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While other teams can log some big wins as opposed to us...the odds that we finish as strong or stronger is in our favor too. Our schedule is pretty favorable. We really should expect to go 4-2 at worst, especially if we are truly an NCAA team. Take Wake Forest for an example....they play Duke twice, Clemson, @Virginia, @Va Tech on top of some other easier games. They can take a big jump if they win some of those, but they could very easily go 1-4 in those 5 games and 4-4 down the stretch too. Providence is another. St. Johns, @ Xavier, @ Marquette, Nova, UCONN. Those are 5 tough games. If they win 3 of those on top of beating Depaul and @ Georgetown, they will be sitting good. No shame in losing to Marquette or UCONN, but more than 1, maybe 2 losses to the other 3 and they'll be hurting. Ole Miss as well. @Kentucky, @Miss St, South Carolina, Bama, @Georgia, A&M. They get Missouri twice. But they probably need to win 3 of those 6 games. That won't be easy for them. Kansas St can do us a huge solid too in a few weeks by winning at Cincinnati. Hurts the Bearcats and possibly gets KSU back into Quad 1 range for us.

If they keep winning, they could get to a Quad 1 loss/Quad 2 win status for us which will help. Basically become what we thought we'd have with Indiana.

Win. We need the Quad 1 win.

Bart Torvik has them going 3-6 in their final 9. His NET forecast has them finishing at 113. So they'd stay a Quad 2 road game. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if they finish worse than that.

For the time being. If MIchigan continues their plummet, that could be a Quad 3 game. And while I don't think they will plummet that far, Indiana has a relatively difficult final 7-8 games. If they crater...they could get close.

This. 21-10 with 0 Quad 3/4 losses is going to be very hard to keep us out. Lot of other bubble teams didn't have front loaded conference schedules like we did either, so they'll pick up some losses along the way too.

If we do that...we'd have 2 road wins and 1 neutral site win (before the Big 10 tournament). And all metrics that are actually criteria are solid. If the committee is going to make stuff up, we can't control that. And let's not pretend that other teams in our seeding area/bubble (10-12 seeds) are exactly dynamic on the road either.

I don’t think we have to do anything remarkable to make it. Just win what we should. Take care of business at home. Win at Michigan. That avoids any quad 3 losses and puts us at 21-10.

Fuck Creighton.

What a game. Walker and Griesel are very easy to root for

SJU 73 NU 67

Up 11 now

It's disappointing that we can't get him a role. We're thin at guard and wing.

NU 76 omaha 72

NU 75 Maine 56 *Non-Con: 7 *Overall: 13 *Assuming Walker returns

Cj didn’t have an entire season of being worthless under his belt

Tominaga is worthless

Even just Scheierman and things are pretty different.

This has been my wish and thoughts dating back to the Collier days. We don't need 7-footers. We need Copelands and Robys. It's not a surprise that our best record since the Nee era came with the most explosive and versatile frontcourt. Give me long lean athletic guys who can explode over the 7-foot plodders.

IMO they fired Frost for the reasons Alberts said. It was early enough to attempt to salvage the season. Making a bowl game with this schedule and our roster is not a specifically difficult feat. Despite Frost's inability to get us to a bowl game, getting to a bowl is a very very minor accomplishment. So I don't think that alone is going to hitch Mickey to this job. Especially considering our schedule this year. We seem to praise Mickey for simply not sucking. I think he's done a decent job overall, but I don't think he's walking on water. I think people just underestimate how bad Frost was. I think Trev was also being strategic and knew that the Georgia Southern game was the final gut punch to everyone. He struck while the iron was hot. Politically, after that game, he had virtually everyone on his side. The last thing he wants is for Scott to pull off some random wins over mediocre opponents to earn back a little support. Additionally, CFB and CBB are different animals. There's more to gain in getting a jump on things in CFB than there is in CBB. Strategically and structurally, it makes far more sense to rip the band aid off when Trev did, rather than wait until the end of the year. That doesn't apply as much in CBB. Even if this season starts off poorly and seems destined to the same end the last 3 have. I don't see Fred getting fired until the day after the B10 tourney. There's just not the same value there and Fred has at least acted in a responsible manner, even if he has failed as a coach. Ultimately, I think there is a sizeable difference in the character (or at least assumed character) between the two head coaches. Hoiberg may have gotten a lot wrong in his first 3 years here. Like Frost on the football side. But he hasn't been an arrogant fool who blames everyone else for their issues. Hoiberg didn't try to cancel an OU series. He didn't (at least officially) have us being investigated by the NCAA. He didn't talk trash on/blame his predecessor only to have a much lower winning percentage. Both have embarrassed us performance wise from a win-loss percentage. But really, only one has embarrassed us from a PR standpoint. If Hoiberg has shown a willingness to change and try to adapt, that carries some weight. I don't except Hoiberg to survive this year. But I think there is a world of difference between firing Frost when we did and firing Hoiberg mid-season.

Also agree

Agree.

I’ve seen enough to want Lawrence over Tominaga

If he’s not going to make 3’s…..just stick Dawson at the two and let him use his athletiscm to defend. Tominaga offers nothing.

We miss a dynamic ball handler