HuskerFever

Make your own inferences, but this scenario popped up when I was looking through the brackets this year and it took my back to 2018: Syracuse (2020-2021) 16-9 (13-1 at home) Quad 1: 1-7 Quad 2: 6-1 Quad 3: 6-1 Quad 4: 3-0 8 seed in ACC tournament #11 seed in March Madness Nebraska (2017-2018) 22-10 (16-1 at home) Quad 1: 1-6 Quad 2: 2-3 Quad 3: 9-1 Quad 4: 10-0 4 seed in Big Ten tournament Not selected to March Madness

Husker Hoops Central Challenge Wall of Fame: 2020-2021: (1) HuskerFever, (2) REDZONEDAN, (3) hhcmatt; (^2) KenPom 2019-2020: (1) Crush78, (2) Cazzie22, (3) aphilso1; (^5) KenPom 2018-2019: (1) Nebrasketball1979, (2) aphilso1, (3) demone; (^12) KenPom 2017-2018: (1) jimmykc, (2) Husker4Life, (3) hhcdimes; (^9) KenPom 2016-2017: (1) Husker4Life, (2) Crush78, (3) 1sdpad2; (^2) KenPom 2015-2016: (1) aphilso1, (2) Silverbacked1, (3) MichHusker 2015-2015: (1) 1sdpad2, (2) HB, (3) hhcdimes 2013-2014: (1) Buglem, (2) HB, (3) tcp 2012-2013: (1) HB, (2) Row6Seat10, (3) hhcdimes [Unknown / Unarchived Results Prior to 2012] Winningest Member: 1: 1sdpad2, aphilso1, Buglem, Crush78, HB, Husker4Life, HuskerFever, jimmykc, Nebrasketball1979 Most Podiums (#1, #2, or #3): 4: hhcmatt 3: aphilso1, HB 2: 1sdpad2, Crush78, Husker4Life, KenPom 1: Buglem, Cazzie22, demone, HuskerFever, jimmykc, MichHusker, Nebrasketball1979, REDZONEDAN, Row6Seat10, Silverbacked1, tcp Most Top 10 Finishes: 7: hhcmatt 6: Crush78, HuskerFever 5: HB 4: aphilso1, Buglem, Husker4Life, KenPom, UnicamMan 3: 1sdpad2, BjoeHusker, jimmykc, tcp, trickey 2: AuroranHusker, BLB115, colhusker, huskerbaseball13, REDZONEDAN, Silverbacked1, WinningbyMiles 1: 4NUFans, 75unlgrad, BenJammin63, brfrad, Busch Light, Cazzie22, ConkintheCorner, demone, DorothyLynchHometownHero, emwilliams, hhccmatt, hskr4life, huskercwg, LNKtrnsplnt, MichHusker, Nebrasketball1979, NUtball, Ralph Wiggum, Row6Seat10, TheNovice, throwback

BONUS 1: # of NU Big Ten Tournament Wins: 0 # of Correct HHCC members: 19 aphilso1, BLB115, Bugeaters1, Cazzie22, colhusker, hhcmatt, hskr4life, HuskerFever, Huskerpapa, KenPom, mwm89, Noah121, NUtball, Ralph Wiggum, REDitus, REDZONEDAN, roscoe, TheNovice, UnicamMan BONUS 2: Didn't Miss a Game Prediction: 28 members AuroranHusker, BjoeHusker, BLB115, brfrad, Bugeaters1, Cazzie22, colhusker, Crush78, Handy Johnson, hhcmatt, hskr4life, HuskerFever, jayschool, jimmykc, KenPom, LNKtrnsplnt, Nebrasketball1979, nuhusker7, NUtball, Red Don, REDitus, REDZONEDAN, roscoe, Silverbacked1, TheNovice, throwback, twinswingohuskers, Vinny

Game #27 neut. Penn State Results (66-72 L) Picked NU: 26 (60%) Average NU Score: 72.5 Average Opp Score: 71.8 Average HHCC Score: 24.3 Median HHCC Score: 30.0 Mode HHCC Score: 33 1 HuskerFever -24 2 KenPom -24 3 roscoe -24 4 NUtball 4 5 REDZONEDAN 5 6 TheNovice 7 7 Huskerpapa 8 8 Bugeaters1 11 9 UnicamMan 12 10 Cazzie22 13 11 colhusker 15 12 mwm89 15 13 Noah121 15 14 aphilso1 16 15 Ralph Wiggum 22 16 BLB115 26 17 AuroranHusker 27 18 twinswingohuskers 27 19 BjoeHusker 28 20 REDitus 28 21 TheGov21 28 22 hal9000 30 23 Crush78 33 24 jimmykc 33 25 Nebrasketball1979 33 26 Vinny 33 27 brfrad 34 28 Jurgey 34 29 demone 35 30 LNKtrnsplnt 35 31 nuhusker7 35 32 bb33ch 36 33 hhcmatt 36 34 SkersHoops 36 35 jayschool 37 36 basketballjones 38 37 hskr4life 38 38 Silverbacked1 38 39 emwilliams 41 40 Handy Johnson 42 41 Red Don 42 42 throwback 44 43 Neon Budreau 45

