millerhusker

I remember feeling guilty for being glad that Teddy didn't set the record that night against Penn State.

There's no subjectivity in the missed taunting and spiking the ball calls. Those are literally textbook technical fouls. If you're going to decide to call stuff strictly by the rulebook (Brice's flagrant 1), you absolutely have to hold that standard for the rest of the game.

So much heartbreak this year. But unlike some previous losses, this heartbreak wasn't due to lack of effort or toughness. Wasn't due to not being locked in. Wasn't due to being completely inept offensively. No moral victories, but you can be proud of the team after a game like that. So many things that didn't go our way, but they fought like hell regardless. Nebraska shot a slightly higher percentage from the field and from three than Ohio State. Outrebounded Ohio State despite them having long, athletic former 5-star talent. Brice had a historic offensive day. Juwan, Connor and Morgan all played up to their ability. Uhlis, Worster and Sam chipped in with some points, too. Nebraska coaching >> Ohio State coaching. Ohio State made 32 free throws and that's the difference. Everything just looks better and feels better when shots are going in. It needs to be the focus of constructing a Hoiberg roster. This version of Nebraska can win some games in the Big Ten tournament.

Brice now leads the Big Ten in scoring and is 12th in the country. Has been doing it on less field goal attempts per game than all the players in front of him on that list.

Of the other players on Nebraska's top 10 single season 3FG makes list, only Cary Cochran and Andrew White did it with a higher percentage.

Agreed. The missed opportunities are disappointing, but I'm not sure there's a bad team in the conference this year. All of the "bad" teams have beat some of the "good" teams this year.. Washington beat Maryland Penn St. beat Purdue USC beat Michigan St. and Illinois Northwestern beat Maryland and Illinois Rutgers beat UCLA Minnesota beat UCLA, Michigan and Oregon

Nebraska still has more road wins plus quad 1 wins than any other team on the bubble. Was surprised to see that but it's a fact. The two things the committee wants to know most - can you beat good teams and can you win away from home. It's March 4th and we still get to talk about the NCAA tournament. I expect the Huskers to come out and compete like hell in this one. Pitino's recent halftime speech really hits home with this Nebraska team. Who cares if your shots aren't falling. Just dig in and fight harder. Anything less would be a major disappointment tonight.

Per Sean Callahan, Berke's NIL "agreement" is a two year deal. I've heard the same about Essegian. It can take some international bigs who play a more finesse offensive game time to adapt to Division I basketball. Berke looked completely different against the mid-major opponents. Was the most efficient offensive player on the team through those games. As an underclassman at Bradley, Mast played against three higher level teams - Missouri, Xavier and Colorado State. In those games, he scored a total of 6 points on 3 of 21 shooting. And had a total of 2 assists.

Ohio State has 6 home losses

This is kinda like not being able to stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend that broke your heart. Eventually you just need to let it go... looking at bracketologists who updated their stuff late last night or this morning... most still have us in and some still have us not playing in Dayton... some have us the first or second team out. It's March 2nd and we still get to think about this stuff. If nothing else, these two years have been more similar to 90's Nebrasketball than any other two year run in our history. In a 9 year span we went to 5 NCAA tourneys and 4 NITs. Had a team win 26 games. Won a conference tournament. Won an NIT. Produced multiple NBA players. To outsiders, it all gets overshadowed because we never won a tourney game, but I'd take another decade like that in a heartbeat.

I'll take "pretty" offense (as Buzz Williams called it) over whatever this is. More fun to watch anyway. And as someone else said, Loenser can teach them to play at least some defense.

I think you'd feel differently if we had more, better offensive players. Seems like we can't figure out if we want him to play the Keisei role or the CJ role. But strictly in terms of three point shooting, he has been more consistent than Keisei on equal volume, and just as consistent as CJ on significantly higher volume.

As long as we don't plan on running the offense through that player. Hopefully, like last year, Mast (and/or maybe a transfer PG) is the primary decision maker and the guy the offense revolves around. Even when Brice brought the ball up the court last year, the offense was ran through Mast with a focus on getting Keisei (and our other shooters) shots. And Brice was able to play his role of an efficient/lower volume, smooth three level scorer. Worked well. We were 4th in the Big Ten in ppg (3rd in point differential behind Purdue and Illinois). 1st by a wide margin in 3FG made per game. And despite being an undersized and relatively unathletic team, rebounding wasn't an issue as we were 3rd in the conference in that department. At the moment in college basketball, players with the archetype of Brice and JPJ - ball dominant wing scorers - are essentially role players on good/great offensive teams. On mediocre to bad offenses, they are the sole focal point of the offense. On those great offensive teams, these players play that role of a three level scorer that Brice did for us last year (Kon Knueppel at Duke, John Tonje at Wisconsin, RJ Luis at St. John's). Of the currently ranked teams that run their offense through one player as the primary decision maker, they are all either floor general point guards who can get into the teeth of the defense (Braden Smith, Cam Jones, etc) or versatile 4s and 5s who can score and have great vision (Johnni Broome, Cooper Flagg, Danny Wolf, etc). Other teams like Michigan State, BYU, Wisconsin, etc don't run their offense through just one guy. Those point guards and versatile 4s/5s have the ability to make their teammates better. It's tough for Brice, he doesn't have much offensive talent around him at all, but he's also not able to make his teammates better. Again, that's not a knock on him. It's just not his game (I love Brice. One of the best we've ever had at Nebraska). Michigan had the gameplan of playing Brice straight up (and not always with their best perimeter defender), basically allowing him to get 25 points but making him use up 25-30 possessions to get there, and just lock up all of our other players, who are pretty easily lockable. Brice's game isn't to get into the lane, draw two defenders and either kick out for an open three or dump it off to a big for a dunk. He has played his role admirably this year. More efficiently than Petteway and JPJ did in similar roles. Obviously the roster construction isn't his fault. Just by having Mast back and more shooters (probably), the offense will look entirely different next year.

This. Not even trying to knock them, they just aren’t natural born leaders. Mast and Allick were the guys who rallied the troops last year.

Washington has more overall talent than Nebraska. Harris is going to be a top 20 pick in this year’s draft. Osobor had his pick of where to go play this year, but Washington gave him $2mil.

I ficking hate that play call. Morgan can’t score right now. 5 possessions in a row now with no Brice shot attempt. Awful

Brice needs to go to the hole strong. No one else. Take over Brice

We had em last year

Definitely need to recruit players who don’t fall down this offseason. It’s unreal

Have to be one of the top 2 teams in conference standings who didn’t make the big dance. That likely won’t happen at this point. Hopefully can still get an NIT invite

Juwan has completely given up. Not moving on defense at all. He’s done that in other games this year. Not good leadership

The Walker/Griesel team would blow the doors off this version of this team

Quit force feeding our post players. It’s a wasted possession at this point

Don’t like the feel of this at all. Concerned with the energy on the defensive end. Looks more like the Penn State game than the Michigan game right now. Minnesota is getting to every spot they want to.

Seems like Arkansas is one of about 7 SEC/Big Ten teams fighting for the last 4 or 5 spots in the field as of now. Would a loss to South Carolina knock them out?