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Spinoff: Fear the Dribbling Dead Fear Factor: Rebounding and Shooting edition

When do open tryouts start up?

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I'm just glad an athletic director makes these decisions and not a post game online message board.

On our way to #350 of 350 in three point shooting percentage:

Game #09 at Indiana Results (55-68 L) Picked NU: 12 (23%) Average NU Score: 70.7 Average Opp Score: 78.5 Average HHCC Score: 40.6 Median HHCC Score: 37.0 Mode HHCC Score: 35 1 brfrad -5 2 HuscurAdam 23 3 ConkintheCorner 24 4 KenPom 24 5 roscoe 24 6 BjoeHusker 25 7 huskerbaseball13 25 8 northwillriseagain 25 9 bb33ch 27 10 demone 27 11 LNKtrnsplnt 28 12 NeeandMe 28 13 HuskerFever 29 14 Cazzie22 30 15 Busch Light 31 16 REDZONEDAN 32 17 aphilso1 33 18 AuroranHusker 33 19 TheNovice 33 20 Bugeaters1 34 21 BugeaterZ 34 22 jimmykc 35 23 Ralph Wiggum 35 24 throwback 35 25 1sdpad2 36 26 tcp 36 27 BLB115 38 28 hskr4life 38 29 Silverbacked1 39 30 hal9000 40 31 MichHusker 40 32 UnicamMan 40 33 SkersHoops 42 34 Crush78 43 35 Noah121 43 36 4NUfans 44 37 emwilliams 44 38 doc1394 45 39 hhcmatt 46 40 pmd9 50 41 Cowboy Kermit 51 42 NU Follower 61 43 Rosno 61 44 basketballjones 63 45 Vinny 65 46 Huskerpapa 66 47 nubest79 66 48 cornfed24-7 67 49 Handy Johnson 67 50 twinswingohuskers 67 51 nuhusker7 70 52 uneblinstu 74

Game #08 at NC State Results (100-104 L 4OT) Picked NU: 21 (34%) Average NU Score: 72.1 Average Opp Score: 75.7 Average HHCC Score: 69.9 Median HHCC Score: 70.0 Mode HHCC Score: 64 1 SkersHoops 16 2 Crush78 51 3 Huskerpapa 51 4 jimmykc 53 5 aphilso1 54 6 4NUfans 56 7 brfrad 56 8 throwback 56 9 BLB115 59 10 Bugeaters1 59 11 NeeandMe 59 12 BugeaterZ 60 13 ConkintheCorner 60 14 Ralph Wiggum 60 15 KenPom 62 16 doc1394 63 17 Jurgey 63 18 MichHusker 63 19 Handy Johnson 64 20 LNKtrnsplnt 64 21 Silverbacked1 64 22 TheNovice 64 23 hal9000 65 24 roscoe 65 25 basketballjones 67 26 Cazzie22 67 27 The Jazz Huddle 67 28 HuskerFever 68 29 huskerbaseball13 69 30 tcp 69 31 NUtball 70 32 Busch Light 71 33 cornfed24-7 71 34 hhcmatt 71 35 demone 72 36 HuscurAdam 72 37 bb33ch 74 38 emwilliams 74 39 Vinny 75 40 Noah121 76 41 AuroranHusker 78 42 huskers29 78 43 Rosno 78 44 1sdpad2 79 45 BjoeHusker 79 46 nubest79 79 47 DudeAbides 80 48 hskr4life 80 49 Nebrasketball1979 80 50 75unlgrad 81 51 bigred4 81 52 NU Follower 81 53 Cowboy Kermit 82 54 nuhusker7 82 55 EAbby 83 56 uneblinstu 83 57 UnicamMan 84 58 REDZONEDAN 88 59 twinswingohuskers 89 60 northwillriseagain 96

