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This Was The Season That Was! (mbb 2014/2015)

Red Don

Red Don

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Quick Guide to Huskers 2014/15 Basketball Season (RIP)

Huskers, 13-18 (5-14 B1G), KenPom #132

Season Record:

(Exhibition Game 11/6 vs Southwest Minnesota State (83-61)

Out-of-Conference (Record 8-4)

11/16 vs Northern Kentucky (W 80-61)
11/18 vs Central Arkansas (W 82-56)
11/22 @ Rhode Island (L 66-62 OT) Loss at RI (When was last time our foe's fans rushed the floor after a win? :eek:)
11/25 vs UNO (W 80-67)
11/28 vs Tennessee-Martin (W 75-64)

(Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Huskers are 3-1 in Series)
12/01 @ Florida State (W 70-65) Huskers uphold their end of ACC/B1G Challenge - Third win in a Row

12/07 vs Creighton (L 65-55) Disappointing Intra-State Loss :cry:
12/10 vs Incarnate Word (L 74-73) Poor Heads-up Play & on-court Errors = Loss to, Wha, Who? :Facepalm:
12/13 vs Cincinnati (W 56-55 2OT) Huge Win in Double OT. Benny Parker with the Winning Basket! :Mfclap:

- Diamond Head Classic @ Honolulu - (Record 2-1; 5th Place)

12/22 vs Hawaii (L 66-58) Loss to Hawaii, who advanced to almost defeat Wichita State in OT.
12/23 vs Loyola Marymount (W 50-42 OT)
12/25 vs Ohio (W 71-58) Back-to-Back wins for 5th place

B1G Conference Play (Record 5-14)

12/31 vs Indiana (L 70-65) Valiant 2nd Half Comeback Falls Short
- 2015 -
1/5 @ Iowa (L 70-59) Double digit loss. Only 8 points off the bench
1/8 vs Rutgers (W 65-49) First Conference Win. Leslee Smith returns :)
1/11 vs Illinois (W 53-43) Back-to-Back, Double-Digit Wins @ Home
1/15 @ Wisconsin (L 70-55) Loss to 7th ranked Wisconsin Team
1/20 vs Minnesota (W 52-49) Petteway 25th Husker to attain 1,000 career points :thumbsup: (#24 was Ryan Anderson, 2009/10)
1/24 vs Michigan State (W 79-77) Back-to-Back 'Nail-biter' Wins :timeout: at Home in full-employment effort for Cardiologists
1/27 @ Michigan (L 58-44) Uninspired effort = loss to injury-depleted Michigan
1/31 @ Minnesota (L 60-42) Back-to-Back Losses on the Road
2/3 vs Northwestern (W 76-60) Double-Digit Win, ending a two game losing streak. (Shields 26th Husker to achieve 1,000 career points :clap:)
Sat 2/7 @ Penn State (L 56-43) Ineffectual offensive effort on the Road = loss to PSU
Tue 2/10 vs Wisconsin (L 65-55) Valiant 2nd Half come-back effort falters against the leading team in B1G
Sun 2/15 @ Purdue (L 66-54) Promising start ends with another disappointing Road Loss
Thu 2/19 @ Maryland (L 69-65) Heartbreaker despite Huskers playing their Best Road Game this Year
Sun 2/22 vs Iowa (L 74-46) Surging Hawkeyes + Impotent Offense = Beatdown @ Home :mad:
Thu 2/26 @ Ohio State (L 81-57) They were Hot; We Were NOT! (David Rivers with his 1st Double/Double - 10 pts, 11 Rbs :thumbsup:)
Wed 3/4 @ Illinois (L 69-57) Illini rally to hold off Huskers (Leslee Smith personal best - 8 pts & 9 Rbs :) )
Sun 3/8 vs Maryland (L 64-61) Outstanding Defense but a 'Nail-biter' loss @ Home to End the Season :cry:

- Big Ten Tournament @ Chicago -
Wed 3/11 vs Penn State (L 68-65) One & Done! Kudos to the Team for coming back and Fighting to Stay in the Game! :clap:


A Disappointing Season, Indeed! (ending on a 9-game losing streak)

(Help May Be on the Way!
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2015: (Signed) Transfer Andrew White III; Glynn Watson; Edward Morrow; Michael Jacobson; (Verbal) Jack McVeigh; (Walk-On) Johnny Trueblood
2016: (Verbal) Isaiah Roby; (Verbal) JC Transfer? Keanu Pinder
2017: (Verbal) Aguek Arop;

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12/10 vs Incarnate Word (L 74-73) Poor Heads-up Play & on-court Errors = Loss to, Wha, Who?

Indications of what was to come.
 
And you wanted to remind me of this because??????????? Because WE SUCKED? DAMMIT MAN....
 
Thanks for putting this together red don! I always checked the thread to check times and all that. Always brought up interesting discussions also.
 



Excellent summary of the season. I appreciate the effort that went into putting it together.

I think things could have been different if we had avoided those close (and disasterous) non-conference losses. But once things started to unravel, we really struggled to right the ship.
 
Thanks all, just thought I'd try to dress up the usually sterile statistics a little (tw3 style), and maybe help jog a few memories about the actual games themselves (I'm sure a lot of us watched most of them - Husker Hot Sauce's Cardiologist approves ;)).

Despite the miserable season there were some notable 'mile-stones,' good as well as bad, (i.e. 2 players reaching 1,000 pts. And, When was the last time our opponent's fans Rushed the Court after beating us? :eek: ) that deserved to be preserved for the more casual observer.
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Finally, for Merle*, there IS a ray of hope for next season (- not too much though :Biggrin:).

(* that we should both live long enough to see the Huskers' First NCAA Win! :nod:)
 
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I thought we were poised to get things rolling after the Michigan State game with four very winnable games coming up. But we only won one of them, and the season went into the toilet from there.

Really unfortunate that we couldn't capitalize last year's momentum. Being a fan of Nebraska basketball is not a job for the faint-hearted.
 



I may be wrong but didn't we have this same record in 1990? We followed that in 1991 with one of our best records in NU history. That team also had a lot of returning players. Maybe history repeats itself
 

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