College Bball Thread

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Nebraska basketball from 247  --

Speculation surrounding possible violations in the Nebraska men’s basketball program in the last 24-48 hours have grown, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports. It’s grown so much that director of athletics Trev Alberts took to Twitter Tuesday evening to release a statement.

“I am aware of recent public speculation regarding our men’s basketball program,” Alberts said. “”Our compliance staff has been in communication with the NCAA today and was told there is no active or pending investigation into our men’s basketball program. Coach Hoiberg and I have talked and he has assured me his program is compliant with NCAA rules.”

[Joe_hoopsier]

13 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Nebraska basketball from 247  --

Speculation surrounding possible violations in the Nebraska men’s basketball program in the last 24-48 hours have grown, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports. It’s grown so much that director of athletics Trev Alberts took to Twitter Tuesday evening to release a statement.

“I am aware of recent public speculation regarding our men’s basketball program,” Alberts said. “”Our compliance staff has been in communication with the NCAA today and was told there is no active or pending investigation into our men’s basketball program. Coach Hoiberg and I have talked and he has assured me his program is compliant with NCAA rules.”

With as much smoke as there is growing around the Nebraska program. I am really starting to wonder just how bad are the things that Kentucky is being investigated about. I know Calimari's fan base have turned on him, but are they now throwing Fred under the bus so they can get rid of their coach? .... hmmmm

[Stromboli]

41 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Nebraska basketball from 247  --

Speculation surrounding possible violations in the Nebraska men’s basketball program in the last 24-48 hours have grown, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports. It’s grown so much that director of athletics Trev Alberts took to Twitter Tuesday evening to release a statement.

“I am aware of recent public speculation regarding our men’s basketball program,” Alberts said. “”Our compliance staff has been in communication with the NCAA today and was told there is no active or pending investigation into our men’s basketball program. Coach Hoiberg and I have talked and he has assured me his program is compliant with NCAA rules.”

Yeah. That last sentence is positioning. So if noncompliance comes out they can play the “he lied to us and we had no knowledge of wrongdoing” card. 
 

Aaaaand to editorialize a bit…. Nebraska getting the hammer isn’t justice. First off, my general take that when there is this much money involved, the talent deserves to get something resembling fair compensation. Second, as EVERYONE points out, they punish the worst team in the B1G while there is blatant noncompliance by the marquee programs. It’s silly. It does nothing to create a level playing field. 
 

Yeah sure it’s cheating, but this isn’t the kind of action that creates change. Because they don’t want change. No, I’m not saying anything groundbreaking here. 

[RaceToTheTop]

Freshman William Briedenbach (Nebraska) suffered an injury and will miss the rest of the year.  Averaged 16 minutes, 3 1/2 points and 3 rebounds.

[Uspshoosier]

Memphis up 5 at half on Bama.  Both teams have 11 turnovers 

 

Arizona St up 1 at Creighton with 26 sec to go 

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6 hours ago, HoosierAloha said:

I don't think Hoiberg coaching sick had anything to do with the cancellations. That seems a bit shorted sighted. I do agree it was bad optics.

The worst of the optics is he looked ******* dead on the bench and his assistant coach (probably rightly so) was constantly bathing himself in antibacterial soap.  Also didn't play well that he was so sick that he couldn't finish the game.

[Stuhoo]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Memphis up 5 at half on Bama.  Both teams have 11 turnovers 

 

Arizona St up 1 at Creighton with 26 sec to go 

Arizona is more than capable of screwing this up.

 

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7 hours ago, go iu bb said:

I hope Hoiberg survives this. It's nice having him at Nebraska since games against his teams there have all been wins for IU. I don't want them to bring in someone better.

What's strange is he finally is bringing in some talent there....with no change in results.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

Is Emoni Bates the next Skal/Harry Giles? He's not a good basketball player. He's Example A of why AAU basketball is god awful for the sport. 

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Memphis up 5 on Alabama at the half.

How many of you would bet on Memphis being ahead at the end of the game?  That is....how many of you think a team coached by Penny Hardaway can be ahead of a Nate Oats team after 40 minutes?

[Uspshoosier]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Arizona is more than capable of screwing this up.

 

Missed the front end and Creighton has the ball down 1 with 6 sec to go. 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Missed the front end and Creighton has the ball down 1 with 6 sec to go. 

Arizona St holds on 

[Stuhoo]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Arizona is more than capable of screwing this up.

 

And yet they didn’t!

[LamarCheeks]

6 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Arizona St holds on 

Nembhard takes the inbounds pass, dribbles upcourt, stops at the 3-point line, steps just inside and takes a terrible shot. 

Apparently, passing the ball never entered his mind. I hate those kinds of plays in the final seconds. Too easy to defend.

(BTW, Mason Miller -- Mike's son -- who chose Creighton over us, is redshirting this year). 

[Uspshoosier]

8 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Nembhard takes the inbounds pass, dribbles upcourt, stops at the 3-point line, steps just inside and takes a terrible shot. 

Apparently, passing the ball never entered his mind. I hate those kinds of plays in the final seconds. Too easy to defend.

(BTW, Mason Miller -- Mike's son -- who chose Creighton over us, is redshirting this year). 

Nembhard is a very talented freshman.  He won a game at the buzzer for them earlier in the year.   As he gets older I believe he will learn to make the right play in that situation.  

[lillurk]

21 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

What's strange is he finally is bringing in some talent there....with no change in results.

Yeah really thought Nebraska might be alright until they lost to someone terrible opening night (not looking it up, feeling lazy)

[lillurk]

18 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

Memphis up 5 on Alabama at the half.

How many of you would bet on Memphis being ahead at the end of the game?  That is....how many of you think a team coached by Penny Hardaway can be ahead of a Nate Oats team after 40 minutes?

We’re due for a long Memphis drought here. They’re up 9 with 15:14 left. Alabama wins if it hits a near-average number of threes down the stretch.

[Uspshoosier]

19 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

Memphis up 5 on Alabama at the half.

How many of you would bet on Memphis being ahead at the end of the game?  That is....how many of you think a team coached by Penny Hardaway can be ahead of a Nate Oats team after 40 minutes?

Memphis has lost 4 in a row.  They desperately need this game and the Tennessee game this week.  I think they find a way to win one of them but it would have nothing to do with his coaching.  Lol 

[LamarCheeks]

Memphis is rivaling Oregon for ugliest/weirdest court. That doesn't even look anything you'd play basketball on.  

 

[Stuhoo]

Memphis is seriously en fuego