HuskerFever

When all is said and done, those losses in the non-conference will have no impact to our season. If we were sitting at 11-5 with that schedule, we'd still be on the outside looking in.

It's a tough call. I saw the same, but it was also a little weak when you watch it on replay. I can see how the refs would let that one go. I'm more upset about not making the easy buckets down low (that would've gotten us tied or up a basket or two) than this one that could've tied the game.

The team on a one game losing streak - 62 The team on a four game losing streak - 78

I get it. It's hard to stay close win a game where the opponent is shooting close to 60% from the three-point line. We made adjustments at half and put an end to that. But we just couldn't make fundamental shots right under the basket. It's a different 2nd half if we could make a few shots for once.

I thought I've seen it all. But now we're in a league where Penn State and Rutgers are good at basketball and we're here losing to Northwestern.

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The announcers keep saying we're shooting high percentage shots...but where's that percentage??

As miserable as this is, we still have a shot to get back in this one.

It could be worse. We could be losing to Northwest..........oooohhhhh.

I don't know what segment we're on, but I know we're not winning it.

For the data nerd out there, you may enjoy this one. I've kept having a suspicion that some middle-of-the-pack teams in other conferences have been taking basketball more seriously. In particular, it just seems that the SEC is starting to put the money where their mouth is. Just figured some other people may find some interesting insights in my waste of a Saturday afternoon. Nebraska's ranking was far from any average conference team up until the last two seasons: When compared to the top conference teams (~top 4 or so teams depending on conference), Nebraska was able to surpass the top Pac-12 teams last season. In the past two seasons, Nebraska had a better ranking than four of the top seven conferences: And fortunately, Nebraska surpassed all of the bottom teams in each conference (~4 bottom teams): However, when looking at a five-year average, Nebraska is only better than the AAC conference average, along with the all of the bottom-dwelling conference teams:

That explains everything. So AWIII went to Syracuse to retire. That makes so much more sense!

Is missed 3-pt percentage tracked? Because I enjoyed that one last night.

...not to be confused with Andre Almeida.

It's spelled "Ioa", because they don't know how to get the 'W' anymore.

NU - 72 NDubU - 68

And just to think... if they shot 6 for 33 from the three-point line, this is a different game.

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You're speaking my language.

I can't believe they're implementing this new technology on the Nebraska/Iowa game, but they are now able to mic up Fran's brain. Here's what it sounds like in that old noggin right now:

It's nice when we're not the one in a scoring drought...

Game #14 vs. Rutgers Results (62-79 L) Picked NU: 33 (67%) Average NU Score: 71.8 Average Opp Score: 70.2 Average HHCC Score: 53.3 Median HHCC Score: 64.0 Mode HHCC Score: 66 1 BjoeHusker -4 2 TheNovice -4 3 REDZONEDAN 22 4 BLB115 24 5 Ralph Wiggum 24 6 Mr. Red 27 7 Handy Johnson 28 8 NebrasketballJake 28 9 HuskerFever 30 10 LNKtrnsplnt 33 11 bigred4 36 12 KenPom 36 13 tcp 36 14 Cazzie22 39 15 Crush78 39 16 Silverbacked1 45 17 hal9000 57 18 nuhusker7 57 19 brfrad 58 20 pmd9 61 21 AuroranHusker 63 22 jimmykc 63 23 nubest79 63 24 twinswingohuskers 64 25 Vinny 64 26 aphilso1 65 27 Huskerpapa 65 28 1sdpad2 66 29 75unlgrad 66 30 bb33ch 66 31 cjbowbros 66 32 emwilliams 66 33 hskr4life 66 34 huskers29 66 35 UnicamMan 66 36 Bugeaters1 67 37 Noah121 67 38 Red Don 67 39 4NUfans 68 40 Buglem 68 41 demone 68 42 hhcmatt 68 43 HolyBobpilgrimage 68 44 Nebrasketball1979 68 45 colhusker 69 46 Jurgey 69 47 throwback 69 48 basketballjones 70 49 TheGov21 77

One of the scarlet teams won this week, but it just wasn't us. HHCC Standings - End of Week 09 1 BjoeHusker 584 U8 2 AuroranHusker 594 D1 3 jimmykc 606 D1 4 Cazzie22 609 U2 5 hhcmatt 617 D2 6 1sdpad2 623 D2 7 REDZONEDAN 627 U7 8 throwback 634 D3 9 KenPom 636 U2 10 Buglem 643 D3 11 HuskerFever 645 U4 12 aphilso1 651 D4 13 LNKtrnsplnt 656 U4 14 Nebrasketball1979 660 D4 15 Handy Johnson 663 U4 16 huskers29 667 D4 17 emwilliams 670 D4 18 Crush78 678 U3 19 pmd9 679 D3 20 bigred4 694 U6 21 UnicamMan 700 D3 22 Vinny 701 D2 23 Silverbacked1 715 U6 24 twinswingohuskers 717 D1 25 brfrad 718 U2 26 Red Don 719 D4 27 hskr4life 722 D3 28 Huskerpapa 722 D3 29 demone 728 D1 30 tcp 738 U4 31 Ralph Wiggum 739 U5 32 basketballjones 749 D2 33 bb33ch 753 D2 34 Bugeaters1 754 D2 35 HolyBobpilgrimage 757 D2 36 BLB115 765 U3 37 cjbowbros 777 D2 38 Noah121 783 D1 39 colhusker 796 D1 40 Mr. Red 797 U2 41 TheNovice 800 U5 42 NebrasketballJake 815 U1 43 SkersHoops 861 D3 44 75unlgrad 864 NC 45 thrasher31 864 D4 46 Jurgey 872 D1 47 nuhusker7 899 U1 48 Neon Budreau 907 D1 49 TheGov21 944 NC 50 hal9000 988 NC 51 nubest79 1030 NC 52 MichHusker 1115 NC 53 ConkintheCorner 1121 NC 54 northwillriseagain 1157 NC 55 4NUfans 1242 U1 56 trickey 1273 D1 57 jayschool 1349 NC 58 Blindcheck 1355 NC 59 NeeandMe 1381 NC 60 HuskerPower #nato73 1424 NC 61 NU Follower 1441 NC 62 NWUhusker 1458 NC 63 big red22 1461 NC 64 36red 1464 NC 65 HuskerDaysFan 1473 NC 66 Busch Light 1479 NC 67 huskerbaseball13 1480 NC 68 NUtball 1482 NC 69 MJW82 1485 NC 70 PimpMario 1486 NC 71 huskerbill85 1487 NC 72 Chuck Taylor 1488 NC 73 Tallbaby21 1489 NC 74 khoock 1491 NC 75 Jugular 1492 NC 76 millerhusker 1492 NC 77 swoof 1495 NC 78 hguy44 1510 NC 79 Nighthawk 1512 NC 80 nuled2dance 1524 NC Biggest Rise BjoeHusker U8 Biggest Fall aphilso1 D4 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

I think we're forgetting how big of a drop off we were going to have after last season regardless of who our coach was going to be. But there are just way too many variables in play through the offseason that my mind can't even settle on any speculation. I never could have come close to predicting how Hoiberg's offseason turned out, so I'm just going to sit on the sidelines for this one.