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Are we off all week?

Ohio state brought their own chairs?

Why was that elbow above the shoulder not a flagrant shots plus possession?

I noticed you didn't say you were doing the crosswords in pen. Wussy. A pen? Amateur. Why when we were young we had to hand carve the crossword answers in Egyptian hieroglyphs, right to left. Using only one hand.

Jamar Johnson says "shoulda kept the Big 8"

Oh good grief. What I wouldn't give for a good internal organ/sweater vest incursion to get us off this topic ;-)

I love to see all of the Texas schools lose. In anything but especially the Longhorns. I got the blessing of Colorado joining the PAC-12 so I got to see them play UA here in Tucson and the only thing sweeter than them losing in hoops was them losing to a top 10 UA team on a questionable call (game winning buzzer beater disallowed). I know that just burns them up.

I've noticed on some possessions he will make three trips back and forth at full speed running and cutting off multiple screens. The fact that he can maintain that level of effort when playing nearly the entire game shows me that he could be truly great with a little more help. He did have, at least, one nice drive in last night and I wish he would do more of that because he's going to get more buckets and foul shots if he can take it to the hoop when the defender flies to defend the three.

I think we should switch to Nike. I noticed in a couple of recent games against Nike schools that obvious traveling calls weren't made against the schools with the swoosh but were against the Adidas school. I guess that's Jordan's legacy.

I'm guessing they had been elbowed to the head too many times.

That's always the way with Husker hoops, the transfers and jucos are just getting settled and it's time for them to go. I remember thinking similar things thing about Tony Farmer, Ade Dagunduro, and a number of others. If we had four full years instead of just two with some of these guys we might have gotten over the hump but we always seem to stagger guys who could be difference makers just far enough apart that we never get that critical mass.

I remember he was a heck of a player and related to Vinnie Johnson. I do remember he was with the Jazz overlapping with Bart Kofoed I think. I remember there being another backup pg on Utah's roster who played ahead of Eric and I was disappointed every time the other guy got minutes instead of Eric. A little googling shows me it was Delaney Rudd taking those minutes. Sorry I don't have more Eric specific info.

I was working on the report card while this discussion was going on. Check out the section on the officiating at the end, nice to see we're thinking alike.

OFFENSE: B Shavon Shields (29 points 10/11 90% from the field 8/8 100% from the line) was 42% of Husker offense. Gallegos contributed 15, Ubel 12, Talley 8, and Rivers 4. That's all 68 points there and 49 out of the 51 shots taken. Hard to win games with only four guys scoring. Andre has to find his touch. The B1G officials are more tolerant of physical play than all the non-conference crews were and we need that inside presence. DEFENSE: B+ The team seemed to have a little more energy out there, credit to Ray, Shavon and Benny for their harassment of the Penn State guards which led to some nice breakaways and offset our deficit on the boards. I like the four blocked shots, especially Ubel's block, with emphasis, at the end of the game. REBOUNDING: C- Second chance points are something this team cannot afford to give up and yet here we are again giving up 11 offensive rebounds. BALL HANDLING: B- After only two turnovers against Purdue, ten was disappointing especially with six coming from Shavon. When you are shooting 10/11, giving the ball away like that is just a crying shame. Nice job distributing the ball, especially getting it out in transition. COACHING: B Some issues with end of clock situations but it looked to me like we were motivated and engaged from the beginning, unlike a recent game. We also had strong defensive effort and played with energy. I think a little emphasis on not fouling the three point shooter is on the practice agenda this week, OVERALL GRADE: B+ First B1G win for Coach Miles and the first for the team this season. Winning on the road anywhere in the B1G is a commendable achievement. Time to take the lessons learned against UW, UM, and MSU and make it two in a row, One (very long) note on the officiating. I understand that blows to the head are a point of emphasis throughout sports and I commend the NCAA and the B1G for looking to protect the players' health. I know the referees' hands were tied on the elbowing call. The part that bothers me is, if you are protecting the players then you make the call when it happens, you don't allow play to continue, award two more foul shots plus the "flagrant" fouls shots plus the ball for a flop. No one looking at the video could question that there was contact, but no one looking at the video could honestly assert that there was intent by Ubel or damage to the PSU player. So in my mind there are a number of things that need to be done to remedy this: 1. Call the foul when it happens or don't call it. If a truly flagrant foul occurs out of the sight of the referees then the coach should contact the conference and submit the video just as has been done to Nebraska football players in the BigXII and the player can be suspended or warned as the case may require. 2. When a player has both hands on the ball and arms up and a defender comes into body contact with him under those arms CALL THE FOUL ON THE DEFENDER. The PSU player that received the elbow had both hands on Ubel. Ubel had no place to bring his arms other than where he did. If the referee calls the defensive foul in that circumstance, then no one gets elbowed and no one gets jobbed. 3. If the refs blow a call and the coach wants it reviewed then that coach has to accept that everything that happened after is reset to the point of the foul/violation that should have been called. What happened in this game was not a matter of a correctable error, it was a play that was not called in the run of play and so should not be reviewable except that it is an arbitrary "point of emphasis." Can we request a review of the push off that was called a defensive foul? How about the three traveling calls in the first half that weren't called? Can Coach Miles have those reviewed? Selective use of replay to call fouls after the fact is irresponsible and nearly decided this game and that is not why people watch college basketball. PLAYER OF THE GAME: SHAVON SHIELDS 2012-2013 PLAYER OF THE GAME RESULTS: RAY GALLEGOS - 8 DYLAN TALLEY - 3 BRANDON UBEL - 3 SHAVON SHIELDS - 3 DAVID RIVERS - 2 JORDAN TYRANCE - 1 This post has been promoted to an article

Congratulations Coach Miles on your first of many B1G wins

What I don't understand is how you can call a flagrant foul for elbow to the face when the guy has his hands on him. He gives Ubel no room to bring his arms to his own body. If you want to call him for the elbow, then call the other guy for the hold and at least the free throws offset.

Every other team every time

Why no "and 1" on Shield's bucket?

Win the tip and wearing the all-reds

No one gets ESPNU. The U stands for "unavailable" I even buy the "sports tier" and don't get ESPNU. Thank goodness for ESPN3

He's this year's Standhardinger, the guy we all think should be playing more but some guy who has dedicated his entire professional life to winning basketball disagrees.

Absolutely. Have you seen/heard Tartanic

That thar is wa we need laddie. A bit o fine pipin' makes ma Scottish blood roar. Ah say we add a row a bagpipes to that thar pep band an wail away.

Now that all of us have migrated to the new board it is time to shut down the old board. We wanted to let you know that we would be shutting it all down this weekend to give you all a chance to recover any posts or information from that board before it went away forever. Thanks for all if the great times on the old site. Looking forward to even better times here. HHC