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    March Madness Geography

    If (and I say“IF" because no 60+ year Wildcat fan would risk jinxing us) the Cats make the Big Dance, then where would we most likely play the opening games (plural) Or is it so up-in-the-air that it would be foolhardy to even hazard a guess?
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    MSU Spartans fans would/could never understand

    I am pretty sure nobody wearing Sparty colors and following their team in person or even wstching on the BTNetwork has even a tiny inkling what it’s like as NU hoops persons watch games inexplicably slip away in crunch time. It can be attributed somewhat to turnovers, “choking”, inexperience...
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    Lingchi

    Thanks for the nice words, WW. …The “doing well” part has been a kind of a struggle. Frau Doktor Palindrome died — I wore her down after 50 years together — and lots of things changed in the aftermath. But the Wildcats hoops fortunes don’t seem to change much. New guys, different names but...
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    Lingchi

    Lingchi, translated variously as the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, and also known as death by a thousand cuts, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly 900 CE up until the practice ended around the early 1900s. It was also used in Vietnam, Korea, and...
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    Eating Crow

    I love the smell of crow roasting in the morning.
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    Don't sleep on

    Typical mainstream media bias against the Wildcats will twist this all around to make it sound as if it was bad shooting by the Huskers. In fact it is happening already. Pretty soon some anonymous source will claim it was “historically bad”. Fortunately we have this blog, and especially you...
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    WBB BIG TEN CHAMPIONS!

    Re: seeding in WBB Big10 Tournament. Just curious, because I don’t think it matters, but if Maryland and NU are both 16-2 and have beaten each other once, what determines that Maryland gets the #1 seed?
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    How long can the youth excuse be used?

    Yes. They’re also 6-7 in league play. And to your point about a closer... it helps a lot. Indeed. But do you necessarily need one in games you lead by 8 with 4 min to go? Or 10 with 6 min to go? Or to win more than 1 in 12 games? Wisconsin seems to hold on to leads... ============== That’s...
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    Rutgers Whiny Fans

    They were booing? Ohhh, my bad. Thought we had a lot of NU fans cheering for Buie and some homies from Albany and Gould Academy.
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    Second-half thread for Purdue vs. NU

    Not “heartbreak”. Brain lock. Heartbreak is when the opponent steals a game that you had virtually won. Or, when we got jobbed by the zebras at the end. Or when an opponent player “goes off” at the end or did some otherwordly and/or near impossible lucky thing at the buzzer. In this case...
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    Would You Be Mad if Collins Left?

    I’d be disappointed because I think: (1) he has some serious talent to build with, should be able to recruit more as well, and I want to see what he can do with it in the next couple of seasons; and, (2) if he can figure out how to get his team to close out games they should/could win, this...
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    How can these young men learn how to win when…..

    On another thread I made this point: considering that this season is simply a learning experience for players and coaches alike, why not find out what guy(s) have what it takes to make something actually HAPPEN in crunch time that will put the dagger into our opponent and ice the game. We don’t...
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    CCC cost us this one

    Thanks for the input. Good clutch finish by the Boilers; congrats on the win. BUT, with such an inexperienced group as ours, I would argue that what NU should be doing at the end of tight games is to find out who can make things HAPPEN that will put the game away. We learned nothing tonight...
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    How can these young men learn how to win when…..

    How can these young men learn how to put an opponent away in crunch time when they are schooled by the coach to stop playing their game and wait for the clock to run out? I put the game on pause and walked away at the commercial break with about 4:20 left. Paid some bills, loaded the...
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    Maryland/NU Free Throw Disparity

    Puzzled. Usually a team that relies on 3-point shooting in a game is not the beneficiary of lots of FTs, right? Maryland cranked up twice as many 3’s as the Cats did. Yet, Maryland got 29 free throws to NU’s 13. That’s essentially the story of the game, bottom line, as the Cats won the...
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    What a joke! Beren was mauled on that nocall foul with 1:35 on the clock!

    The Cats were simply trying to prevent the cold-cock(burn)ing of another ref, or themselves, by someone who’s the basketball equivalent of an exuberant bull mastiff. One way is to hang on to him so as to minimize his making and celebrating slam dunks. It’s nothing personal against Kofi. They...
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    Optimistic, despite sitting at 6-11

    My take on this year’s Wildcats: (1) it seems to matter relatively little whom we face; (2) we are growing through, and seemingly beyond, the inconsistencies of an exceptionally green squad; (3) by virtue of key injuries, we're learning about guys who might otherwise not be getting big minutes...
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    Nance's pouting

    I keep hearing what an outstanding prospect Nance is, and I’d like to believe that. But I, too, find his body language and apparent attitude offputting. And is it just me who thinks at least a couple of times a game that his potential is diluted by some knucklehead tendencies? I wonder how...
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    Skowronek transferring to Notre Dame

    The wishbone offense is much too well known and widely scouted. I suggest we try the “veer” offense that was magical in the 1980s for the Badgers under Don Morton (3-21 in conference play). From the looks of his career path, he might be willing to hire on as a consultant at NU. "A few years...
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