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Berke can't hit a person in the crowd if he dumped a box of confetti from the rafters. I swear I lose brain cells trying to grasp how someone can be that bad at passing and shooting at the D1 level. I mean lets face it, he was projected as a 2nd round pick in the preseason NBA draft, and these last two game I am not convinced he'd look good again a Class A high school basketball team. In basketball you need to know how to do 3 things. Dribble Pass Shoot The rest is all about effort and athleticism. While I have been a Berke fan up until the last two game, these last two games have me angry. He is 1-16 since his comeback and outside of defense he brought nothing else to the table. I am for Morgan being the starter for the rest of the season and Meah being his back up at this point. We needed Berke to be a scoring option, and he clearly is not. Essegian is not as bad as Berke, but he too can be cold as ice. You can't have that, and those two are quite honestly the reason we are where we are. They went cold in crunch time. Also a rolled ankle does not turn your shot to junior high level over a week and half of being out. I feel terrible for Brice Williams. The guy deserved better for his effort this year

They sulk because it is usually 2 on 5 out there. At first I was angry with them for not being more balanced. However after watching everyone else on the team the last 4 games... Outside of Morgan about 25% of the time they are absolutely terrible on offense. If I have to pick our offensive threats after Williams and Gary it would be... 1. Morgan 2. Hoiberg (Seriously Sad but true) 3. Essegian 4. Worster 5. Griffith (Yes I know he is on the bench, that is what I think of the other's offensive gameplay) 6. Ulis (At least he can pass) t7. Meah (Not sure on what to say here, can't even dunk half the time directly under the rim. Worse free throw shooter than Shaq) t7. Berke (I don't care what he looked like prior to the last two games. Coming back from that injury his offense would be better if he was shooting dogs out of the Weiner Slinger. The man can't pass or shoot right now. It is literally the worst I have seen in a looooooong time if not ever.)

Tough one. Great crowd tonight. Props if you were a part of it. - I agree Berke was definitely rusty offensively. - I agree Brice almost singlehanded let us upset a top 15 team. - I agree Juwan seemed affected by the interior size, when he did drive it seemed he just jumped up off balance and threw the ball up at the rim. - This is what Gary always does. Has nothing to do with Michigans bigs Honestly, Meah needs to play more than Morgan. Andrew is not playing well right now. He had a very bad game tonight. - Morgan was 8-8 with 18 points against Penn State. So we will have to agree to disagree. However last night was 100% the worst he has played all year. Connor has gone cold - Hope that warms up like the weather. - Conner has off nights more than he has on. He needs to make one to start feeling it. He has had too many 0fer's Rollie is just not a starting big ten level PG. Lawrence wasn’t a point guard but he was much more athletic and could shoot. We miss Lawrence. - Rollie was normal Rollie last night, and quite honestly he is the best we got. He shot 2-6 which was 21% better than Berke, Morgan, Gary and Essegian were combined last night 3-31. Had he shot 30 shots he would of least made 10.

- Berke(0-10), Essegian (1-5), Gary (2-13) and Morgan (0-3) were a combined 3 for 31... 9.6%. That is Nebraska's four best scorers outside of Williams. - Berke helped in every other way outside of Offensive Scoring, but was a huge part of the reason we lost. He barely hit rim tonight. - That was Berke, Gary and Morgan's worst games of the season and they all picked the same game to have it. - The team looks tired and outmatched the last 4 games. I am including Northwestern. Even though the defensive effort was high our shots are tired and worn out.

I have been a big Berke fan since the beginning of the year. As sporadic he is on offense and defense, he is a Giant piece to this team. Just check the rebounding stats while he's been gone. It is not all about his rebounding, he is really good at boxing out allowing others (Gary in particular) to get boards. We win against Maryland even though they looked better than us that day. Penn State played their best game of the year against us, so not sure we win that one.

Nebraska will need to bring everything they got from here on out. @Penn State - Penn State is an team that is underperforming. They are fighting for a Big 10 tournament spot so this is going to be a lot harder game than some may think. It is starting to make me more nervous with Minnesota beating UCLA at home. This now becomes a must win for PSU Michigan - Well Michigan usually has our number, but in all fairness this game won't hurt us if we lose and would be HUGE if we win. I don't find this game any harder than the rest on our schedule. Sad thing is that isn't saying this is going to be easy at all. If we lose to Penn State this game becomes VERY important. Minnesota - Like Penn State they are fighting for a Big 10 tournament spot. They are playing good basketball right now, and them beating UCLA at home is building their confidence level. This is one of the MUST wins left on our schedule @Ohio State - This is the L on our remaining 5. No one expects us to win this one, but if we do it will give us that boost we would need to finish the season out strong. This is one of the Win/Win games... just don't get blown away Iowa - This is the game that I consider the MUST win. Lose this game and the team moral will be out the window. This is a revenge game, and one that I am sure the team has marked on their calendar. They can't be too emotional for it, because that could nip them in the butt. The crazy thing is, I can see them winning or losing every remaining game. It feels like this is the deepest the Big 10 has been in a long long time. There is no easy games this year. Penn State is good, Minnesota is good and supposedly they are the worst teams in our conference. Rutgers is the other team that is struggling and they have two lottery picks on their team. We need to play hard for the last 200 minutes. Give everything they got, because it is going to be very difficult from here on out. Berke is a key piece, and we need him back and going 100%. If not next man up!

Wrong team that game is in two weeks With Berke NU - 77 PSU - 66 Without Berke NU - 65 PSU - 60

I think we are going to wins more games, but I feel we are pretty comfortably in currently as we have 4 more Q1 wins than Gonzaga and they are for some reason safe

I am wondering if Northwestern and Penn St hold up as quad 1's

I really think he is about as bad as you can be on defense. Our defense is what produces our offense and therefore his play is not geling with Fred's system. Maybr he can figure it out, but his lateral movement is abysmal. Athletic teams like USC, UCLA and Ohio State would make him look REALLY bad!

Iowa is number 1 for must win for psyche alone. That game sent us down that path of 6 straight losses. I don't care if Minnesota was ranked 200 in the metrics. We lose to Iowa, I see a team that won't win again after. I can't imagine what losing to them at home for the last game of the seaso would do to the team moral going into the post season. If the OT loss at their place made us go on a 6 game skid.

Which in turn means they may end up a Q2 game and becomes a must win

We are top 25 in RPI... the one metric that doesn't use any human bias.

According to Chatgpt As of the 2024-25 NCAA men's basketball season, there is no record of a team with 6 Quadrant 1 (Q1) wins being excluded from the NCAA Tournament. Teams with such a number of Q1 victories have historically secured tournament bids That means we need to win one Q1 and we should be in, but we know we'll be shafted if we don't win at least 2 more than that. We are talking the first team in Big 10 history to finish 4th in the league... 22-9 overall and 13-5 in conference play. Not only did we not make the tournament we got the 5 seed in the NIT. That was the moment I started bashing all these so call bracket metrics bs. 19 is the magic number even though we should be in if we win two more Q1's reguardless of winning number 19

I would love to know how North Carolina is ranked ahead of us... someone in here want to shed some light?