HuskerFever

Maybe I'm the only one, but going into this season, having a chance at qualifying for the NIT in late February would have been a win to me in-and-of-itself. We're on pace. But it won't be easy.

Might be a hot take, but... Is it just me, or did Chris Beard's head coaching legacy take a turn the moment he started growing a beard? Maybe he should just go back to being Chris.

You never would have convinced me 20 years ago that we'd want to go after any men's coach at Baylor. Yet here we are.

The "right" school with the right "fit" will find him at some point.

There are 16-20 year old kids making 6-figure salaries to play basketball. And then they pay for their college if they choose to go that route in their future. This isn't just a "college or pro overseas" thing at this point. https://overtimeelite.com/articles/084ff4b1-80e4-4dc5-ae2e-12ffc1e68e01

Big - 72 Minny - 66

Hoiberg's roller coaster season hanging by a wicker basket.

92-305 on three-pointers going into this one.

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Why do players get career high performances when they play us?

How much do free throws cost?

I assume that this happens all the time but @hhcmatt has been minimizing ability for spam to occur (i.e., new user accounts posting, etc.) but this time of year he's been focusing on family and these few have slipped through the cracks. Think it says a lot on Matt's efforts that people are only noticing these posts happening now over the last decade.

Game #14 at Iowa Results (66-50 W) Picked NU: 25 (53%) Average NU Score: 71.9 Average Opp Score: 72.5 Average HHCC Score: 58.5 Median HHCC Score: 60.0 Mode HHCC Score: 72 1 BLB115 10 2 twinswingohuskers 37 3 Handy Johnson 42 4 MichHusker 43 5 BigTate 45 6 emwilliams 45 7 1sdpad2 46 8 Nebrasketball1979 46 9 nuhusker7 46 10 hhctony 47 11 4NUfans 51 12 HuskerFever 51 13 Noah121 51 14 cornfed24-7 54 15 demone 54 16 hhcmatt 54 17 75unlgrad 55 18 hskr4life 57 19 AuroranHusker 58 20 basketballjones 59 21 hal9000 59 22 roundball3 59 23 Silverbacked1 59 24 tcp 60 25 brfrad 61 26 NeeandMe 61 27 TheNovice 61 28 Cazzie22 62 29 roscoe 63 30 huskerbaseball13 64 31 Vinny 64 32 BjoeHusker 65 33 LNKtrnsplnt 65 34 Ralph Wiggum 65 35 REDZONEDAN 67 36 aphilso1 68 37 throwback 68 38 jimmykc 69 39 NUtball 71 40 Bugeaters1 72 41 Cowboy Kermit 72 42 Crush78 72 43 Huskerpapa 72 44 SkersHoops 72 45 UnicamMan 72 46 Tallbaby21 75 47 KenPom 80

Beating down both Creighton and Iowa all in one year. Life is good. HHCC Standings - End of Week 08 1 TheNovice 394 NC 2 MichHusker 416 U1 3 75unlgrad 417 D1 4 HuskerFever 433 NC 5 hhcmatt 442 NC 6 LNKtrnsplnt 465 NC 7 Tallbaby21 479 NC 8 AuroranHusker 481 U1 9 Handy Johnson 481 U1 10 KenPom 487 D2 11 Noah121 506 U1 12 BjoeHusker 518 D1 13 basketballjones 524 U2 14 Bugeaters1 528 D1 15 Crush78 528 D1 16 emwilliams 531 U5 17 BLB115 535 U16 18 REDZONEDAN 540 D1 19 aphilso1 542 D1 20 Cowboy Kermit 542 D4 21 brfrad 549 U3 22 cornfed24-7 552 U7 23 jimmykc 552 D4 24 throwback 553 D4 25 twinswingohuskers 554 U6 26 Ralph Wiggum 556 D1 27 huskerbaseball13 557 NC 28 roscoe 559 NC 29 SkersHoops 559 D7 30 UnicamMan 559 D7 31 Huskerpapa 564 D5 32 1sdpad2 571 NC 33 Silverbacked1 575 D3 34 demone 579 NC 35 nuhusker7 585 U1 36 Cazzie22 596 D1 37 Nebrasketball1979 596 U1 38 4NUfans 602 U1 39 hskr4life 605 D2 40 tcp 621 U1 41 Vinny 621 D1 42 roundball3 628 NC 43 hhctony 676 U1 44 NeeandMe 678 D1 45 hal9000 709 U1 46 HuscurAdam 750 D1 47 bigred4 767 NC 48 Busch Light 803 NC 49 bb33ch 813 NC 50 NUtball 813 U1 51 mkroll12345 817 D1 52 BigTate 949 U2 53 DudeAbides 979 D1 54 Cornyfan1 989 D1 55 The Jazz Huddle 1095 NC 56 colhusker 1117 NC 57 Breslin Petteway 1152 NC 58 nustudent 1165 NC 59 ConkintheCorner 1169 NC 60 huskerbill85 1233 NC 61 uneblinstu 1246 NC 62 Jurgey 1259 NC 63 busticket 1308 NC 64 Husker Hoops Penitent 1322 NC 65 thrasher31 1336 NC 66 Nighthawk 1351 NC 67 Craytonhater 1352 NC 68 MontanaHusker 1352 NC Biggest Rise BLB115 U16 Biggest Fall SkersHoops D7 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

There's always next year.

