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KenPom says: 6 Purdue at 150 Nebraska Purdue 73-61 (86%) 4:00 pm Big Ten Network Lincoln, NE Pinnacle Bank Arena

I mean, they didn't even make the Final Four. THIS IS NEBRASKA!!! UNACCEPTABLE!

Iowa jumps Indiana and Rutgers moves ahead of Minnesota and Nebraska makes a slight move up to #149. Nobody moves more than 2 or 3 spots from their previous ranking. Ken has Nebraska going 9-22 (3-17) and gives us a 2.3% chance of not winning a single conference game. Here's today's KenPom update. KenPom rankings as of 12-14-19 ========================== B1G (0-1) 1. Ohio State 4. Michigan State 6. Purdue 9. Maryland 17. Michigan 23. Penn State 24. Iowa 31. Indiana - L 37. Illinois 55. Wisconsin 69. Rutgers 76. Minnesota 99. Northwestern 149. Nebraska Non-Conference (4-5) 223. UC Riverside - L 171. Southern Utah - L 197. South Dakota State - W 340. Southern - W ---Cayman Islands Classic--- 144. Washington State - W 120. George Mason - L 125. South Florida - W ---B1G/ACC Challenge--- 93. @Georgia Tech - L 54. @Creighton - L 247. North Dakota 305. Texas A&M Corpus Christi

I think that Archie Miller got out-coached in this one.

Make sure you extend Archie Miller to a lifetime contract Hoosiers! Thanks. Sincerely, the rest of the Big Ten.

I mean, congratulations Indiana. It only took you 4 years and 4 games, and overtime...at home...against a team rebuilding with a completely new roster and coach, with three guys sitting out transfer years, another leaving the team and yet another suspended for God knows what reason...but you got that dub against Nebraska! You Hoosiers must be pretty pumped!!!

Up to #149

I just started season 2 earlier in the week, I was thinking about getting a few more episodes in tonight.

Headed for Kicksville, USA maybe? Can't even be mad or frustrated any more at this point. Comedy is just tragedy+time.

Remember when J Diaz broke a tooth in his very first game at NU? He was never the same after that...

KenPom says: 158 Nebraska at 27 Indiana Indiana 83-67 (93%) 8:00 pm Big Ten Network Bloomington, IN Assembly Hall

KenPom says: Projected record: 3-17 Chance of unbeaten record: 0.00% Chance of winless record: 2.9% (that's 3 conference wins, just in case)

Current KenPom rankings of the 2020 Myrtle Beach Invitational teams: #19 Dayton #48 Utah State #56 Missouri #72 Pitt #107 Penn #109 Loyola #157 Nebraska #195 Charlotte

Awful elaborate set up for a lame joke though. Pretty mid-major stunt if you ask me.

I don't read any of them, so I don't have a dog in the fight. I am surprised how passionate folks are on either side of this debate.

I have always really liked Giorgi Bezhanishvili as a player. He's goofy as hell but man, is he effective.

You just seem to get weirdly defensive about Dirk for some reason. It's odd, is all. People can hammer Sipple or McKewon or Rosenthal on here (justifiably or not) and it's crickets from you, but one mention of Dirk and you fly off the handle. You're right that sports teams, coaches and players are not above criticism, but that goes doubly so for journalists. They are given a huge platform to voice their thoughts/opinions and with that privilege (and make no mistake it IS a privilege) comes responsibility, mostly to maintain some kind of integrity, and hopefully objectivity. But just because Dirk feeds your own personal confirmation bias, doesn't necessarily mean he is above reproach. Personally I don't really care what you or anyone else thinks about local journalists, and it only took me about 2 or 3 minutes to sift through your 217 posts on here, so believe me it took very little effort to discover that you have a long-standing beef with any criticism of Dirk. Also, that you really worry a lot about parking and have a pretty strong dislike for Runza. But if this most recent outburst of yours hadn't happened, I wouldn't have even bothered to do that.

@coughunter you seem to take things regarding Dirk Chatelian oddly personal. Remember when you started this thread? You know, the one where you called out local sports writers and their perceived slights against Nebraska hoops in their twitter feeds? Interestingly enough, when others joined in to say, "yeah and how about that Dirk Chatelain guy? He tweets some pretty snarky stuff too..." you all of a sudden were ready to go to war defending his honor. Why was that I wonder?

I noticed he mentioned going to Pius to see Gabe play ball and it occurred to me that Hoiberg's kids also play for Pius X. https://www.piusx.net/athletics/boys-basketball/

