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A completely self-inflicted injury. He began the jump shot going straight up, wasn't fading at all, then decided to try to draw a foul. Left foot landed behind the three point line, kicked his right leg way out to try to make it seem like Rollie was in his landing area and his right foot landed three feet inside the arc. Landed very awkwardly because of it. This stuff drives me nuts. I hope the era of trying to deceive officials into calling fouls rather than just playing basketball comes to an end soon. Very unfortunate for Creighton because Ashworth is so vital to their team this year.

Has anyone asked Tom Shatel for his cuurent top 10 Nebraska/Creighton combined player rankings? No sure any Husker players would crack his list yet but Brice, Juwan, Berke, Essegian... should all be getting close!

Up to 36th in ESPN BPI and 34th SOS.

They have an opportunity to get a huge win with KU coming to Omaha soon. Hopefully Ashworth can get healthy. I usually hope Creighton loses all their games but if they end up being mediocre this year that might piss me off more than when they win 25 games.

I'm going to tell my Nebrasketball friends that Steve Harley is now my internet friend. Life is good.

We have 5 players now averaging double figures ppg. Would be nice to keep that up

That bumped us up 10 spots to #42 in Torvik’s rankings

They need to go get their husker gear ready for tomorrow

Have to be smarter. Two years ago we just let Walker and Griesel do everything to seal the win. We don't have two alphas like that so it has to be a team effort this time. Come on boys

Brice is kinda hurting us defensively. Not as locked in as everyone else is

Brice just had the worst possible 4 minutes to start the half

Fred needs to start working the refs. It will make a difference

Our players are completely tuned in to each individual Creighton player's strengths and weaknesses. Great job in preparation this week

Freaking flop. Here come the refs. They are not calling fouls on creighton

Gavin needs to start hitting those open threes or his minutes will dwindle. He's not giving us anything else right now.

If our defense flies around like this consistently throughout the year, we'll win plenty of games. We have tweaked our typical gameplan. Running Ashworth and Traudt off the three point line, but no one else. Brice is getting to his spots at will. Just need to keep being aggressive and under control.

Playing with confidence. Keep making Pop Isaacs try to beat us. He is not capable of it over the course of a game.

CJ will likely not be in their rotation once they get into conference play. Jamarques Lawrence is playing pretty well for Rhode Island. I do wish both of those guys were still on our roster. From what I can tell, Eli Rice is now suiting up for Penn State but is at the end of the bench. Got mop up duty against St. Francis and that’s about it.

Always liked Tonje and happy for him. Just a wild world we live in - he played an entire college basketball career at Colorado State. Now two years later he's playing college basketball for Wisconsin after having a cup of coffee at Missouri.

I have family members who do the same. But I never understood, and will never understand, the Creighton fans who'll root against Nebrasketball, then put on their Husker shirts for the football/volleyball/baseball games. And for that reason I've always hated everything about Creighton, and always will.

Was a pretty selfish frustration foul 90 feet from the basket. You have to be smarter than that.

Creighton could very well come out and make 12 more threes than we do and run us out of the gym like last year and most games vs them in the last 25 years. But they aren’t nearly as good this year without Scheierman and Alexander. Their backcourt is not very impressive. Pop Isaacs isn’t a typical Mac guard. He’s erratic, has poor shot selection and is terribly inefficient. Has been his whole career. Neal is not very skilled and can’t shoot. Ashworth can shoot the crap out of the ball, but his ball handling and lack of quickness gets exposed against bigger, more athletic guards. And that’s pretty much it for their backcourt right now. Not much depth there. If Creighton makes <10 threes and you can somewhat keep Kalkbrenner off the offensive glass, you can beat them.

Worster is more loose with the ball than I expected him to be. He has a very good career assist to turnover ratio but it's been the opposite so far here. Needs to get it going. Berke used all of his 7'1" wingspan to be disruptive and impactful defensively today. 3 blocks, 3 steals, several deflections, altered shots. Was his best overall game to date, all while going up against two very high level frontcourt players. He handles the ball a lot for a big, yet has only turned the ball over 3 times total in the first four games. Shooting 60% from the field and 83% from the line. I'm just so impressed with him. I really hope he and Mast are both on the team next year. From 10 minutes left in the first half on, we actually played better than I thought we were capable of. Might be a hot take to some, but that St. Mary's team could win the Big Ten this year. They very well might end up with a higher tourney seed than any Big Ten team. They're the same as they always are (very good), but they might've found their next Patty Mills in Mikey Lewis. Clutch free throws by that kid at the end. We played flat out awful the first 10 minutes. St. Mary's played pretty well, I thought. And we were still in it until the end. That makes me confident we can compete with anyone in the conference this year if we clean some things up. Most teams in conference this year are solid, but none are great imo. Speaking of the first 10 minutes - and speaking of beating dead horses - what the hell, Fred? It's obvious to all there is no offensive flow when Meah is in the game. In the starting group, Brice is forced to be ball dominant (he's doing an admirable job of it), and the guys he has to kick to are Meah, Gary, Worster and Berke. Rough deal. Morgan played better today. All in all, I don't feel discouraged after this one. Not a bad loss by any means. However, not winning this game can absolutely be the reason you're on the wrong side of the bubble (not sure that'll matter this year). 9-2 in the non-con (with no quality wins), plus 1 loss in the conference tourney, and you probably need to go 14-6 in conference to make the tourney with our non-con resume. I'm not sure 13-7 would do it (remember, we once went 13-5 in the Big Ten and weren't even close to making the tourney). Beat St. Mary's on a neutral court and you can probably go 12-8 again and make it. I think it makes that big of a difference with a schedule like ours. We also won't have any opportunities to beat the #1 team in the country this year.

Seems to be a roster construction problem. Only two catch and shoot guys on the roster and neither are in the first 5.

St. Mary’s: Drive, kick, catch, shoot. Us: Everything but that. There is just no flow or semblance of an offense with Meah in the game.