Lincoln East Spartans - 60 East Lansing Spartans - 72 3

TWO THINGS THIS HHCC ROUND:  1) Score prediction for Nebraska at Michigan State (as usual). 2) (BONUS -5 points) Predicting the exact number of Nebraska bench players (non-starters for the game) with 1+ points during this game (e.g. I am looking for an answer like "5").

BONUS: # of non-conference wins: 7 # of correct HHCC participants: 14 bigred4, Breslin Petteway, Cowboy Kermit, DudeAbides, Handy Johnson, hhctony, Huskerpapa, MichHusker, mkroll12345, Noah121, nuhusker7, nustudent, roscoe, Vinny

Game #13 vs. Queens Results (75-65 W) Picked NU: 46 (100%) Average NU Score: 73.4 Average Opp Score: 63.3 Average HHCC Score: 10.1 Median HHCC Score: 12.0 Mode HHCC Score: 12 1 roscoe -40 2 TheNovice -40 3 basketballjones -3 4 KenPom -3 5 Huskerpapa -2 6 LNKtrnsplnt -2 7 aphilso1 1 8 BjoeHusker 1 9 HuskerFever 1 10 REDZONEDAN 4 11 emwilliams 6 12 UnicamMan 6 13 Crush78 7 14 hhctony 7 15 huskerbaseball13 7 16 Silverbacked1 7 17 Cowboy Kermit 9 18 twinswingohuskers 9 19 brfrad 10 20 Bugeaters1 10 21 Cazzie22 11 22 Vinny 11 23 AuroranHusker 12 24 cornfed24-7 12 25 hhcmatt 12 26 jimmykc 12 27 MichHusker 12 28 Nebrasketball1979 12 29 NeeandMe 12 30 tcp 12 31 Ralph Wiggum 13 32 75unlgrad 15 33 nuhusker7 15 34 roundball3 15 35 hskr4life 19 36 NUtball 20 37 SkersHoops 20 38 thrasher31 20 39 demone 21 40 throwback 21 41 1sdpad2 23 42 Handy Johnson 23 43 BLB115 28 44 Tallbaby21 31 45 HuscurAdam 33 46 Noah121 36

The good news is that Hoiberg's team this season performed at or better than 97% of our expectations this season, getting 7 non-conference wins to start the season. Now let's see how that translates to the conference slate. HHCC Standings - End of Week 07 1 TheNovice 333 U3 2 75unlgrad 362 D1 3 MichHusker 373 D1 4 HuskerFever 382 U2 5 hhcmatt 388 NC 6 LNKtrnsplnt 400 U1 7 Tallbaby21 404 D4 8 KenPom 407 NC 9 AuroranHusker 423 NC 10 Handy Johnson 439 NC 11 BjoeHusker 453 U3 12 Noah121 455 D1 13 Bugeaters1 456 D1 14 Crush78 456 D1 15 basketballjones 465 U3 16 Cowboy Kermit 470 NC 17 REDZONEDAN 473 U2 18 aphilso1 474 U3 19 jimmykc 483 U1 20 throwback 485 D5 21 emwilliams 486 U3 22 SkersHoops 487 D5 23 UnicamMan 487 U2 24 brfrad 488 D2 25 Ralph Wiggum 491 D2 26 Huskerpapa 492 U4 27 huskerbaseball13 493 NC 28 roscoe 496 U11 29 cornfed24-7 498 D3 30 Silverbacked1 516 U4 31 twinswingohuskers 517 U2 32 1sdpad2 525 D1 33 BLB115 525 D4 34 demone 525 D2 35 Cazzie22 534 NC 36 nuhusker7 539 U1 37 hskr4life 548 D1 38 Nebrasketball1979 550 NC 39 4NUfans 551 D11 40 Vinny 557 U1 41 tcp 561 D1 42 roundball3 569 NC 43 NeeandMe 617 U1 44 hhctony 629 U3 45 HuscurAdam 645 U1 46 hal9000 650 D3 47 bigred4 662 D2 48 Busch Light 698 NC 49 bb33ch 708 NC 50 mkroll12345 712 NC 51 NUtball 742 NC 52 DudeAbides 874 NC 53 Cornyfan1 884 NC 54 BigTate 904 NC 55 The Jazz Huddle 990 NC 56 colhusker 1012 NC 57 Breslin Petteway 1047 NC 58 nustudent 1060 U1 59 ConkintheCorner 1064 D1 60 huskerbill85 1128 NC 61 uneblinstu 1141 NC 62 Jurgey 1154 NC 63 busticket 1203 NC 64 Husker Hoops Penitent 1217 NC 65 thrasher31 1231 NA 66 Nighthawk 1246 D1 67 Craytonhater 1247 D1 68 MontanaHusker 1247 D1 Biggest Rise roscoe U11 Biggest Fall 4NUfans D11 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

Good Corn - 66 Bad Corn - 78

Take a step back and look for a minute. Guaranteed 0.500 or better to close out 2022. Record Thru Dec. 31: 2022-2023: 7-6 (1 game remaining) 2021-2022: 6-7 2020-2021: 4-6 2019-2020: 6-7