What a wild year it has been. It's hard to believe we're just over 365 days since Hoiberg gave a major scare to college basketball fans everywhere. Instead of these athletes being able to go back to their dorms and finish up the semester, we were left in a whirlwind of uncertainty where nothing was constant. Many of these athletes didn't have a gym or hoop to train, many were stuck at home during the offseason not even knowing if we'd have a season or not. Many worrying about the safety of their family and friends. I say that all to remind us of the sacrifices these student athletes have made, to further their playing career and also represent the university. This season didn't get even close to what we would have liked, but if anything this season has taught many of us just to appreciate the game. To appreciate that we were able to find a way to play 96% of our scheduled games. If you're looking on the bright side of things, just be thankful that we weren't an at-large team last season getting snuffed from an NCAA tournament bid. And that we aren't going into the Big Ten tournament title game this season having to forfeit due to testing positive for COVID. So at least there's that. There's a lot of things to be optimistic about going into next season, but it's all going to start with offseason training and the locker room. Time will tell. Without further adieu, here are your final results for this season's Husker Hoops Central Challenge. KenPom rose up quickly in the title chase, but just couldn't quite close the deal. If Nebraska defeated Penn State in the Big Ten tournament, there was a very good chance hhcmatt would have taken the title home. This caused some movement to take place within the Top 5 in the final prediction of the season, but HuskerFever narrowly took the lead when it mattered the most. As always, thanks for taking part in HHCC! Your participation is what continues to make this such a fun event to hold us over throughout the good seasons and the bad. Here's to next season; another season where you get your chance to prove you're better than Ken Pomeroy! 2020-2021 HHCC Final Standings (End of Week 16) 1 HuskerFever 754 U2 * ^2 KenPom 756 D1 * 2 REDZONEDAN 831 U3 * 3 hhcmatt 842 D2 * 4 BLB115 864 NC * 5 TheNovice 870 U2 * 6 LNKtrnsplnt 872 D3 * 7 BjoeHusker 884 D1 * 8 brfrad 911 U1 * 9 Crush78 926 D1 * 10 UnicamMan 927 NC 11 NUtball 933 NC * 12 roscoe 941 U7 * 13 Bugeaters1 983 NC * 14 AuroranHusker 986 D2 * 15 hskr4life 988 NC * 16 colhusker 992 U2 * 17 Cazzie22 996 U3 * 18 Ralph Wiggum 1001 U7 19 uneblinstu 1006 D2 20 aphilso1 1009 D6 21 jayschool 1015 U6 * 22 Noah121 1016 U2 23 jimmykc 1029 D7 * 24 Red Don 1033 D1 * 25 twinswingohuskers 1033 D4 * 26 Handy Johnson 1053 NC * 27 emwilliams 1084 D5 28 Vinny 1159 U3 * 29 Nebrasketball1979 1162 U1 * 30 demone 1172 U2 31 Silverbacked1 1178 D2 * 32 throwback 1193 D4 * 33 REDitus 1199 U1 * 34 basketballjones 1217 D1 35 SkersHoops 1240 NC 36 Huskerpapa 1257 NC 37 hal9000 1316 U1 38 northwillriseagain 1374 D1 39 nuhusker7 1460 NC * 40 Jurgey 1493 U1 41 ConkintheCorner 1521 D1 42 TheGov21 1549 U1 43 MichHusker 1593 D1 44 nubest79 1637 NC 45 NeeandMe 1673 NC 46 bigred4 1757 NC 47 1sdpad2 1774 NC 48 huskers29 1905 NC 49 huskerbaseball13 1999 NC 50 DudeAbides 2014 NC 51 LK1 2052 NC 52 75unlgrad 2172 NC 53 dustystehl 2296 NC 54 bb33ch 2313 U8 55 GBR1197 2318 D1 56 Neon Budreau 2321 U7 57 HolyBobpilgrimage 2364 D2 58 cjbowbros 2471 D2 59 The God of Thunder 2500 D2 60 thrasher31 2512 D2 61 Buglem 2519 D2 62 mwm89 2544 U4 63 Husker Hoops Penitent 2578 U2 64 Bangarang 2597 D4 65 Go Big Fred 2610 U2 66 GBRSox 2630 D5 67 4NUfans 2669 U1 68 The Jazz Huddle 2688 U1 69 Nebrasketballer 2700 D5 70 unl 2712 NC 71 Nighthawk 2748 NC 72 Fred Hoiberg 2797 NC 73 huskerbill85 2803 NC 74 1HuskerDad 2805 NC 75 Jugular 2809 NC 76 Lohusker 2834 NC 77 36red 2835 NC Biggest Rise bb33ch U8 Biggest Fall jimmykc D7 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change) ^ = Celebrity member: KemPom (Ken Pomeroy) * = Did not miss a game prediction

