[Husker] Nebraska beat TX Tech

[jon johnston]

Actually.... looking at pomeroy's predictions, we'll be at 8-8 at the  
end of the season.

http://kenpom.com/sked.php?y=2008&team=Nebraska&t=p

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Steve Reichenbach wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
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