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It's a bad loss because St John's destroyed the Huskers. If Nebraska had kept it close it wouldn't be bad.

Marist was in the holiday tournament. Had they beaten UCF, they would have played West Virginia instead.

Illinois score one point in the second quarter & had 10 at the half. Ouch.

Part of the problem has been injuries to some of the "better" teams they played. St John's & UCF were good teams until injuries killed their seasons. They were both losses, but wouldn't looked so ugly. Minnesota would have been a good win if they hadn't had injuries and suspensions - we did play them when they were at full strength and hopefully the committee will factor that in to their decision. Had they won the UCF game, they wouldn't have played two patsies. The down side to those 8 team holiday tournaments is that if you lose the first game, the other two games usually hurt your SOS. Yes, they played a lot of crappy teams, but so does everyone else in the power conferences. The problem is that they didn't win any of their early season games against good teams.

I think if they get to 23 wins in the regular season they have a good chance. I know that 20+ of their wins will be useless, but the committee also looks at how they are playing at the end of the season and winning 11 of 12 to end the season including 4 road wins and the only loss being in OT on the road will look pretty good compared to all of the other equally flawed bubble teams. If they don't get in they should be a high seed in the NIT which most people who follow the team would have been happy with in November. Edit - only loss to at OSU by 5

I'm sure it was alphabetical with M being before N. Sports sites tend to sort by wins/ losses and then alphabetical because it would be too hard for them to actually look at the tie breakers.

I agree that Omaha would be a great location for the B1G tournament. They have said they want a "rotation" with Chicago & Indy as the main sites. https://www.si.com/college-basketball/one-and-one/2014/06/05/big-ten-basketball-tournament-keeps-chicago-indianapolis-rotation I'd like to see an 8 year rotation of Omaha, Minneapolis, NYC & DC once each and Chicago & Indy twice each. Unfortunately I don't have Jim Delany on speed dial.

We would win the tie breaker because head to head is the 1st tie breaker.

Not sure this year. During a normal B1G schedule each team will have two byes. One will be a mid-week bye and the other will be a weekend bye. For example a team will play on Sunday and then not until the next Saturday giving them 6 days between games and then have a week where they play on Thursday and then not until Tuesday. Maybe with the condensed schedule both of our bye weeks are back to back so we get 8 days off. The B1G needs to coordinate with the ACC and play in the Barclays Center when the ACC is not there when they want to be in NYC instead of Chicago, Indy or DC. I get that MSG is more prestigious, but it is never going to be available during the second week of "Championship Week" because the Big East has a long term contract. Barclays will be available because the ACC moves their tournament around like most major conferences.

With the new percentages it is up to 4.4%. Only game we are projected to lose is at Minnesota.

Did Petteway really trademark his name?

Amir Coffee is back, but Lynch isn't even allowed on campus.

Daum has already said he's not going anywhere as a grad transfer.

realtimerpi.com has the conference ending this way. I'm not sure how some of the tiebreakers would work out. Purdue 17 1 Michigan St 16 2 Ohio St 14 4 Nebraska 11 7 Michigan 11 7 Penn St 10 8 Maryland 8 10 Northwestern 7 11 Indiana 7 11 Wisconsin 6 12 Minnesota 5 13 Iowa 5 13 Rutgers 5 13 Illinois 4 14

I think 21 wins gets us in the conversation, but on the wrong side of the bubble to the extent that nobody really considers us. 22 probably gets us squarely on the bubble and it becomes a toss up. I think 23 should get us in unless we win out and get hammered in the conference tournament.

So basically 4-3 winning home games, losing road games. Would put them at 20-11, 11-7. That probably wouldn't be enough to get there without a magical run in the conference tournament. Would make them a solid seed in the NIT.

With updated percentages it is up to 1.24%

Probably going to take at least 22 or 23. B1G is down thies year and the Huskers only have one good win (Michigan) and only one chance at another decent win until the conference tournament (Maryland).

They have been out there playing at halftime several times and it is three after three every time unless they can get a layup. I would hope that they don't play that way in real games but are trying to show off for the crowd.

There's always a chance. Technically there's a chance the win out. Win the conference tournament and then the NCAA tournament. None are likely but all are possible.

With those percentages, we have a 0.7% chance of going 8-0.

All of Jordy's fouls last night were because he stumbled over his own feet (and into the player he fouled). If he works on footwork from the end of the season until November his fouling should decrease. Over the years I have seen many big men go from extremely awkward to smooth over the course of a four year career. I still have hope that Jordy can be one of those. I'm not holding my breath, but because he does show flashes there is still hope.

What I see is a team that plays really good defense, has a ton of talent, and looks really good if they can play up tempo (like in the 10-0 run in the second half). The problem is they look really bad if they have to play a half court game. a big part of that is that they don't have a post presence. Jordy has a lot of the tools to be one, but his footwork is terrible. Duby is there for rebounds & blocked shots and everyone knows it. Borchardt hustles but is too slow to guard B1G post players. If they had a quality post player, they would get much better looks from 3 and their shooting percentage would go up. Hopefully Iowa will be just what the doctor ordered. They want to play fast and rarely play any defense.

Indiana lost to Illinois last night, so that will hurt their chances.

It was ugly, but it was a W.