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I'm sure Hoiberg gives him the green light because I see him make them all the time in warm ups, so I'm sure he makes them in practice. It just doesn't seem to translate to the game.

With last night's loss to the gophers, it appears the 2022/23 season is over. There is a very slim chance to make the NIT, but no one is holding their breath on that. I'm just wondering what everyone is thinking about next season. I will try to do an analysis of all the returning players (including Tominaga) like I did last year, but it will take a few days to get my thoughts together. I think they have some good pieces that can/should come back, but losing Walker is going to hurt.

He's been a black hole every time he posts up for a huge part of the season. He's supposed to be a point guard, but never passes out of the post. He occasionally will dribble back out, but 90% of the time it's going to be a shot no matter how bad. He also gave up a layup on an under the basket inbound play in the first half.

If the Huskers play some defense in thr second half, they have a chance.

It's not helping NU's cause that they have 10 automatic qualifiers because they won the regular season, but lost in the conference tournament in one bid conferences. I think they have a chance to be in the NCAA tournament by making the final if there aren't a bunch of other upsets. If they beat Minnesota, Maryland, Indiana & Northwestern on the way to the championship game. They would avoid a bad loss by beat Minnesota & the other 3 would be Q1 wins. They would be 20-15 with 7 Q1 wins, no bad losses & 10-15 against quadrants 1& 2.

This is more of a 23/24 season note, but they will be going to Spain in July/August. https://omaha.com/sports/huskers/mens-basketball/nebraska-men-s-basketball-team-taking-summer-trip-to-spain/article_a80516f2-828c-5205-bbd8-097027fd58cd.html

It would help to win at least one in the B1G tournament.

Great scoring balance. Four in double figures & three with nine.

Love anything that pi$$es off anyone in the McCaffrey family, especially Fran.

They'd be killing them if they could stop the stupid turnovers & get a damn rebound.

It's hard to go over or under a screen when the screener sets the screen with his feet 5 feet apart. A foul should be called. Somehow Nebraska got called for 4 illegal screens away from the ball, but MSU's #22 set illegal screens repeatedly at the top of the key to free up the ball handler and it was never called once.

If I remember correctly he got fouled pretty hard on a layup with no call. At least one of the missed goaltending calls probably should have been a foul + goaltending. I think now that KT is getting a lot of defensive attention, he thinks he should start getting some calls when he gets held on cuts or coming off screens or goes to the hoop, but he's not getting the calls.

Nebraska's problem is they have been blown out a lot & the NET over emphasizes scoring margin. They have only played 5 games decided by under 10 points. They are 4-1 in those games, so in 13 of their losses they lost by at least 10 with an average loss by 16.

Which goaltending? They missed two on layups by KT in the first half.

Here is a site that has a best guess on what the team sheet would look like to the NCAA committee. It shows quadrants home/away, wins/losses & scores. https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2023/team-net-sheet?team=Nebraska

That's been done before. It worked out pretty good for awhile, then turned into a giant pile of snot.

Minnesota going 5-2 the rest of the way when they are 1-12 has to be the most unlikely of all the scenarios.

Without looking at who plays who for the rest of the season, the best Nebraska can hope for is probably 7th-9th if they win all four remaining games. This is a complete guess & it's highly unlikely that they win out, but it would be nice to not have to play on Wednesday in the B1G tournament.

Yes, Creighton is 14 in the NET.

Definitely cramps. On the play where Rutgers deflected the ball over the backboard he was squatting down to try to stretch a little.

I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop & Nebraska to go on a five minute scoring drought, but it never came.

Not that it upsets me, but that should make ND's recruiting very difficult. No recruit in their right mind will believe that Brey will stick around for their entire college career. I'm going to stay. No, I'm going to retire. No, I changed my mind again - I'm not retiring.

Something is f'ed up. Trace Jackson-Davis & Zach Edey are co-B1G players of the week for the second week in a row.

Every team fouls the crap out of KT when he comes off screens. Watch how many times a game he is grabbed when he comes off a screen.

If he's not B1G player of the week, something is seriously f'ed up.