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Iowa 95, Chicago St 62 --B1G goes 11-1 on opening night with 10 blowouts. Indiana keeps the league from getting too big of a head. NU & Michigan open tomorrow. Kansas 92, Tenn St 56 N Dakota 83, Troy 80 in Hawaii --Coach Fran recommends the Troy team leaves the floor without shaking hands

NW hangs on, 77-75, vs Loyola Md Going to be interesting to see how they handle being the hunted versus being the underdog story

UCF 88, Mercer 79 Mich St 98, N Florida 66 - this just in, Izzo not overly happy Wisconsin 85, S Carolina St 50 Purdue 105, SIU-Ed 74 Minny 92, USC-Upstate 77 Illinois 102, Southern 55

Boston College 85, Maine 65 And Michigan St is probably going to be OK. Wow.

Ohio St 95, Robert Morris 64 Rutgers 94, CCNY 38 Maryland 76, Stony Brook 61 Delaware St 71, Cairn 50

Indiana St 90, Indiana 69 - at least the Hoosiers played them even in the 2nd half. Progress! St John's 77, New Orleans 61

Hopefully we are playing W Virginia in the semifinals in Orlando Texas A&M 88, W Va 65 Stetson 98, Webber International 89 (halftime) Mercer 47, UCF 46

---North Texas 122, Eureka College 65 UNT may be the #1 scoring team in the country when they come to PBA Monday. ---Penn St 86, Campbell 75

Yeah, not quite sure what to think of it - didn't like it at first, but it's growing on me ... as long as I don't suffer a seizure while watching. Just a wee bit busy. Also I see the line is out on EIU-NU, Huskers are -11. Of course Indiana was -13.5, so sometimes Vegas gets it wrong.

Is Archie Miller on the hot seat yet? Halftime - Indiana St 54, Indiana 33 ISU was 11-20 a year ago and was a 13-pt dog tonight

Miles told World Herald neither Nana nor Thor will redshirt. http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mens-basketball/nebraska-coach-tim-miles-sees-big-potential-in-point-guard/article_c22b1eb6-679f-597e-a961-08465170c5d2.html

First B1G-BE game is Monday 2017 Gavitt Games (all times Central) Monday, Nov. 13 5:30 pm – Minnesota at Providence, FS1 Tuesday, Nov. 14 7:30 pm – Purdue at Marquette, FS1 Wednesday, Nov. 15 5:30 pm – Indiana at Seton Hall, FS1 7:30 pm – Butler at Maryland, FS1 8 pm – Creighton at Northwestern, BTN Thursday, Nov. 16 **5:30 pm – Nebraska at St. John’s, FS1 7:30 pm – Xavier at Wisconsin, FS1 Friday, Nov. 17 7:30 pm – DePaul at Illinois, BTN NU History (0-1) 2016 – DNP 2015 – at Villanova 87, Nebraska 63 Series History (series tied 0-0-2) 2016 – (tie) B1G 4, BE 4 2015 – (tie) B1G 4, BE 4 I think B1G can get to 5-3 here

NU 86 EIU 73 8 17

Exhibition score tonight: Southern Indiana 95, E Illinois 92 Just a hunch, but we may see a wee bit of offense on both sides Saturday night. SIU made 16 of 25 3-pt FGs. After being red hot vs Illinois, EIU cooled to 7 of 19 on 3s tonight. http://www.eiupanthers.com/boxscore.aspx?id=6398&path=mbball Illinois meltdown in full swing... To be fair, SIU is a pretty good Division II school, 25-5 a year ago. And they're the Screaming Eagles, so can't go wrong there.

And it wasn't close - 80-67 Pretty impressive numbers for EIU, who was 9-for-17 from 3 and shot 61% in the 2nd half from the field. Made 90+% of FTs too. Illinois primarily played 8 guys, so it's not like they were giving walk-ons tons of minutes. http://www.eiupanthers.com/boxscore.aspx?id=6581&path=mbball

Season opening E Illinois game set for 7:30 Sat, Nov 11 Eastern Illinois Pinnacle Bank Arena 7:30 p.m. BTN Plus Women's game will start at 3 Sat, Nov 11 Southern Illinois Edwardsville Pinnacle Bank Arena 3:00 p.m. BTN Plus We should be OK for the 7:30 start time as long as the women's game doesn't go into 25 overtimes.

Now that NU-Minny football has been set for 11 a.m. on Nov 11, we should get NU hoops times for season openers Nov 11 soon. Maybe women's game vs SIU-Edwardsville at between 3 and 4 pm and men vs E Illinois at between 7 and 8 pm?

