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At some point, do we start considering that perhaps Ray Gallegos (whom we didn't think would be much of a loss at the time) was a bigger loss than we ever thought? He was disappointing offensively and from the field in his senior season. However, he played terrific (and at times) lockdown defense, and had a sense of calm about him. To this point, last year's team ( at least at the end of the year) is MUCH better than this one. Yes, its early in the season - HOWEVER, its almost the exact same team so in theory, they have more experience and shouldn't take until B1G play to "turn it up." So yes, we're without Leslee Smith... but one thing nobody has discussed... are we missing Rey Gallegos?

Also needs to improve his left hand a bit, obviously.

Petteway will get drafted. Its just a matter of whether he wants to roll the dice on dropping to the early 2nd round. His game plays well to the NBA and plays like the blocked shot tonight show you that he can really play and do more than just score.

One other thing. Has anyone ever seen Benny Parker get blown away on drive after drive before? Chatman was quite impressive. Parker couldn't handle him down the stretch.

No report cards this year, but I'll chime in from time to time with some thoughts. Yes, its probably convenient my first at length post game post comes after a bitter loss. No, it won't always be this way. I'll post after plenty of good moments to come, too. Where do we start with tonight? First of all, the prevailing talk with the coaches, players and fans of Husker Nation is that "in the grand scheme, this doesn't really matter. It's like our 19th or 20th most important game." Touche - you can make that argument. Certainly this game does NOT rank in the most important of the year. HOWEVER, if we lose the technical stuff and look at the big picture, this one stings very badly. And its disturbing. First of all, I don't believe I have really ever said anything bad about Coach Miles. Here and there, I may have given him bad grades on report cards the last two years but overall, I would say I have a man crush on him. I love the guy. With that said, he STUNK tonight. Was COMPLETELY out classed by Greg McDermott, who I DON'T (or at least DIDN'T) consider to be a very good coach. Boy, was I wrong (at least tonight)... Nebraska did whatever they wanted the first ten minutes and its true that had the players made a few more shots, this one could have been different. Give Miles credit for taking Creighton out of their game the first ten minutes. However, from that point forward, Creighton outscored us by approximately 20 points, as they made adjustments (especially on offense) and we didn't. We remained stagnant. Had no answers or different strategies. It was sink or swim with what we had done the first ten minutes. Now, let's give McDermott a lot of credit. It's not ALL on MIles, certainly. Greg coached a hell of a game. And his players hit shots that maybe some nights, they don't normally hit. They took away driving lanes and packed it in, making Webster, Smith, Parker and Rivers beat them. They didn't and couldn't. Defensively, the screens drove us nuts, as did the double teams, and we were unable to keep with CU guys in the last 25 minutes. It was sad. As much as I hate Creighton (as much as anyone)- they are our daddy and that isn't changing anytime soon. McDermott's bunch will be better next year and we will be without (most likely) Petteway, on the road. I don't see this series changing much in the next couple of years. Simply put, if you can't beat (what I would call a) rag tag CU team (yes, I'm aware they beat OU at home), AT the PBA, in "your year," where you have the TWO BEST PLAYERS ON THE COURT... and you lose by double figures... at home... you ain't beating them anytime soon. Its pathetic. We are their step sons. Let's quit the tough talk and finally admit it. Other notes that WEREN'T Miles fault (and there's plenty - it really was out coached and out classed). 1. Can't make free throws. 2. Forced some jump shots, especially in the second half. They were calling touch fouls all of a sudden the last 12 minutes. So what do we mainly do? Shoot jumpers. 3. Parker needs to stop stepping out of bounds. 4. Webster has been a complete bust. The "he's young" talk can stop pretty soon, as he's 1/3 of the way through is eligibility at Nebraska and marginally better than he was at 0%. 5. Pitchford will decide if we go to the NCAA or NIT. If he can't shoot the rock (and fall away 20 footers after starting 1-5 aint gonna get it done), and if he can't get more than 2.5 rebounds per game, we are going nowhere. 6. This loss, coupled with two more non conference, almost assures us an NIT berth barring a Top 5 Big 10 finish. And if we can't beat 2 of the 3 of Cincy, Hawaii and Wichita, we probably don't deserve to go. Then again, Purdue lost to UNF at home, Michigan at home to NJIT, Indiana to EWU, so who knows. 7. I have attended 14 of the last 16 CU/NU games. 6 of them I flew home from Florida and NC just for the games. Tonight I dropped $500 on primo seats and took time off tomorrow. No more. They. Are. Our. Daddies. Pathetic. And one last thing - if our coach is going to openly mock their fanbase before the game, you better win the damn thing. This one is embarrassing and hurts more than most of the last 15 years.

