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The beautiful thing about all of this is it most likely will play itself out in the next couple of weeks. Syracuse: hast to travel to Boston College and host Clemson. They would need to win both to stay ahead of Nebraska in my mind. UCLA: has to play at USC which will be a de facto elimination game I think. Baylor: hosts Oklahoma and plays at Kansas State to close the season. They won't get in with a 7-11 league mark, but might at 8-10. Texas: at KU and v West Virginia to close the season. See Baylor. I think these seem to be the four teams we are really competing against. Maybe a few others, but that seems what it looks like to me.

@ Arizona. Kentucky (neutral). Would you like to show comparable Nebraska wins?

Baylor, UCLA, Texas and Syracuse all have better resume's than us currently. Even watching LSU and Oregon possibly creep up on us a little bit. LSU has six top-30 wins which is pretty impressive.

You can call the RPI flawed if you wish, but that team who is also being deemed "not worthy" defeated Arizona in Tucson and Kentucky on a neutral court. Nebraska, as of this moment, can't put a single win against either of those two. To think otherwise seems flawed as well, if you ask me. Also, I don't want folks to think I am out here trying to rain on our NCAA parade. I guess I am just trying to be honest and look at things as objectively as I can, much like @Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty and @HuskerActuary. I hope you guys don't kick us out. :-)

To me it's a must, actually. And, even then, I think we are just on the edge. I am going to try to build an actual seed list tomorrow. Just consider, Lunardi has this team just out ahead of us. Nebraska in bold. Q1 and Q2: 5-7. Q3 and Q4: 14-2. Top-50: 4-5. Top-100: 8-8. Q1 and Q2: 3-8. Q3 and Q4: 19-1. Top 50: 1-5. Top-100: 4-8.

I've been looking at resumes for awhile. I guess I am just hoping the committee likes how we look on the hardwood as opposed to the paper. Because, to me, it doesn't look very good.

No. In fact, I'd think a win would certainly keep Penn State ahead of us in the pecking order given what we see on a daily basis.

My first job out of college was in the print business at the Clay County News in Sutton. I now work in banking full time and do some preps writing on the side as well as help with a tech start-up that streams high school games and tells stories about coaches and players. To be the newspaper model is broken, but still needed if that makes sense. Here in Grand Island at The Independent they just booted three employees this week as well and our shrinking the paper again. We are coming to a time where we'll get our newspaper digitally and stop printing it all together, to be honest. I know that bothers some, but it doesn't bother me. I still fight back and forth about paying for the content (because of this thread, I subscribed to the OWH this morning digitally). In my opinion, we should be getting the OWH and LJS digitally in front of kids. They should go out to schools and offer unlimited access for whatever $250 a year to every school in the state or something. At 300 schools/year, that'd pay someone's salary at both of our big state papers. I fear the day that #nebpreps game story is me tweeting, clicking "add to thread" and then at the end of the game, I "quote tweet" my thread and that's the story. And, while I fear, I almost think it makes sense even.

Right now Texas is certainly more deserving than Nebraska. They will need some wins, though.

If we win that game we trade West Virginia (29) for Marist (326) and then we trade Long Beach State (if we lose, West Virginia) for a second St. John's game. Anyone who plays with those RPI gizmos figure out how the would effect our non-conference SOS? I shutter to think about it.

I'll be real curious to see how this plays out, but there is a part of me that says IF (Q1+Q2 WINS) > (Q3+Q4 LOSSES) your chances of dancing dramatically increase.

This year. At the Garden. Against Ohio State.

No argument. But, the Big East won a whole bunch of non-conference games and they reward their schools by getting home-and-home for every team in the league. Nebraska, as it turned out, had one chance -- ONE -- at a home Tier One game this year. Right now, every Big East team has a chance at four. Pretty nuts.

Xavier. Creighton. Washington (N). @ Marquette. @ St. John's.

Given what Penn State has left if they catch us, they’ll have a way better resume than Nebraska.

All three of the Pac-12 home teams would be good for this moment. But, with 7-8 games left, you just never know. But, give UW, UCLA and USC more losses and I am good with that.

You guys are doing such a good job of keeping this thread going that I am just gonna watch the rest of the year. Would be super nice if Dana could help us out tonight. I'll just leave it at that.

