Duncan Robinson Appreciation Thread
This game was Duncan Robinson vs The World.
Bc they dont re-seed after the opening round....
Not many tournaments do that, really
The 1 seed in the NCAA tourney plays the 8 or 9 seed in the second round, even if the 15 seed beat the 2 seed in the first round.
He just wanted to make sure the stat about winning when he has 6 points didn't become 20-1.
Tim Miles just tweeted that they have to play Michigan. Win or lose, they need the Q1 game.
Duncan was tits today!
So many thread titles and we didn't choose "Duncan Go-Nuts?"
an excellent free throw shooter. I knew we won the game when Iowa fouled him in the last minute.
He knew he had the game won!
we woulda been done.
He got called for a couple ticky tackers, too.
I can't believe I'm so thrilled with an overtime win against a shitty Iowa team. The deck was as stacked against us as it could possibly be thanks to those incompetent (malevolent?) zebras, and we somehow pulled it out.
Hope everyone other than Duncan got their shooting woes out of the way. And glad that MAAR and Wagner should be well-rested for tomorrow. I'm going to the game on Saturday if we get there -- if not for yourselves guys, do it for ME. Pretty please?
i think the entire team played better in the second half. simpson made a few nice drives, shut down bohannon except for that last shot at the end of regulationn. he was 2-4 on threes in the 1H, then 1-7 in the 2H and OT.
matthews got after it on D more too, grabbing 7 boards in the 2H. missed a few bunnies early but ended up solid in the point column. quiet 16 to lead the team.
mo and maar were solid...while they were allowed to play.
teske was a man on D...a very big man.
Drob was clutch the final 10-15 min. and he got after it a bit on the boards too.
nice team win, despite the refs.
I wanted shooting the ball in OT.
Dodged a bullet -- we did everyhting wrong amd still won.
The refs were the MVP's. F them.
Duncan Robinson-the only man who kept our offensive game even close to together.
Teske deserves an appreciation thread even more IMO! He had to basically keep the whole game under control when we couldn't make a single free throw at the end.
Glad we were able to pull out the ugly win. Let's get those free throws back to normal, and then move on to tomorrow. Survive and advance.
Their fans...don't seem to think that:
https://twitter.com/anthonycdemaria/status/969341570901331969
http://huskerhoopscentral.com/forums/topic/12240-big-ten-tournament/?pa…
Try to go easy on them. They're not used to having more wins than losses. They probably don't understand that the quality of the wins matter, or that a win isn't automatically a "good win" just because the team is in the Big Ten.
They also don't understand that bubble teams don't lose at Illinois.
Nebraska absolutely needed this matchup, and if Michigan doesn't do better from 3-land -- and play better D than they did in the first half -- they're liable to get what they actually need, which is a Q1 win.
Michigan is the superior team, but remember that Iowa doesn't play defense -- like, at all. This game was actually an above-average conference game for them defensively. So Michigan's going to have to step it up to beat Nebraska tomorrow.
mo and maar should be well rested for tomorrow's game...
...that Duncan was a waste of a scholarship is a total moron. Not a partial moron--a total moron.
You know, after the whole season - tournaments and all - is said and done, I would be intrigued by the "Duncan Robinson Confessions Thread". I think there have to be a fair numbe of people here who have said this at some point or another in their fan lives.
I think it says a lot about Beilein and his team that they can play a mediocre game against a desperate team and somehow still win.
He's been a great team player and never complained when he was sent to the bench. Here's to catching fire in the tourney!