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Looks like he spent time as a ju co coach in Kansas and Florida and was on K-State's staff with Martin for a while and followed him to South Carolina for a year before taking SF Austin job. Was an assistant at Western Illinois for about 10 years early in his career, so maybe some Big Ten area recruiting ties from then. (He and Molinari were not there at the same time.)

Ugh. Wisky's backups are playing terrible, especially on D. That 4th foul on Koenig really changed the game. It was a dumb play by a senior though.

Wow - he's only been in Stillwater one year, right? I mean most people want to escape from there as quickly as possible, but still, pretty slimy. OSU must not have had much of a buyout in his contract.

Yeah, I think on The Journey segment for Watson, before we were going to NW, I thought I noticed us using UA balls in the clips of practice.

Ha - you may be right. But I'd say a 6 or 7 would've been appropriate for the Gophers. cu was more like a 9 or 10 if you just look at them after the injury. And that might be generous. 7-8 in their last 15 games before today. Minny also had a really tough match-up. MTSU can play, and would've given any of the 5s problems yesterday.

And cu probably the most over-seeded. Different team after the injury/arrest, definitely not a #6.

What a satisfying late afternoon of basketball.

Have to practice it to play it well. But I agree with you. Love zone as a change up, when done right it can really change the tone of a game.

USC makes it 7-for-7 years that a First Four winner also wins at least a first round game - trailed by double digits in both games I believe.

Holy crap - did anyone else just see what the SMU kid (#33) did on that put back? That was unreal. 17:45 mark of 2nd half vs USC Best play of the tourney so far - wow - nearly hit his head on the rim, literally

Anyone else find it weird that in the Pizza Hut / Grant Hill ordering pizza with his shoes commercial that the young gentleman delivering the pie is wearing a "proud CU grad" badge on his shirt? I mean, geez, you'd think Pizza Hut wouldn't want to just feature one school on its commercial. Weird. (It's tough to see clearly, but trust me. That's what it says. I believe you have to have been watching hoops for seven-plus hours straight and have seen the commercial 10 or more times to read it clearly. And if you stop blinking around the six-hour mark, it helps.)

Hopefully he automatically moves schools that fire their coaches to the bottom of his list.

SD St hit a jumper with 2 seconds left to take the lead. S Dakota played with fire throughout tournament, winning in OT Saturday vs #8 seed, but it caught up with them tonight. Looks like it'll be SD St (Daum) vs UNO (Hollins/Thurman/Hahn) in the finals tomorrow - lots of Nebraska kids in that game. Mavs blowing out IUPUI in other semi. Additionally, there's a few other Nebraska kids on those rosters who don't play much.

NU 63 PSU 60 4

If there is a coaching change, the only candidates Eichorst will consider are those who fit and coach by the Energy Bus principles. 1. You’re the Driver of the Bus. 2. Desire, Vision and Focus move your bus in the right direction. 3. Fuel your Ride with Positive Energy. 4. Invite People on Your Bus and Share your Vision for the Road Ahead. 5. Don’t Waste Your Energy on those who don’t get on your Bus. 6. Post a Sign that says “No Energy Vampires Allowed” on your Bus. 7. Enthusiasm attracts more Passengers and Energizes them during the Ride. 8. Love your Passengers. 9. Drive with Purpose. 10.Have Fun and Enjoy the Ride. Any coach that doesn't have a positive style that fits these principles will not be considered. Guys who are yellers or behave in a negative way toward players/officials/fans, etc, -- i.e., energy vampires -- will not be considered. Now that said, Calipari is one of the biggest Energy Bus proponents/spokespeople, so jayschool may have been on to something earlier....

