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Pirates Win !! Love seeing KY lose - even better when it helps Nebraska

Had Kentucky beat - but KY hit a half court shot at the buzzer to tie it. Going to OT. Will be hard for the Pirates to overcome that - particularly as they have had guys foul out. Would be really good for the Huskers for SH to get the win though.

That was really depressing - primarily in the fact that we had the game won and just pissed it away. My two overriding comments are that we tried to take the air out of the ball WAY too early. Was driving me crazy to have us walking the ball up the floor with 10 minutes left. We play much better when we are trying to force the action. Also is always a killer for us to just cross half court before the shot clock hits 20. Our half court offense is not good enough to try to be consistent scoring when the other team only has to play defense for 20 seconds. Second - Palmer needs to learn that he has to show up every night. Difference between him and Coffey tonight was one of them showed up and played hard and the other was just going through the motions. Unfortunately the one that played hard was not wearing red.

Just rewatched that hit on Copeland. Won't do any good but we need to send that somewhere for a review. Clearly should have been an ejaction or at least a technical foul. A ridiculously dirty play by Thomas - but away from the action so no one saw it. Ultimately didn't matter because Copeland did not get hurt (I think) and we go the win. But still wish they would discipline the kid for that or else he is going to keep playing that way and someone will get hurt. Regardless - Great Husker Win !!

These fouls before the clock starts are obviously intentional. You can't let them do that.

Refs did not see it because it was away from the action - but Thomas should have been ejected for that hit on Copeland .

Huge shot by Thomas. That is exactly what we need from him.

Damn Glenn we needed that one to go.

Finally a back cut. They have been overplaying wings all night (so did Texas Tech) because we never make hard back cuts to the basket.

Nice for Borchardt to be one of the guys that comes out for garbage time - not one that comes in then.

Love that play from James. Had a shot that he could have taken on a night when he has not gotten his points - but gave it up to Cope for the dunk. Great team play.

They are really helping off on James - keeping him from driving. A good game plan against us actually.

Thomas has several steals tonight - very active on D which is good to see.

Respectfully disagree with your middle paragraph. Agree with your last one.

Very accurate. This is a great group - but talent level is not where we were in 90-91 or 95-96 NIT championship team - or really even in most of the years in between those two. BigRed22 likely is too young to remember those groups.

Thanks Norm. The other video I had seen did not really have any jump shots. This one is a much better reflection I think. I agree that his shooting for looks better than the reviews or numbers might reflect - which is a good sign for future improvement.

1 Miles 2 Miles 3 Miles (by a country mile) 4 Miles 5 Miles 6 Collier (by a nose over Miles) Would put Sadler #3 in every category - although would be close to Collier in #1 and #2.

I certainly agree with #2

Outrebounded 25-15 ! Lots of those were just them giving a better effort unfortunately.

I think I figured the new rule out - if you are inside the lane no offensive violations can occur - no traveling, no 3 seconds anything goes inside the lane.

Seems like we are getting a lot of cheap fouls called and then they swallow the whistle when a real foul happens.

I know 3 seconds is rarely called - but it is being completely ignored in this game.

We struggle rebounding out of the zone - but we are really struggling rebounding tonight anyway.

This nails it. There was a time - not long ago - when you sort of assumed that you had to have at least a .500 conference record to get in. Don't think it was ever a "rule" but it generally was applied like one. That was when the ACC had 9 teams. When the ACC expanded are brought in more good BB teams they made exceptions to that rule. Now they have disregarded it completely and I think that is BS. Not saying an above .500 conference record should get you in - but if you can't finish even .500 in your conference (maybe including conference tournament games) then you do NOT belong in the NCAA tournament (absent extraordinary circumstances i.e. a very key player missing a month during the conference season and being back by the end). Conference records should mean something - this year they decided to ignore them completely. That produced ridiculous results. Leaving us out and taking Oklahoma is bad. Leaving USC out and taking Arizona State is completely asinine - there is no possible way to justify that decision. The other thing I object to is Rasmussen saying that wins in November mean the same as wins in February/March. I am not saying wins in November should be meaningless - but this is supposed to be a tournament with the best teams at the end of the year - which is when the tournament happens. A team that might have played a couple good games early - but is then horsesh*t at the end of the year (i.e. Oklahoma) should not be allowed to compete in a tournament at the end of the year. Also the goal should be for a team to improve during the year and peak at the end. Maybe those early wins by teams like OU are further overrated by the fact that the teams they played went the right direction - improved during the year but were not that good when OU beat them in November or December. Record in the last 10 games used to be an important metric. I am not saying it should be the most important one - but it still should mean something if you are trying to put the teams that are the best into the tournament - at the time the tournament is played.

I am shocked. Why would they not have wanted us to play at home ?? Would have easily been the highest attended NIT 1st round game.