Upset alert: (Updated: Nebraska beats Staee!)

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Halftime

Nebraska 32

Staee 25

Harris is 4 of 11 with 9 points and is their leading scorer.

 

UPDATE: Nebraska wins, 60-51.

flashOverride

February 16th, 2014 at 5:08 PM ^

Sadly, this makes me angry about how much better Michigan's situation could be if they hadn't shit the bed today. Oh well, I guess, as far as the race against State is concerned, this day now never happened. Just win, baby...

Leaders And Best

February 16th, 2014 at 5:13 PM ^

Maybe the BTN knew something we didn't.

 

8) Nebraska (13-10, 5-6 B1G)

This week: Beat Ohio State (68-62); Beat Illinois (67-58)

Thing: This appeared on my television screen last night. On the Big Ten Network. For serious.

NCAA wha

In case you can't read the top bar, it really does say "NCAA Tournament Resume." If the question is, “does a 15 or 16 win team with a single top-100 non-conference win and a 7-11 or 8-10 record in conference make the NCAA tournament?” the answer is “Trololololo.”

Still, the fact that the BTN can even run such a graphic shows how far Tim Miles has taken this team. And how much peyote is apparently available in BTN Headquarters.

Thing they are like: An NIT tournament team, which, hey, that’s not terrible if you’re Nebraska.

LSAClassOf2000

February 16th, 2014 at 5:27 PM ^

Here are some of the stats for this game - 

Michigan State eFG% - 39.00%

Nebraska eFG% - 44.34%

Michigan State OREB% - 25.71%

Nebraska OREB - 25.00%

Michigan State - FTR - 25.00%

Nebraska FTR - 39.62%

Compare also MSU's 11 turnovers to Nebraska's 5, which leads to an A/T ratio of 2.00 for the Cornhuskers and 0.909 for MSU. 

 

Wolfman

February 17th, 2014 at 6:27 AM ^

We were all certainly aware of their fb prowess under Tom and their not unlike Michigan slide after his retirement. But since joining the BIG, national, not just regional t.v. viewers have witnessed some tremendous comebacks and pride demonstrated when defending their home field in fb, I can recall 4 games when I considered turning the station at half-time, and in each they came back from large deficits to win. That stuff plays well with recruits. Now they're taking down perennial powers in bb?  Must admit was a little worried about their academics when they joined, but they agreed to and have made great strides in improvement in that regard. And they're making noise athletically in sports we really didn't predict. Might prove as beneficial for conference as it has for them.

M-Dog

February 17th, 2014 at 10:13 AM ^

This is good for them.  I'm sure they had their doubts when they traded storied rivalries with Oklahoma and Texas for losses to Northwestern and Iowa.

They'll hold their own in the B1G West in football, and they have a whole new sport to get behind in basketball.  And they're no longer the Big Ten noob with Maryland and Rutgers joining.

Feat of Clay

February 16th, 2014 at 7:25 PM ^

I'll be the Michigan fan stomping around Ann Arbor in my Nebraska toque this week.

Not to be confused with the Nebraska Cornhead, which is never worn outside of the home.