NU 77 Mich 73 5

This doesn't excuse NU's woes/performance, but Minnesota is really good. Right now, I think they're the best team in the league when they're motivated to play. Skilled, athletic big men with a lightning quick point guard. Not sure they shoot the 3 well enough to make a deep NCAA run, but they're really good vs rest of Big Ten. And when Lynch stays out of foul trouble as he has been doing better of late, they get that much better. How the hell did that kid end up at Illinois State originally? When he and Murphy are going, there aren't too many teams that will guard both of them successfully and/or keep them both off the offensive glass. That was as good of a performance by an opponent against NU this season since maybe the 1st half in Lawrence. With Wisconsin's wheels falling off & with how heated that rivalry is, should be very interesting in Madison Sunday. If Minnesota gets a chance to run it up, I'm guessing they will. Seems to be some real chemistry problems in Wisconsin right now with a senior laden team. OK, sorry for the break from regularly scheduled programming. Back to NU's problems....

Huskers 77 Gophers 76

NU 65 Illini 63

Back to the mred predictor and leaving all the favorites as is for non-NU games. Rest of the way: 3-0: #7 seed vs Indiana 2-1: (Loss vs Ill) #8 seed vs Iowa (Loss vs Minn) #8 seed vs Mich (Loss vs Mich) #8 seed vs Iowa 1-2: (Win vs Ill) #9 seed vs Iowa (Win vs Minn) #10 seed vs Mich (Win vs Mich) #10 seed vs Illinois 0-3: #12 seed vs OSU / winner to play MSU Still pretty much in the same boat as before Thursday's loss - win one more game and avoid play-in day. Win Sunday, and we look pretty solid to be no lower than #9 seed. So if home court holds in our next two games, by defeating Michigan in the final game we could get the reward of ... playing Michigan again in the opening round. Yay. Of course, there will be upsets in other games, so these seeds aren't locked in. Playing around with it, if everything breaks right, the highest I could get us is to #6 - tough to go much higher with losing tiebreakers to MSU & NW.

I think I'd rather just eat the goat anus and roadkill skunk alone, rather than whatever else they mix it with before it goes in the cat food can. Probably safer.

Yes. Lee B doesn't write things like this without knowing what's being floated behind the scenes. He's too well-connected. Ha - sorry, I see HB beat me to the answer and was much more succinct.

Well said. I don't mind an AD who prefers to wait till end of season to make comments on coaches, otherwise you could be asked for comments after every tough loss, and it looks like a clown show. But if that's your policy, stick to it. Don't break it for "your" hires or it starts to look like ... well, a clown show. Mr. Eichorst has plenty of problems outside of hoops. He had probably better focus on the bellwether cow first that lost four of its last six games, three by blowout scores. And I'd like to hear how NU is going to spend this windfall of B1G TV money, once we start receiving a full share in July. He's been very quiet on this subject ... along with many others. That's a windfall of $30M to $45M, which would increase the AD budget by roughly 30% to 40%. That's a HUGE percentage and deserves to have a detailed plan behind it. Maybe he has one. And maybe it's a smart plan. So I'd like to hear it. I know a lot of people don't like Lee B's attitude sometimes, but he is -- without question -- the most well-connected sports journalist in the state. And it's not even close. So when he writes something like this, there's tons of substance behind it ... i.e., there's a reason.

Webster was so important in the 1st half when we had absolutely nothing going, he just wouldn't let the game get away from us, took over offensively. Also agree with what was written earlier on Fuller, not only forcing the held ball to set up the winning possession, but he kept the possession alive with about 1:40 to go by getting a hand in on Tate on a rebound, and I believe that was the possession that ended up with McVeigh getting the runner in the lane to make it a 2-pt game. I'll have to go back and watch again, but it felt like we were +10 pts or so during the stretches of game when we played 1-3-1. That was a key decision. And I also liked how we went man final possession of the 1st half, when OSU took the timeout with around 12 sec left, as I'm sure OSU drew something up with the zone in mind. Good defensive switch up there. Still have to wrap my head around how we won a game on the road where we never had a chance to even shoot a 1 and 1 the entire night. You get outscored by 10 at the FT line on the road, you usually lose by double digits.

NU 60 MSU 51