I'll likely bump this thread back up a couple times before the tournament starts as a reminder, if you're interested in joining. Bracket selections are now open so feel free to fill out your bracket and compete against other HHC-ers!

You'll be missed, Yvan.

We weren't. Put us in the Big East or Pac 12 and we're a bubble team. Like the optimism, but I'm not so sure about that. We struggled in the first half of the season, then started to find a rhythm. And even playing a weaker nonconference schedule in the Big East or Pac-12, we still would have had to finish in the top 3-4 teams. I struggle believing we're a Top 25% team in those conferences this year.

AUTOMATIC BIDS America East: #4 Hartford American Athletic: #2 Houston Atlantic 10: #1 St. Bonaventure Atlantic Coast: #4 Georgia Tech Atlantic Sun: #1 Liberty Big 12: #3 Texas Big East: #8 Georgetown Big Sky: #2 Eastern Washington Big South: #1 Winthrop Big Ten: #2 Illinois Big West: #1 UC Santa Barbara Colonial Athletic: #6 Drexel Conference USA: #3 North Texas Horizon League: #1 Cleveland State Ivy: Season was not played due to COVID-19 Metro Atlantic Athletic: #9 Iona Mid-American: #5 Ohio Mid-Eastern Athletic: #2 Norfolk State Missouri Valley: #1 Loyola Mountain West: #1 San Diego State Northeast: #4 Mount St. Mary's Ohio Valley: #2 Morehead State Pac-12: #5 Oregon State Patriot: #2 Colgate Southeastern: #1 Alabama Southern: #1 UNC Greensboro Southland: #2 Abilene Christian Southwestern Athletic: #3 Texas Southern Summit: #4 Oral Roberts Sun Belt: #4 Appalachian State West Coast: #1 Gonzaga Western Athletic: #1 Grand Canyon

Add that to the list of Nebraska basketball curses... The Roby Curse: "If only they knew how good they were." The Biggs Curse: "We only get better with addition by subtraction." The Nebrasketball Curse: "No matter how good or bad you are, you're not going to win an NCAA tournament game; either via having a deep-run caliber team not qualify because the old system only allowed conference champions (aka Kansas), or because with the new system going 22-10 and 4th in a P5 conference, or you're a #3 seed losing to a #14 seed."

Only two more automatic bids are up for grabs... TOURNAMENT LOCKS America East: #4 Hartford Atlantic 10: #1 St. Bonaventure Atlantic Coast: #4 Georgia Tech Atlantic Sun: #1 Liberty Big 12: #3 Texas Big East: #8 Georgetown Big Sky: #2 Eastern Washington Big South: #1 Winthrop Big West: #1 UC Santa Barbara Colonial Athletic: #6 Drexel Conference USA: #3 North Texas Horizon League: #1 Cleveland State Ivy: Season was not played due to COVID-19 Metro Atlantic Athletic: #9 Iona Mid-American: #5 Ohio Mid-Eastern Athletic: #2 Norfolk State Missouri Valley: #1 Loyola Mountain West: #1 San Diego State Northeast: #4 Mount St. Mary's Ohio Valley: #2 Morehead State Pac-12: #5 Oregon State Patriot: #2 Colgate Southeastern: #1 Alabama Southern: #1 UNC Greensboro Southland: #2 Abilene Christian Southwestern Athletic: #3 Texas Southern Summit: #4 Oral Roberts Sun Belt: #4 Appalachian State West Coast: #1 Gonzaga Western Athletic: #1 Grand Canyon ON NOW American Athletic: Championship: #5 Cincinnati vs. #2 Houston (Sunday at 2:15 pm, ESPN) Big Ten: Championship: #5 Ohio State vs. #2 Illinois (Sunday at 2:30 pm, CBS)

The official* Husker Hoops Central Bracket Challenge is back! For those interested, click on the link below and set up your bracket before the tournament begins! https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2021/en/group?groupID=3744397 * Disclaimer: This official designation was not approved by hhcmatt, nor has he paid me any royalties. I'm still waiting for that money order to go through. All of these free $0 entry proceeds go to the "Nebrasketball Fan Emotional Support Fund."

