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From browsing Baylor boards really quick they seem to think the teams matchup pretty well.

 

The key to the game for us will be being able to get penetration and good help defense. Our guards match up well on offense and defense against theirs, and their bigs matchup the same way against us.

 

In some ways, I think it might be a little like Wisconsin in that we will have to double down on the bigs on almost every possession (except not leaving Heslip) so Baylor's PG / Forward will be the ones determining things if they hit shots or not. Baylor will be tougher to rebound against then Wisconsin was on the defensive end, so we might have to give up a little transition opportunity to avoid a lot of offensive rebounds.

 

 

 

It's not like we have much of a transition game anyways.

 

But since they run a zone, that gives us opportunities for offensive boards of our own that we need to take advantage of.

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“I’m thinking about doing the foam finger thing, giving Kye two foam fingers,” Miles said at his Tuesday news conference. “Like, seriously.”

 

That just might make the lanky, 6-foot-11 Kye Kurkwoski, a junior walk-on, as long as some of Baylor’s players.

 

But it won’t be enough to emulate the impressive athleticism Nebraska's men's basketball team will see in Friday’s NCAA West Regional second-round game in San Antonio.

 

Baylor starts 7-foot-1 Isaiah Austin, 6-9 Cory Jefferson and 6-6 Royce O’Neale, and brings 6-8 Rico Gathers and 6-7 Taurean Prince off the bench as part of its eight-player rotation.

 

Austin, a sophomore center, has 114 blocked shots, the sixth-most in a season by a Big 12 Conference player, and his 18 blocked shots over four games at last week’s Big 12 Tournament set a tournament record.

 

Baylor also averages 14.2 offensive rebounds per game, led by Jefferson’s 104 this season.

LJS

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Dan Hoppen@danhoppen 4m

Nebraska’s public practice has delved into a half-court shot contest. The guys seem pretty loose. Tim Miles tells Steve Kerr he can jump in.

 

Brian Rosenthal@HuskerExtraBR 1m

And Walter Pitchford and Shavon Shields are first to convert. Took a while

 

Robin Washut@RobinWashut 1m

Leave it up to Walt P for 3 to win the half-court shooting contest. #Nebrasketball http://instagram.com/p/lxeeTFNRF5/

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