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Don't you worry. We'll get rewarded with a first round road NIT matchup.

TWO THINGS THIS HHCC ROUND: 1) Score prediction for Nebraska vs. Michigan (as usual). 2) (BONUS -5 points) Predicting the exact number of Nebraska players with 5+ (5 or more) total rebounds (offensive + defensive) during this game (e.g. I am looking for an answer like "10").

Did we get a large enough deficit at half for us to come back from? Or should we have been losing by more?

The arrogance from each of these shooting celebrations...

Michigan beats Wisconsin: "The Big Ten is down this year. Put Michigan into the tournament over Nebraska."

He also likes to talk about indigenous trees during basketball games. One can hope he stays with the Pac-2 and doesn't move over to the Big Ten.

It doesn't stop with conference realignment. Mega media outlets are finding ways to attempt to gain more power:

I can predict the next hour's weather with 99% accuracy.

For sure. But not far fetched. I think having two major wins vs. Purdue and Wisconsin change the equation a bit. But we still have more work to close out the season. It makes you wonder had the 2017-2018 team beat Kansas, do they make it in? Maybe? Maybe not? 2023-2024: NET 52 Q1 3-4 Q2 3-3 Q3 3-0 Q4 7-0 Road 1-6 2017-2018: NET 56 Q1 1-6 Q2 2-3 Q3 9-1 Q4 10-0 Road 4-7 Not apples to apples. But we do benefit from a better SOS as well, which I think hurt us back then.

Northwestern tried this in the not so distant past. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/9/29/22700818/northwestern-nlrb-lawyer-memo-ollege-football-players-are-employees

Still puts exposure and a pretty big target on our back for not proving we can win on the road. It may make zero difference. But it is a pretty glaring thing the committee could latch onto. Win a couple on the road and we start to squash that conversation.

Game #23 at Illinois Results (84-87 OT L) Picked NU: 4 (7%) Average NU Score: 69.0 Average Opp Score: 80.7 Average HHCC Score: 41.5 Median HHCC Score: 43.5 Mode HHCC Score: 45 1 cornfed24-7 -14 2 Huskerpapa 15 3 DudeAbides 19 4 Handy Johnson 20 5 BigTate 21 6 Silverbacked1 24 7 KenPom 27 8 Bart Torvik 28 9 Vinny 28 10 Crush78 30 11 jimmykc 31 12 roundball3 32 13 EAbby 33 14 HuskerFever 34 15 TheNovice 34 16 Woody Boyd 34 17 AGHANSEN 36 18 Bugeaters1 37 19 roscoe 37 20 Cazzie22 38 21 Nebrasketball1979 39 22 Ralph Wiggum 39 23 hal9000 40 24 SkersHoops 40 25 BjoeHusker 41 26 twinswingohuskers 42 27 ConkintheCorner 43 28 CanadianHusker 44 29 emwilliams 44 30 BugeaterZ 45 31 demone 45 32 NUtball 45 33 UnicamMan 45 34 HuskerMB 46 35 NeeandMe 46 36 4NUfans 47 37 aphilso1 48 38 Noah121 48 39 hskr4life 49 40 AuroranHusker 50 41 nuhusker7 50 42 BLB115 51 43 tcp 51 44 throwback 53 45 basketballjones 54 46 HuscurAdam 54 47 MichHusker 54 48 brfrad 55 49 hhcmatt 57 50 Busch Light 60 51 LNKtrnsplnt 63 52 REDZONEDAN 65 53 colhusker 70 54 bb33ch 74

Game #22 vs. Wisconsin Results (80-72 OT W) Picked NU: 36 (67%) Average NU Score: 76.2 Average Opp Score: 75.1 Average HHCC Score: 20.1 Median HHCC Score: 18.5 Mode HHCC Score: -27 1 brfrad -27 2 BugeaterZ -27 3 CanadianHusker -27 4 UnicamMan -27 5 aphilso1 1 6 AuroranHusker 1 7 hskr4life 1 8 bb33ch 5 9 Crush78 7 10 MichHusker 7 11 DudeAbides 8 12 throwback 8 13 roscoe 9 14 Vinny 9 15 4NUfans 10 16 nuhusker7 10 17 cornfed24-7 11 18 Nebrasketball1979 12 19 Bugeaters1 13 20 HuskerMB 13 21 twinswingohuskers 13 22 AGHANSEN 14 23 hhcmatt 14 24 emwilliams 15 25 TheNovice 16 26 jimmykc 18 27 roundball3 18 28 Noah121 19 29 NeeandMe 20 30 basketballjones 21 31 HuscurAdam 21 32 Huskerpapa 21 33 EAbby 23 34 Silverbacked1 23 35 colhusker 29 36 BLB115 33 37 ConkintheCorner 36 38 LNKtrnsplnt 36 39 Cazzie22 37 40 NUtball 37 41 HuskerFever 38 42 demone 39 43 REDZONEDAN 39 44 tcp 39 45 Woody Boyd 40 46 BigTate 41 47 hal9000 41 48 KenPom 41 49 Bart Torvik 42 50 Busch Light 42 51 SkersHoops 42 52 Handy Johnson 46 53 Ralph Wiggum 54 54 BjoeHusker 60

