Game Thread NCAA Tournament: #8 Nebraska v #9 Texas A&M [Friday, March 22, 5:30pm TNT] - FUCK Turd ALBERTS

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Yeah, they got hot & were playing with good energy.

We were a little tight and on our heels, which allowed a ton of drives and offensive rebounds we don't usually give up, and IMO, made the athletic disparity look worse than it was.

Sucks when your off night lines up with their best night.

I agree. The game plan looked like it was going to be sag on screens, protect the paint, rebound. All of that changed when they started off 7 for 7 from 3 and we had to try to chase them off the perimeter.

 

[stonesak]

If y'all think this is rough, You're in for something else when Prime toe fucks us and we miss a bowl again next year.

 

[...TrueColors...]

If y'all think this is rough, You're in for something else when Prime toe fucks us and we miss a bowl again next year.

Read the fuckin room dude. Not tonight

 

[tman87]

Not really. A team that shoots 28% on the season from 3 just shot in the mid 50s and hung almost a hundred. If aTm has an average night from 3 we win this game no problem.

The story of the game was Texas A&M hit some tough 3s that they hadn’t all year.

I think it was just a bad matchup. Turd & M had far more high level athletes. Not only could we not stop them on dribble drives, on the boards, etc, but they then made a TON of 3's to boot.

The 3's were the difference. But this was a tough game to get a W given the athletic differences between the rosters on the whole. We could have and possibly would have won if not for the 3's going in at about double their normal rate. But that is not how it went.

 

[Mr.Bojangles]

Turd Albert's 1
Nebraska 0

 

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I think it was just a bad matchup. Turd & M had far more high level athletes. Not only could we not stop them on dribble drives, on the boards, etc, but they then made a TON of 3's to boot.

The 3's were the difference. But this was a tough game to get a W given the athletic differences between the rosters on the whole. We could have and possibly would have won if not for the 3's going in at about double their normal rate. But that is not how it went.

The worst 3 point shooting team in the nation isn’t a bad matchup for anyone regardless of athletic ability. If they can’t hit from the perimeter their athleticism means basically nothing.

 

[ChocaEgg]

Read the fuckin room dude. Not tonight

Just blows my mind that there were actually people out there who didn't see this coming.

 

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Did we watch the same game? They smothered us on defense, dominated the boards and got to the rim at will. There was no way we were winning that game. Their 3 pt shooting just made it more of a blowout than it would have been otherwise.

If smothering defense means the other team scores in the mid 80s I am really curious what bad defense means.

Every single metric before this game showed that the only way aTm would win is if they got a ton of second chance points. They got some, but not an alarming amount.

A team that shoots 28% from the 3 point line shot 55%. That is what lost this game.

The worst 3 point shooting team in P6 couldn’t miss and hit more shots than the best 3 point shooting team in the big ten.

I’m not going to sit and say Nebraska is as athletic as them. But that simply isn’t what lost the game. If they have an average night from 3 Nebraska wins. But they shot twice their season average.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

I just want to point out that I was recording the game while I got home from work. When I turned it on the recording started at the point where Williams made the 3 to go up 20-13.

I said to myself, "here's where it all falls apart"

my bad, but at least I learned I have time-traveling abilities

 

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Just blows my mind that there were actually people out there who didn't see this coming.

Tonight isn’t a good night dude. Take the faggotry somewhere else.

 

[Fargo Husker]

#FireDannen

 

[redzoner]

Pretty obvious the refs haven’t forgotten about Pearl Harbor

I’m just waiting for Longwood to hit a 3. Their fans told us they do a balls deep chant when they make them.

 

[Irv]

Watching Wisconsin lose as a 5 would start the healing process.

 

[Irv]

I’m just waiting for Longwood to hit a 3. Their fans told us they do a balls deep chant when they make them.

They’ve come a long way

“Longwood University is a public university in Farmville, Virginia. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary…”

 

[JerryBones5]

Nothing worse than being a Nebraska fan. Will the tide ever turn? It hasn’t for about 5 years minimum

 

[Jim14510]

Watching Wisconsin lose as a 5 would start the healing process.

Especially barely being in double digits at the end of the half

 

[tman87]

The worst 3 point shooting team in the nation isn’t a bad matchup for anyone regardless of athletic ability. If they can’t hit from the perimeter their athleticism means basically nothing.

But they did make them. It was a tough game if they had only made 29% per their season norm.

Not worth, nor do I want to, argue the point. Our main advantage was hitting more 3's. That didn't happen. Sucks but still how it played out

 

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But the did make them. It was a tough game if they had only made 29% per their season norm.

Not worth, nor do I want to, argue the point. Our main advantage was hitting more 3's. That didn't happen. Sucks but still how it played out

That’s what we are saying.

Before the game, there was not a single thing that shouted “bad matchup” for Nebraska.

In fact, quite the opposite.

Nebraska should have been able to dust off the Indiana game plan and pack the paint and mitigate one or two rebounders while aTm, the worst 3 point shooting team in the country shoots brick after brick.

Further, aTm hadn't defended the 3 well all year and didn’t again tonight.

Had you told me Nebraska scores 83 I’d probably have told you they win by 7-15 points.

Had you told me aTm was going to shoot 55% from 3 I’d have laughed you out of the room.

That right there is what lost this game. That right there is what opened up driving lanes that had we not had to try to chase them off the 3, wouldn’t have been there.

 

[HughJanus]

I am dead inside. To cope I'm going to get real mean in the Hy-Vee parking lot threads. This is all I have left.

 

[tman87]

That’s what we are saying.

Before the game, there was not a single thing that shouted “bad matchup” for Nebraska.

In fact, quite the opposite.

Nebraska should have been able to dust off the Indiana game plan and pack the paint and mitigate one or two rebounders while aTm, the worst 3 point shooting team in the country shoots brick after brick.

Further, aTm hadn't defended the 3 well all year and didn’t again tonight.

Had you told me Nebraska scores 83 I’d probably have told you they win by 7-15 points.

Had you told me aTm was going to shoot 55% from 3 I’d have laughed you out of the room.

That right there is what lost this game. That right there is what opened up driving lanes that had we not had to try to chase them off the 3, wouldn’t have been there.

So being at a serious athletic disadvantage is not something that we should have been concerned about?

Or playing the top O rebounding team in the country?

Sure, no one thought we would get out-shot from distance from Turd & M. But we did. Had we had our usual advantage from the long distance shooting area, you bet it evens things up a lot. But we couldn't contain their athletes. Mast is skilled, but not physically athletically talented. A physically talented team - and one that works hard and plays together like Turd & M's club does - will make it tough on lesser physically talented squads.

So I disagree. This was a bad matchup for us. A well coached, talented team, that had a rough first half of the season, but came on very strong late in the season, was a bad matchup for our teams talent.

Fred got a lot out of a group that had some real limitations. Sometimes those limitations are a worse matchup with a team like we faced tonight. The fact that a bad shooting team from distance shot double their normal yearly average, did indeed doom us to this game being a very tough one to win.

Fred now knows the holes in the roster that need to be filled. I am sure he knew already, but a game like this only solidifies that fact.

I am still proud of our team and coaches. Great year, made excellent progress towards continuing to build a better, stronger, more well-rounded club. Sucks we lost, but that's life. Adjust and improve or don't and stay mired in our perpetual state of where we have been as a program.