Week of 1/19 Games Thread
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KenPom projects them to finish 11-9. What am I missing?
I think at some point it’s a reflection of the locker room. Truth is they’re very undermanned talent wise, so it takes a certain mental makeup to get up for every game, especially after cumulative losses.
They had a bad 34pt loss to Pittsburgh. Then go into the new year, and start out with four **relatively** competitive games against Illinois, Michigan, Purdue, UCLA.
Their last two games against MD and WISC they just haven’t shown up.
Today is the first game Mingo’s played since Jan 2 against Illinois.
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Here’s their remaining schedule. I don’t see them losing any of the next three, and I think they find a way to go 2-2 in the stretch of IND, IL, MSU, OSU.
Going into those final 6 games with just 4 losses should make you a team to be reckon with. JMO.
Obviously there’s always a scenario to fall off a cliff.
that's a crazy stat. talk about mailing it in... or stepping it up. I'm confused
Penn State 
But they won the second half by a point. What misery for the mighty Badgers:Penn State
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I mean they just lost their last two games by a combined 50 points (one of them, a horrid Maryland team).I’ll give Rhoades credit … His teams play f’ing hard asfor him …
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Did you watch the 1st half or just the 2nd?I’ll give Rhoades credit … His teams play f’ing hard as
KenPom has them losing 7 of their last 9.
PSU needs to bring back Shrewsberry.
chrisRunner7
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I'm glad I am not into sports gambling. I thought there was a decent chance Penn State knocked off Wisconsin tonight...
Really looking forward to a few of the early games on Saturday:
11 am CT - Nebraska @ Minnesota - can Nebraska finally lose one already, please
11 am CT - #22 UNC @ #14 Virginia - curious to know how UVa got good all of a sudden
1 pm CT - Illinois women @ #24 Nebraska - it's on BTN, been watching a lot of their games this year
1 pm CT - #6 Houston @ #12 Texas Tech - they moved this time up due to weather, 17 degrees with snow in Lubbock (!), go Red Raiders
Really looking forward to a few of the early games on Saturday:
11 am CT - Nebraska @ Minnesota - can Nebraska finally lose one already, please
11 am CT - #22 UNC @ #14 Virginia - curious to know how UVa got good all of a sudden
1 pm CT - Illinois women @ #24 Nebraska - it's on BTN, been watching a lot of their games this year
1 pm CT - #6 Houston @ #12 Texas Tech - they moved this time up due to weather, 17 degrees with snow in Lubbock (!), go Red Raiders
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Darryn Peterson hurt again. Kansas just cannot catch a break with their best player.
FYI as a result of the winter weather some games have moved around over the next few days. It doesn't appear that any Big Ten games have been affected thus far.
IMO, that's insane.
1-5 in Q1 games with almost all of them being blowouts. Maybe they turned a corner, but I'm calling the Michigan game a fluke for now. Michigan was up by 14 in that one and I think they just stopped playing plus Wisconsin went nuclear from 3. The Badgers are your classic live by the 3 die by the 3 team.
I do think it’s cool they play tOSU twice. Torvik projects Wisconsin at a 8.7 seed and tOSU a 9.2 seed. Both teams are good offensively and soft defensively. Those games should be very close and pivotal to each teams season.
At this point, I'm rooting for Nebraska to stay undefeated (means winning @Michigan) until we play them next weekend. Then we can give them their first loss.
EIU beat Southern Indiana, 59-51 Thursday night in OT.
Zion Fruster with 25pts. Hit the game tying basket with 17 seconds remaining and scored all 9 OT points.
Zion Fruster with 25pts. Hit the game tying basket with 17 seconds remaining and scored all 9 OT points.
Husker fan here...
We have
@Minnesota
@Michigan
Illinois
@Rutgers
Purdont
I know we'll lose at some point...if we come out of that with a loss to Illinois I'll be over the moon. The rest of the schedule sets up pretty good after that.
We did just lose our super athletic 6th man for at least Minnesota and maybe more with an ankle sprain so that's concerning but I definitely want to be undefeated against Michigan. That's going to be a battle.
I know after the game with you guys there was a lot of 'they just were hot shooting' comments...well...we've had a lot of that this year, we're just a pretty deadly shooting team, it wasn't luck haha. We are 6-0 vs Q1 for a reason (I believe 7-0 if Wisconsin keeps moving up).
This obviously has been the greatest season I've ever been a part of for basketball by a significant factor. A pretty telling stat is we've played like 11 or 12 games since being ranked....the previous 30 years we only played 8 as a ranked team. That's how bad being a Husker basketball fan has been.
I have all the respect in the world for your program and I'm genuinely hoping this isn't just a flash and we can spend a few years with a very respectable team. I think Fred just might be the guy to do it.
Good luck this weekend! Would love to see you guys beat up on Purdont
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I agree the Bagders have underachieved at times, but I think this is overstating it.
You don't win as many B1G games as he has if you are not a good coach.
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