HuskerFever

Cheers to our likely demise in the central challenge of the Husker hoops variety. It was a good run until it wasn't.

Game #09 vs. Indiana Results (85-68 W) Picked NU: 44 (83%) Average NU Score: 76.5 Average Opp Score: 72.4 Average HHCC Score: 35.6 Median HHCC Score: 33.0 Mode HHCC Score: 33 1 basketballjones -13 2 Woody Boyd -13 3 nuhusker7 13 4 throwback 13 5 4NUfans 16 6 EAbby 18 7 CanadianHusker 19 8 Nebrasketball1979 24 9 SkersHoops 24 10 TourneyBound 24 11 Handy Johnson 25 12 Huskerpapa 25 13 MitchMcGaryMunchies 27 14 twinswingohuskers 27 15 AGHANSEN 28 16 AuroranHusker 30 17 bigred4 30 18 brfrad 30 19 BugeaterZ 30 20 hhcmatt 30 21 NU Follower 30 22 UnicamMan 31 23 BigTate 32 24 75unlgrad 33 25 Cazzie22 33 26 demone 33 27 emwilliams 33 28 HuskerMB 33 29 Vinny 33 30 jimmykc 36 31 LNKtrnsplnt 36 32 Noah121 36 33 HuscurAdam 39 34 MichHusker 39 35 NeeandMe 39 36 Bugeaters1 42 37 Busch Light 42 38 Silverbacked1 42 39 TheNovice 42 40 MJW82 43 41 roundball3 45 42 BLB115 48 43 cornfed24-7 48 44 KenPom 48 45 colhusker 55 46 BjoeHusker 56 47 HuskerFever 61 48 aphilso1 63 49 Crush78 64 50 hskr4life 65 51 REDZONEDAN 65 52 Ralph Wiggum 68 53 roscoe 69

It was a Tale of Two Weeks. This week certainly much better than the last. I'm not sure if I've seen my name on the "Biggest Fall" list before, but it doesn't sting as bad when Nebraska wins...big! Ken Pomeroy is also taking a few hits and dropped a few spots even though he picked Nebraska to win. Next up: Hawai'i. The question is...is the team there for business or leisure? HHCC Standings - End of Week 06 1 basketballjones 329 U7 2 AGHANSEN 344 U1 3 aphilso1 349 D2 4 SkersHoops 352 NC 5 KenPom 361 D3 6 bigred4 363 NC 7 NeeandMe 368 D2 8 Huskerpapa 392 U8 9 hhcmatt 394 U4 10 LNKtrnsplnt 397 U1 11 demone 398 U4 12 hskr4life 401 D5 13 CanadianHusker 403 U11 14 Bugeaters1 407 NC 15 MichHusker 407 U2 16 roundball3 407 D4 17 AuroranHusker 409 U2 18 4NUfans 410 U11 19 Woody Boyd 411 U19 20 UnicamMan 412 NC 21 BjoeHusker 413 D11 22 NU Follower 413 U1 23 TourneyBound 414 U4 24 Vinny 414 D3 25 Nebrasketball1979 416 U3 26 nuhusker7 416 U6 27 HuskerFever 417 D18 28 75unlgrad 420 D3 29 Handy Johnson 429 U4 30 cornfed24-7 437 D4 31 colhusker 438 D9 32 TheNovice 439 D2 33 throwback 439 U6 34 Crush78 442 D16 35 twinswingohuskers 444 U1 36 EAbby 445 U4 37 Busch Light 449 D3 38 Silverbacked1 450 D3 39 jimmykc 455 D2 40 BugeaterZ 468 U2 41 roscoe 468 D10 42 Cazzie22 470 D1 43 MitchMcGaryMunchies 470 U1 44 BigTate 482 U2 45 emwilliams 485 U3 46 BLB115 498 U1 47 Noah121 503 U3 48 MJW82 508 U1 49 Ralph Wiggum 509 D6 50 REDZONEDAN 512 D5 51 HuscurAdam 518 NC 52 brfrad 520 NC 53 HuskerMB 592 U1 54 hal9000 613 D1 55 Sidelines - Nebraska 727 NC 56 NUtball 813 NC 57 Faux Mike Peltz 878 NC 58 1sdpad2 899 NC 59 mmackey5 920 NC Biggest Rise Woody Boyd U19 Biggest Fall HuskerFever D18 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

ACC vs. Big Ten. Semifinals winners represent their conferences.

What a couch-fisting type of 1st set in this regional final!

With the new expanded conference format, it's nice to win these types of games that you don't get another chance at later in the season.

Before I get too excited, can somebody let me know whether "the Big Ten is down" or not? That will help me set realistic expectations as to whether we need to win the conference tournament to get in the Dance or not.

