Chad A

I think what Miles group was able to do during the Big Ten tournament and the NIT was reminiscent to Doc's teams of the past. Outgunned, outmuscled, limited bench still found a way to go out with max effort... Need a way to merge that higher skill and athleticism with max effort to be successful here. It's like we had one or the other here for the last 7 years... 2014 and 2018 were magical years where they came together... 2015 and 2019... crashing short of expectations. Doc's teams seemed to have the effort but not the higher end athleticism and skill... Tim's... higher skill and athleticism but at times the effort was inconsistent. Hopefully this is what we see with Fred's coaching staff an ability to merge the two... and hopefully adding Doc helps get to that level.

Woohoo! come back Doc! Now I wish I still had my Doc's Crew shirt.

I played pickup - but not on the "main" pick up court. The B court... haha. All the football players were on the main court. Not me. I did get matched up against Naciska Gilmore a few times in the summers - I provided no contest in the paint. There was also a women's basketball guard who would own me and my friends. Think it was Sheila Mcpherson... again no match from me as she rained threes over my slow butt. Got to play a couple games 3 on 3 with and against Scott Frost his first summer back from Stanford. Crazy what you remember. I don't remember him scoring on me every time down the court, but I do remember stepping in to stop a cross court pass from him - my only positive play. I switched to playing pickup volleyball instead of basketball after those experiences.

Summer sessions aren't too far away, last week of class is last week of April I believe. Doing the announcement now gets that out there a month ahead of time - who knows the downstream impacts to the University system when the president of the University of Nebraska leaves. We can view the announcement with the blinders of how it affects men's basketball, or we can view it as an announcement for the university system as a whole. Perception is that it is affecting the basketball situation, but announcement or no announcement, it probably would have impacted the timing anyway. We just wouldn't know about it to speculate on it... until after, and been like oh... so that's why it probably took so long...

Maybe the timing had more the faculty and students in mind, and not sports. The first day back was yesterday March 25 from Spring Break.

Interesting, irrelevant observation Last three coaching hires have been... 46, 45, and 45 years old when hired. Hoiberg is 46.

that guy flew much more than that push was - ha

That was fun. My 11 year old stepson saw a side of me that I don't let out often. But something about Nebraska basketball turns me into a raging lunatic even as I begin adding more years. Well at least he gets to see I'm passionate about something :) Was fun to celebrate this with 10k other rabid fans.

Looks to be like the Holidays when the students are out. It's Spring Break for UNL, and I recall these tickets being released to public in the Holidays for either 10 or 15. I imagine they made it 15 to match the other 100 levels? I mean you don't have to be a student to purchase these right?

Woo hoo!

Wait, Missouri is flat?

people still watching the show? I stopped watching 40 minutes ago - and just keep reloading the ncaa tournament site to get the brackets. Oh well, beats waiting the full hour to know our fate, but not good tv

Last night I remember someone on the show lamenting on how Nebraska is expected to win and what pressure that puts on them and how will they respond. How often you hear that for a 4 to 4.5 point underdog? Sure they're seeded 4th, but no one expects them to win - except, well us. Heck even KenPom can't get this team's potential right. No one has all season, and honestly I think Nebraska has shown it plays better with that monkey on the back and feeds off that lack of respect.

This is fun. Really fun to be a fan right now. I'm usually worked up to a froth watching Husker basketball, but this team has a zen quality to it... they really are a joy to watch. I really have nothing else to add - just keep winning

I think this was the right move. All of the cards have been laid on the table for a 2017-2018 run - we saw glimpses of what could be at moments this year, we also saw glimpses of youth, inconsistency, and the psyche of a young team when things begin to unravel. If the core of the group were Juniors and Seniors, I'd be worried... but we were playing frosh and sophs or first year players out there most of the time, with a Sr. in Tai. Miles recruited these guys (2017-2018 junior class) 3 to 4 years ago on a long term plan, not a short term plan.... we are coming to that culmination of the long term plan - we took our lumps getting them experience as we had no depth to ease them in. Tai made a big jump between his Soph and Jr. seasons, now instead of just 1 in the season, we'll have 4 or 5 making that jump.

I'm kind of interested in how the 13-14 team compared to this team - year to date. I recall that team also struggling on the defensive end early - but picking up the intensity after dropping games early in conference. I'm thinking about that UAB game where UAB seemed to score at will which seemed to be the nadir. But then turn around and win that Ohio State game with excellent D and a hot shooting Petteway, I think from then on eventually they clamped down defensively and made it their identity. Can this team make that turnaround defensively?

Complete random occurence to see the coaches and Watson (with parents assuming) at Egg and I prior to football game... good choice for breakfast.

and the Tim Miles coaching tree looks even stronger. Saul Phillips was 3 year assistant at NDSU with Tim Miles - prior to that director of operations at Wisconsin... he took over that team after Miles left for CSU and led them to the NCAA tournament his second year - a few middle of the road years after that, then a couple strong years the last two years. Ohio job has been stepping stone for higher positions with Groce to Illinois and Christian to Boston College.

The posts were on their own as we couldn't double down and leave their three point specialist. Accounts for some of the foul discrepancy. Up to Pitchford to work on building a stronger core to help him on the defense side

Yep, I can attest, started listening to 93.7 due to their basketball coverage - on radio... and twitter.

Yes, it counts.

Agreed - and from defense try to turn that into offense, but if you can't get the mismatch - pull it back and get a good shot opportunity on our end. Quick shots will kill us in this game and if Indiana gets hot early must check that ego at the door and stay focused on the game plan.

Hammons looks like one of those bigs that the college game wants to get 30+ minutes out of him - but unable to, he doesn't have the stamina - but still... projects better for the NBA game as a 10 to 15 minute backup Center.

On to the next one

Agreed - finish Top 4 - with the current strength of Big Ten likely getting 6 teams maybe a 7th into tourney...