"The Big Ten is down this year."

I was thinking the same thing. We've done it off-and-on throughout the years. Figured I could set one up after teams are announced, that way people aren't creating an account now and forgetting to fill out the bracket later.

It's also interesting watching all these Alabama football fans show up to this SEC basketball game.

Not gonna lie... Really miss those Nebraska bubble days of keeping up with the other bubble teams and also watching NET (RPI) meaningful games, like those late night Marist/Delaware State @royalfan days

TOURNAMENT LOCKS America East: #4 Hartford Atlantic Coast: #4 Georgia Tech Atlantic Sun: #1 Liberty Big 12: #3 Texas Big East: #8 Georgetown Big Sky: #2 Eastern Washington Big South: #1 Winthrop Big West: #1 UC Santa Barbara Colonial Athletic: #6 Drexel Conference USA: #3 North Texas Horizon League: #1 Cleveland State Ivy: Season was not played due to COVID-19 Metro Atlantic Athletic: #9 Iona Mid-American: #5 Ohio Mid-Eastern Athletic: #2 Norfolk State Missouri Valley: #1 Loyola Mountain West: #1 San Diego State Northeast: #4 Mount St. Mary's Ohio Valley: #2 Morehead State Pac-12: #5 Oregon State Southern: #1 UNC Greensboro Southland: #2 Abilene Christian Southwestern Athletic: #3 Texas Southern Summit: #4 Oral Roberts Sun Belt: #4 Appalachian State West Coast: #1 Gonzaga Western Athletic: #1 Grand Canyon ON NOW Patriot: Championship: #9 Loyola vs. #2 Colgate (Sunday at 11 am, CBS Sports) Atlantic 10: Championship: #2 VCU vs. #1 St. Bonaventure (Sunday at Noon, CBS) Southeastern: Championship: #3 LSU vs. #1 Alabama (Sunday at Noon, ESPN) UPCOMING American Athletic: Championship: #5 Cincinnati vs. #2 Houston (Sunday at 2:15 pm, ESPN) Big Ten: Championship: #5 Ohio State vs. #2 Illinois (Sunday at 2:30 pm, CBS)

This is true-- I was mostly talking about the Big 3 mens sports. I think we have a pretty decent mens track team too don't we? "We really need to get some success in men's athletics at Nebraska! Fast!" Moos announcement: "NU Men's Curling to Begin 2021 Season."

That wasn't THIRTY years ago!!! [Looks at calendar...] [In a Morgan Freeman voice:] "In fact, it WAS thirty years ago."

Going into the final day of conference tournament games: TOURNAMENT LOCKS America East: #4 Hartford Atlantic Coast: #4 Georgia Tech Atlantic Sun: #1 Liberty Big 12: #3 Texas Big East: #8 Georgetown Big Sky: #2 Eastern Washington Big South: #1 Winthrop Big West: #1 UC Santa Barbara Colonial Athletic: #6 Drexel Conference USA: #3 North Texas Horizon League: #1 Cleveland State Ivy: Season was not played due to COVID-19 Metro Atlantic Athletic: #9 Iona Mid-American: #5 Ohio Mid-Eastern Athletic: #2 Norfolk State Missouri Valley: #1 Loyola Mountain West: #1 San Diego State Northeast: #4 Mount St. Mary's Ohio Valley: #2 Morehead State Pac-12: #5 Oregon State Southern: #1 UNC Greensboro Southland: #2 Abilene Christian Southwestern Athletic: #3 Texas Southern Summit: #4 Oral Roberts Sun Belt: #4 Appalachian State West Coast: #1 Gonzaga Western Athletic: #1 Grand Canyon UPCOMING Patriot: Championship: #9 Loyola vs. #2 Colgate (Sunday at 11 am, CBS Sports) Atlantic 10: Championship: #2 VCU vs. #1 St. Bonaventure (Sunday at Noon, CBS) Southeastern: Championship: #3 LSU vs. #1 Alabama (Sunday at Noon, ESPN) American Athletic: Championship: #5 Cincinnati vs. #2 Houston (Sunday at 2:15 pm, ESPN) Big Ten: Championship: #5 Ohio State vs. #2 Illinois (Sunday at 2:30 pm, CBS)

He's now getting in an argument with the other commentator after the guy said they Oregon State needs to win this game to get into the tournament. Bill Walton retorts with "I completely disagree with you. You're wrong. And you're writing history before it happens." Then Bill Walton starts calling the guy a cult leader. "The committee can do whatever they want to. Duke's coming back."

Bill Walton makes watching the Pac-12 unbearable.