I actually thought we played quite well tonight. I'd give us a "B+" or "A-" on the old report card. Everyone but Webster impressed me tonight. Walt can't rebound, as pointed out, but him hitting a couple of three's early, including the first one of the game, was huge. He also played with 4 fouls (as did Moses) for a LONG TIME without fouling out. Speaking of Moses, he was one of the key players of the game. Easily. Two biggest shots? Corner three's from Benny and Tarin. Shields a baller. I thought Petteway played well. Rivers the third biggest play of the game battling for that offensive rebound with us up just 2 points late. Led to a bucket. This was a TOTAL TEAM EFFORT and we showed guts and moxxy tonight. I'm VERY encouraged by this effort and think with a "W" on Sunday, we'll find ourselves back at #24 or #25. DAve

I also posted this in the "I post here because..." thread but since that topic is several days old, and perhaps missed by some, I thought I'd post it in a brand new thread, too. A little background on the site to add to many who never knew this or have long ago forgotten. I was living in Charlotte, NC. from 2004-2006 for my radio career and had just graduated from UNL. I had a ton of connections within the program at that point - both current players who were friends, and connections to the coaching staff - and I had a huge passion for Husker Hoops, with a journalism and radio background. I went through a particularly tough breakup in the spring of 05 and needed something to throw myself into. I've always been passion and work oriented. In my one bedroom apartment in Charlotte, depressed as all being, missing home and not knowing a soul because my ex was my ENTIRE social life, I somehow decided to start a Husker basketball blog. My love of the program had kept growing in the months since I left Nebraska - absence always makes the heart grow fonder. Heck, I took that same ex to Knoxville, TN (3.5 hours away) and spent New Years Eve there just a few months earlier to see NU pull off the road win after Marcus Neal knocked down free throws at the end of regulation. Anyway, within 3 days or so of starting that blog, maybe a week, I found out I could (with the help of HHCGarrett/AKA Garrett Wright) launch an actual website by using Microsoft Front Page. We bought the "Front Page For Dummies" book at Barnes & Nobel and I bought the software and mailed it all to Garrett. He was working with Husker Vision at the time so he completely separated himself from any articles. He published, I wrote and researched. And wrote. And researched. (Anyone remember when Garrett took video of EVERY SINGLE DUNK from the slam dunk contest and had them ALL on-line after 6 hours of overnight work?). Anyway, content - articles - that's right - HHC once had DAILY ARTICLES YEAR 'ROUND. Maybe some of the real old posters remember that or Dimes or someone who knows how can go back and pull off screen shots from years passed. I interviewed, for this site (just a few): Jay Bilas Paul Splittorff Fred White Danny Nee Barry Collier Stu Lantz Doc Sadler Eric Piatkowski Erick Strickland Greg Doyel Ricardo Patton Mike Anderson Quin Snyder Paul Millsap Scott Drew Richard Roby And around 100 other players and coaches. Articles were done for three seasons. We had weekly "Then & Now" features with former Huskers. I once found a guy who was homeless living in New York (Gerard Myrhtill). I once single handedly found Jose Ramos for the 90-91 Reunion. Nobody else could find him from the basketball offices. I called him on the phone and he was blown away I located him. Kind of cold at first but soon opened up. He went to the Rebounders Club banquet that night and publicly complained that I wasn't given an invite to attend the banquet since I had been the one to get him to come to Lincoln. Beau Reid once wrote for this site. John Turek. Cary Cochran. Randy Lee. Andrew Drevo. Bruce Chubick. Matt Coatney. This site was MY LIFE for 3 years. Literally. 20-30 hours a week. Thousands of dollars of debt for lots of stuff I later found out I didn't need. I should also give a shout out in the early days to Jerry Trickie of NU SID for working with us and giving us media access, as well as to Scott Cunningham for moderating and the graphics work. By 2008, maybe 2009, the site went from interviews and features and post game STORIES (with quotes and interviews) to just report cards. Then by 2010 or so, to just a message board with report cards. So at one point, this was a full service site - message board was secondary. I eventually couldn't afford to keep buying every media guide known to man to research interviews, as many road trips to see games, as much hosting space and paying photographers, but more than that, I was both jaded by a few incidents from the university that I won't ever publicly mention (because that's not my style) and I just flat out ran out of time. My career has taken over further and not allowed me to do what I once did. Nowadays, Dimes is the one who runs this site. Its essentially 100% his. He does EVERYTHING. He has SAVED THIS SITE. SINGLE HANDEDLY. Scott and I help occasionally but anymore, its Dimes (as you know) and several others who have stepped up and kept this site going. I hope that no matter what happens to me in the future, or Dimes, that you posters will ALWAYS promise to keep the site going. I don't want to see this site ever go away. It's nothing I can take credit for anymore - the last 3 years are all Matt (Dimes). He occasionally asks my opinion but I defer to him 9 times out of 10. But it's sure cool to read all of your memories of HHC, how you found it, etc. Hard to believe a heartbreak in Charlotte nearly ten years ago, in a small one bedroom apartment, and a random 1 AM idea to start a blog, led to a site that once broke three steps of the Barry Collier leaving for Butler process, once got quoted in the KC Star, Lawrence Journal World and The Sporting News, and now is going on ten years strong. I love you all, even if I am a "has been" in the world of HHC. Go Huskers, Dave