The answer is...not great. Derrick Walker15 · Kansas City, MO · 11-9-97 Ht Wt Yr G %Min ORtg %Poss %Shots eFG% TS% OR% DR% ARate TORate Blk% Stl% FC/40 FD/40 FTRate FTM-A Pct 2PM-A Pct 3PM-A Pct 2019 10 Tennessee 2 S16 6-8 236 So 29 10.0 97.3 11.0 7.4 56.2 48.7 6.8 15.2 6.1 18.0 2.4 2.4 7.1 3.5 100.0 5-16 .312 9-16 .562 0-0 .000 Conference-only 15 9.0 141.3 9.7 7.2 85.7 66.5 7.7 13.0 7.1 0.0 1.8 2.7 7.3 4.0 128.6 3-9 .333 6-7 .857 0-0 .000 vs. Tier A+B* 19 9.0 73.6 8.6 5.2 50.0 40.8 6.4 12.6 5.7 17.6 1.5 3.0 7.8 3.3 133.3 2-8 .250 3-6 .500 0-0 .000 vs. Tier A* 16 9.2 75.9 8.3 4.9 40.0 31.8 5.2 12.8 6.5 20.6 1.7 3.4 8.8 2.9 120.0 1-6 .167 2-5 .400 0-0 .000 2018 C 13 Tennessee 3 R2 6-8 238 Fr 34 21.2 95.3 14.9 11.0 59.6 56.0 11.3 17.4 5.6 28.2 2.7 0.6 5.8 3.2 53.2 10-25 .400 28-47 .596 0-0 .000 Conference-only 17 22.2 102.0 16.5 12.6 67.9 63.2 11.3 21.3 6.3 27.1 2.2 0.8 5.0 3.5 57.1 7-16 .438 19-28 .679 0-0 .000 vs. Tier A+B* 23 22.0 98.3 13.5 10.5 62.5 58.4 10.2 16.3 5.5 31.0 3.2 0.6 5.8 2.5 37.5 4-12 .333 20-32 .625 0-0 .000 vs. Tier A* 15 23.0 112.9 12.6 11.0 72.7 69.0 9.0 15.2 4.4 30.9 4.2 0.4 6.0 1.8 18.2 1-4 .250 16-22 .727 0-0 .000 Age: 20.1 (+0.7) Similar: Andrew McAuliffe '15 (908), Flo Thamba '19 (903), Callum Barker '17 (900), Sedee Keita '17 (900), Andre Ingram '12 (899), More... Career 63 15-41 .366 37-63 .587 0-0 .000 vs. Tier A+B* 42 6-20 .300 23-38 .605 0-0 .000 vs. Tier A* 31 2-10 .200 18-27 .667 0-0 .000 Dalano Banton20 · Toronto, ON Ht Wt Yr G %Min ORtg %Poss %Shots eFG% TS% OR% DR% ARate TORate Blk% Stl% FC/40 FD/40 FTRate FTM-A Pct 2PM-A Pct 3PM-A Pct 2019 PF·PG 116 Western Kentucky 6-8 195 Fr 31 34.0 83.5 19.7 14.9 44.3 46.4 4.0 17.7 25.9 32.7 3.9 1.7 2.3 2.9 35.0 19-34 .559 31-60 .517 8-37 .216 Conference-only 16 28.9 78.4 19.7 13.9 46.3 47.0 4.5 17.2 24.5 37.8 3.9 2.5 1.9 2.3 24.4 5-10 .500 16-26 .615 2-15 .133 vs. Tier A+B* 11 50.2 76.7 20.9 16.0 40.4 41.6 3.0 19.7 28.3 33.4 3.5 1.7 2.3 2.4 23.1 6-12 .500 12-31 .387 6-21 .286 vs. Tier A* 5 64.0 82.6 21.1 17.7 37.5 40.7 2.8 23.5 33.1 28.8 2.3 0.9 2.5 2.3 15.6 4-5 .800 6-19 .316 4-13 .308 Similar: Ty Groce '18 (889), David Skara '15 (881), Charles McRoy '12 (873), Hayden Dalton '16 (872), Shawn Glover '10 (871), More... Career 31 19-34 .559 31-60 .517 8-37 .216 vs. Tier A+B* 11 6-12 .500 12-31 .387 6-21 .286 vs. Tier A* 5 4-5 .800 6-19 .316 4-13 .308 Shamiel Stevenson0 · Toronto, ON · 4-24-98 Ht Wt Yr G %Min ORtg %Poss %Shots eFG% TS% OR% DR% ARate TORate Blk% Stl% FC/40 FD/40 FTRate FTM-A Pct 2PM-A Pct 3PM-A Pct 2019 101 Pittsburgh 6-6 245 So 4 2.4 93.2 21.8 27.1 62.5 60.1 0.0 23.7 8.7 25.1 3.7 5.5 3.8 2.1 8.3 0-1 .000 6-11 .545 1-1 .999 vs. Tier A+B* 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 vs. Tier A* 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 2018 PF 227 Pittsburgh National Rank 6-6 230 Fr 32 59.0 90.9 22.4 19.1 54.5 56.6 4.3 16.8 10.8 25.8 1.1 1.3 2.6 4.7 392 59.6 68-112 .607 80-148 .541 15-40 .375 Conference-only Conference Rank 18 57.1 83.8 22.5 18.0 57.4 58.2 3.8 16.1 24 6.8 30.7 0.5 1.5 2.4 4.5 14 60.0 33-57 .579 41-78 .526 23 9-17 .529 vs. Tier A+B* 19 57.2 85.8 20.7 18.0 58.3 59.2 2.9 14.6 9.5 29.9 0.5 1.4 2.8 3.9 48.5 30-50 .600 48-85 .565 8-18 .444 vs. Tier A* 14 58.6 73.9 20.3 16.3 49.3 52.0 2.8 14.2 9.6 33.6 0.3 1.9 2.3 3.6 50.7 21-35 .600 28-58 .483 4-11 .364 Age: 19.7 (+0.3) Similar: Jonathan Laurent '16 (916), Keyontae Johnson '19 (898), Alandise Harris '11 (898), Justin Smith '19 (897), Aaron Fuller '10 (894), More... Career 36 68-113 .602 86-159 .541 16-41 .390 vs. Tier A+B* 19 30-50 .600 48-85 .565 8-18 .444 vs. Tier A* 14 21-35 .600 28-58 .483 4-11 .364

This post didn't age well. But it just goes to show how scary good Ohio State appears to be right now. Wow.

Depends on what it's the final of.

Not ashamed to say I'm there already. I shut it down emotionally after the Southern game. I am fully in year #0 mode now, just looking for guys to make incremental improvement. I'm not saying they can't get me back this year, but I am not going to get mad/frustrated if they don't.