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The clock doesn't stop after a made basket unless it occurs under 1:00. So if it occurs at 1:00.1, like this one did, the clock runs. If it occurs at 0:59.9, it stops. Kind of a silly distinction, they should just stop it at 1 minute in this kind of a case, but that's how the rule reads. MSU is even better than I thought they were - great team that plays hard for 40 minutes. Our half court defense was outstanding, but I bet we'd like to have the first 5 minutes back when we let Winston beat us down the floor repeatedly, even a few times after we made a FG. We adjusted after that, which slowed them down after our makes, but those early transition pts were huge. Throw in Ward tossing in that 3 at the end of the shot clock, Winston banking in a 3, and Winston air-balling a 3 that happened to bounce into their hands for a layup in the first half - with our poor shooting, we needed more of that stuff to go our way. But ultimately, MSU is really good - and we battled them point for point much of the game, despite an off shooting night. Hopefully we can get some shots to fall and be stronger at the rim in the rematch.

They replay that game every so often on BTN as a Nebraska Classic - one of my favorites. Huge win that season that we had to have for our resume. Petteway hit a couple of unreal 3s late in the shot clock in the 2nd half. And if I'm not mistaken, I think that was the game where Rivers was in the corner in the first minute or two, the students started the incorrect shot clock countdown, Rivers fell for it and threw one up ... and it went in for 3. Knew then it was going to be our night. ?

Palmer only has had one other game this year he didn't attempt a FT, after playing 23 min vs Missouri St, where he only attempted 2 2-pt shots. Last night, he played 35 minutes and attempted 8 2-pt shots with no FTs. Plus he tied a season high in rebounds with 9, so he was mixing it up more underneath than usual. Last season, he had one game with no FTs and played only 21 min in that one. So he's attempted at least one FT in 47 of 50 games with NU. And even going back to Miami, every game he's played more than 25 minutes, he's had a FT attempt. Last night was a significant outlier.

5 Q1 wins and 9 Q1/Q2 wins already - unreal. And starting Thursday they have 5 Q1 games in a row MICH ST (15-2) #7 (5-2) (4-0) (2-0) (4-0) QUAD SHEET NET Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Kansas N L Fla GC H W La-Monroe H W Tenn Tech H W UCLA N W Texas N W L'ville A L Rutgers A W Iowa H W Florida A W Green Bay H W Oakland H W N Illinois H W N'western H W Ohio St A W Purdue H W Penn St A W Nebraska A x Maryland H x Iowa A x Purdue A x Indiana H x

Doing my part by starting to drink now. NU 77 MSU 73

Beat the #25 team on the road - by 15 points - while attempting 13 fewer free throws.

That's how you play defense on the road. That was a team that's been dominant at home all season, has wins over Marquette & Louisville, and we smoked them on their home floor. That score will leave a mark on Selection Sunday.

Early lines have Indiana -2 to -3

INDIANA (12-4) #23 (3-3) (2-1) (1-0) (6-0) QUAD SHEET NET Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Chicago St H W Montana St H W Marquette H W Arkansas A L UT-Arlingtn H W UC Davis H W Duke A L N'western H W Penn St A W L'ville H W Butler N W C Ark H W J'ville H W Illinois H W Michigan A L Maryland A L Nebraska H x Purdue A x N'western A x Michigan H x Rutgers A x Indiana in the midst of 6 straight Q1 games - they've started this stretch 0-2, hopefully it's 0-3 after Monday.

Seton Hall tied 60-60 at Marquette at under 4 timeout. Somehow the Pirates have managed to hold Howard to 26 pts so far. Considering I was assured by local media CU "played great defense" to hold him to 53 earlier in the week, Seton Hall must be playing God-like defense today. Texas Tech just finishing off a nice road win at UTerus.

That may cost them an offensive efficiency point or two.

I think we used up all of our favorable bounces on Glynn's 3-pointer late that touched every part of the rim and maybe some of the backboard. ?

Latest Quad Table -- based on today's ratings (which of course can change over the next several weeks)... PSU actually moved into Q2 after the loss last night in NET rankings, and at this point, the trip out there will be Q1. PSU figures to be right on the cut-off line all season. Next 3 games are Q1/Q1/Q2 Still have 9 Q1 games to play and 6 Q2, according to current NET rankings - lots of chances Currently we have 5 Q1/Q2 wins - playing .500 the rest of the way would get us to 12-13 Q1/Q2 wins before the B1G tourney. NU sits at #14 in NET and #48 in RPI. I'm going to say I'm in favor of move away from RPI.

