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I know, right? This place has been a ghost town since the Italy trip. At least now we'll have some things to talk about.

Plastic cards are good. E-tickets are better!

Will Collins still be the coach when he gets there?

2011 season was a pretty agonizing for Iowa State it seems. 2011 Schedule Game Plan | Opponent Tracker Date Rk Opponent Result Location Record Conf Fri Nov 12 175 124 Northern Arizona W, 78-64 76 Home 1-0 Sun Nov 14 158 303 Alabama St. W, 74-47 68 Home 2-0 Wed Nov 17 131 201 Drake W, 91-43 73 Home 3-0 Sun Nov 21 90 98 Creighton W, 91-88 69 Semi-Home 4-0 Wed Nov 24 90 317 Kennesaw St. W, 91-51 68 Home 5-0 Sat Nov 27 70 250 Montana St. W, 81-59 66 Home 6-0 Wed Dec 1 66 107 Northern Iowa L, 60-54 63 Away 6-1 Sat Dec 4 70 75 California L, 76-73 75 Home 6-2 Mon Dec 6 72 296 Southeast Missouri St. W, 85-58 75 Home 7-2 Fri Dec 10 65 88 Iowa W, 75-72 73 Away 8-2 Sun Dec 12 64 276 Texas Southern W, 65-54 64 Home 9-2 Sun Dec 19 70 321 Dartmouth W, 71-42 68 Home 10-2 Tue Dec 21 64 343 Chicago St. W, 104-63 85 Home 11-2 Thu Dec 30 51 103 Virginia W, 60-47 60 Away 12-2 Mon Jan 3 44 274 Northern Illinois W, 72-63 74 Home 13-2 Sat Jan 8 46 64 Nebraska L, 63-62 66 Away 13-3 0-1 Wed Jan 12 42 3 Kansas L, 84-79 81 Home 13-4 0-2 Sat Jan 15 39 80 Baylor W, 72-57 63 Home 14-4 1-2 Wed Jan 19 32 73 Oklahoma St. L, 96-87 79 OT Away 14-5 1-3 Sat Jan 22 36 42 Missouri L, 87-54 87 Away 14-6 1-4 Wed Jan 26 45 121 Texas Tech L, 92-83 78 Home 14-7 1-5 Sat Jan 29 57 144 Oklahoma L, 82-76 78 OT Home 14-8 1-6 Tue Feb 1 71 54 Colorado L, 95-69 79 Away 14-9 1-7 Sat Feb 5 75 32 Kansas St. L, 86-85 68 Home 14-10 1-8 Sat Feb 12 78 3 Kansas L, 89-66 70 Away 14-11 1-9 Wed Feb 16 77 49 Texas A&M L, 71-66 63 Away 14-12 1-10 Sat Feb 19 74 42 Missouri L, 76-70 70 Home 14-13 1-11 Tue Feb 22 78 5 Texas L, 76-53 69 Away 14-14 1-12 Sat Feb 26 77 64 Nebraska W, 83-82 68 OT Home 15-14 2-12 Wed Mar 2 76 54 Colorado W, 95-90 76 Home 16-14 3-12 Sat Mar 5 75 32 Kansas St. L, 67-55 69 Away 16-15 3-13 Big 12 Conference Tournament Wed Mar 9 76 54 Colorado L, 77-75 73 Neutral 16-16 Home games played at Hilton Coliseum (14,356, 38th largest in D-I)

I think to me it's a forgone conclusion that Thor will be racking up lots of meaningful minutes at least to start the season.

Fred's first team at ISU finished last in the Big 12 so nothing is impossible.

I play fast and loose with punctuation, Norm. That's just how I roll...

I'm not sure @Norm Peterson but when @millerhusker said "When was the last time we had an in-state recruit who would've been ranked in the top 40 in the country" I took that to mean *WE*, as in UNL Huskers. I could be wrong though, I often am.

