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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.

As a Nebraska fan, no 30-point lead is safe. It's just best to wait until the game is officially over.

I expected us to start 0-2. No surprises for me there. And given the new expanded Big Ten, we won't have to worry about any of these any time soon. Move on after this first wave of conference games and be ready to play in January. Otherwise that December Bracketology thread is going to be a very sad place to visit.

Stuck in reverse.

Scarlet & Cream - 72 Candy Stripers - 82

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Still a wild play.

Ten lords a-leaping.

What a stat from the announcers: "Florida A&M has played in front of 6,700 total fans across the entire season. Now they are playing in front of 9,000 Nebraska fans tonight."

Ken Pomeroy looks like a ghost in this press conference.

Wow. Time flies. It's February already??

...but did that #4 seed beat the national championship runner-up in the regular season?

Meanwhile in the SEC...

Maybe this is too simplistic, but I see it as: Private institutions are legally allowed to unionize (as of 2024 law). If Congress deems it such (staying away from the politics talk here, but note there are many constituents in power with ties to college football), so could public institutions. Form a players union. Assign a standard freshman contract (terms and pay) as their rookie contract. Then following that year they can sign a short or long term contract with whoever they want. And within those contracts I guarantee there would be termination clauses. And while we're at it, make the students pay for their own education with the salaries they'll be receiving. They're professionals now.

Fat fingers, and I didn't prove read before I hit the submit button. Prove it.

Maybe they're just focusing on their bowl game right now?

Teams we currently have losses against: ___ Let's go! Time to make February/March a conversation of "Which seed?" and not "Are we in or not?"

This is why NET is considered a predictive metric and is not supposed to be looked at by the committee when evaluating resumes. Every other metric for Penn State is horrible. Scoring margin was excluded from NET as of May 2020. I haven't looked at their stats yet, but it's likely the "efficiency" metrics that are boosting their NET.

...but does it show up in a brown bag in a hotel room? Creighton has very particular preferences on how they transfer money.

Game #07 vs. North Florida Results (103-72 W) Picked NU: 52 (98%) Average NU Score: 83.7 Average Opp Score: 73.4 Average HHCC Score: 62.6 Median HHCC Score: 62.0 Mode HHCC Score: 66 1 CanadianHusker 15 2 MJW82 42 3 hhcmatt 45 4 NU Follower 46 5 Ralph Wiggum 46 6 roundball3 47 7 AGHANSEN 48 8 BLB115 48 9 demone 48 10 75unlgrad 51 11 SkersHoops 51 12 Vinny 51 13 aphilso1 52 14 MichHusker 53 15 Nebrasketball1979 54 16 KenPom 55 17 colhusker 57 18 HuskerFever 57 19 Noah121 57 20 hal9000 59 21 NeeandMe 59 22 brfrad 60 23 Huskerpapa 60 24 BjoeHusker 61 25 hskr4life 61 26 LNKtrnsplnt 61 27 HuskerMB 62 28 Bugeaters1 64 29 Busch Light 66 30 Cazzie22 66 31 cornfed24-7 66 32 Crush78 66 33 nuhusker7 66 34 UnicamMan 66 35 emwilliams 68 36 4NUfans 69 37 basketballjones 69 38 MitchMcGaryMunchies 69 39 roscoe 69 40 throwback 69 41 TourneyBound 69 42 twinswingohuskers 72 43 Woody Boyd 72 44 AuroranHusker 75 45 jimmykc 76 46 BugeaterZ 77 47 TheNovice 78 48 Handy Johnson 80 49 bigred4 81 50 EAbby 81 51 HuscurAdam 81 52 Silverbacked1 89 53 REDZONEDAN 108

Game #06 vs. South Dakota Results (96-79 W) Picked NU: 53 (100%) Average NU Score: 81.9 Average Opp Score: 65.6 Average HHCC Score: 34.3 Median HHCC Score: 34.0 Mode HHCC Score: 33 1 MitchMcGaryMunchies -8 2 hhcmatt 18 3 CanadianHusker 19 4 REDZONEDAN 19 5 4NUfans 21 6 Ralph Wiggum 22 7 Huskerpapa 23 8 Silverbacked1 23 9 aphilso1 25 10 KenPom 25 11 bigred4 27 12 emwilliams 28 13 basketballjones 29 14 Crush78 29 15 jimmykc 29 16 UnicamMan 29 17 BigTate 31 18 LNKtrnsplnt 31 19 AGHANSEN 32 20 HuscurAdam 32 21 75unlgrad 33 22 BjoeHusker 33 23 HuskerFever 33 24 roundball3 33 25 cornfed24-7 34 26 NeeandMe 34 27 roscoe 34 28 twinswingohuskers 34 29 BugeaterZ 35 30 Noah121 35 31 Woody Boyd 35 32 EAbby 36 33 SkersHoops 36 34 MJW82 37 35 NU Follower 37 36 Sidelines - Nebraska 37 37 AuroranHusker 38 38 MichHusker 38 39 Bugeaters1 39 40 throwback 39 41 Cazzie22 40 42 TheNovice 41 43 Busch Light 42 44 Nebrasketball1979 42 45 Handy Johnson 45 46 Vinny 45 47 demone 46 48 colhusker 47 49 BLB115 52 50 TourneyBound 53 51 nuhusker7 55 52 hskr4life 57 53 brfrad 60

What a performance by this team; nearly two 100+ point games. However, as HHCC participants we're slipping. Ken Pomeroy just moved up to #2 in the standings. Hold strong, @hskr4life! HHCC Standings - End of Week 04 1 hskr4life 209 NC 2 KenPom 220 U1 3 AGHANSEN 223 U1 4 aphilso1 227 U3 5 basketballjones 234 D3 6 SkersHoops 235 NC 7 Huskerpapa 239 U3 8 NeeandMe 239 D3 9 CanadianHusker 258 U30 10 BjoeHusker 261 U4 11 Vinny 261 U1 12 75unlgrad 263 U9 13 Bugeaters1 263 D2 14 HuskerFever 263 U5 15 roundball3 263 U12 16 NU Follower 264 U7 17 hhcmatt 265 U16 18 Nebrasketball1979 265 D3 19 LNKtrnsplnt 268 U1 20 cornfed24-7 270 D3 21 bigred4 274 D8 22 demone 275 NC 23 nuhusker7 276 D14 24 Handy Johnson 278 D16 25 MichHusker 278 U4 26 Silverbacked1 281 D10 27 AuroranHusker 286 D9 28 Crush78 288 U4 29 twinswingohuskers 293 U1 30 4NUfans 298 U6 31 throwback 298 NC 32 EAbby 300 D6 33 TheNovice 301 D8 34 TourneyBound 303 D10 35 Cazzie22 309 NC 36 Busch Light 311 D2 37 jimmykc 320 NC 38 UnicamMan 322 U3 39 colhusker 324 D1 40 emwilliams 332 U4 41 MJW82 336 U7 42 Woody Boyd 337 NC 43 Ralph Wiggum 339 U6 44 roscoe 340 U1 45 MitchMcGaryMunchies 344 U8 46 BLB115 345 U1 47 BugeaterZ 345 D4 48 BigTate 348 D20 49 REDZONEDAN 351 D9 50 HuscurAdam 354 D4 51 Noah121 365 D1 52 brfrad 400 D1 53 hal9000 426 D1 54 HuskerMB 466 U1 55 Sidelines - Nebraska 479 D1 56 NUtball 565 NC 57 Faux Mike Peltz 630 NC 58 1sdpad2 651 NC 59 mmackey5 672 NC Biggest Rise CanadianHusker U30 Biggest Fall BigTate D20 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)