Agreed - it's just going to take time, so can't put too much emphasis on what they're doing stat wise for a while. Every game rep is valuable, more so than the numbers they're putting up. And if the extra scrimmage helps them to feel fully ready even just a little sooner, say Dec. 9 instead of Dec. 16, I'm all for it.

From Huskers.com article Has to build some confidence for Allen to cap a big rally and give the team the lead for good. Nice that he feels confident enough to take a shot/make an offensive play like that at a big moment - good sign. Also will be a good lesson for the guys to know they can rally from a deficit like this. They've played well in the 2 games, but also had some adversity, yet received a confidence boost from winning both of them. Honestly, I'm not sure the 2 games could have scripted out any better. -- Looking at stats, Copeland & Gill are definitely shaking off some rust - which is no surprise considering all the rehab work both of them have been doing the past several months. Nice to have that extra scrimmage vs a Power-5 team to help them acclimate a bit more quickly than they otherwise may have. Team will be pretty salty once those guys get to feeling good and are into the flow too.

Wow - look at Taylor's numbers in 2 games: 15 pts, 6 reb, 9 assists, 0 turnovers in 57 minutes, plus the defense he gives you Isn't the old adage that JuCo guys tend to really make a jump from year 1 to year 2? If so, he would seem to fit the bill (even though he's not a typical JuCo kid, having only played 1 year there).

Leaders thru 2 games (obviously small sample size, so mostly posted for entertainment purposes): MINUTES Watson 60 Taylor 57 Copeland 50 FG % (at least 2 att per game) Tshimanga 66.7% McVeigh 63.6% Palmer 61.1% 3PT % (at least 1 att per game) McVeigh 66.7% Gill 50% Watson 45.5% Palmer 42.9% FT % (at least 2 att per game) McVeigh 5/5 100% Palmer 15/17 88.2% Watson 5/6 83.3% Reb/Min Okeke 0.39 Roby 0.31 Tshimanga 0.27 Pt/Min Palmer 0.83 McVeigh 0.69 Watson 0.50 Asst/Min Taylor 0.16 Watson 0.13 Gill 0.11 Tvr/Min Okeke 0.22 Roby 0.19 Tshimanga 0.13 Blocks Okeke 2 Roby/Tshimanga/Copeland/Taylor 1 Steals Watson 4 Roby/Palmer 2

Total stats thru 2 games:

Not much scoring from the big guys, but 8 reb combined Palmer knows how to get to the FT line Typical Glynn game Taylor had the most minutes & 6 assists Another good stat filler game from Roby Jack McTrey had a big game! 17 pts in 16 min - perfect from 3 Good to see Allen get more minutes & make them productive today. Quick box score summary: Palmer------23 pts, 4 reb, 25 min (10/11 FT) Watson------19 pts, 2 reb, 28 min (3 A) (5 PF) (3-5 3-PT) McVeigh-----17 pts, 3 reb, 16 min (4-4 3-PT) Allen------- 7 pts, 0 reb, 16 min (2 A) (0-0 3 PT) Copeland---- 7 pts, 4 reb, 24 min Taylor------ 6 pts, 3 reb, 29 min (6 A) Roby-------- 6 pts, 3 reb, 20 min (2 STL) Gill-------- 5 pts, 0 reb, 14 min Tshimanga--- 2 pts, 2 reb, 14 min (4 PF) Borchardt--- 0 pts, 2 reb, 7 min Okeke------- 0 pts, 4 reb, 7 min (1 PF) Thor-------- 0+ min Other stats NU won rebounding 30-23 NU 13 turnovers, ISU 15 NU 10-19 from 3 pt, ISU 8-15 NU 51.8% FG, ISU 58.8% NU 24-29 FT, ISU 16-22 NU 14 Assists on 29 FG ISU had only 3 offensive rebounds NU had 13 second chance pts to 2 for ISU Looks like game was played with 6 PF before DQ - or we just let ISU players have 6 PF since they only used 8 players

I think he left off part of his thought - "The power of a RS year ... at Nebraska, where transfers become double-figure scorers."

In case you haven't seen it, the B1G Network has 1-hour specials going for each sports year they've been on the air this fall, as this is the network's 10th anniversary. The 2013-14 show has been on this week, and it has almost 2 minutes of highlights from No Sit Sunday plus the NU women's b-ball tournament championship. It's on a couple more times on Sunday. Also I see the Nebraska Basketball Show is appearing on my DVR feed next week - not sure if that's accurate, as it seems a bit early to start that show, but just a heads-up in case it is accurate.