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Fred just laughing about how bad the officiating is (although I did think they handled the fight part pretty well).

Mayen is going to get ejected - but hopefully the guy that came up and bumped him will also. The Cam Hayes guy really is the one who made it bad - although Mayen's little elbow started it.

Verge got mugged - how is that not a foul?

Is it just me or have they missed 3 very obvious NC St traveling calls in the last 2 minutes.

Not saying I was pleased with the game tonight - but certainly not as depressed as the rest of you seem to be. I don't think this team is quite as bad as their Kenpom rating indicated - sounds like they really got homered at South Dakota (had a double digit lead before 2 technical fouls before half and SD shot something like 40 free throws). In any event they shot really well - some of that was bad defense to be sure - but even at that they shot very well at least in the first half so I thought they also played over their head a little bit. I also thought we came out really pretty well. Had good possessions early. Problem was really when we brought the first subs in and got really lazy on defense. My main comments - Alonzo Verge took a lot of criticism on this board early this year - but he was very good tonight - by far our best player and we likely don't win the game without him playing at a high level. Second - Derek Walker is far and away our best post player contrary to what lots of people were saying on this board a week or two ago. He is a bit undersized but he battles hard and is really skilled both as a passer and at finishing. We are just now figuring out how to use him in the offense to play to his strengths - and that bodes well for the future to some extent. I do think most everyone probably had too high of expectations for the team - but frankly that is human nature. We do have holes and are still a very poor rebounding team. Bryce has great flashes but has not figured out yet how to play hard off the ball and on defense. I like what Keon brings but he is not comfortable on offense yet. CJ is good in flashes also but falls asleep on defense at times and also has really poor rebounding fundamentals. This was a game where we shot poorly both from 3's and at the line - when the opponent shot over their heads at least a little - yet we still found a way to win - not comfortably but really should have been by 10 had we made FTs at the end.

Those two calls - both fouls on Bryce were huge - and both were really bad calls. Not sure how they called the one a block - had to be that they did not think he gave the guy room to turn because he certainly was set and appeared to be outside the circle. The baseline drive in the 2nd half where they called a charge was a horrible call. Ref on the baseline had a bad angle and apparently thought Bryce was moving into the defender when I could tell from my angle if anything the defender moved in to cause whatever contact was there. Like they often do the ref assumed something was going to happen and made a call without see what actually happened (sort of like the foul they called on CJ when he contested a breakaway layup in the first half and literally never touched the guy at all).

Depressing - I think we have better players but Creighton clearly had a better team. I can only assume that Fred is too attached to an NBA type offense and needs to adjust back to college. In the NBA you play 2 or 3 man offensive systems that start with dribble drives. But we don't have NBA players. Creighton runs an offense that had 5 guys moving all the time - with lots of off ball screens to get the offense moving. We don't do anything until someone starts a dribble drive and I don't think we ever set a screen for anyone who does not have the ball. Fred needs to spend some time watching this film and find a way to get some semblance of the ball movement - and player rotation that you see in good college offenses. At one point I thought we must think we are playing football - can only have 1 guy in "motion' at a time :). I actually think maybe Verge learned something tonight. He was very frustrated - but I think that was due to him sort of knowing he should not be doing what he was doing -but also not knowing what else to do. I understand the people saying he is not a PG because he certainly is not trying to run an offense that gets everyone involved which is what you want your PG to do. But - I sure don't see how he was a D-1 "shooting guard" either because he looks like the last guy on the team we would want taking jump shots. I actually think he has PG skills (ball handling and passing ability) but he just doesn't know how to play PG - and that is on Fred - and Fred's "offense". Verge is really very good at beating his guy off the dribble - but after watching the CU and West Ill game films they also know that as long as you cover the screener to take away that pass off the pick and roll and help off enough to contest the shot at the bucket you have taken away his game completely. That said I don't know whether he is 100% to blame for not making the pass to anyone else - because when we run that pick and roll the other 3 guys just stand around watching and none of them seem to be trying to get themselves open. Bryce is extremely talented in some ways - but also very raw and lacking in others. If we could get him to play as hard as his brother does we might have something. He really struggles on the defensive end and while his athleticism gets him some rebounds his rebounding fundamentals are really lacking. I am kind of hoping that Trey will really push him while he has to sit and watch now and get him to understand that playing at this level requires 100% effort 100% of the time no matter how gifted you are athletically. The most frustrating thing though is how he disappears at the end of games. He had 25 points in the Western Illinois game - but did nothing in the last 5 minutes of that game. Tonight with 6 minutes left I told my friend that if Bryce is really an NBA player he needs to take over the game now. But he barely even touched the ball the rest of the game. Obviously a lot of that is on Verge not sharing anything. We need to make Verge understand that his (and most everyone else's) primary job really needs to be to find a way to help get the most out of the skills that Bryce has. Particularly at the end of close games he needs to be the one taking a leading role in games. That said - I understand it is his 3rd college game - but great players are not afraid to put the team on their back. I don't get the criticism of Walker. He did struggle at times tonight - but the CU big guy is actually a handful - much bigger and very disciplined. What I liked is for the first time this year we let Walker do what he perhaps does best on offense - get the ball in the high post and pass to cutters. He did that quite a bit last year - but we have not done that at all this year until a couple times tonight. I don't care that he did not score much - his scoring should only come in getting 2nd chance points and passes off pick and rolls (if we ever get to a point where the opponent does not focus on taking that away). Walker is undersized a bit - but he does play hard. I do think Andre needs to be in the rotation and he does good things - primarily bringing alot of energy to the floor. But he really struggled in the first half at times also and just is not nearly as sound fundamentally as Walker at this point. Overall I can't say that I expected to win going in - but I also think the reason we did not is almost fully due to our inability or unwillingness to play as a team. That is on Fred to a large extent - but the players need to realize that as well.

