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8 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

I’m mad.  I don’t handle losses well.  But I was just sitting here wracking my brain whether we’ve done enough for a 7 seed.  And then I had to smile.  I’m frickinf wondering if we did enough for a 7 seed.  Not whether we’d even get in or whether the NIT would take us.

 

special season indeed and I just had to sit back and smile

Yep.  I got there before you though; I had made my peace with whatever happened before the game even started today.  When you step back and look at it today was absolutely the definition of gravy.  And we really looked like we belonged there.

It's mind boggling to me to think we were playing for seeding in the dance today.  At the beginning of the season I was going to be happy with an NIT berth.

We stay at #29.  Torvik has us at #24.

25 minutes ago, cozrulz said:

So do they send C.J. home by himself or is everyone already exposed?

Judging by how gassed everyone looked by the end of the game I'd say it's likely that whatever bug he (and Brice) has has been going through the guys.  Hopefully they can all get through it and be 100% for next week.

Short turnaround, short bench and apparently some kind of bug running through the guys right now probably doomed us in this one.

Might be a blessing in disguise though, having an extra day of rest before we play our first round game may prove helpful.

(But it would have been nice to get to the final, we would have been the home team)

IIRC, Miles had an impeccable against ACC teams.

5 minutes ago, millerhusker said:

Make that ten double digit conference wins. Margin of victory in those games is nearly 18 points. Nebraska has been the most dominant team in the Big Ten since February 1st. We are smoking teams. Why does BTN never mention this? They couldn’t stop talking about how hot indiana was the past couple weeks. Smoked em, then it was “Meh, Indiana isn’t even an NIT team.” Same with when we played Minnesota. Smoked them too. The sentiment last night was, “Well, Nebraska will lose tomorrow to Illinois but they are fun to watch when Tominaga is shooting threes!” 

Seems like BTN talking teams up is the kiss of death.  I kinda like flying under the radar.

Never really in doubt:

Nice to have reports like this with someone who has boots on the ground in MPLS.  Keep it up @Shawnee City FC!

I'm curious to hear if there is an even bigger contingent of Huskers fans up there today.

I didn't get an update up after the Michigan game, sorry about that.

Duquesne is all the way up to #94 now, just about on par with Indiana.  Rutgers is into the triple digits.  We popped up to 27th after our win last night but have settled in at #29.  But #25 and #29 are separated by less than 0.10 of a point.

Torvik has us at #22, ahead of #23 Wisco and #24 MSU.

Here we go.

KenPom rankings as of 3-16-24

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B1G (12-8) (1-0 BTT):
3. Purdue - W
10. Illinois - L
17. Wisconsin - L, W
20. Michigan State - W
29. Nebraska

46. Northwestern - W, L

47. Ohio State - W, L
52. Iowa - L
65. Maryland - L
77. Penn State - W

78. Minnesota - L, W

92. Indiana - W, W, W

103. Rutgers - L, W

128. Michigan - W, W

Non-Conference (10-1):
356. Lindenwood - W

342. Florida A&M - W

---Cornhusker Classic---
221. Rider - W
172. Stony Brook - W

---Sanford Pentagon---
159. Oregon State - W

---Cornhusker Classic---

94. Duquesne - W

231. Cal State Fullerton - W

11. Creighton - L
69. @Kansas State - W
237. North Dakota - W

301. South Carolina State - W

1 hour ago, hhcmatt said:

 

Kudos to anyone who thought Nebraska was going to win this game by the biggest margin in a tournament game in school history

 

At this point I think a lot of us in the HHCC are just picking games with the reverse jinx in mind.

Stanford fired Jerod Haase.  Tim Miles works just down the street... 

KenPom says:

14 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

It was nice to dip our toes in the 20s for the first time since 2019

We're going for more than a dip now.  Up to #27.  Only 0.02 behind #26 Texas.

13 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

This is the song that was playing in the arena during that interview...so I'll add it as my post game thread song:

Man, I wish we would have been able to get Dainja.  He is a beast!

1 hour ago, millerhusker said:

This would be 4 state titles in a row for Pewaukee. Prior to Nick’s freshman year they hadn’t won one ever.

Sounds a lot like the Dixon HS/Isaiah Roby story.

1 hour ago, kldm64 said:

 

Already signed an extension on his contract

Any contract can be negotiated...

54 minutes ago, millerhusker said:

Some really good jobs are available. Will be interesting.

Gregg McDermott about to get a HUGE raise.

14 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

 

 

16 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

My working theory is sometimes he compiles these at night and in lieu of reading back through it, posts it here to see if someone flips up mistakes as opposed to doing his own editorial work.  Cynically, I sometimes wonder if he purposely does this because he craves attention. Regardless, expect an upvote if you find one of these Easter eggs.

Yeah I forgot to add that part, LOL. I may or may not have done the same thing myself, just to check and see if anyone is paying attention to what I post. 

4 minutes ago, HB said:

Sure about that line?   I've been seeing NU minus 3.5-4.5

Dimes likes to c/p his essentials articles from earlier in the season is my theory; I have found things that he forgot to update before.  That was likely the point spread when we played last month in Bloomington.

I was in San Antonio in 2014 and was pretty shocked at how many Husker fans were out on the Riverwalk the night before.  I would say comfortably 10-1.

KenPom says:

One win