Since the NC State game took up all the time, I'll keep it brief. We lost. Regardless of the outcomes, next week should be an interesting one. HHCC Standings - End of Week 04 1 hal9000 246 NC 2 LNKtrnsplnt 252 NC 3 aphilso1 283 U3 4 emwilliams 285 D1 5 Busch Light 288 D1 6 Ralph Wiggum 288 D1 7 KenPom 294 U2 8 demone 296 D1 9 MichHusker 300 D1 10 roscoe 302 U1 11 brfrad 306 U15 12 huskerbaseball13 306 D2 13 SkersHoops 310 U9 14 NeeandMe 311 D1 15 HuskerFever 312 D3 16 Crush78 325 D2 17 TheNovice 329 D2 18 BugeaterZ 344 U1 19 Cazzie22 344 D1 20 BjoeHusker 355 NC 21 tcp 356 NC 22 Silverbacked1 357 U3 23 BLB115 361 U10 24 Bugeaters1 363 U11 25 4NUfans 364 U7 26 jimmykc 364 U13 27 ConkintheCorner 369 U17 28 hhcmatt 371 D5 29 hskr4life 372 D5 30 AuroranHusker 378 U4 31 REDZONEDAN 380 D1 32 Vinny 383 D15 33 bb33ch 386 U10 34 Huskerpapa 391 U4 35 Noah121 392 U2 36 Handy Johnson 393 D5 37 northwillriseagain 400 U4 38 NU Follower 400 D10 39 nuhusker7 410 D10 40 Cowboy Kermit 411 NC 41 Nebrasketball1979 413 D25 42 doc1394 427 U6 43 UnicamMan 428 U3 44 huskers29 432 D17 45 Rosno 434 NC 46 NUtball 440 D10 47 uneblinstu 441 D5 48 nubest79 457 D1 49 throwback 465 U6 50 Jurgey 482 D1 51 1sdpad2 493 U6 52 basketballjones 496 U2 53 twinswingohuskers 499 D2 54 75unlgrad 518 D4 55 cornfed24-7 518 U3 56 HuscurAdam 532 U4 57 EAbby 541 D4 58 bigred4 556 D2 59 HolyBobpilgrimage 576 D7 60 colhusker 652 D1 61 The Jazz Huddle 652 U3 62 DudeAbides 662 U1 63 dustystehl 674 D2 64 Blindcheck 692 D2 65 huskerbill85 726 NC 66 jsthusker 729 NC 67 Go Big Fred 737 NC 68 pmd9 796 U8 69 Nebrasketballin 801 D1 70 Jugular 802 D1 71 timofarmer 824 D1 72 Nighthawk 827 D1 73 Buglem 830 D1 74 hguy44 837 D1 75 Red Don 852 D1 76 jayschool 858 D1 77 CanadianHusker 873 NC 78 HuskerPower #nato73 873 NC 79 Bill Self's Toupee 879 NC 80 bball23 882 NC 81 CamHuskerbballfan 894 NC 82 thrasher31 894 NC 83 HuskerCager 930 NC Biggest Rise ConkintheCorner U17 Biggest Fall Nebrasketball1979 D25 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

I'd say, "Don't worry, you'll rebound." But it's just too soon. I'm going to go cry in a corner now.

Western Illinois is #90 in the NET rankings. A home loss at that ranking makes it a Quad 3 loss.

Rock Bottom?

Having a 4OT game helps to skew the per game stats this early in the season, especially when it is a game where both teams missed a lot of shots...that's an extra half-game of play without impacting the denominator. But we're #325 in offensive rebounds. So imagine where we would be without that 4OT.

Sometimes the emotions get in the way or there's more happening beyond the surface. I find that the NCAA stats can help provide some more color to the overall status of our team performance, beyond wins and losses. Here's where we stand right now (after Dec. 5 games): Stat Rank Value Turnover Margin 24 5.1 Defensive Rebounds per Game 25 29.33 Free Throw Attempts 30 190 Free Throws Made 31 138 Total Steals 53 73 Turnovers Forced 56 16.56 Turnovers Per Game 62 11.4 3-PT Field Goal Attempts 65 221 Field-Goal Percentage Defense 67 39.353% Assist Turnover Ratio 68 1.26 Total Rebounds 70 333 Total Assists 73 130 Steals Per Game 92 8.1 Scoring Offense 96 77.1 Free-Throw Percentage 110 72.63% Assists Per Game 116 14.4 Total Blocks 134 29 Fewest Turnovers 138 103 Total Rebounds Per Game 145 37 Scoring Margin 167 4 Three Pt FG Defense 174 32.8% Won-Lost Percentage 176 55.6% Total 3-point FGM 180 60 Blocked Shots Per Game 181 3.2 Field-Goal Percentage 193 44.13% Three-Point Field Goals Per Game 239 6.7 Scoring Defense 252 72.3 Personal Fouls Per Game 262 18.2 Fewest Fouls 302 164 Offensive Rebounds Per Game 325 7.67 Three-Point Field-Goal Percentage 333 27.15% Rebound Margin 334 -7 * NCAA Rank out of 350 teams in Division 1

I suppose it's better than our first year under Hoiberg where we had 3 Quad 4 losses. That's more rock bottom than where we are now (if that means anything at this point).

Those one score losses are looking a whole lot better than this debacle in the Big Ten championship right now.

Corn - 70 Maize - 78 7 3PM 6 conference

Hoiberg has 1 more year than Frost at these current trajectories.

THREE THINGS THIS HHCC ROUND: 1) Score prediction for Nebraska vs. Michigan (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"). 3) (BONUS -5 points) Predicting the exact number of conference season wins (Dec. 7, Jan. 2-Mar. 6) -- (e.g. I am looking for an answer like "20," which indicates the number of wins you predict Nebraska will win in the conference.). Note: I missed the mark on this at Indiana, but even with a loss, we'll start this up and still throw out the change to provide a prediction for the remainder of this conference season.

Probably not a good sign when we've signed some high prospective offensive talent and not strong defensive talent and this is the result.

Can't score? Just give the ball to Verge, because he won't give it back!

Can't run a play? Just throw up a defended three-pointer!