Husker Basketball upsets #12

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Nebraska sucks against Nothern Colorado but beats #12 Oklahoma. With already 12 wins I think they could make the tourney. Generally teams with 16-18 wins make it

 
IMO we'll need at least another 9 wins to make the NCAA. With the big XII looking to be down from recent years, we'll need 10 wins in the conference to make the dance. While that looks like an awfully tall order, its not impossible if we can win all our home games and steal one or two on the road, maybe at K St. and CU. Should be an exciting conference season, but we can't afford to lose more than 1 home game with this squad in this conference.

 
NU always seems to pull of one or two upsets a year in the big 12. Last year was OSu, which was #3 at the time. I wouldnt put too much into this game. If we can go on and beat Texas, Iowa St. and Colorado, who are are in the top 40 or so, then wecan talk about a "good" team.

 
I thought that 20 wins was the magic number but oh well, with 19 or 20 or even 21 and a first round exit in the Big 12 tourney, that will not cut it.

Here's hoping Collier can save his job and win a few in KC and get to the NCAA's :thumbs

 
the big 12 is not a very strong conference so i think that they have a chance. If they can play strong defense and get enough offense out at critical times and pull a few upsets on some south opponents than it should be a conference tournament time decision.

 
To put things in perspective, before NU beat Kansas State earlier this evening, the Huskers were ranked #139 ( http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketbal...olls/rpi/index2 ), Kansas is #144(!), K-State was ranked #52 and Oklahoma was #91. Our strength of schedule is killing us (again)! We are far and away the lowest ranked team with 11 wins (again, before the K-State win). Peterson needs to put some meat in the pre-season schedule. I'd rather have the Huskers lose to a Duke or a Kentucky than blow out the patsies he sets up for them. At least they'd get to see how a class program is run. South Dakota State (#220)? Chicago State (#275)? Longwood (#298)? Northern Colorado (#315)? How can any team improve and/or get ready for league play when they're not going up against any decent competion? :wtf

 
To put things in perspective, before NU beat Kansas State earlier this evening, the Huskers were ranked #139 ( http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketbal...olls/rpi/index2 ), Kansas is #144(!), K-State was ranked #52 and Oklahoma was #91.  Our strength of schedule is killing us (again)!  We are far and away the lowest ranked team with 11 wins (again, before the K-State win).  Peterson needs to put some meat in the pre-season schedule.  I'd rather have the Huskers lose to a Duke or a Kentucky than blow out the patsies he sets up for them.  At least they'd get to see how a class program is run.  South Dakota State (#220)?  Chicago State (#275)?  Longwood (#298)?  Northern Colorado (#315)?  How can any team improve and/or get ready for league play when they're not going up against any decent competion?  :wtf
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Keep in mind this is only against DIV-I opponents so the RPI is higher then that. Here is athe real RPI's from the official RPI site (Through Sun Jan 8th)

North Division:

Iowa St 10-3 RPI: 17

KSU 9-3 RPI: 48

Kansas 8-4 RPI: 148

Missouri 8-4 RPI: 158

Colorado 10-2 RPI: 223

Nebraska 11-3 RPI: 249

South Division:

Texas 12-2 RPI: 97

Oklahoma 9-3 RPI: 100

Oklahoma St 10-5 RPI: 105

Texas Tech 8-7 RPI: 175

Texas A&M 11-1 RPI: 295

Baylor 0-1 RPI: 0 (banned from pre-conference play)

 
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To put things in perspective, before NU beat Kansas State earlier this evening, the Huskers were ranked #139 ( http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketbal...olls/rpi/index2 ), Kansas is #144(!), K-State was ranked #52 and Oklahoma was #91. Our strength of schedule is killing us (again)! We are far and away the lowest ranked team with 11 wins (again, before the K-State win). Peterson needs to put some meat in the pre-season schedule. I'd rather have the Huskers lose to a Duke or a Kentucky than blow out the patsies he sets up for them. At least they'd get to see how a class program is run. South Dakota State (#220)? Chicago State (#275)? Longwood (#298)? Northern Colorado (#315)? How can any team improve and/or get ready for league play when they're not going up against any decent competion? :wtf
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We are 2 and 0 in leauge play if you have not noticed

 
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