A little background on the site to add to many who never knew this or have long ago forgotten. I was living in Charlotte, NC. from 2004-2006 for my radio career and had just graduated from UNL. I had a ton of connections within the program at that point - both current players who were friends, and connections to the coaching staff - and I had a huge passion for Husker Hoops, with a journalism and radio background. I went through a particularly tough breakup in the spring of 05 and needed something to throw myself into. I've always been passion and work oriented. In my one bedroom apartment in Charlotte, depressed as all being, missing home and not knowing a soul because my ex was my ENTIRE social life, I somehow decided to start a Husker basketball blog. My love of the program had kept growing in the months since I left Nebraska - absence always makes the heart grow fonder. Heck, I took that same ex to Knoxville, TN (3.5 hours away) and spent New Years Eve there just a few months earlier to see NU pull off the road win after Marcus Neal knocked down free throws at the end of regulation. Anyway, within 3 days or so of starting that blog, maybe a week, I found out I could (with the help of HHCGarrett/AKA Garrett Wright) launch an actual website by using Microsoft Front Page. We bought the "Front Page For Dummies" book at Barnes & Nobel and I bought the software and mailed it all to Garrett. He was working with Husker Vision at the time so he completely separated himself from any articles. He published, I wrote and researched. And wrote. And researched. (Anyone remember when Garrett took video of EVERY SINGLE DUNK from the slam dunk contest and had them ALL on-line after 6 hours of overnight work?). Anyway, content - articles - that's right - HHC once had DAILY ARTICLES YEAR 'ROUND. Maybe some of the real old posters remember that or Dimes or someone who knows how can go back and pull off screen shots from years passed. I interviewed, for this site (just a few): Jay Bilas Paul Splittorff Fred White Danny Nee Barry Collier Stu Lantz Doc Sadler Eric Piatkowski Erick Strickland Greg Doyel Ricardo Patton Mike Anderson Quin Snyder Paul Millsap Scott Drew Richard Roby And around 100 other players and coaches. Articles were done for three seasons. We had weekly "Then & Now" features with former Huskers. I once found a guy who was homeless living in New York (Gerard Myrhtill). I once single handedly found Jose Ramos for the 90-91 Reunion. Nobody else could find him from the basketball offices. I called him on the phone and he was blown away I located him. Kind of cold at first but soon opened up. He went to the Rebounders Club banquet that night and publicly complained that I wasn't given an invite to attend the banquet since I had been the one to get him to come to Lincoln. Beau Reid once wrote for this site. John Turek. Cary Cochran. Randy Lee. Andrew Drevo. Bruce Chubick. Matt Coatney. This site was MY LIFE for 3 years. Literally. 20-30 hours a week. Thousands of dollars of debt for lots of stuff I later found out I didn't need. I should also give a shout out in the early days to Jerry Trickie of NU SID for working with us and giving us media access, as well as to Scott Cunningham for moderating and the graphics work. By 2008, maybe 2009, the site went from interviews and features and post game STORIES (with quotes and interviews) to just report cards. Then by 2010 or so, to just a message board with report cards. So at one point, this was a full service site - message board was secondary. I eventually couldn't afford to keep buying every media guide known to man to research interviews, as many road trips to see games, as much hosting space and paying photographers, but more than that, I was both jaded by a few incidents from the university that I won't ever publicly mention (because that's not my style) and I just flat out ran out of time. My career has taken over further and not allowed me to do what I once did. Nowadays, Dimes is the one who runs this site. Its essentially 100% his. He does EVERYTHING. He has SAVED THIS SITE. SINGLE HANDEDLY. Scott and I help occasionally but anymore, its Dimes (as you know) and several others who have stepped up and kept this site going. I hope that no matter what happens to me in the future, or Dimes, that you posters will ALWAYS promise to keep the site going. I don't want to see this site ever go away. It's nothing I can take credit for anymore - the last 3 years are all Matt (Dimes). He occasionally asks my opinion but I defer to him 9 times out of 10. But it's sure cool to read all of your memories of HHC, how you found it, etc. Hard to believe a heartbreak in Charlotte nearly ten years ago, in a small one bedroom apartment, and a random 1 AM idea to start a blog, led to a site that once broke three steps of the Barry Collier leaving for Butler process, once got quoted in the KC Star, Lawrence Journal World and The Sporting News, and now is going on ten years strong. I love you all, even if I am a "has been" in the world of HHC. Go Huskers, Dave

