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Raneu took literally 5 steps on his last make.

Dodged a bunny by Ware. We are shooting well. Probably won't last. Need to keep being active on defense.

Now, Indiana going to the grabbing Keisei defense. The 3 clowns aren't going to call it.

We did win in Bloomington that year, also.

A 13 - 7 team has never been left out.

The next practice should be interesting.

Blew it in the 9th, lose 7 - 6. I know it's early, but this hurts. The Big 10 is probably a 2 bid league. We need good non conference wins. Blowing a 5 - 1 lead is going to sting.

NU leads 6 - 5 in the top of the 8th.

If the Big 10 tournament generator is accurate, the only tiebreaker we lose is a head to head loss. Our Purdue win would trump all else.

PSU missing Clarey helps. I think we still win, but maybe by single digits and not 19.

Kent is a little off. He said it had been 33 years since we started 18-8. It was 2017-18. We started 20-8.

Keisei with a real quiet 17. Going 4 - 21 from 3 and winning by 19 is not going to happen often. Lawrence had a good 1st half, and got us in the lead. Struggled a little in the 2nd half. Allick, Gary, and Sam were flying to the ball. Great effort. Have to bring it Wednesday in a very winnable game.

One of these times, it's bound to happen. Nebraska 83 Indiana 75

Because they are playing against Nebraska. They also are allowed to hold cutters, and push off when driving.

Take this defensive effort to Wednesday.

Now, they are.

Some good things we have a 6 point lead and are 2 - 11 from 3. We are outscoring them 9 - 3 in points off turnovers. We have only given up 2 2nd chance points. All good things. Bad things. Missed 2 bunnies. Shooting 2 - 11 from 3. 7 free throw attempts for PSU. We only have 3. PSU should wear down in the 2nd half, allowing us some open 3's and some trips to the free throw line. Keep up the defensive intensity and get a win.

I'm not expecting much. I think a bowl game is a good season. Too much inexperience at QB. I feel our Freshmen QB's are more talented than any we had since Joe Ganz. If I were to guess with the way things stand right now, we end up with 7 wins.

He had one real putrid outing. He gave up 12 earned runs in 3 2/3 innings in that outing against Oklahoma State. Take that out and it is about what Sears did (who matched him). I'm not too concerned yet. If we get that type of starting pitching from a Friday starter, we could have something brewing this year.

That would be a tough one. Safe Purdue (Painter) Illinois (Underwood) Michigan State (Izzo) Northwestern (Collins) Wisconsin (Gard) Most likely coming back Nebraska (Hoiberg) Iowa (McCaffrey) Minnesota (Johnson) Rutgers (Pikell) Maryland (Willred) Penn State (Rhoads) 50/50 Indiana (Woodsen) Most likely out Michigan (Howard) Out Ohio State (Holtmann)

My prediction is 33 - 23 overall, 13 - 11 in conference. That was just a quick glance at the schedule. No in depth look at opponents.

I don't know if it would work, but I think I would do a neutral site pod system the 1st 2 weekends of conference play. You could have 2 four team pods and 3 three team pods. The pods would be Mar weeks 2 and 3. That way the northern teams get a few weekends under their belt before conference play.

Their best win so far is us or Seton Hall. They have 0 quad 1 wins. Husker4life did show their remaining schedule. They do have some opportunities for quad 1 wins. I just don't know if they are good enough to win those games.

It also doesn't help that we've lost by an average of 15 points in quad 1 losses, and 12 points in quad 2 losses. BYU has lost by an average of 8 points in quad 1 games, and by 11 in their only quad 2 loss.

We had Rutgers dead to rights until Gary went down with what looked like a season ending injury. They pounded us on the glass after that. They had 16 offensive rebounds in the final 18 minutes after Gary went out. They had 9 in the 1st 27 minutes with Gary. If Gary stays healthy, we should be able to hold our own.