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No. But a team going dancing sure is!

NO SIT SECOND HALF THURSDAY!

We. Might. Do. This.

Killer 3 by Wisconsin. That might hurt.

Ughhhh..... I don't know how to feel about OT.

Just going to say it now before the end result. But excellent clock management and coaching prowess by Hoiberg in these final minutes.

Adrenaline is wearing off a bit.

We're a 2nd half team.....in February.

I'm awake, I'm awake...

Well... in 100 years when the field is 128 teams and we win our 2nd NCAA tournament game, those people aren't going to be looking back and seeing that as an asterisk win.

Isn't choosing to go to Iowa a gamble in-and-of-itself?

That's certainly a consideration. It all comes down to what the flavor of the month is for the committee this year. One year it's about being hot going into the tournament, another year "a win is a win whether in November or March". One year it's "we consider injuries on a team" another year that doesn't carry much weight. One year it's "can they win on the road" another year it's about your full schedule of wins. One year you can be in the top 4 of a P5 conference and get passed over by #5. That 2014 team had the same amount of losses we have now, but a whole month earlier. And nearly twice as many losses by the end of January. Sure, we need to bottle up some more of that Gary, Tominaga, Hoiberg, Mast magic more consistently. But we're in a much better spot right now than our last tournament team was at this moment. A bird in the hand... Now it's up to this team to do something with it.

Our 2013-2014 NCAA tournament team was 2-8 on the road. And even lost to UMass and UAB. And lost in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. They still made the dance. That was a home heavy team with a few big wins. And that's where we stand with this team today. More work to do, but also not far off.

He never asked for it back from any of the 2018-2022 football players.

Is this a strategy to win over the selection committee? "We can't win a conference road game, but that's because Gary couldn't play."

Game #21 at Maryland Results (73-51 L) Picked NU: 27 (49%) Average NU Score: 72.5 Average Opp Score: 72.7 Average HHCC Score: 67.5 Median HHCC Score: 75.0 Mode HHCC Score: 81 1 colhusker 4 2 hhcmatt 43 3 aphilso1 45 4 ConkintheCorner 45 5 Busch Light 47 6 HuskerMB 47 7 NUtball 50 8 demone 51 9 Woody Boyd 51 10 BjoeHusker 52 11 REDZONEDAN 52 12 roscoe 52 13 UnicamMan 53 14 hskr4life 54 15 NeeandMe 55 16 Cazzie22 56 17 AGHANSEN 57 18 Huskerpapa 57 19 Ralph Wiggum 57 20 BLB115 60 21 jimmykc 60 22 LNKtrnsplnt 60 23 Noah121 61 24 bb33ch 62 25 SkersHoops 62 26 KenPom 63 27 Crush78 65 28 emwilliams 75 29 cornfed24-7 76 30 roundball3 77 31 tcp 77 32 Bugeaters1 78 33 HuskerFever 78 34 Nebrasketball1979 78 35 Vinny 78 36 brfrad 79 37 Cowboy Kermit 79 38 AuroranHusker 80 39 basketballjones 80 40 twinswingohuskers 80 41 CanadianHusker 81 42 EAbby 81 43 MichHusker 81 44 oly_10 81 45 Handy Johnson 82 46 nuhusker7 82 47 TheNovice 82 48 BigTate 83 49 BugeaterZ 83 50 HuscurAdam 83 51 Bart Torvik 85 52 4NUfans 92 53 throwback 93 54 hal9000 94 55 Silverbacked1 94

Game #20 vs. Ohio State Results (83-69 W) Picked NU: 46 (88%) Average NU Score: 75.6 Average Opp Score: 70.5 Average HHCC Score: 27.4 Median HHCC Score: 27.0 Mode HHCC Score: 21 BONUS # of Assists by NU: 19 # of correct HHCC participants: 4 AuroranHusker, basketballjones, Nebrasketball1979, NeeandMe 1 Handy Johnson -27 2 basketballjones 4 3 aphilso1 10 4 AuroranHusker 12 5 HuscurAdam 12 6 SkersHoops 12 7 CanadianHusker 13 8 MichHusker 15 9 twinswingohuskers 15 10 jimmykc 16 11 Nebrasketball1979 16 12 NeeandMe 16 13 colhusker 18 14 Vinny 18 15 demone 20 16 Crush78 21 17 hal9000 21 18 Huskerpapa 21 19 UnicamMan 21 20 Woody Boyd 21 21 bb33ch 22 22 AGHANSEN 24 23 HuskerMB 24 24 nuhusker7 24 25 BigTate 25 26 brfrad 27 27 Bugeaters1 27 28 emwilliams 27 29 Noah121 27 30 throwback 27 31 DudeAbides 28 32 BugeaterZ 29 33 Silverbacked1 29 34 tcp 29 35 Cazzie22 30 36 hhcmatt 30 37 roscoe 30 38 LNKtrnsplnt 32 39 TheNovice 32 40 roundball3 33 41 4NUfans 36 42 BLB115 36 43 EAbby 36 44 KenPom 36 45 HuskerFever 38 46 Bart Torvik 39 47 BjoeHusker 55 48 ConkintheCorner 55 49 cornfed24-7 59 50 NUtball 59 51 REDZONEDAN 60 52 Ralph Wiggum 67

Any, yet again, another split week. Home and away; a win and a loss. This season is starting to become more predictible (unlike my predictions this season). Bart Torvik dropped out of the Top 10, but Ken Pomeroy is holding some ground at the #9 spot. I have a feeling that the way we get those two out of the Top 10 is to have our basketball team produce some wins that weren't expected. It looks like we all have some more work to do this season. HHCC Standings - End of Week 12 1 aphilso1 686 U1 2 UnicamMan 705 U1 3 BjoeHusker 736 D2 4 NeeandMe 743 U1 5 Crush78 764 U1 6 hal9000 787 D2 7 AuroranHusker 790 U3 8 jimmykc 790 U7 9 KenPom 793 NC 10 demone 794 U6 11 hhcmatt 800 U6 12 nuhusker7 812 D1 13 emwilliams 815 U1 14 SkersHoops 815 U6 15 Bart Torvik 816 D7 16 Nutball 820 D4 17 Woody Boyd 820 U5 18 TheNovice 826 D5 19 twinswingohuskers 826 D1 20 LNKtrnsplnt 835 U1 21 Nebrasketball1979 835 D2 22 Noah121 850 U6 23 colhusker 853 U17 24 Huskerpapa 855 U8 25 Vinny 856 U2 26 ConkintheCorner 857 D1 27 CanadianHusker 862 U3 28 Bugeaters1 864 D2 29 HuskerFever 867 D5 30 Cazzie22 870 U4 31 throwback 870 D8 32 roundball3 875 D3 33 roscoe 884 U5 34 Ralph Wiggum 892 D3 35 bigred4 901 D28 36 4NUfans 908 D3 37 brfrad 908 NC 38 basketballjones 915 U1 39 Busch Light 924 D4 40 HuscurAdam 937 U6 41 DudeAbides 941 D5 42 MichHusker 942 U5 43 BugeaterZ 946 D1 44 REDZONEDAN 946 D1 45 BigTate 947 D1 46 BLB115 950 U2 47 HuskerMB 955 U4 48 Handy Johnson 957 U5 49 bb33ch 970 U3 50 EAbby 971 D1 51 cornfed24-7 975 D6 52 hskr4life 977 D11 53 AGHANSEN 1024 U2 54 Cowboy Kermit 1032 D4 55 Silverbacked1 1052 D1 56 tcp 1058 NC 57 hhctony 1489 NC 58 75unlgrad 1571 NC 59 TheGov21 1612 NC 60 Boots 1622 NC 61 NU Follower 1673 NC 62 1sdpad2 1681 NC 63 Jurgey 1707 NC 64 Minnesota_Husker 1780 NC 65 Breslin Petteway 1784 NC 66 The Jazz Huddle 1859 NC 67 mkroll12345 1905 NC 68 HolyBobpilgrimage 1908 NC 69 Lohusker 1954 NC 70 Nighthawk 1963 NC 71 rwmctrofholz 1982 NC 72 oly_10 1984 NA 73 Faux Mike Peltz 1990 D1 Biggest Rise colhusker U17 Biggest Fall bigred4 D28 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

It's also possible that the answer is "Neither team." I'm not sure why we (the team) feel the need to toe the line going into March. Sure would have been nice to ask "Which seed?" instead of "Are we in?"

More than anything, I think Feb. 1 will be telling whether we can hide behind this mirage of Selection Sunday stability or not. Win, and we can keep this optimism through that our wins are enough to get in. Lose and we can no longer rely on the past success; absolutely would need road wins at that point.

Corn - 70 Beer - 76