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some real nice minutes for Nana and Thor here! (get borchardt out!)

He just touched on it in the broadcast: when we put up that effort, and play with a chip on our shoulder (he called it "Swagger"), we have a lot of potential. Absolutely creaming these guys. It's all really exciting, but this is exactly why im so negative, guys: I've been conditioned over the years as a husker fan for misfortune to be waiting around the corner with a nail studded bat ready to pummel us once we have success. So I'm optimistic but I never jump to conclusions when it goes well. lol

I'll give them credit, we sure are torching the nets. I guess it has to swing the other way by law of averages sometime, right?

Ruh-oh!!

Oh, come on, you stickler... of course A WIN IS A WIN. My point is that while blowouts against dinksters may have more value today than it ever has, it doesnt rrally impact RPI and more importantly to my point, doesn't prove anything as to the quality of our team. Good for morale, strategy and team building, and a tick in the "W" column. That's all.

My point? EVERY little team does that, are dangerous, and anyone can win. But real teams will pull it out like WV did 2nd half, and not struggle to hit 20 in a half. My point is that winless marist aren't exactly worldbeaters. A marist blowout means nothing. we are decent but never good especially if we keep building brick houses. Not making judgements on the season until mid February. But it's worth watching, CBB is fun and crazy, and nebrasketball has hope, however meager.

yo. transitive property.

Nah, fuck that guy.

Omg, imagine if we lost to 0-3 (0-4) Marist? Bahahahaha Yup, that's a reverse jinx. Buskers 69 Foxes or whatever 60 (I really wanted to go with 71 here) If somehow they pulled off the upset of the century and we get press virginia:: NEB 56 WVU 80 ...

Such is college basketball. It could happen. But it's all looking extremely dark and bleak right now. Right now, I don't see it. I'm in a dark place right now.

Yo.... WTF. 5 points or so by both teams combined in the LAST 8-10 MINUTES. Pathetic. Weak. I could use a lot of words here. Is this just what kids now are built like? I know that's not true. Edit: okay, that was just internet issues bugging out the score. But my point remains.

Lol true... this is an apocalypse. What....what are we doing out there? Playing ping pong? Omfg

17-0. No sign of life. Nothing for 6 minutes. I'm mad because we always have done this go cold thing and it never changes. I know it's nature of college, but is it seriously too much to ask to get some consistent basketball? Wtf

Yeah, I'm salty. 15-fucking-0 run. *facepalm*

Question: Why, beyond the length of eternity, will the huskers always shit the bed on any national stage and / or any away game? #peeved

As a guy who started going to NBA as a student from year one, and now years later from a different point of view as a regular season ticket holder, I can understand the frustration. It's already tough to get immature kids to come out and selflessly yell and support the team, but when they're really bad, it's nigh impossible to get full participation (for anything in fact). Excitement and hype is tough currency, commitment tougher. I'd like to hope for the future though as I've seen some great fans here over the years, but it takes giving a good experience where the fans can see effort, hustle, passion, and more than a few wins from the team. It's unfortunately just how it works in college sports. But I'm hopeful. (Also it doesn't help that husker fans are especially horrible with holding them to ridiculous standards and being fickle at their worst...yet at the same time I've seen some amazing fans during my time)

Nebraska 83 Central Florida 76 3

Unsurprisingly, I failed to look around and note the presence of similar posts. Oh well! more the merrier.

Great reference! Wish we could create a tiered categorical heirarchy system; my topic I just posted is also about the tournament, I kind of wish now we could merge this into one space. Regardless, thanks for the post! Good to know. Looking forward to this one, should be fun if we aren't smorked by Johnny boy again (in finals).

I know someone probably went over this already, but may I refresh our focus on this upcoming tournament. These invitationals are always great opportunity to boost RPI and get early-season experience and test out young teams. As others have pointed out, there are a lot of dangerous ranked and RV teams in this field. Funnily enough, our new nemesis, St. John's, is in the field. If somehow by dumb luck we were to upset a few teams (and West Virginia) and make it to the finals, we could exact revenge on that same team. Which I would find darkly hilarious. You can always dream. How awesome would it be to win one of these things? The contenders always do. Just wanted to put this here, for perusal and reference. Should be fun, and I think I'd like to look back at this after the invitational is over to see how everyone did. Even later in the year it might be a fun exercise to see where all of these teams are (usually something we would do anyway for purposes of RPI calculations). Bracket: Advocare Invitational

Didn't manage to make the game, night owl I am Question: did we fix that flat-arc 3 point shooting? Was that copeland? Nice to see some positives from most of the team; every guy has their strengths. Especially with all of the depressing negatives so far. Side note: why are there 3 post game chatter threads? A bit overexcited, are we?

Now THIS is more like it! Against a bad/not bad tourney team last year, not bad. Have to figure out wtf is going on with the spotty offensive efforts (effort being the active word here) and lock down on D. 3/4 of the time this team looks REAL bad, then you get flashes where they actually put it all on the court, and you see the talent and team cohesiveness shine thru. At this early stage its always too early to judge a team, nor should we; College basketball is always crazy, with these young guys. But that's no longer an excuse. In the grand mosh pit that is CBB, the teams that succeed and win are the ones who simply have chemistry and make the fewest mistakes... the more "mature", if you will. If you can just come together as a team, have a decent amount of talent, hit some shots, and put the effort in, you win most of the games. The luck kicks in on those close games, but in my experience, experience and discipline win those tight ones. That takes you from a .500 team to a 20 win team. just my opinion, but I think we all agree that some things need to change. CBB is complex yet mindblowingly simple at times. It's frustrating yet exciting. That's why we watch this sport and these guys (beyond our undying love for Nebrasketball and all the happiness and misery involved in that). Family.

It's a no-brainer. His rebounding and shot blocking at the very least make him worth the start. We need leaders like him on the court to set the standard and tempo, especially defensively (which is where we need to start each game. Offense comes from good movement and skill, but begins on the defensive end). I think miles was onto something that one year we made the tourney, which not so coincidentally was the year we were clicking on D. Might be a bit of a wacky looking lanky dude, but he's needed in the starting 5!

I don't have the energy this time for a fun loving post. Buskers 71 Bison 64

Send em to ray Allen shooting school!!! 3 weeks of set pieces and mechanic training!! (for real)