Handy Johnson

Students are on Spring Break, there won't be any crowd to speak of.

We've been to so many NITs they use to call the Bob Devaney the "Apple Orchard" with all those NIT banners.

Is demome like Mike Demone from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"?

Bulldogs 70 - 65

As a dog returns to it's own vomit, so to have the Huskers returned to Starkville...

Hope your right hhcscott, I will miss the ABA basketballs tho...

I think we're gonna come out and lay an egg, and frankly I can't blame them. It's nice to think we're gonna have a "fire in the belly" with something to prove, but I'm not too excited to watch another NIT game, can't believe the players are too jazzed to play in one.

It's easy to get bogged down in all the numbers and analytics, simple truth is this: If you have EVER watched a Basketball game, ever, there is NO WAY there are 15 or so teams better than Nebraska in the NIT.

Can we please still laugh about Iowa? I'll grant you the rest...

SPOT-ON, we are relegated to 2nd class citizen status in this Conference, and the nauseating degree of fawning over at the BTN regarding THE Ohio St and Michigan makes me weep for the sound of Jay Randolf's voice. I'm proud to say I own a degree from a legendary Big 8 institution and not some watered down, bastardized, hodge podge of schools we belong to now.

Maybe that was wishful thinking on my part... Now I'm concerned this snub won't be a motivator for the players but legitimate reason to say "F" it and just mail it in.

All-time series is 26 to 25 Bluebirds

What you say is accurate, my point is, all things being equal, don't you think the Networks want the freshman phenom who leads the Nation in scoring on TV?

When asked what words came out of his mouth when he heard we were a 5 seed in the NIT, does Tim scratch his nose OR flip the bird?

Does OU get in without Tre' Young on the roster? Remember they're selling a TV show, and the first word in show business is "show."

If you would've told every board member when the season started we'd finish 4th in the B1G with a 13- 5 record and NOT make the Tournament, there isn't one single person who would've believed you. Not one.

Everything you suggest, I was right there with ya in 2014, but sittin' here tonight, I'm not feelin it. We straight up got jobbed today, and I think it'll show in our performance. Not in the long term mind you, but certainly in the next few days.

Whatever happened to Grahm Spanier at Penn St.? He was found guilty in Court. Mark Shapiro at Miami? North Carolina and their academic scandal? And then we wonder why individuals or institutions cheat...

I can only take this as a sign that the Basketball Gods are squarely in our corner today...

As a pre-emptive strike: please no Whitney Houston videos tomorrow of "Didn't We Almost Have it All"?

Here's the Elephant in the Room: If any other B1G team, ANY OTHER, finished in 4th place with a 13 - 5 record you can bet your a** they would be in. There's a biased held against us because of our history, our Tournament failures, and due to the simple fact that well, we're NEBRASKA. If you think that sounds provincial or paranoid, so be it. I've lived and worked on both Coasts, and you know what people think about Nebraska? They don't

Do the Prizes go above and beyond the Burger Basket, cuz I'm still pretty damn sure we're gettin' IN! (the Dance that is)

They get ALL of what Cip just mentioned, plus realize only 1 in 5 people in this Country have a Bachelors Degree. Their hardly getting just a pat on the head or being asked to dig a ditch...

Well let's put Roby at the 4 and the next Vlade Divac outta Wyoming at the 5. Watson, Johnson & Allen are all interchangeable at 1 & 2. Here's the question: If we get snubbed for a bid does that make Jim/Jordy/Isaac hungry to come back OR sour them on the whole damn thing and leave?

Alright everyone, you can write this down in ink not pencil. Glynn starts at the 1, Xavier Johnson is your 2. Copeland and Palmer are your wings, Roby starts at the 5 and is backed up by Jordy. Karrington Davis is your B1G 6th man of the year, and McVeigh re-enters the rotation. Allen, Nana, Thor will sort itself out...