Really disappointing result. I think Fred (like me) kept thinking we would wake up enough to pull out a win. Actually would have except for the sudden inability to make free throws at the end and the 2 bombs thrown in by Western Carolina at the end - the 2nd one by a guy who likely would never make that shot more than 1 in 10 times. That said our performance was abysmal. Apparently after getting badly outrebounded in the win over Colorado we reached the conclusion that rebounding doesn't matter. If you wanted to grade our rebounding effort tonight it would be impossible because an F isn't bad enough to describe it. I do think Walker tried to get boards and Verge obviously had a high rebound total - but the other guys absolutely made no effort at all to block anyone out on the defensive side. Offensively it certainly seemed that our only offensive play was to let either Verge or Bryce get a pick from Walker and drive to the hoop to throw up whatever they could get off toward the basket - while the other 3 guys literally just stood and watched that happen. No ball movement and no movement without the ball. Even the one time late when Wilcher did get a kick out he was completely out of position to take a shot. Of course I can understand by that point why he was surprised to get the ball on offense. Verge and Bryce are both very talented - but hope they learned tonight that for the team to be successful they have to acknowledge they have teammates and maybe even let them participate in the offense once in awhile. But you do wonder why Fred just let them continue to do the same thing over and over without trying to run an offense. Before the last possession when we were in the timeout the guy next to me said that whatever Fred was drawing up what is going to happen is Verge is going to get the ball and drive to the basket and put up whatever he can get off without even looking to pass to anyone else. That is even harder to do successfully when everyone on the arena - including the Western Illinois coaches and players - knew that was exactly what was going to happen. All that said - if our only offense was going to be to have someone drive to the hoop and take whatever shot they could get - why did Bryce stop being an option to do that the last 4 minutes. While that is not what I would have wanted to see - it would have been better to see Bryce be involved in some way down the stretch because he was at least our most effective option in that "role" up to that point. You can learn alot from games like this - and hopefully we will learn some lessons from it. Problem is that losses in games like this really haunt you all season. People forget narrow wins against mediocre teams early in the season. But losses to this kind of opponent stick out like a really sore thumb when you look at a team's "resume" at the end of the year.

Andre was in the regular team sweats and participated in warmups. I assume he had his uniform on under the sweats but he never took them off so guess we don't know for sure. But by all appearances at the game he was available. Webster and Mayan were both in street clothes.

I was traveling today so missed the game. Is there a way to watch the BTN+ stream later when I get home?

I get that they would have that information - but transferring the tickets doesn't mean they are sold - lots of people share tickets or just give them to their children etc most of the time. Also FWIW pretty sure the ticket office is aware that many people sell their season tickets to others. I know people who have been buying season tickets from others for over 20 years - both in football and basketball. I don't think that would be news to anyone in the ticket office. Would be pretty unreasonable for them to change their position on that now.

Have not seen the basketball tickets - but in the past they have been color printed with some sort of design. Football tickets were more colorful and elaborate. This year the printed versions are very small and vanilla. Maybe because the original plan was to not do paper tickets at all and when they changed direction on that to allow paper tickets they did not have the time or the budget to do anything fancier. Another possibility is that keeping them simple is just a further step toward weening people off paper tickets. FWIW we went the eticket route this year mostly because I knew it was going to come eventually so thought we would bite the bullet. Turns out that I like it alot. Much easier to transfer tickets to other people that way so it is great if you share tickets in a group.

If you got e-tickets the parking passes are electronic also. The come with the tickets and you just show the person your phone with the QR code for them to scan at the parking entry. Has been that way for volleyball and football and that is how the basketball passes have come as well. You can transfer them with your phone just like you can transfer the tickets. We share season tickets for all the sports among a big family group and have found the eticket system to be very easy and efficient.