Edited to show games through February 6. Nebraska currently 54 in RPI. Things to watch here with the tiers: We need Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin to stay under 160 for the home wins (keep them in tier 3) and Long Beach State staying under 200 would be a bonus as well. Boston College has dropped to a tier 3 game. Would need to get back to 75 for tier 2 consideration. Tier 1 (0-5): Michigan State (20), Creighton (23), Kansas (8), Purdue (9), Ohio State (22). REMAINING: none. Tier 2 (3-3): St. Johns (94), UCF (67), at Northwestern (82), Penn State (100), Michigan (39), at Minnesota (126). REMAINING: vs. Maryland (58). Tier 3 (8-0): Boston College (84), Minnesota (126), (n) Long Beach State (197), at Rutgers (208), Iowa (149), Illinois (156), Wisconsin (159), at Wisconsin (159). REMAINING: at Illinois (156), vs. Indiana (109), vs. Penn State (100). Tier 4 (7-0): Eastern Illinois (277), North Texas (210), North Dakota (217), (n) Marist (320), UTSA (200), Delaware State (351), Stetson (326). REMAINING: vs. Rutgers (208).

Edited to show games through February 4. Nebraska currently 58 in RPI. The only good news here is Michigan. It would seem to me they have a chance to get in top-30 with a one-loss finish before the conference tournament. That said, Wisconsin (home) has dropped to a tier four win (quite amazing) and we need them to get back to tier 3 ASAP. Long Beach State has dropped to tier four as well, would need to get back in top-200 to move back to tier three. Tier 1 (0-5): Michigan State (21), Creighton (23), Kansas (9), Purdue (7), Ohio State (20). REMAINING: none. Tier 2 (3-3): St. Johns (94), UCF (73), Boston College (79), at Northwestern (99), Penn State (104), Michigan (31). REMAINING: vs. Maryland (55), at Minnesota (117). Tier 3 (5-0): Minnesota (117), at Rutgers (197), Iowa (152), Illinois (154), at Wisconsin (163). REMAINING: at Illinois (154), vs. Indiana (121), vs. Penn State (104). Tier 4 (9-0): Eastern Illinois (276), North Texas (209), North Dakota (218), (n) Marist (320), (n) Long Beach State (201), UTSA (202), Delaware State (351), Stetson (325), Wisconsin (163). REMAINING: vs. Rutgers (197)

I always have found that you could get a pretty accurate seed list by doing a formula that was RPI + AP Rank + USA Today Rank and then sorting lowest to highest for seeding. Purdue would certainly be on the top line.

These wins currently would all be the same to the committee and better than beating Michigan at home. Beating Duke, Nevada, Rhode Island or Middle Tennessee at home. Beating New Mexico State, Western Kentucky, Temple or St. Bonaventure on a neutral court. Winning at East Tennessee, Wyoming, South Dakota State, Wright State or Utah Valley.

Games for tonight as I'll be out of the loop the rest of the day and tomorrow, so maybe no updates to this until Saturday. Penn State (108) at Michigan State (24) LSU (81) at Tennessee (14) Pitt (183) at Miami (FL) (17) Louisville (20) at Virginia (1) -- probably doesn't matter for us Houston (49) at Cincinnati (16) Providence (37) at Seton Hall (19) West Virginia (29) at Iowa State (116) -- curious to see the end result of this one Florida State (35) at Wake Forest (127) -- it'd be a nice night some lousy ACC teams to win. Syracuse (34) at Georgia Tech (141) Maryland (60) at Purdue (8) Mississippi State (70) at South Carolina (53) Virginia Tech (74) at Boston College (69) Missouri (46) at Alabama (27) UConn (82) at UCF (68) Butler (32) at Marquette (47) Texas (38) at Texas Tech (18) Arizona (13) at Washington State (164) -- this one likely in the doesn't matter range as well

Edited to show games through January 30. Nebraska currently 58 in RPI. Tier 1 (0-5): at Michigan State (24), at Creighton (26), Kansas (6), at Purdue (8), at Ohio State (22). REMAINING: none. Tier 2 (3-3): at St. Johns (103), UCF (68), Boston College (69), at Northwestern (102), Penn State (108), Michigan (36). REMAINING: vs. Maryland (60), at Minnesota (118). Tier 3 (7-0): Minnesota (118), Long Beach State (168), Wisconsin (133), Illinois (158), at Rutgers (196), Iowa (144), at Wisconsin (142). REMAINING: at Illinois (158), vs. Indiana (113), vs. Penn State (108). Tier 4 (7-0): Eastern Illinois (287), North Texas (204), North Dakota (186), Marist (323), UTSA (238), Delaware State (351), Stetson (321). REMAINING: vs. Rutgers (196)

And, to take it one step further, the only way you could really change it was if it went 5-1, but the loss was at home as opposed to on the road. Would change your winning percentage slightly.

Games of interest for tonight. Rhode Island (9) at Umass (204) UNC (11) at Clemson (6) Indiana (116) at Ohio State (22) Rutgers (193) at Illinois (165) Florida (38) at Georgia (62) TCU (24) at Oklahoma State (93) Xavier (3) at St. John's (104) Minnesota (102) at Iowa (152) Auburn (7) at Ole Miss (84) Vanderbilt (123) at Kentucky (12) Arkansas (21) at Texas A&M (36) Baylor (91) at Oklahoma (10)