MilesDavis NAILED this one on $cott Drew and the option$ he give$ recruit$.

I'm assuming you meant keeping Miles for a minimum of 1-2 more years, right Norm? Or do you think we will lose him in 1-2 more years? I see no way he isn't here for 5 years. My gut says we have a BIG season next year and we lock him up to an even bigger deal. That buys us through year five - after that, anything is possible.

When this post was started, it wasn't OT - Creighton was in our bracket and a very possible second round game. Thus, why it wasn't in OT.

I LOVED watching this game tonight. So funny on so many levels. All I've gotta say is one word: Losers.

I just spent around $150 on Nebraska basketball gear and I blame you for posting this! #SorryNotSorry

The fact that he was considering transferring at semester to be with his girlfriend and that Texas A&M has (supposedly) had an open offer to him. Of course that was also a few months ago and a lot changes in that period of time, especially for an 18 year old kid.

I'm wondering the following this off-season: 1. Will Serj be back? 2. Will Hawkins be back? 3. What transfer(s) will we get? 4. We will get Deng Deng? 5. How good will Nick Fuller be? Remember, he's essentially a newcomer next year to go along with Hammond and Smith, too.

And the sad thing is, that's a fairly "Down to earth" outlook in comparison to the majority of Creighton fans I've known. My favorite two parts of that: "They are an elite team" (yeah okay) And "If they pull out a miracle and beat Baylor." Okay, sure. It would take a miracle to beat the #7 team in the Big 12. Okay.