If you tried to put everyone who has honest significant difficulty traversing the steps from the concourse to the floor and back up in PBA into ADA seating they would probably need about 20 times more ADA seats than they currently have. I also don't think anyone should be forced to change seats if there are reasonable ways to allow them to access the seats they have. Clearly some floor level access is possible. They are not closing it off completely - even allowing the big donor courtside seat people to go in that way. The idea of telling people to wait 10 minutes is a reasonable potential option for the end of games. Frankly if the problem people are worried about is really just the ones leaving early it would be very easy to just close off access to the floor from the seats until the game is over. I agree that it you allow exceptions it creates a situation where people who don't really need them will seek them. But to me that is less of a problem than not providing any exceptions to those people who really do need them to access their seats. There are certainly ways to make this available to people who really need it without it getting out of control.

Like most things I see this as a situation where there should be a middle ground. To some extent this is a problem with building design mistakes. The design was to have most people leave at the concourse level - and also to have just as many if not more leave to the north as the south. But when you put the arena in the location it is in that doesn't happen - a large majority come in from the south because that is where they are before the game (because they are pre-gaming and because the parking on the north side by the ballpark is not as convenient in the winter as the designers anticipated.) More to the point it simply is the natural reaction of people given an option to move down rather than going up from their seats. I have long thought that many people would come down from their seats when they could be getting out of the arena much quicker by going up. Personally I come in from the north so this does not really impact me a bit - even though my seats are in the lower rows. It is alot of steps because I park on street level so there are a bunch of steps up to that north entrance and then a bunch more down to my seats. - but fortunately that is not yet a problem for me. That said I know several people who will be VERY much inconvenienced by this policy and at least one I know personally who will be totally unable to go to games because there is no way he will be able to get to his seats and back out via the upper concourse - far more steps from there to his seat than he would be able to physically handle. My hope is they will find a way to be flexible although I am not optimistic. I recall the first season when we wanted my elderly mother to be able to access the building from a handicapped entrance on the north side at floor level and walk directly to her row one seat on the north end - not very far at all from that door. They refused forcing her to take an elevator up - walk clear across the concourse to the escalator to get back down and then come in from that south floor level entrance and walk at floor level all the way to the north side. Was the only way to get her to that seat as going up and down that many steps was impossible for her at that time. My parents had been going to games for 50 years through three arenas and they had easy access from their parking to their seats in Devaney - but PBA access rules just made it too difficult so she stopped coming And that was when you could at least enter the court from the floor level. Again there are people who are still fairly mobile but simply cannot handle the steps from that concourse down to their seats and back up. Obviously they are allowing some floor level access - for the courtside seats and the students. Hopefully they will come up with some floor level access pass that they can issue upon request for good cause for season ticket holders who have lower seats but physical limitations that make it difficult or impossible to go down and up from that concourse. If they do that reasonably this could actually be better for those people as it would also help them to have to walk in and out among far fewer people. Again I am hopeful that they will make that accommodation - but based on past experience I am not optimistic and that will be very unfortunate for some long time and loyal fans.

Did they have reserved seats? I just went in and got 4 that said they were general admission. I don't remember for sure but I thought last year we got reserved seats.

Congratulations Noah !

True - ublinstu in terms of more recent times. But old timers like me remember full crowds in Devaney through the 1990's - and really before then as well. Husker fans' support of NU basketball has generally been very good - particularly in comparison to the level of success. I agree that was not necessarily true (or at least not as true) the last few years at Devaney - but NU Hoops was a very hot ticket in the 1990's and we had very good attendance before then as well.

They did have a new rule this year that you could not add tickets if you already had 8 or more. We have a family block started by my parents who have had season tickets going way back to the years in the Coliseum. We have had 8 since PBA opened and 2 years ago we added 2 more - best we could get then was 200 level when our time came up then. This year there were quite a few 100 level seats when it got to us - midday yesterday. My niece wanted to add 2 to our block but I was not able to do that - just moved the 200 level seats down to 100 level fairly close to where our other ones are located. So just based on what we could do there seems to have been a little more demand 2 years ago than this year - but glad that it looks like most all of the tickets will get sold through this system (which FWIW works really well - have used it for football and volleyball too). Personally I did not like that they would not let me add more seats to our account - but I can also understand why they wanted to add that rule. Overall - this is a positive testament to Nebraska fans. Most power 5 programs that are much higher profile than Nebraska don't come close to selling out their arena's with season tickets.

Watching Cam Mack's Prairie View A&M team blow their NCAA chance - losing by double digits to a team they beat twice during the season. Cam has made some really nice passes - he does see the floor incredibly well - but his teammates can't seem to finish at the hoop today at least. Not sure if he has scored - only recall him taking a couple of shots. So no arrows in the ceiling today so far I don't think.

Actually I would take Miles over Richard Pitino every day of the week - and twice on Sunday. A big blunder if UNM takes Pitino instead of Miles in my opinion.

Ridiculous foul call on Walker

RIcky Marsh was a pretty good player as well. He was the PG that helped get Jerry lots of his points.

Would never have been called except he got a reputation by doing that early in the year and the refs now look for it and don't want him to get away with it. HUGE mistake to do it now.

Walker is back on the bench now - but just sitting there. He was there at the beginning of the 2nd half but then gone for awhile - that would be consistent with him being sick I guess ?