Tipoff: 5:30 pm CST
Location: Mackey Arena - West Lafayette, IN
Television: Big Ten Network
Live Stats and Internet Radio: Huskers.com
Radio: IMG Husker Sports Network | KLIN 1400 in Lincoln - KFAB 1110 in Omaha - KRVN 880 in Lexington
Play by play - Kent Pavelka Color - Matt Davison
I'm still shaking my head, for two reasons.
1. I picked one of the worst possible games this season to miss. I was even in Omaha, with my brother in law...but we decided to take our wives out for dinner. The dinner was crap, and I had to miss what I can only imagine was pure delight- seeing Nebraska lay down the wood..and do whatever they wanted against Myers Leonard and the "Fighting" Illini.
2. Doc Sadler, after essentially falling off the cliff, he has still managed to cling on for dear life by a pinky finger. Summer 2012 will probably still be spent searching for Nebraska's next basketball coach, but the win over Illinois certainly throws one of the strangest kinks into a quite bizarre season for Doc.
Purdue is up next, and I was able to get a brief exchange going with Travis over at Hammer and Rails. Read after the jump, and follow the link for my answers to his questions on the Big Ten, and Nebraska's game tonight.
Tipoff: 4:00 pm CST
Location: Devaney Center - Lincoln, NE
Television: Big Ten Network
Live Stats and Internet Radio: Huskers.com
Radio: IMG Husker Sports Network | KLIN 1400 in Lincoln - KFAB 1110 in Omaha - KRVN 880 in Lexington
Play by play - Kent Pavelka Color - Matt Davison
I have dinner plans with the wife, which would have been null and void if the Huskers were playing better. But I'm eating out tonight, can you blame me?
Now.......let's go get a win you bastards!!!
GBR!
The 16th ranked Husker Women's basketball team was upset by Northwestern on Thursday night 63-51.
This marks the first time that the Huskers (8-5 in the Big 10, 19-6 overall) have lost more than two games in a row this season. A fall out of the top 25 in next week's rankings seems very possible.
As a side note, apparently Northwestern REALLY wants to own the rights to being abbreviated as "NU." They have now beaten Nebraska in football, volleyball, and now both men and women's basketball. With the exception of men's basketball, all of those wins would be considered major upsets. The most annoying part is that Northwestern is average at best in all of those. What's the deal? I want answers!
Back to women's basketball...
Just three games ago the Huskers beat Purdue in an epic triple overtime game, 93-89. Since that game, shot accuracy has become a major problem, and Nebraska is averaging only 54 points per game during the three game slide.
Winning the Big 10 title seemed possible before this losing streak started, but now some are questioning whether or not they will even qualify for the NCAA tournament. Will they be able to re-energize and turn things around before the season ends, or has this young team simply run out of gas?
Tipoff: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Williams Arena, Minneapolis
Television: Big Ten Network (PBP Kevin Kugler, analyst Debbie Antonelli)
Radio: Husker Sports Network (Matt Coatney and Jeff Griesch)
Live Stats and Internet Radio: huskers.com
My apologies for not getting these up sooner, I've been swamped at home and have barely had time to put threads up. Thanks again to our friend Dennis Hubbard for the awesome shots, as usual!
Tipoff: 12:03 pm CST
Location: Bryce Jordan Center - University Park, PA
Television: ESPNU
Live Stats and Internet Radio: Huskers.com
Radio: IMG Husker Sports Network | KLIN 1400 in Lincoln - KFAB 1110 in Omaha - KRVN 880 in Lexington
Play by play - Kent Pavelka Color - Matt Davison
We're in some tough times again for the Nebraska men's basketball team. Doesn't seem like it's been quite long enough since that 2-14 conference season to be going through this again, but alas..here we are. Fan apathy is back in full swing, the Big Ten is as brutal as it's been in years, and everyone is again shaking their head at Doc Sadler's chances of remaining head coach of the Cornhuskers.
I wouldn't be so down in the dumps about these things, if they weren't all so glaringly truthful. Doc Sadler is very likely to get the axe after this season, as Osborne will show respect for what he's done here, letting him finish the season, before politely sending him on his way to a better suited mid-major job somewhere. Truth be told, I've always held the opinion that Doc Sadler is the best assistant coach in the BCS conferences. He's in the wrong job, for now.
Fans in Nebraska will come and go with the basketball team. That will never change. As long as football is the classic 1969 Chevy Camaro, in perfect shape sitting in the garage, the basketball team will always be the oft-neglected 1989 Ford Escort parked on the curb. Until there is equal interest, equal care, and a spot in the garage for the Ford, there will never be comparable results or dare I say- success. It's not that it can't happen, but it appears that most fans are perfectly content to maintain the norm, make backhanded jokes about the mere existence of the second-highest grossing sport on campus, and generally sit back and wait until their buddies come over to see the Camaro in the garage.
Tipoff: 7:05 p.m. CST - Location Bob Devaney Sports Center, Lincoln, NE
Television: None
Live stats and internet radio: Huskers.com
Radio: IMG Huskers Sports Network KLIN 1400 in Lincoln - KFAB 1110 in Omaha - KRVN 880 in Lexington
Live Premium Video: BTN.com All-Access (subscription required)
Play-by-play: Matt Coatney and Jeff Griesch
Team records: #13 Nebraska 19-3, 8-2, Michigan 17-7, 6-5
If there was one good thing that happened regarding Nebraska's game against Minnesota last Sunday, it was that Minnesota's staff came away from Lincoln, Nebraska blown away by their tour of the Hendricks Training Complex. The Star Tribune had an article about it, and Tubby Smith headed back north insisting that the Gophers need to upgrade their facilities. I guess it's nice that they were impressed with the facilities because they sure weren't with the Husker basketball team.
I suppose it's a fair trade with Minnesota. It's not like there are a lot of Husker football fans that would be impressed with Golden Gopher football. The football team has been bad for years, seeing some success under Glen Mason, but dropping below ground in the Tim Brewster era.
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