First of all, I am firmly in the camp of disliking the Creighton Blue Jays (Yes, spelled "Bluejays" wrong intentionally). From 1999-2000, when Terrell Taylor was a hot dog and talking trash more than any opposing player I had seen (and this was backed by former players I was friends with at this time - I was in college). Add in Rodney Buford and you had quite the special duo come through that program, along with guys who couldn't even read (literally). From 2003-2004, when we ended their season, on their home floor, in the NIT, and we were told "Well, that game doesn't matter. Only the regular season matters. NIT is for losers." From 2005, when something like 12 of 16 schools on our schedule would work with us (HHC) in doing interviews, sending out media guides, etc. The Creighton SID (Rob something) was completely rude to me, lectured me on my grammar (which is pretty spot on the majority of the time) and informed me they wouldn't be doing anything or sending out a guide. This is back before media guides were standard on-line and 10 of 12 Big 12 schools sent them without a problem, as well as allowing access. Little dick syndrome even back then. From DBAG Perrault, the biggest fraud of a media personality in the country, and a career bush league radio guy with no future (BTW, Mike Welch, you DO have a future. I need to reach out to you soon). From the last 15 years, when there's NO DOUBT they have had more basketball success. Nobody here is arguing that. But they seemed to revel in calling us "Little brother" (which makes zero sense), have fans like LincolnJay who would end every post with "BE LOUD!!! BE PROUD!!!" and multitudes of others who would do ANYTHING to belittle Nebraska, a program with an all-time winning record head to head and a program who saw basketball as its (for the majority of that time) 5th best athletic program. You see, basketball is Creighton's marquee sport. Pretty much always has been. Basketball has NEVER been Nebraska's marquee sport. And never close. Is some of that incompetence from AD's, coaches, players, etc? Of course. But a lot is that there was NEVER an emphasis placed on basketball in a serious manner until recently. Flash forward to tonight. I head over to the Creighton site for the second time this year (First since back before and after we played them) and I see constant mocking of Nebraska, how Baylor is a lock, they don't even CONSIDER US a possible opponent. Are you joking? A 3.5 point underdog? The 4th ranked Big 10 team versus the 7th ranked Big 12 team? Two conferences that are VERY comparable RPI wise? There's two possibilities for this reaction - both very much possible (and probable). 1. They're clueless basketball fans and seriously think we couldn't defeat a Baylor team no better than Ohio State, who we split with in the regular season and no logical person would say we didn't "have defeated" last Friday. They don't understand a team +3.5 has a better than 2:1 chance of winning, meaning odds are pretty good, and they don't understand we've already defeated teams better, such as the aforementioned Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State (on the road). 2. They're scared shitless. They know that their All-American player, Dougie M, is gone, and that Daddy wasn't ever able to cut it at BCS level leagues in the past and will never be able to recruit that caliber of athlete again. Luckily for Daddy, the Big East is only 25% better than the Valley in its peak years, so he has a fighting chance of competing in the middle of that league and avoiding the "pathetic" NIT in half of the years. They know that their 26 year old point guard will soon have to get a real job, unless he gets into UFC Fighting, which I would advise or even better, cock fighting (hey, it fits, doesn't it?). They also know this "team of a lifetime" and "dream season" couldn't even finish 1st place in a watered down, slightly above mid major status league during the regular season, and choked away a conference championship in the tournament against a team that (GASP!!!) has the same seed as "little brother" Nebraska in the NCAA's (11 seed - thanks to Creighton's incompetence in getting them that high). What's even funnier is that they wouldn't even have won the Valley this year, clearly a non Top 8 league, and they've only gone one round further than Nebraska in the NCAA. So why are they scared? Well, with all of the above in mind, they see that right down the road, for the first time in program history, FINALLY Nebraska is dedicated to fielding a basketball team. No more forcing a coach out after the school's first NCAA appearance in 1986. No more forcing a coach out in the 90's who put the program to a new level. No more old facilities. No more stupid administrative mishaps. They see "little brother" finally putting its money where the fans' mouths have been. In Creighton's defense, a lot of us HAVE been claiming things are getting better, with little evidence (other than hope) to back that for years. However, nowadays, it would take a mental midget to not clearly SEE the differences in: 1. A top 5 practice facility in America. 2. A top 5 basketball arena in America. 3. A top level basketball coach that has won over almost every heart he's crossed that has a beat. 4. A first team All Big 10 performer with two years left; a former huge recruit to Florida who is going to become a second team All Big 10 performer by his senior season in two years; a sophomore All-Honorable Mention B1G as a sophomore; a big time point guard prospect who is a freshman; and a Top 25 caliber recruiting class brewing for 2015. 5. A much better basketball conference (and ten times the network than the conference formerly called the Big East). 6. A completely sold out season ticket fan base. 7. Fans who get into the game (unlike the old days). 8. National attention (gobs of it). And last but not least: 9. A program that SHOULD be TWO YEARS AWAY from the NCAA Tournament. Yet here we are, in year two. I don't blame them for being scared shitless. Times are changing. They always will. What's funny though is that looking back, I see we were going to lose to MSU. Then at Indiana. Then to WISC. And miss the tourney. I'm reminded that we were never going to make the NIT and if we do, its a loser tournament. And now "little brother" is TWO YEARS ahead of schedule, with more momentum than Rodney Buford had going through security with his marijuana inside his tin foil at the airport, and you know what, Creighton can't stand this. This is THEIR year. Their "Final 4 run" (which is still posted on their site even today and talked about like its normal - you should read it, its quite adorable). And here we are, one win away from playing them, and they can't STAND to think of it. "Little Brother" taking the headlines and becoming even with them in their DREAM SEASON. TWO YEARS before we are supposed to do anything. They can't stand getting beat by "little brother', let alone being in the same tournament and same bracket. UNL is a bunch of peasants who are not near as good at basketball as the almighty Creighton, don't you know?!? The same Creighton whose power sport has never seen a Sweet 16 in modern times; the same Creighton whose power sport, in its best season ever, can't win its regular or conference tournament; the same Creighton that is so superior to "little brother." So in short... Nebraska may very well lose to Baylor. I read posts on this site and I see NOBODY mocking Baylor... taking them lightly... saying it'll be easy... Are we ribbing Creighton and hoping to play them? Of course - that's normal. But these morons take it to a new level, and its very fun to watch happen. Its like watching Jose Valverde try to close out a baseball game during the 2013 season. You see, NU very well MAY lose before Creighton, even TO Creighton. But if it happens, you know what??? This is your best year in program history. Daddy loses his shiniest toy, his 26 year old whack ass frat boy PG and "little brother" down the street, TWO YEARS EARLY, has all the momentum building in the world. And that makes "little brother" awfully difficult to deal with.

