tOfficial 2016-17 basketball thread

[Skerpokes]

Pretty much a must win tonight against PSU. Not for anything important, but for....

nah fuck it. There's no games left that will save the season.

 

[HuskerPower52]

Pride win out and win the tournament

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Win out and we'll be 16-14, 10-8 in Conference play. Get 1st round bye, then win next 2 to make the semis.

Tourney bound.

FER

CHAMPZ

 

[gobigred]

No game thread and Huskers dominating Penn State

Edit: I guess @Jack_John_Mark hasnt thrown in the towel

 

[antone112]

It's weird, Webster and Watson didn't force everything and it was our best offensive night of the year. Kind of crazy how that works. Hopefully this trend continues. Morrow is definitely hurting. Not near as explosive.

Also a big to whoever made the "Roby-o and Juliet" sign. Very "Rile Dog" ish.

 

[HuskerPower52]

Tony Robbins sucks

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

It's weird, Webster and Watson didn't force everything and it was our best offensive night of the year. Kind of crazy how that works. Hopefully this trend continues. Morrow is definitely hurting. Not near as explosive.

Also a big to whoever made the "Roby-o and Juliet" sign. Very "Rile Dog" ish.

That sign didn't even make sense.

 

[Skerpokes]

Huskers are 11-14 (5-8)

Remaining Schedule

@OSU
@MSU
ILL
@MINN
MICH


While all of those games are winnable in a year like this, it is highly unlikely. Hopefully a win like last night gifts them a big boost of confidence. My guess is they go 2-3 the rest of the way with wins against Ohio State and Illinois leaving them at 13-17 (7-11).

Let's say best case scenario they win out and finish 16-14. Is it possible that they could finish with 10 conference wins in a down year for the B1G and not make the dance? I say yes.

 

[HuskerPower52]

What about SOS. How does that factor say we do win out

 

[Skerpokes]

I'm just hard pressed to think the committee would invite basically a .500 team in a down year for the B1G with some head scratching losses like Rutgers and Home an Gardening Webb.

There's probably only 3 or 4 locks to get in right now with Wisconsin, Purdue and Maryland. Northwestern is probably in, barring an end of year collapse. Everybody else (Michigan State, Minny and Michigan) still have work to do. Thus making it hard for me to think Nebraska would sneak their way in.

Of course all of this depends on them winning out. How's that saying go? "Shit in one hand...."

 

[huskers1217]

Win out and we'll be 16-14, 10-8 in Conference play. Get 1st round bye, then win next 2 to make the semis.

Tourney bound.

FER

CHAMPZ

I haz too much kool of the aid. I expect at least an NIT birth cuz SOS and RPI

 

[Skerpokes]

I haz too much kool of the aid. I expect at least an NIT birth cuz SOS and RPI

don't you have to be at least .500 for that?

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

If Nebraska were to win out and head into the tourney at 16-14......which isn't impossible, but is probably 100:1 odds.......we would be on the bubble.

Nebraska would be one of the first teams ever to press the issue on how many wins a team "needs to have" to get into the dance.

When you have the #1 SOS in the country and have more quality wins than 95% of the teams in your conference, you are going to get looked at. Especially a team that goes on a run to end the year.

We would lose ground though if we lost right away in the Big 10 tourney. They need to win 7 in a row starting now to be a lock. 6 would leave them right on the line.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

I don't care what the past says about records in the tournament.

 

[HuskerPower52]

I think a sweet 16 is not out of the question

 

[iruletheskool]

MiledUp!!!

 

[Skerpokes]

I think a sweet 16 is not out of the question

Dude

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

I think a sweet 16 is not out of the question

We've got that in the bag. There are only 14 teams in the Big 10 Tourney.

 

[iruletheskool]

I don't think there's a team in the country that can beat us!! Natty on a Platter!!

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

I do think we're going to beat both Ohio State and Michigan State on the road coming down the stretch here. Revenge factor plus the fact that neither team is worth a shit.

Hopefully Roby-o isn't too badly sprained. He was just starting to play great and then some dude who doesn't know how to get position got underneath him and turned his ankle over. Man that pisses me off.