Game Thread Nebrasketball Game #11: @ #13 Illinois - Saturday, December 13 3:00pm Peacock/NBCSN

[kyle23]

SIAP

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Godfuckingdamnright!!!

 

[1HuskerDad]

Worked today and couldn't watch the game. What a win!! Holy shit!

Anyone know where I can watch the replay of the game by chance? I do have Peacock, but dunno if they only show it live or have replays avail.

Missed the 2nd half so I just watched it on Peacock. It is saved there.

 

[nja13]

Honestly, as someone listening to the call live, I thought Kent’s call of the final play sucked. The shot goes up and Kent just begins with these guttural yells and I had no idea what happened. Did he make the shot? Was he fouled with no call and Kent was pissed? Are we going to overtime? It took several moments before Io figured out what had happened.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Honestly, as someone listening to the call live, I thought Kent’s call of the final play sucked. The shot goes up and Kent just begins with these guttural yells and I had no idea what happened. Did he make the shot? Was he fouled with no call and Kent was pissed? Are we going to overtime? It took several moments before Io figured out what had happened.

You need an indica. 😉

I'm happier than a pig in slop...just like you.

 

[COYS]

Garcia was playing early too, that wasn't mop-up duty. He played 3 minutes against craydone, in a blowout. And today, he didn’t even play 4 minutes in the 1H.

Essegian isn't closing todays game over Garcia, or even Berke. Jared replaced Berke after his 4th foul around the 6 or 7 minute mark and the rest is history. If you think Fred goes with Essegian, against Illinois, over Garcia then just say it so I can quit responding to you.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Go back and look at any of the other games this season prior to Essegian injury against legit opponents. Garcia wasn’t playing; wasn’t in Fred’s rotation.

He only started to get minutes in meaningful games after Essegian’s injury. That’s an indisputable fact backed up by every box score prior and my own eyes.

My only point is Essegian’s injury opened the door for Garcia and he took full advantage. Not sure why you feel the need to argue every point someone makes other than being the compete psychopath you are for 20 plus years on message boards.

 

[kenyanfeline]

Honestly, as someone listening to the call live, I thought Kent’s call of the final play sucked. The shot goes up and Kent just begins with these guttural yells and I had no idea what happened. Did he make the shot? Was he fouled with no call and Kent was pissed? Are we going to overtime? It took several moments before Io figured out what had happened.

Don’t fucking talk about Kent Pavelka like that.

 

[1HuskerDad]

The only thing weird about KP’s call of the game winning shot is the complete silence in the background from the crowd. Weird because the exciting finishes to wins like this always happen at home and the crowd is erupting too. To win on the road against a ranked opponent and put a dagger through the heart of their home crowd is a new sensation for most Husker fans

He was reacting with 70 plus years of being a Husker fan first over being an announcer.

 

[SlumpBuster]

I don’t think it was technically a buzzer beater since there was still time on the clock

 

[SlumpBuster]

at least one Illinois fan can be honest

I read through that entire thread and a lot of them thought the officials cheated them.

About half gave us respect though, but they see themselves as disappointed for sweet 16 finish and some of them don't even feel like they'll get that far.

 

[herbsinator]

I read through that entire thread and a lot of them thought they officials cheated them.

About half gave us respect though, but they see themselves as disappointed for sweet 16 finish and some of them don't even feel like they'll get that far.

Reading through some Illinois fan reactions, they sound like Husker football fans lol

 

[nscottie]

I read through that entire thread and a lot of them thought they officials cheated them.

About half gave us respect though, but they see themselves as disappointed for sweet 16 finish and some of them don't even feel like they'll get that far.

How any rational person could think the officials cheated Illinois is laughable

 

[Seaofred92]

 

[Scott Hall]

Honestly, as someone listening to the call live, I thought Kent’s call of the final play sucked. The shot goes up and Kent just begins with these guttural yells and I had no idea what happened. Did he make the shot? Was he fouled with no call and Kent was pissed? Are we going to overtime? It took several moments before Io figured out what had happened.

Got it means he made it. The orgasm after got it means it was a basically a buzzer beater.

 

[Ironwardog]

How any rational person could think the officials cheated Illinois is laughable

I rarely believe that officials actually try to swing the game intentionally. They either get worked enough by the coach enough that they subconsciously make calls for (or against said coach if they think he’s an asshole ala Bo Pelini) OR IMO the biggest reason is that the officials just plain suck and can’t make CONSISTENT calls. One would have thought we would have gotten a better graded ref crew from the conference means how it was a ranked matchup yesterday. I understand the highest graded crew probably was pushed to Maryland Michigan but still we should have had better.

 

[iruletheskool]

I rarely believe that officials actually try to swing the game intentionally. They either get worked enough by the coach enough that they subconsciously make calls for (or against said coach if they think he’s an asshole ala Bo Pelini) OR IMO the biggest reason is that the officials just plain suck and can’t make CONSISTENT calls. One would have thought we would have gotten a better graded ref crew from the conference means how it was a ranked matchup yesterday. I understand the highest graded crew probably was pushed to Maryland Michigan but still we should have had better.

You can tell most of our fanbase has never watched any conference games that Nebraska was not playing in. Refs are just bad, its not us.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Lol Sandfort

"I came out and made a contested mid range shot to start. And I needed to make it otherwise I was going to get reamed"

 

[Seaofred92]

Great postgame commentary from the Peacock team

 

[Sous Chef]

Great postgame commentary from the Peacock team

I'd love to hear the BTN guys takes. I'm sure they gave us some forced props but probably spent most of the air time bemoaning the Illinois loss. At a guess.

 

[Husker03]

Honestly, as someone listening to the call live, I thought Kent’s call of the final play sucked. The shot goes up and Kent just begins with these guttural yells and I had no idea what happened. Did he make the shot? Was he fouled with no call and Kent was pissed? Are we going to overtime? It took several moments before Io figured out what had happened.

This is my take as well. I was listening on the radio because my kids were at a basketball tournament and I was just sitting there so frustrated having no idea what actually happened.