This was the week of overtimes. Split the week with a win and a loss, not much different than the last month. On the positive side, we still don't have a longer losing streak than 2 this season. But can this team string together a perfect week? Time will tell. It's February. It's crunch time. This is the last stretch to start building your resume so you don't have to put your fate in the hands of the selection committee. We should be asking "What seed?" instead of "Are we in?" But there's more work to do to prove we're a solid addition to the tournament. HHCC Standings - End of Week 13 1 UnicamMan 723 U1 2 aphilso1 735 D1 3 Crush78 801 U2 4 NeeandMe 809 NC 5 BjoeHusker 837 D2 6 jimmykc 839 U2 7 AuroranHusker 841 NC 8 KenPom 861 U1 9 hal9000 868 D3 10 hhcmatt 871 U1 11 nuhusker7 872 U1 12 emwilliams 874 U1 13 TheNovice 876 U5 14 demone 878 D4 15 CanadianHusker 879 U12 16 twinswingohuskers 881 U3 17 Bart Torvik 886 D2 18 Nebrasketball1979 886 U3 19 Huskerpapa 891 U5 20 Vinny 893 U5 21 Woody Boyd 894 D4 22 SkersHoops 897 D8 23 Nutball 902 D7 24 Bugeaters1 914 U4 25 Noah121 917 D3 26 roundball3 925 U6 27 roscoe 930 U6 28 throwback 931 U3 29 LNKtrnsplnt 934 D9 30 brfrad 936 U7 31 ConkintheCorner 936 D5 32 HuskerFever 939 D3 33 Cazzie22 945 D3 34 colhusker 952 D11 35 BugeaterZ 964 U8 36 4NUfans 965 NC 37 DudeAbides 968 U4 38 cornfed24-7 972 U13 39 Ralph Wiggum 985 D5 40 basketballjones 990 D2 41 MichHusker 1003 U1 42 BigTate 1009 U3 43 HuscurAdam 1012 D3 44 HuskerMB 1014 U3 45 Handy Johnson 1023 U3 46 Busch Light 1026 D7 47 EAbby 1027 U3 48 hskr4life 1027 U4 49 BLB115 1034 D3 50 bb33ch 1049 D1 51 REDZONEDAN 1050 D7 52 AGHANSEN 1074 U1 53 bigred4 1085 D18 54 Silverbacked1 1099 U1 55 tcp 1148 U1 56 Cowboy Kermit 1216 D2 57 hhctony 1673 NC 58 75unlgrad 1755 NC 59 TheGov21 1796 NC 60 Boots 1806 NC 61 NU Follower 1857 NC 62 1sdpad2 1865 NC 63 Jurgey 1891 NC 64 Minnesota_Husker 1964 NC 65 Breslin Petteway 1968 NC 66 The Jazz Huddle 2043 NC 67 mkroll12345 2089 NC 68 HolyBobpilgrimage 2092 NC 69 Lohusker 2138 NC 70 Nighthawk 2147 NC 71 rwmctrofholz 2166 NC 72 oly_10 2168 NC 73 Faux Mike Peltz 2174 NC Biggest Rise cornfed24-7 U13 Biggest Fall bigred4 D18 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

Scarecrow (NU) - 70 Cowardly Lion (NW) - 76

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This team is fantastic. Love the grit. Had every excuse to give up many times in this one.

14/14 on free throws. If we got as many chances at the line as Illinois did, we win this cleanly.

Easy to say this, but I wish Keisei did that same drive the possession before. Get the two points, not a lofty 3. But at the same time, had he made that...

How's the couch doing right now?

You can see the energy from our players. They absolutely want this.