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This is how we learned that Connor drives a Dodge. Looks like probably a Charger or Challenger?

KenPom says: 307 UT Rio Grande Valley at 57 Nebraska Nebraska 85-63 (97%) 9 18

Big fan of this.

Surprised he got picked after NO SELECTION MADE; that guy had a terrible college career.

"Juwan gets active #4" thoroughly enjoyed that one, thanks Dimes!

I read an article a few days ago outlining the NIL budgets for all sports of the top schools around the nation and Ohio State's NIL collectives report spending somewhere around 3 times as much as Nebraska's. You can check that all out here in the section labeled Projected NIL Collective Funding by NCAA I School: https://nil-ncaa.com/collectives/ We compare most closely to Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, etc. Right at #30 overall. Keep in mind that private schools are not included in this survey so schools like USC, Stanford, Notre Dame et. al. are also likely ahead of us too so we're probably more like #35 or #40. So yeah, it's pretty sub par.

I mean, we haven't really given them any reason to think of us in any other way. We lost several very important pieces from last year's barely tourney eligible team, the transfers we brought in are real unknowns, we are after all - Nebraska - and Fred has has one semi-decent season out of the 5 (or is it 6?) years he's been here. What evidence is there out there that says we deserve any more preseason consideration?

That sucks @Silverbacked1, sorry. Hope you can at least manage to get your tickets one way or another.

...and of course they hit like 70% of their 3s against us in the tournament.

KenPom had Virginia as the #78 team this preseason, 22 spots below the Huskers.

Didn't want to start a new thread just for this, but big news out of Virginia: Goodman clarified later on that this is NOT health related, and speculation abounds that Bennett did not want to play the NIL game anymore hence the early retirement.

Starting every answer with yeah is slightly less annoying than starting with "so".

Otherwise known as the John Thompson, Jr. scheduling philosophy. Georgetown would always load up on the softest cupcakes in the non-con every year, beat everyone by 50 and then do okay in the Big East and boom! 22 wins and a tourney bid. Every year.

Well, that would make the Saint Mary's game pretty crucial for us then. Flip that game to a W in our favor then do the rest of the things as predicted and we'll have a much stronger case for a tournament berth.

Beating #1 ranked Purdue put us in the tournament let’s be honest. Without that win we would have been really sweating selection Sunday.

I just realized that Ken is not including the last two games in the Diamond Head Classic in this prediction. We should be favored in those two games so my best guess is his actual prediction would be more like 18-13, which, with our SOS probably puts us in NIT lock territory.

To add some contrast, Torvik has a slightly different outlook and he REALLY likes Rutgers for some reason. He also has UCLA with the easiest conference schedule: B10 Conference Info 2025 OVERALL ADJ. EFFICIENCY CONF. EMS CONF-ONLY ADJ. EFF. CONF. SOS RK TEAM REC ADJOE ADJDE BARTHAG RAW ADJ CONOE CONDE BARTHAG PROJ. REC SO FAR REMAIN TOTAL 17 Purdue 0-0 114.9 20 95.0 18 .8988 0 0 0.0 18 0.0 18 .0 19-11 (12-8) .0 18 .8471 5 .8471 5 18 Michigan St. 0-0 112.8 48 93.8 8 .8921 0 0 0.0 13 0.0 13 .0 20-9 (12-8) .0 13 .8391 17 .8391 17 19 Rutgers 0-0 111.9 52 93.2 6 .8916 0 0 0.0 12 0.0 12 .0 20-11 (12-8) .0 12 .8447 11 .8447 11 21 Illinois 0-0 113.3 42 94.6 14 .8882 0 0 0.0 11 0.0 11 .0 20-11 (11-9) .0 11 .8451 8 .8451 8 24 UCLA 0-0 114.0 31 95.7 24 .8821 0 0 0.0 14 0.0 14 .0 20-11 (11-9) .0 14 .8364 18 .8364 18 30 Indiana 0-0 114.9 19 97.6 52 .8679 0 0 0.0 15 0.0 15 .0 19-10 (11-9) .0 15 .8419 14 .8419 14 33 Michigan 0-0 115.4 17 98.6 78 .8596 0 0 0.0 17 0.0 17 .0 18-12 (10-10) .0 17 .8501 2 .8501 2 34 Ohio St. 0-0 114.6 22 98.0 62 .8582 0 0 0.0 16 0.0 16 .0 18-13 (10-10) .0 16 .8449 9 .8449 9 41 Wisconsin 0-0 113.0 45 97.4 50 .8476 0 0 0.0 10 0.0 10 .0 18-12 (10-10) .0 10 .8404 16 .8404 16 42 Maryland 0-0 110.1 74 94.9 17 .8469 0 0 0.0 9 0.0 9 .0 19-12 (10-10) .0 9 .8449 10 .8449 10 44 Oregon 0-0 113.2 43 97.8 57 .8436 0 0 0.0 3 0.0 3 .0 18-13 (10-10) .0 3 .8445 12 .8445 12 45 Iowa 0-0 115.6 15 100.0 94 .8417 0 0 0.0 2 0.0 2 .0 19-12 (10-10) .0 2 .8420 13 .8420 13 47 Nebraska 0-0 111.6 56 96.6 39 .8399 0 0 0.0 1 0.0 1 .0 17-12 (10-10) .0 1 .8464 6 .8464 6 48 Northwestern 0-0 111.5 58 96.6 37 .8396 0 0 0.0 4 0.0 4 .0 18-12 (10-10) .0 4 .8492 3 .8492 3 50 USC 0-0 115.2 18 100.0 92 .8358 0 0 0.0 5 0.0 5 .0 18-12 (9-11) .0 5 .8411 15 .8411 15 71 Minnesota 0-0 111.2 62 99.5 86 .7830 0 0 0.0 8 0.0 8 .0 17-13 (8-12) .0 8 .8462 7 .8462 7 73 Washington 0-0 109.3 84 98.0 61 .7783 0 0 0.0 7 0.0 7 .0 15-15 (8-12) .0 7 .8511 1 .8511 1 74 Penn St. 0-0 109.1 87 97.9 59 .7775 0 0 0.0 6 0.0 6 .0 16-14 (8-12) .0 6 .8486 4 .8486 4 Compiled by Bart Torvik from sacred data and secret formulas.