FS1 jinx gets us again IU 80 NU 72

Can you imagine the local media/fan reaction to the coach if NU nearly blew a 10-pt lead mid-way thru second half, gave up 50+ points to an opponent on our home floor, but inbounded the ball successfully with 0.8 seconds left to survive and win by 3? It would feel like and be discussed like a loss ... and rightly so. Now throw in completely botching the inbounds pass with 0.8 seconds left, miraculously allowing the game to get to OT, and then losing it, all at home? The local media would roast Miles ... and rightly so. A once-in-a-generation debacle of a loss. But the local paper told me this morning that "CU didn't quit" and played great D to hold Howard to 53 and how Greggy took responsibility, so it's OK. Dude must've invested that $100K Bowen turned down in Teflon.

Excellent observation. And once that new coach is hired, don't forget the group that rushes to be first to say "this guy will never work here" or some variation. Then when the coach eventually is fired or leaves, they can brag about how they were the first to jump off the bandwagon, they always knew this would result in failure, etc, etc. The crowing over eventually "being right" isn't as ground-breaking as they may think though, since 90%+ coaches get fired or leave for another job. I mean I could say I knew from the start that Iba, Nee, Collier, and Sadler would all fail here and I'd have been batting 1.000. No matter how this season finishes, the odds of Miles retiring from NU on his own terms in a decade or so are incredibly small. The odds of eventually being right about a coach failing are nearly a lock ... even if it takes several years, I guess. Just a strange way to go about being a fan.

NU 73 PSU 51

Our defense has not traveled well away from PBA, save for the Clemson game (and Sioux Falls, but that was basically PBA North). That has to get fixed. In today's college basketball, when you can't make the 3 and can't stop the 3, you're going to lose. Looking at the box score, we probably were fortunate to be as close as we were in the final couple of minutes. Badly need a confidence boosting win vs PSU to get our mojo back.

From OWH story, also sounds like Arop spent a good chunk of the night guarding Tonje, who needed 17 shots to get to 10 points and has been on fire the early part of the season. Arop has had a great tourney so far on both ends. 1 for sure, and hopefully 2, future Huskers in the title game tonight - should be fun! https://www.omaha.com/neprepzone/basketball/pospisil-title-drought-at-metro-holiday-tourney-will-end-for/article_bffa27f6-b6e7-524b-8e42-40779dcf8eb0.html

On his call-in show Thursday, he said he was second-guessing playing 1-3-1 on the last possession - but he also said Allen didn't take a good angle to Smith at the FT line, needed to cut off his driving lane. I think he may even had said he still was feeling 50/50 on whether they should've played man or zone on the last possession, even in hindsight. Not sure if that's what the article is referring to.

Iowa's Quad Sheet - they'll definitely drop a handful of spots from #35 after tonight's loss, but this easily will be a Q1 game for us Sunday at this point. IOWA (11-3) #35 (1-3) (2-0) (1-0) (7-0) QUAD SHEET NET Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 UMKC H W Green Bay H W Oregon N W UConn N W Alabama St H W Pitt H W Wisconsin H L Mich St A L Iowa St H W N Iowa N W W Carolina H W Savan St H W Bryant H W Purdue A L Nebraska H x N'western A x

NU 77 Iowegia 73 2

Yeah, lots of early wagering on Maryland (72% on Vegas Insider) flipped the number, and also lots of bets on the under, it's down 3-4 points from the open to 138.5. Looks like the public will be wrong after we win tonight. After all, that's why Las Vegas has so many big buildings.

I'm seeing NU favored by 1 on early lines - thought Maryland would be favored by a couple

Updated Quad Current Rankings: Not a huge change from 2 weeks ago, as there weren't a lot of games. Currently, the rankings say somewhere between 22 and 24 Quad1/2 games on our schedule. Looking at last year, Power-5 teams that had at least 10 Q1/Q2 wins nearly all ended up with a seed of 7 or higher. Only 3 didn't and they all were .500 or worse against Q1/Q2 teams, receiving seeds of 8, 9, and 10. So it's logical to think that getting to 10 Q1/Q2 wins almost certainly will equal a bid. According to NET current rankings, we have a 4-2 Q1/Q2 record right now with 17 more chances. So if we can get to 12 or 13 Q1/Q2 wins total (that'd be playing roughly .500 basketball the rest of the way) you'd think that'd be a minimum 7 seed with plenty of room to climb. We're up to #10 in NET rankings through yesterday. An oddity - RPI doesn't like our team (#37) but loves our schedule with 17 Q1 games total and 3 Q1 wins already. Probably another example of why RPI is such a bad metric compared to the much better options out there. Just for a weird comparison to last year, Kansas had 15 Q1 games played on selection Sunday, 'Nova and Virginia each had 13. UNC had 22. Michigan St had 7. Texas had 17, won only 6, and made the field as a #10 seed.