Just turned it on in the 4th quarter but he seems to be getting a decent amount of playing time tonight.

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Gotta say, he's not wrong here: It's not nessecarily the message that KU sends that's the issue here...it's the context that's the problem.

I'd be ecstatic if he was just like Mo Watson...only with better knees and a lot less rape-y. Allegedly.

@Norm Peterson the thing that keeps coming to my mind when thinking about what could be is the 2017-18 Ohio State Buckeyes. Remember that year they fired Thad Matta and replaced him with Holtmann and with a greatly depleted roster from a fairly uninspiring team the year before, they were picked by most pundits as one of the bottom four teams: https://bustingbrackets.com/2017/10/06/big-ten-basketball-2017-18-preseason-predictions/4/ They had a roster with a couple of exciting athletic guys but lacked size...and for all of those deficiencies they only finished 3rd in the Big Ten and a 5 seed in the dance. I'm not saying to expect us to have a season like that, or even close to it, but one never knows. If this team can gel and if they are able to rack up a few wins early in the year, who knows?

Yes and I think Penn State is doing two scrimmages too. (makes a lot of sense for PSU though seeing as how they usually only get a few hundred fans for a conference game anyway...I can't imagine how few fans would actually show up for an exhibition)

I cut cable almost two years ago and I've tried a lot of these services and was most impressed by YouTubeTV

At Wichita State on the 26th for our secret scrimmage KenPom #66 Torvik #52

I wouldn't put a lot of weight into those until about the first of January, @Norm Peterson But you know that. Right now it's just about finding stuff to talk about while we wait for the real action to begin! So, to honor that I'll just go ahead and add "DAMN YOU BART TORVIK!! YOU KNOW NOTHING!!"

#95 - Nebraska (0-0) Fred Hoiberg • Big Ten Conference (0-0) Tourney Results • Teamcast • Team History Similar Resumés • Similar Profiles • Team View Top 10 Projected Contributors PLAYER YR HT PRPG! MIN% ORTG USAGE PPG RPG APG Cam Mack Jr 6-2 3.3 80 105 23 14.2 3.8 2.4 Jervay Green Jr 6-3 2.9 75 106 21 12.4 3.8 2.1 Dachon Burke Jr 6-4 2.6 67 102 24 10.8 4.3 1.9 Haanif Cheatham Sr 6-5 2 65 102 20 9.3 3.5 1.6 Matej Kavas Sr 6-8 2.5 63 115 15 7.3 4.1 1 Yvan Ouedraogo Fr 6-8 1.2 52 99 19 5.4 4.1 0.9 Samari Curtis Fr 6-4 0.8 34 99 19 3.7 2.2 1.1 Thorir Thorbjarnarson Jr 6-6 0.6 31 101 16 2.6 2.5 1.3 Akol Arop Fr 6-5 0.5 20 100 18 2.4 1.8 0.6 Kevin Cross Fr 6-8 0.3 13 100 17 1.9 0.4 0 Please report errors/omissions/wackiness Tue 11-05 H 250 (IV) UC Riverside -13.6, 76-63 90% .04 Sat 11-09 H 172 (III) Southern Utah -9.6, 79-69 82% .09 Fri 11-15 H 322 (IV) South Dakota St. -19.8, 84-64 96% .02 Fri 11-22 H 350 (IV) Southern -24.4, 82-58 98% .01 Mon 11-25 N 194 (IV) Washington St. -7.3, 79-72 75% .12 Wed 12-04 A 63 (II) Georgia Tech +8.4, 76-67 20% .62 Sat 12-07 A 34 (I-A) Creighton +11.2, 80-69 15% .70 Fri 12-13 A 56 (I) • Indiana +8.7, 76-67 20% .63 Sun 12-15 H 7 (I-A) • Purdue +6, 75-69 28% .52 Sat 12-21 H 221 (IV) North Dakota -12.4, 80-67 88% .06 Sat 12-28 H 244 (IV) Texas A&M Corpus Chris -12.7, 75-62 89% .05 Fri 1-03 H 48 (II) • Rutgers +1.2, 72-71 45% .34 Tue 1-07 H 53 (II) • Iowa +1, 79-78 46% .33 Sat 1-11 A 107 (III) • Northwestern +2.7, 68-65 38% .40 Tue 1-14 A 15 (I-A) • Ohio St. +12.8, 78-65 11% .77 Sat 1-18 H 56 (II) • Indiana +0.7, 72-71 47% .32 Tue 1-21 A 26 (I-A) • Wisconsin +11, 73-62 13% .73 Sat 1-25 A 48 (I) • Rutgers +9.2, 77-67 19% .65 Tue 1-28 H 31 (II) • Michigan +3, 70-67 38% .41 Sat 2-01 H 20 (I) • Penn St. +4.3, 74-70 33% .46 Sat 2-08 A 53 (I) • Iowa +9.8, 83-73 19% .64 Tue 2-11 A 8 (I-A) • Maryland +13.9, 79-65 10% .80 Sat 2-15 H 26 (II) • Wisconsin +3.4, 69-66 36% .43 Thu 2-20 H 2 (I-A) • Michigan St. +10.2, 79-69 17% .67 Mon 2-24 A 14 (I-A) • Illinois +14.1, 85-71 11% .77 Thu 2-27 H 15 (I) • Ohio St. +4.8, 73-68 31% .48 Sun 3-01 H 107 (III) • Northwestern -4.8, 69-65 69% .16 Thu 3-05 A 31 (I) • Michigan +10.6, 74-63 14% .72 Sun 3-08 A 82 (II) • Minnesota +5.7, 74-69 29% .51 Projected Record: 12-17 (6-14)