Abraham Lincoln - 78 Bill Murray - 63 8

TWO THINGS THIS HHCC ROUND: 1) Score prediction for Nebraska vs. Murray State (as usual). 2) (BONUS -5 points) Predicting the exact number of three-pointers made (3PM) by Nebraska during this game (e.g. I am looking for an answer like "10").

This is the type of effort that gets fans off your back when things aren't going well. Where was Brice at last week?

Makes you wonder what happened to DAGGER 1...

Game #08 at Michigan State Results (52-89 L) Picked NU: 18 (33%) Average NU Score: 73.1 Average Opp Score: 74.9 Average HHCC Score: 101.9 Median HHCC Score: 99.0 Mode HHCC Score: 93 1 aphilso1 59 2 bigred4 59 3 colhusker 59 4 roscoe 59 5 UnicamMan 59 6 TourneyBound 87 7 Woody Boyd 87 8 brfrad 90 9 Crush78 90 10 demone 90 11 MichHusker 90 12 NeeandMe 90 13 AGHANSEN 93 14 AuroranHusker 93 15 BugeaterZ 93 16 hal9000 93 17 HuskerFever 93 18 HuskerMB 93 19 KenPom 93 20 LNKtrnsplnt 93 21 SkersHoops 93 22 4NUfans 96 23 BjoeHusker 96 24 Busch Light 96 25 REDZONEDAN 96 26 TheNovice 96 27 hhcmatt 99 28 jimmykc 99 29 MitchMcGaryMunchies 99 30 roundball3 99 31 BigTate 102 32 Bugeaters1 102 33 Noah121 102 34 Ralph Wiggum 102 35 BLB115 105 36 basketballjones 108 37 cornfed24-7 119 38 NU Follower 119 39 emwilliams 120 40 Vinny 120 41 75unlgrad 124 42 twinswingohuskers 124 43 HuscurAdam 125 44 CanadianHusker 126 45 Handy Johnson 126 46 EAbby 127 47 hskr4life 127 48 Nebrasketball1979 127 49 nuhusker7 127 50 Silverbacked1 127 51 Cazzie22 128 52 Huskerpapa 128 53 throwback 128 54 MJW82 129

Not a great week. But, people, the sky is not falling. Two-thirds of you picked Nebraska to lose to Michigan State. Maybe the margin of defeat was surprising, but the result wasn't. Nebraska now has a chance to even the score and get to 1-1 in conference play before the end of the calendar year. On to the next one. HHCC Standings - End of Week 05 1 aphilso1 286 U3 2 KenPom 313 NC 3 AGHANSEN 316 NC 4 SkersHoops 328 U2 5 NeeandMe 329 U3 6 bigred4 333 U15 7 hskr4life 336 D6 8 basketballjones 342 D3 9 HuskerFever 356 U5 10 BjoeHusker 357 NC 11 LNKtrnsplnt 361 U8 12 roundball3 362 U3 13 hhcmatt 364 U4 14 Bugeaters1 365 D1 15 demone 365 U7 16 Huskerpapa 367 D9 17 MichHusker 368 U8 18 Crush78 378 U10 19 AuroranHusker 379 U8 20 UnicamMan 381 U18 21 Vinny 381 D10 22 colhusker 383 U17 23 NU Follower 383 D7 24 CanadianHusker 384 D15 25 75unlgrad 387 D13 26 cornfed24-7 389 D6 27 TourneyBound 390 U7 28 Nebrasketball1979 392 D10 29 4NUfans 394 U1 30 TheNovice 397 U3 31 roscoe 399 U13 32 nuhusker7 403 D9 33 Handy Johnson 404 D9 34 Busch Light 407 U2 35 Silverbacked1 408 D9 36 twinswingohuskers 417 D7 37 jimmykc 419 NC 38 Woody Boyd 424 U4 39 throwback 426 D8 40 EAbby 427 D8 41 Cazzie22 437 D6 42 BugeaterZ 438 U5 43 Ralph Wiggum 441 NC 44 MitchMcGaryMunchies 443 U1 45 REDZONEDAN 447 U4 46 BigTate 450 U2 47 BLB115 450 D1 48 emwilliams 452 D8 49 MJW82 465 D8 50 Noah121 467 U1 51 HuscurAdam 479 D1 52 brfrad 490 NC 53 hal9000 519 NC 54 HuskerMB 559 NC 55 Sidelines - Nebraska 633 NC 56 NUtball 719 NC 57 Faux Mike Peltz 784 NC 58 1sdpad2 805 NC 59 mmackey5 826 NC Biggest Rise UnicamMan U18 Biggest Fall CanadianHusker D15 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

This is the important part. Lose, and that narrative of "nine seasons since a winning record" lingers in every pregame/postgame talk for at least another year. Not a narrative we need lingering over our heads.