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Will Nebrasketball Make the NCAA Tournament?

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Some people are saying since the BIG TEN is a power conference, getting 4th in conference should basically lock up a trip to the dance.  Well, here are some of the bad losses by BIG TEN teams in non-conference games this year that are really hurting the image of the league and the RPI for teams.

Purdue < Western Kentucky

Ohio State < Butler, Gonzaga by 27

Michigan State < (none)

Nebraska < St. John's by 23, UCF  --->>> I wish Nebraska could play both of these over right now

Michigan < LSU

Penn State < Texas A&M, NC State, Rider

Indiana < Indiana State, Fort Wayne by 20

Northwestern < Texas Tech by 36, Georgia Tech

Maryland < St. Bonaventure, Syracuse

Wisconsin < Baylor, Temple, Marquette

Minnesota < Arkansas

Iowa < S. Dakota St., Virginia Tech, Iowa St., Louisiana?

Illinois < Wake Forest, UNLV, 

Rutgers < Florida St., Stony Brook, Hartford

I know some of these maybe aren't horrible losses, but they sure don't look good either.  I also realize that bad losses happen every year, this year it just seems like there were a lot from top to bottom in the league.  Combine these with a real lack of high quality non-con wins by anyone in the BIG TEN, and you're looking at a 4 bid league, with a real outside shot at 5.

 
Cdog923 said:
I'm still struggling to see how Boise State is an at-large team. 
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Talk about beating no one. Best wins are Oregon(who is below average this year) and thats about it... Maybe UNLV.

Nevada is only team worth a damn in the Mountain West. BSU also lost to Iowa State and SMU.

Only chance they get in is if they beat Nevada and Wyoming to end the season. Probably have to win the Mountain West.

 
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I know it was a charity game for the hurricane victims, but if that Miss. State game could have been a regular season game that would be huge for us. Currently, they are 16-6. Also, we had three straight games against sub-par teams starting with UTSA, instead of a Delaware State someone like a Cincy or the like would have done wonders for us to maybe give us a quality non-conference win.

I think because we lost the KU game we are going to have to beat one or maybe two of MSU, MU, OSU or Purdue in the conference tourney. Maryland might be ok as well but outside of those teams, beating anyone else would not really help our cause. 

 
BIG ERN said:
Movin' on up! 

Next Four Out

Syracuse

UCLA

Utah

Nebraska
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Obligatory.

 
Nebraska, Maryland and Penn State look to be in position perhaps to earn NCAA bids, but all three schools have work to do. The Huskers appear to be in the best position, playing a favorable schedule down the stretch that gives them a shot to win their last six games and finish 23-8 overall and 14-4 in the Big Ten. Check out the games left for Nebraska: at Minnesota; Rutgers; Maryland; at Illinois; Indiana; Penn State.

Even then, some wonder if Nebraska’s resume will have enough juice. It may take a win or two in the Big Ten tourney–February 28-March 4 in New York–to solidify an NCAA bid for Tim Miles’ crew.
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HuskermanMike said:
Also, we had three straight games against sub-par teams starting with UTSA, instead of a Delaware State someone like a Cincy or the like would have done wonders for us to maybe give us a quality non-conference win.
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So stacking our schedule with cupcakes to help the win total out may backfire....

 
Mavric said:
So stacking our schedule with cupcakes to help the win total out may backfire....
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Every team has a few of those in their schedule. We had the opportunity for a top non-con schedule:

Kansas

Creighton

Boston College 

St. Johns (Predicted to be a NIT or NCAA team before injuries)

UCF ((Predicted to be a NIT or NCAA team before injuries))

*If we had won the UCF game we would have played West Virginia, Missouri both Top RPI teams in the holiday tournament.

The problem was not our schedule, it was that we didn't win any of them (besides BC)  

 
Mavric said:
So stacking our schedule with cupcakes to help the win total out may backfire....
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Huskball said:
Every team has a few of those in their schedule. We had the opportunity for a top non-con schedule:

Kansas

Creighton

Boston College 

St. Johns (Predicted to be a NIT or NCAA team before injuries)

UCF ((Predicted to be a NIT or NCAA team before injuries))

*If we had won the UCF game we would have played West Virginia, Missouri both Top RPI teams in the holiday tournament.

The problem was not our schedule, it was that we didn't win any of them (besides BC)  
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As stated above the non-conference had some opportunity - we scheduled a solid blend of games.  The two problems are that NU wasn't that good at the beginning of the season to get the quality W's and now that we are showing signs of being a tournament team our schedule is weaker then it needs to be.  NU needs a strong finish a good showing in the BigTen tournament and then hope that the committee values the second half of the season in favor of the "hotter" teams.

 
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