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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.

We also are both adidas schools and shop at the same logo store. This charity game is a great idea - looking forward to it!

Don't want this to come off the wrong way, as I really like Miles and want to see him continue. But having a new AD is probably best for the long term health of the program. With all of the mixed signals he was sending out, it's tough to figure out what the Ginger Ghost was trying to do with hoops. Because he was in so much trouble with his football decisions, I think he was frozen in place. He wasn't going to be allowed to do anything with hoops. He had no political clout to do anything else, in other words, until football rectified itself one way or the other. It almost felt like the entire department was in limbo. Not that he's gone, things can return to normalcy. It will be good to have a fresh set of eyes on the hoops program, allowing it to be fairly judged at the end of this season, whichever way it goes. I hope NU wins enough this season to allow Miles to have a nice contract extension. But if the wins don't come, I think the new leadership will get done what needs to be done. No more limbo. Moos sounds like the kind of AD that will let Miles know where he stands, be direct, which I believe meshes far more with Miles' personality. I don't expect this AD to hide behind an end-of-season Tweet, followed by 7 weeks of radio silence. The Ginger Ghost & Miles were polar opposites, obviously. It seems like he was letting Miles twist in the wind for most of last season, which caused a ton of unnecessary drama and a loss of focus. I don't expect that to be a problem with the new leadership, which hopefully will allow the coaching staff to focus more on the court and less on the mixed signals out of the AD's office.

Agreed - I think we'll still get the Kansas-Kentucky type games, as ESPN will pay for them for some December programming. But NU-Cincinnati type H/H series are all but gone, which is unfortunate. Or you'll have to have a couple years in a row where you stop playing in the in-season tournaments, which is also unfortunate. I imagine this could push the start of conference season to just before Xmas, rather than just before New Year's as it is now - (at least in seasons where we aren't moving the B1G tournament up a week ) - so that would add another 2 games with no students and listless arenas, which also would be unfortunate. Perhaps they'll stick to this year's model and play the first two conference games in early December so students will be there? That would be better than starting B1G play Dec. 20/21/22.

Also will be interesting to see if other conference follow suit and how this affects RPI. (Does anyone play 20 games right now?) A lower number of cross-conference games - especially if Power 5 teams sacrifice high-end games vs each other to schedule more home games against non-Power 5 teams - has to skew the accuracy of RPI a bit, I would think. I mean you're now having 2 of your 32-33 games against repeat opponents, rather than playing someone new - that's roughly 6% of your schedule, which could affect RPI quite a bit if enough conferences go to 20. Or maybe not. The math there is a bit above my pay grade.

I believe you're limited to 29 without the neutral site tourney. With that tourney you can go to 31, but 4 of the games have to be in the tourney. Now that 4th game doesn't have to be at the tourney site, it just has to be against a team in the tourney field. So most years, teams play 30 as the neutral site tourney consists of 3 games, and they just don't schedule that 4th game. This year we are at 31, because we're counting the game with St John's as the 4th game of our neutral site tourney, since St John's is in the tourney. There's also those 4-game tourneys where you play 2 non-power 5 teams at home that are "in" the tourney, and then you play 2 neutral site games later against name schools, like we did in the Barclays tourney in 2015-16. Then you can get to 31 and take care of a couple of home games vs non-power 5 teams in the process. With a 20-gm conference schedule, playing more of the 4-gm tourneys with 2 at home and 2 at a neutral site may be the easier way to go going forward, rather than playing in the 3-gm neutral-site tourneys, although you lose the TV exposure when you're not in the ESPN-sponsored 3-gm neutral site tourneys.

Mixed feelings on this - Completely understand the desire to play more conference games, especially with conference expansion. Not to mention TV partners want more high-end content - ie, conference games - instead of non-power 5 teams in the non-conference. Now we'll have 7 double-plays and 6 single-plays each year. They can really balance the conference schedule nicely now if they want - have 1 team designated as a rival that you double-play every year. Then with the other 12 teams, you can have 6 double-plays and 6 single-plays, switching them each year. So you'd play your 'rival' 8 times every four years, and everyone else 6 times every four years, which would be nice balance. Unfortunately, that's going to change the way non-con schedules will be put together. If we want 17 home games like we have this season, that means we need 7 home games out of the non-con. We're locked in to H/H with the Bluebirds. Throw in a 3-gm neutral site tourney and that leaves 8-9 games to get to the 30-31 max, and 6-7 of them would have to be at home, depending on whether the bluebird game is in Omaha or Lincoln. And that doesn't even figure in the BE/B1G challenge when we play in that or the B1G/ACC game. So you probably end up either giving up H/H series with teams like Kansas or giving up the 3-gm neutral site tourneys because we need X number of one-game series home games vs non-power 5 teams to get to 17 home games. Or you back off and go with 15-16 home games. which doesn't seem likely. Makes it really tough to schedule H/H series vs name schools, especially when we don't know for sure that we'll have any home games in the B1G/ACc and B1G/BE challenges until several months before the games are played.