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NU 76 USC 67

Agreed - at least NU is in good shape in that we don't borrow from the U to fund the athletic dept. Those kinds of schools are going to have to make some hard decisions. Dannon told the OWH today that being self-funding lets NU keep the 1890 NIL and the athletic dept separate, while a lot of schools are going to combine their NIL collectives with the athletic dept. This means we can offer 1890 NIL money on top of the revenue sharing from the school. This will be especially big if the schools have to follow Title IX with revenue sharing. Most schools were planning to give 90%+ to football and men's basketball from the $20M+ in revenue sharing. If they have to follow Title IX, they have to split things far more evenly. We'd be able to supplement that extra money from 1890. Still a lot of uncertainty for something that's supposed to start July 1, though.

I try hard to forget the bad ones. Did we play Maryland last year? Can't remember. Hell, I've already forgotten last Sunday's game against whomever we may or may not have played.

+8.5 again - hope it treats us better than last Sunday

NU 73 Turtles 66

This. We just could never put together that big run we always seem to get at PBA and let the crowd take over. I think RU missed like 7 shots in a row at one point in the 2nd half, but they all came on 2 possessions. Otherwise, Harper and Bailey managed to prevent our big runs with timely buckets and their role players made key plays at the right times. Harper & Bailey are unbelievable. How that team entered last night at 9-8 with those two players is almost criminal. I can see why they were preseason top 25. They're going to win quite a few games down the stretch I'd imagine. The final minute of the first half was a killer. We miss three shots on our final possession & Bailey hits that circus 3. 5 or 6 point swing. With the way we started the second half, might have been a whole different game if we're up 2 or 3 at halftime instead of down 3. Not the first time we failed to close the half well. Maybe we need to use the use it or lose it timeout more often.

Greatest Husker baseball player of all time - Erstad and Gordon were clearly more accomplished, but Husker baseball isn't what it is today without Komine.

We broke them.

Heard that the initial plans for the B1G are to follow the same scholarship rules that the SEC uses in 2025-26 - the SEC is leaning toward 25 scholarships to distribute among the 34 players. I doubt every B1G team would fund 25 scholarships, but I'm pretty confident that NU will. Hopefully the B1G follows thru on this plan - having a new B1G commissioner who understands baseball is a huge boost versus having someone like Kevin Warren in charge.

The 4 times we've been this big of a favorite in a B1G game under Hoiberg, we've covered. Since we joined the B1G we've covered 12 of 14 times when favored by at least 8.5 - many of these games pre-date Fred, of course. And almost half of the 14 B1G games where we've been this big of a favorite came against dear ol' RU.

I'm not sure which player he's talking about - all 5 Hoosiers look like they have no interest in being on the floor right now. These are the kinds of outcomes that will get a certain coach fired. Not cool, Illinois, not cool.

https://d1baseball.com/stories/2025-d1baseball-preseason-top-25-rankings/ Nice! Oregon is the only other B1G team on the list at #12. We'll get tested out of conference - LSU is #3, Oregon St is #7, Vandy is #16. I'm a little surprised Irvine didn't make it.

If you want to feel a little better about where we're at, the 3 teams we've lost to are 13-3 in the B1G so far (10-3 outside of beating NU); and the two teams we've beaten are 6-5 (6-3 outside of losing to NU). Gotta put this one behind us fast and take care of business Thursday against an RU team that's probably going to be on the bubble to make the B1G tourney. Absolutely can't lose that one.

N 70 R 61

I'm not sure any team in the country could've won that game today with as well as PU played and as motivated as they were. That said, a veteran team has to have more pride than that. Hope we show it Thursday vs RU.

6 of our last 8 have been under - it'd be 7 of 8 if the Iowa game didn't go into OT

And Christo probably won't even be in our weekend rotation - it'll be nice to have an arm like his out of the bullpen whenever needed.

USC dominates Illinois in Champaign in a game that's was a 9 a.m. start for them Pacific time - crazy

Five weeks from opening day - glad we hung on to Sanderson & didn't lose him in the transfer portal - I expect we'll see a bit of a power surge from him this season vs last year.

N 71 P 62

I guess we got the best officials Peacock could afford. I knew we were in trouble when Kent & Jake had no idea before the game who two of the guys were. Still, we could've & should've taken it out of the officials' hands. Really sucks to score a buzzer beater and still lose the game - those don't come around too often.