I went down last April and stayed in a hotel three blocks from the riverwalk, EASY walk, REALLY NICE and brand new/remodeled. Red Roof Inn. Highly recommend it. I think it ran me $95 a night.

OFFENSE: C+ This is a really tough game to grade offensively because while NU shot just 37% from the field, it did connect on 85% from the free throw line (17-20) and score a point total that should have won the game (67). However, for a good portion of the game, it seemed as if NU couldn't get anything going against Ohio State, who forced a couple of shot clock violations, took NU out of its game early with defensive overloads and of course, the officials let Aaron Craft play football with ball handlers, too. I don't want to put this game on the refs - they did NOT lose it. Nebraska pissed this game down its own leg. However, the officiating certainly didn't help, from Craft being allowed to bump & grind on NU players like it was a posh club on a Friday night, to travels being missed on one end and not on the other, etc. Our Player of the Game is Walter Pitchford, who was just a hair better than Terran Petteway today though honestly, both could have easily won it. Pitch finished with 15 points, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks, 1 assist and 0 turnovers in 32 minutes, although his show boating on the alley oop ended up being another reason NU lost, as it led to a HUGE four point swing and continued shift in momentum. Petteway finished with 20 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 3 turnovers. DEFENSE: C Nebraska's defense wasn't bad - I would call it "average" in this game. It was the REBOUNDING (which we'll discuss later) portion of the "D" that was BAD. In the first half, NU held OSU to 28 points on 50% shooting because they forced 8 turnovers and kept the Buckeyes off of the foul line (3-5). In the second, NU allowed 43 points on 46% shooting and allowed the Buckeyes to shoot TWENTY THREE free throws. Luckily, OSU missed nine of them and converted on just 61% for the game. It's hard to fathom how the Huskers allowed OSU to score 43 points in the second half, especially considering the Buckeyes had TWO in the first five minutes (or 25%) of the half. Simply depressing that this one got away. REBOUNDING: F +9 for OSU on the boards (43 to 34) including FOURTEEN offensive rebounds. I'm sorry, that simply can't happen, ESPECIALLY when you are the rested team who DID NOT play the day before. LaQuinton Ross essentially beat NU on his own, scoring 26 points and grabbing THIRTEEN rebounds, though Ross was also helped by Nebraska and the officiating in putting this one in the Buckeye "W" column. BALL HANDLING: F 11 turnovers, 9 assists don't tell the whole story. Nebraska was ONCE AGAIN embarrassingly AWFUL against the Mickey Mouse press OSU featured. I have no clue how game after game, all season long: A. Nebraska can't handle a basic press at end of games and B. Why more teams don't press against the Big Red more often. We'll talk more about this under coaching. COACHING: D The lack of in bounding the basketball in this game - in the Wisconsin game - in the Minnesota game - and many others - is on Coach Miles. I don't need anyone telling me we're overachieving and having a dream season - I'm aware of this. I'm Miles' biggest cheerleader. But remember, this is a report card for THIS GAME. And when taking in account the pattern that has evolved over many games, its not acceptable that this team isn't coached to in bound the freaking basketball without: A. Using a timeout. B. Taking a five second. C. Throwing it away. D. Catching it and getting trapped in the corner. Miles has had plenty of time to work on this. Today, for example, we had a guy TWICE who could have run the base line after a make NOT DO IT. Once was out of a timeout. Also, no creativity. Why not pass the ball to another Husker every once in awhile who then throws it back to the other one. That would work a minimum of one time and give them a different look. Do something different. We didn't until we had turned it over three times and used a timeout. That's simply not acceptable. This is what made the game snowball, because it made OSU believe they could win. That got them going, changed momentum and made our guys fold like a cheap card table. The offensive rebounds we allowed off of the turnover misses were also backbreakers. OVERALL GRADE: D I'm sorry but I can't grade this game positive when we were up 18 with 13:40 left and LOST the game. That means we were outscored by TWENTY TWO POINTS in 13:40. Had we lost this game in a toe to toe, see saw battle, this grade would undoubtedly be higher. But I think we're to a point where we can expect this team, which isn't THAT young anymore (we're at the end of the season) to finish off a near 20 point game with the contest nearly 70% over. Conversely, the GOOD NEWS is that I think we will learn a LOT from this game. It could become invaluable going forward. You have to learn how to win and how to respond to different situations and a lot of that is based on experience. I think next time we're in a tough neutral site game (next week), we'll come out on top. Better to lose like this today than next week. PLAYER OF THE GAME: WALTER PITCHFORD 2013-2014 PLAYER OF THE GAME RESULTS: TERRAN PETTEWAY - 13 SHAVON SHIELDS - 8 WALTER PITCHFORD - 5 TAI WEBSTER - 2 LESLEE SMITH - 2 DEVERELL BIGGS - 1 Click here to view the article

Can we please get the twerking line and his call of the end of the wi game on there?

Agree. Let's not do a single thing to cause any ill feelings. We are going to want this guy for a long, long time and the only way we're going to keep him is if we treat him the way he deserves. I'm quite confident Marc and company agree, know this and will do the right thing. Also, Marc... can we PLEASE get Tim Miles bobbleheads next year? And perhaps start a "Hall of Fame series" with one per year for the next several years, both men and women?

Kent is one of the last of a generation of extremely talented radio broadcasters who can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up from "the call" of the game. I consider Kent and Bob Davis to be the best two college radio play by play guys in the country - and I am a full-time radio guy who also listens to between 75-100 D-1 basketball PBP guys per year, so I think I'm qualified to say that. It's been several years since we spoke Kent but I am so thankful you are doing well, that you stopped by and that you continue to be one of the premiere PBP guys in the country for OUR program. I hope we have you 15 more years and I hope even more that you will be announcing our first (of many) NCAA Tournament wins in about 11-12 days.

Acting as if the local media doesn't travel or watch other basketball is what made it DBAG. Not the statement of the crowd didn't affect them.

I'm doubting DBAG Ryan ever has been in an atmosphere where 99% of the fans STOOD the entire 40 minutes. But okay Bo, whatever. We only get local TV here, no cable. We never travel or watch other NCAA hoops.