IUFLA Posted December 1, 2021 Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 When: Saturday, December 4th 12:00 PM EST Where: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, Bloomington, Indiana TV: BTN The Huskers are led by Fred Hoiberg in his 3rd season (19-47) at Nebraska. So far, they're 5-2 on the year with a game tonight at NC State as part of the ACC-Big 10 Challenge (7:15 PM EST on ESPNU for those interested), Here are their results so far...All games have been at Nebraska... Opponent Tm Opp Western Illinois L 74 75 Sam Houston State W 74 65 Creighton L 69 77 Idaho State W 78 60 Southern W 82 59 Tennessee State W 79 73 South Dakota W 83 70 5 Star freshman Bryce McGowans leads the team in scoring...They only go 6 or 7 deep...McGowans' brother and a player who normally starts, Trey, is out with a broken foot... Expected starting lineup... Main guy off the bench is Kobe Webster...We've seen him 4 or 5 years ago with Western Illinois, and last year with the Huskers...Good 3 point shooter who will drain them if he gets good looks... They're pretty much consensus bottom 3 in the Big 10 along with Penn State and Minnesota 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacher Posted December 1, 2021 Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 Coming off the Syracuse L, back at home, against a young NE team facing a tough crowd, I expect a big win. I will be looking to see if we beat them by a greater margin than NC State. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted December 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 Here are the highlights against Creighton...I think Nebraska is going to have a tough time with Trayce (who hasn't?)...The McGownas kid will eventually be a pretty good 3 level scorer, but right now his 3 point shot isn't there (25%)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmhoosier Posted December 1, 2021 Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 Must win imo. IU +20 I predict. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotIThatLives Posted December 1, 2021 Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 Nebraska has never came yo Assembly and laid down or rolled over, regardless of talent. Better come ready and keep the foot on the gas. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyhoosier29 Posted December 1, 2021 Report Share Posted December 1, 2021 5 hours ago, NotIThatLives said: Nebraska has never came yo Assembly and laid down or rolled over, regardless of talent. Better come ready and keep the foot on the gas. Agree, and we should win by 15. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted December 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 Versus NC State, the Huskers were down by 9, then went up by 14, and now tied at 61... Lat Mayen started some punk stuff and TV Ted Valentine got his typical face time sorting it out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steubenhoosier Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 10 hours ago, dbmhoosier said: Must win imo. IU +20 I predict. C’mon. Must win? Jeezus, Mary and Joseph. if beating Nebraska is a must win, then thaw bar is set way too low 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotIThatLives Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 48 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said: C’mon. Must win? Jeezus, Mary and Joseph. if beating Nebraska is a must win, then thaw bar is set way too low Explain how its not a must win. Would be a quad 3 loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 Both team coming off the two best games in the challenge but losing both. Neb. Loses in 4OT 104-100 IU loses in 2OT 112-110 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGleas Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 19 hours ago, dbmhoosier said: Must win imo. IU +20 I predict. Agree to an extent. It's not must win in the true meaning of the phrase. Obviously, IU can still recover with a loss. But, regardless of whether it's December, January or February, this is a home conference game against a team projected to finish in the bottom 3 of the conference. Again, time to recover, but these aren't games you lose if you're expecting to really compete to overachieve in the conference. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 If we are to challenge in the B1G, this is a must win. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted December 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 I think we'll beat them pretty handily...Watched most of their game last night (and I had watched them against Creighton as well)... They don't have any answer for our inside game. Trayce didn't have a spectacular game in our only meeting with them in Lincoln last year (15 pts, 11 rebounds) when we won by 8. Hoiberg is no dummy...He'll double Trayce all night. He did last year and our guards came up big...Al had 17 and Rob had 18...which also says something about their perimeter D...And I'd like to think we have much more reliable perimeter scorers this year... They're very much an ebb and flow team...they can score in bunches, but can also go into droughts...Their only 2 reliable scorers are McGowans and Verge,,,McGowans is a freshman, and Verge's headlong rushes to the basket remind me a bit of Al Durham. Kobe Webster can score, but he's really streaky...if he gets on a roll though... If we play GOOD D, and keep the turnovers down, we should have no problem... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGleas Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 30 minutes ago, rico said: If we are to challenge in the B1G, this is a must win. Thank you for doing in one sentence what took me three paragraphs 🤣. This is what I meant. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 I know this isn't the exact spot for this... I posted in a different thread, but do you have to wear a mask in Assembly Hall when watching a game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaHoosierFan Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 Every team must win home games and try and split the away games. All home games are must wins in the B1G. But would be nice to win the ones at home you're expected too. Would be nice to have AH a feared placed to play again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 The fact anyone evens questions beating Nebraska in basketball makes me sad. It's going to be a W. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierDPU95 Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 1 minute ago, mrflynn03 said: The fact anyone evens questions beating Nebraska in basketball makes me sad. It's going to be a W. We're all still recovering from the last regime where we could (and often did) lose to anyone on any given night regardless of home or away. Personally, it will be a while before I don't have some worry about us laying an egg against a bottom tier conference team or ever feel good about winning a game at Wisconsin or even competing with PU. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 I will also add that I am not a fan of playing conference games in the middle of the non-con schedule. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted December 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 20 minutes ago, rico said: I will also add that I am not a fan of playing conference games in the middle of the non-con schedule. Or is it playing non-con games in the middle of the conference schedule...hmmm? 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU878176 Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 19 minutes ago, rico said: I will also add that I am not a fan of playing conference games in the middle of the non-con schedule. Nor starting the football season on the road at Iowa. (and I’m not just saying that because we got smoked). Teams should have the out of conference games to work out the kinks, see which new players can play, etc. before the conference season starts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parakeet Jones Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, btownqb said: I know this isn't the exact spot for this... I posted in a different thread, but do you have to wear a mask in Assembly Hall when watching a game? Are they required? Yes. Does everyone wear one? No. I have yet to see anyone who had their mask off be directly told to put it back on. The ushers walk up and down the stairs during a couple of timeouts holding up signs that say please wear your mask. This has been my experience in three games this year. Others may have had a different one. Edited December 2, 2021 by Parakeet Jones 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 Just now, Parakeet Jones said: Are they required? Yes. Does everyone wear one? No. I have yet to see anyone who had their mask off be directly told to put it back on. The ushers walk up and down the stairs during a couple of timeouts holding up signs that say please wear your mask. This has been my experience in three games this year. Others may have had a different one. Good enough for me. I'll be there, mask less, on the 22nd. Thank you. Thought about going to this game, but scheduling was going to be too tight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 Well, we're no Western Illinois, but I think we have a chance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU878176 Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 (edited) 1 minute ago, btownqb said: Good enough for me. I'll be there, mask less, on the 22nd. Thank you. Thought about going to this game, but scheduling was going to be too tight. I had no idea you would be maskless Thanks for letting us know. Edited December 2, 2021 by IU878176 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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