football instead of football and basketball.