So Nebraska Was Actually A Decent Win I Guess
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Only team to beat them in Lincoln this year. 17-8 now. Could squeak into the tournament.
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Washington is actually still a top 50 rpi team and in the first 4 out currently. That may not end up being a terrible loss but ASU isn’t looking so hot in the PAC 12 after beating KU, KSU and Xavier in the non conference.
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kjayhawks said:
Washington is actually still a top 50 rpi team and in the first 4 out currently. That may not end up being a terrible loss but ASU isn’t looking so hot in the PAC 12 after beating KU, KSU and Xavier in the non conference.
Yeah ASU is really weird. I guess not that different than Texas A&M, who also beat a bunch of good teams early.
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BShark said:
Only team to beat them in Lincoln this year. 17-8 now. Could squeak into the tournament.
According to Jay Williams and Seth Greenberg, after so many words, no.
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They (Jay & Seth) also pointed out that the Big-12 should cancel the season because nobody is going anywhere.
Jack White is the savior for the Duke team listening to them talk.
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@BeddieKU23 I associate Duke with Jack Squat instead…
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mayjay said:
@BeddieKU23 I associate Duke with Jack Squat instead…
I like it. Are you free to call the next Duke game?
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@BeddieKU23 Sorry, I can’t really watch them until the tech nerds develop a “CoachK/GAllen” filter. It should be simple–facial recognition software could be tweaked so when they are onscreen we guys see a superimposed face of, say, an SI model, and the ladies can see, perhaps, the Rock. Anyone we want, JUST NOT THOSE TWO!
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B1G has been treated pretty poorly in the tournament in recent years. 17-8 for Nebraska may not be enough to get in.
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Nebraska should win out and get in.
Remaining Schedule:
- @ Minnesota
- vs. Rutgers
- vs. Maryland (toughest game left)
- @ Illinois (trap game)
- vs. Indiana
- vs. Penn St.
Honestly, I wouldn’t want to see them.
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B1G is down, but they are a major conference. They are getting at least four or five teams in. Right now, Nebraska is either 4 or 5, and as @Kcmatt7 noted, they don’t play a single game the rest of the way against the other top teams. Nebraska should finish the season with no more than one more loss prior to the B1G tournament. They have the bottom 3 teams in the conference (Illinois, Minnesota and Rutgers) all left to play. It won’t help their schedule strength any, but their W/L record should go from 17-8 to either 22-9 or 23-8 before conference tourney starts. How many major conference teams are going to be better than that come March?
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Yeah Nebraska has work to do but they can get in by not losing to those bottom 3 or losing in round 1 of the Big-10 tourney. This year the Big-10 is finishing a week earlier so I wonder what impact that will have too.
Nebraska & Syracuse (teams KU beat earlier) are two of the more puzzling teams to figure out for March right now. Both resumes are lacking
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@BeddieKU23 Nothing screams money is ruining college sports more than your point that the B1G is ending their season one week earlier. What a lot of people don’t realize is this is because they are playing their conference tournament in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. The Garden is taken for the BigEast tourney the week after so sharing the limelight with the Horizon and some other lesser conferences is the way to go I guess. I really hope no one shows up at those games. It’s such a slap in the face of the traditional powers in that league, and the non-traditional powers.
Nebraska or Minny or Iowa fans might dream of driving to Chicago or Indy for the conference tournament, but you can bet that they’re not driving all the way to NYC for a tournament game that may last all of 1 day.
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Yeah I didn’t realize the Big-10 made that change until recently. You wonder how many more conferences might do that as well. A power conference having a full week of rest etc for those teams going to the tournament could be an unfair advantage
You hope it backfires and they all lose in Round 1
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Yeah they were playing conference games super early.
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The Big 10 is down big time this season and a writer referred to it as the most boring conference in college basketball.
At this time, Purdue. MSU and OSU are locks for the NCAA and a couple of more teams including Nebraska still have work to do. I just don’t see it sending more than 5 considering that only 5 teams out of 14 have winning conference records and most brackets have only 4 teams going.
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@BeddieKU23 I think it might backfire because too much rest can cause a team to lose its’ edge. NFL wildcard teams have been pretty successful in playoffs because the season keeps ticking along without skipping a beat. I mean Izzo will probably be going crazy during that week and a half time awaiting his first/second seed game. What do they really need to practice at that point? Of course two years ago they got Middle Tennessee Stated with little rest, so who knows, maybe I’m wrong! MLB wildcard teams have won the world series in recent years as they just keep playing when the season ends, while the non wildcards sit and wait almost a week before they play.
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It could definitely backfire. It will be interesting to see what Big-10 coaches have to say on the matter and it will be wise to pay attention to how Michigan St and Purdue play in particular in round 1 when we get that far. I think it will all depend on the moment, some teams might be in desperate need of a break. Some years KU certainly seemed to need one ahead of the tourney after the Big-12 schedule and 3 games in 3 day format of the Conf. Tourney. Or you get a team (like you said) that’s gained an edge by winning the Big-10 conference and now they have too much time to think and they lose that momentum they had. With how the Conf Tourney flows into Selection Sunday which flows into flying into your regional game kids and coaches have little time to relax.
Do you know if the Big-10 has a agreement set in stone for this to be an every year thing? I wonder if the Big-10 has negative results due to the change that they bail on this MSG deal and go back to the regular format
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Was that perhaps part of a deal when the conference added Maryland and Rutgers? Other than those teams and Penn State, the rest are Mid-West and a place like Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus or even Minneapolis would be better choices…I would think…
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This happens again and again with the teams KU plays.
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jaybate 1.0 said:
This happens again and again with the teams KU plays.
It’s almost like Bill Self is a good coach. Almost.
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@BeddieKU23 As far as I’ve heard it’s a one year thing, but it’s actually the 2nd year on the east coast as it was in Washington DC.
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@JayHawkFanToo I don’t recall it being so. It really wasn’t the most popular move to add those two teams in the first place and I don’t think those schools liked it too much either.
