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Schierman came from that league. So did KU’s main guard. Greisel and Andrew Morgan too.

It’s a weird stat that we are in our best three year run in a couple of decades, yet we didn’t even make our conference tourney at the end of that stretch. One commonality is that Tominaga was here for most of that run and he wasn’t here when we failed to make our conference tourney. He brought a lot of enthusiasm and energy and a bit of swagger we seem to be missing. I agree with whoever said the leadership is lacking among the players with this group.

Many buyouts are driven by having a booster willing to write the check. I have no idea if there is “that guy” that passionately follows Nebraska basketball. But I agree that the university won’t do it without a booster chipping in.

I would be fine with it if they decided to make a change. Fred has been given ample time to right the ship and while better than his horrific start, it feels like we have hit a big wall. Making a change would at least show that we are serious about being competitive. And as you said, NIL makes it different than it used to be. I suspect NIL dollars would be more available as people invested in the program will be excited for the change. Watching these late season collapses is rough on the fans. And the defense just isn’t working. If we don’t do something I fear apathy will set in. And with that it will be harder to get NIL.

Wild Omaha won the Summit with Frankie leaving. Didn’t see that coming.

Wow we got robbed by the officials. Just wow.

I thought those were the same guy

Nope. He played Kalkbrenner perfectly, which allowed us to swarm the shooters on the perimeter. For all of Kalkbrenner’s strengths, being a traditional low post scoring threat isn’t one of them. Meah being strong enough to handle him one on one was key. I’m guessing, though, that Meah’s minutes going forward is based purely on matchups. Our 7 man rotation is pretty locked in it seems, and i don’t disagree with it one bit. This appears to be our best lineup.

Man we needed that one.

it seems like eons ago since the Creighton game. Our defense was lights out. We covered the three point line extremely well. I don’t know what the heck happened with our defense but they need to look at the Creighton tape and rediscover our defensive mojo.

i don’t know why we keep going to Bryce to handle the ball in late game situations. He has very poor ball handling and passing skills in that role. Not sure what the coaches see that they like in that situation but we keep doing it….

both guys didn’t have situational awareness on that play…

That was a masterclass by the coaches on how to play Kalk on both ends of the floor. I assumed going in that Kalk would have 8 blocks and Creighton would make a ton of open threes off of double teams like most teams seem to do to us. The defense was insane. He never even got the ball to kick out to the shooters to pass around the perimeter. And even though Creighton shot a ton of threes the shooters rarely had time to get comfortable. Offensively the way we attacked was brilliant. We aren’t a great shooting team so we either attacked where Kalk wasn’t or our drivers went right into his chest like you are supposed to do against a shot blocker. I am just amazed we did it a full 40. I thought against Saint Mary’s our team started to figure out how the pieces fit together. But I never expected a dominant performance like this!

Nice!!! Welcome to Nebraska young man!

He tweeted GBR during the game. His teammate Derrick White is from Colorado so I assume they thought it would be fun because where they both are from. I suppose he’s a Jaysker.

I kinda felt like we had a sneaky good transfer portal off-season. Being listed in the top 5…. Not really sneaky anymore.

Cross was my favorite player on that team. He had a lot of potential but it seemed like he didn’t have the support of the staff…. I always felt it was because of Matt A. It’s one of those things that is too bad but unfortunately that is how life works sometimes. Good for him to find a program that let him grow into the player he became.

Great point. Josiah was erratic on offense but he was the man on defense.

We have 11 guys as of now you can make a reasonable argument for being in the rotation. You almost never see 10 man rotations. Usually it is 7-8 guys. If I had to guess, Sam and Uhlis are going to be battling it out for a spot. Janowski is a guy I would expect to battle for minutes as the year progresses. Beyond that who the heck knows. Actually i don’t even know the above. It is exciting to have so many options. If a couple guys don’t pan out immediately it isn’t a killer. This has been one heck of an off-season.

Looks like we are in the Okie State regional. #2 seed.

Me neither. Jorge had a great post move that other players had a hack of a time stopping when he got to his spot. If I remember right he had some foot issues which limited him here which was too bad. I like him and Standhardinger when Doc would actually have them on the court together.

Jorge wasn’t 7 foot either. Looking back we have had very few 7 footers who weren’t stiffs. We have had some good bigs over my lifetime but they were all in the 6’9” to 6’11” range. King was probably the last one and I never felt he was dominant even though he was a first round pick. All that said, I don’t expect Meah to be dominant either. But a big who can block some shots and throw down some love would be most welcome.

Did Spinelli get us Maric or is my memory failing? I remember Spinellinas an excellent recruiter and was bummed when he left.

This reminds me of the Steve Pederson coaching hire. I remember some people talking about how nobody big would take the Nebraska job. Kentucky is going through pretty much the same thing.

i don’t think that would bother Fred much when you look back on his Iowa State days. He was pretty good with transfers back then.