[Husker] Nebraska beat TX Tech

[Steve Reichenbach]

There aren't any more "must wins" this year (unless they are all
"must wins") because they have almost no chance of going to the NCAA
tournament.  Even getting back to .500 in the conference seems a
stretch.  Very likely losses are @A&M and @Texas and likely KSU.  That
means (barring an upset in those games) to finish at .500 in the
conference, NU would have to win the other five: Missouri, OU, and
Colorado in Lincoln and ISU and OSU on the road.  All five are
winnable, but winning all five (or pulling an upset in one of the other
three) will be tough.

Texas Tech really isn't very good.  They're 12-10 overall and 3-5 in
conference --- three home wins with two of them against teams with
worse conference records.  Do you think Knight would have gotten so
tired of coaching if his team was going to the NCAA tournament this
year?

Still, NU played pretty well against Texas Tech except for giving up
too many offensive rebounds (15).


> > [W]as this as good of a win as it looked on the Highlights or is TT
> > bad now without Knight  ( Bobby that  is...)
>
> It wasn't necessarily a must win but it was a fairly important win.
> The Huskers have now won three out four after opening the Conference
> season 0-4.  The conference season certainly isn't in the books but if the
> Huskers could finish the conference at or above .500 it would appear
> Sadler may have things going the right direction.
> [...]
> I think it was a good win.  Teams don't go "bad" in two games just
> because there was a coaching change.  There are some subtle changes
> but basically they are still running the same thing they ran when Bob
> Knight was the coach.  You aren't going to make wholesale changes in
> philosphy and attack with 10 games left in the season.
>