HuskerFever

To some credit, that's 6 brackets BEFORE the conclusion of the Minnesota game.

Updating this post throughout the night. Also adding @royalfan's "others": Creighton at Depaul 8 FS1 Creighton - 6 1/2 We want Creighton(puke in mouth) Utah St at Wyoming 8 pm http://gowyo.com/sports/2017/9/1/mountain-west-digital-network.aspx Wyoming - 4 1/2 Want Utah St Drake at Loyola-Chicago 7 pm ESPN Full Court/ESPN 3/Watch Espn Loyoloa -11 We want Drake

St. Johns over #1 Villanova 33-29 (2:23 1st) Florida State over #2 Virginia 29-22 (3:01 1st)

If we find ourselves in that position, let's just take the South Florida approach and just win the next two games to be safe.

And (knock on wood) minimal injuries/illnesses! Last I knew we had a full roster with healthy knees. Can't remember the last time that was the case.

That was a jab at Creighton, but okay.

I thought I erased that memory!

That team is nowhere near the talent that we have this year.

If we don't handle business anytime soon, UNO might beat us to that accolade.

Well... at least 6, but only 2 more opportunities for this to happen.

I sense that the Big Ten is either rightfully ranked or slightly under respected and the SEC is overrated (although likely one of their best years top-to-bottom).

They could have the game on the moon and I'd still find a way to be there.

Here are our opponents we should keep our focus on because they are within 10 RPI spots away from moving Tiers (for better and worse): Michigan: 39 (Tier 1 is 1-30) Northwestern: 82 (Tier 1 is 1-75) Minnesota: 126 (Tier 2 is 76-135) Boston College: 84 (Tier 2 is 31-75)

Xavier's 1991 team would favor that.

First of all, be careful. Jayskers frequent this board. You might have to explain to them (and our fans) what "Sweet 16" means. Secondly, this year's team seems very different than the 2013-2014 squad. I'm much more confident in this team to be competitive if they make it to the tournament and not just rely on getting hot at the end of the season. We've seen it over and over again this season where our team has defied our predispositions about how prior teams have played (fighting through scoring droughts, overcoming large deficits, winning on the road, minimizing losing streaks, covering their teammates when they aren't scoring, etc.). This team is bought in.

One more to add that we haven't accomplished since joining the Big Ten: Don't have a 5+ game losing streak

Our opportunities for that annual five-game losing streak is diminishing FAST! We're only down to 2 more chances for that to happen. On that note, here's some fun facts regarding our streaks under Miles: Our largest conference win streak is 5 (2013-2014) We are currently in our 2nd four-game winning streak of the season Our largest conference losing streak is 9 (2014-2015) We have only had 1 two-game losing streak this season (Creighton/Kansas) 2016-2017 was the only year we won our first conference game of the season Here's a look at those win/loss streaks under Miles: Total Season: Streak: W / L 2: 12 / 10 3: 6 / 5 4: 6 / 0 5: 1 / 5 6: 0 / 0 7: 0 / 0 8: 0 / 0 9: 0 / 1 Only Conference Season: Streak: W / L 2: 7 / 5 3: 2 / 3 4: 2 / 1 5: 1 / 4 6: 0 / 0 7: 0 / 0 8: 0 / 0 9: 0 / 1

I'm not ready to leave it up to chance.

Holmes Lake - 76 Jersey Shore - 62

Definitely a hard balancing act. This might be one of those "we'll look back at it and wished we rooted for Northwestern" games, but who knows? I guess we'll just have to hope both Michigan and Northwestern do their parts and make some big moves before the end of the season.

As of last night, BracketMatrix was showing that we were in 6 different projected brackets (average 11.83 seed). That's much more than the 1-2 we've been seeing. Still a lot more work to do, but we're getting there one game at a time!

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Why stop there??

Here's your quadrants: Quadrant 1: Home 1-30; Neutral 1-50; Away 1-75 Quadrant 2: Home 31-75; Neutral 51-100; Away 76-135 Quadrant 3: Home 76-160; Neutral 101-200; Away 136-240 Quadrant 4: Home 161-plus; Neutral 201-plus; Away 241-plus Based on RPI.

Bump.