2020 T-Rank College Basketball Projections RK TEAM CONF REC ADJOE ADJDE BARTHAG PROJ. REC RET MINS RPMS NC SOS 2 Michigan St. B10 0-0 120.9 1 93.1 10 .9529 23-6 15-5 65.6% 64.4% 19 % 7 Purdue B10 0-0 117.2 5 95.3 35 .9149 21-9 13-7 53.1% 48.5% 24 % 8 Maryland B10 0-0 115.5 14 94.1 22 .9136 20-9 12-8 83.3% 80.7% 17 % 14 Illinois B10 0-0 117.0 7 96.3 51 .9033 20-10 12-8 81.6% 85.0% 17 % 15 Ohio St. B10 0-0 113.8 22 94.0 20 .9006 21-10 12-8 68.8% 66.8% 22 % 20 Penn St. B10 0-0 112.6 35 93.6 15 .8926 20-10 12-8 70.4% 67.3% 14 % 26 Wisconsin B10 0-0 110.3 59 92.5 7 .8821 18-12 11-9 69.7% 58.9% 21 % 31 Michigan B10 0-0 110.3 58 93.3 12 .8727 17-12 10-10 54.2% 47.3% 19 % 48 Rutgers B10 0-0 109.9 61 95.5 36 .8339 18-13 9-11 71.4% 71.9% 10 % 53 Iowa B10 0-0 116.4 10 101.5 146 .8281 16-14 9-11 60.8% 56.2% 19 % 56 Indiana B10 0-0 109.3 74 95.6 37 .8231 17-14 9-11 59.0% 53.7% 13 % 82 Minnesota B10 0-0 106.8 98 97.5 71 .7409 12-17 7-13 39.9% 32.1% 19 % 95 Nebraska B10 0-0 106.4 105 99.4 106 .6859 12-17 6-14 4.1% 2.8% 14 % 107 Northwestern B10 0-0 100.0 232 94.8 29 .6475 11-18 5-15 44.8% 41.5% 12 %

I like to hear how much Fred and the guys are talking about rebounding and the importance of rebounding in their system. Music to my ears.