It's that time of year again; Ken Pomeroy just dropped his rankings for the new season and hoo boy does the Big Ten look like it's gonna be a slog! Once again Nebraska comes in with an all time high ranking to start the season (Hoiberg era) at #56. Two spots ahead of last year's starting position. In terms of predicted league finish, he's got Purdue winning the league title comfortably, then the next FIFTEEN schools are predicted to finish between 11-9 and 9-11. 5 teams each in the 11-9, 10-10, and 9-11 groups. Nebraska is predicted to go 16-13 (9-11). Okay, and for the first time this season, here we go! KenPom rankings as of 10-14-24 ======================= B1G (0-0): 10. Purdue (A) 23. Illinois (H) 26. UCLA (H) 29. Oregon (A) 31. Ohio State (2) 33. Iowa (2) 35. Michigan State (A) 36. Michigan (H) 37. Maryland (2) 39. Indiana (H) 46. Wisconsin (A) 50. Northwestern (A) 56. Nebraska 57. USC (H) 59. Minnesota (H) 61. Penn State (A) 63. Rutgers (H) 75. Washington (A) Non-Conference (0-0): 307. UTRGV 301. Bethune Cookman 351. Farliegh Dickinson ---Sanford Pentagon--- 34. Saint Mary’s 12. @Creighton 265. South Dakota 253. North Florida —Diamond Head Classic--- 112. Murray State 128./198. Charlotte/Hawaii 144./136./79./173. Oregon State/Charleston/Loyola/Oakland 249. Southern

League Title? At Nebraska??? A program that hasn't won a regular season league title in something like 65 years? My man, that's a lifetime contract extension and there is no question about it.

Maybe if he puts the little nubbin back on the bottom of the N that'd be enough?

I guess it's a lot better than having long threads opining on what Fred will need to do to keep his job this year.

It appears that getting rid of the state outline on hoops courts might be a trend:

To be fair, I think I prefer the new N with the missing serif. It's just wild to me that they used it on the PBA court contrary to the University's own branding guidelines. I did look at the N's in Nebraska on both Tom Osborne field and Terry Pettit court and they both include the missing serif so I don't know what's exactly going on here.

FTFY

Your photo here is not the 2019-2024 court. That's the 2013-2019 one. You can tell because it doesn't have the 22' 1.75" three point line which was implemented at the start of the 2019-20 season (it also has the old restricted area arc from when the rule changed in 2015 but they kept the old one for the women). In 2019-20 they redid the court which included painted lanes which @hugh42 showed in his example with the Ns with the missing serifs: