Nebraska is currently a 3 seed in most of the bracket projections, Purdue is a 4 seed, and currently a 3 1/2 point favorite in tonight’s game. (O/U of 143.5)
Purdue blew past Northwestern last night like a team on a mission. Nebraska can’t afford to fall behind early, like it has done a lot lately.
As Captain Obvious might say.
They need to control the defensive boards and not give up second and third shots. They need to take care of the ball, keep the TO total low. Make their FT’s and shoot a high percentage of their 3’s.
Huskers have started off doing nothing Captain Obvious mentioned.
Obviously that didn’t get the memo
It appears we’re going to hope for a strong second half. The Husker team that went 20-0 continues to be MIA.
Sandfort and [gasp] Garcia are the only positives. No one else is playing worth a poop. Purdue has 17 points off of our 8 turnovers. Sigh.
I really don’t follow college basketball before March, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. But….I don’t think a NCAA tourney win is a given. The most Nebraska thing ever would be for them to go 0-get in the postseason after signing that contract extension. The men’s programs at UNL are allergic to winning when it matters.
I’ll be an eternal pessimist until they prove otherwise.
Garcia back to normal in the second half. Rest of the team looking awful. If they win a game in the NCAA’s, it will be a miracle.
The NCAA committee is likely to look at Nebraska and say, “But what have you done lately?” And the answer to that is: nothing!
They may drop to a 4 seed and the sites for those are Philadelphia, Portland, Tampa and San Diego.
Based on what I saw today, Sunday’s championship game may well be Wisconsin vs Purdue.
The 2, 3 and 4 seeds all lost and #1 Michigan didn’t exactly blow Ohio State away.
Maybe this triple-bye schedule isn’t so great after all?
I haven’t posted much about Husker basketball this year. I think I might have watched five or six games so I don’t have a real strong sample size to express an opinion.
One thing I have wondered, though, is this team as good as its record? I know pretty much the record shows what you are. However, teams don’t always show how good or bad they are through their record.
I doubt we are going to see the Huskers go deep in the dance. I actually look for a first round exit, although to be fair I have no idea where and who they will play.
John Papenhagen
I know I am bad luck. If i watch a game. They lose. I don’t want to jinks so I won’t watch the NCAA tournament at least till they get to the second round.
In a message dated 3/14/2026 1:40:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, nolan@tssi.com writes:
Lunardi still has Nebraska as a 3 seed playing in Oklahoma City. Purdue has moved up from a 4 seed to a 3 seed today.
The 1991 team was a 3 seed but lost to Xavier 89-84.
If Google Gemini is correct….historical odds are about 15% for the 14-seed in these matchups. I usually pick at least one of these as an upset in my bracket, but I don’t usually do very well either!
Since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985,
No. 14 seeds have defeated No. 3 seeds 23 times in 159 matchups(roughly 14.5% of the time). While rare, this first-round upset occurs in over half of the tournaments, with recent examples including Oakland over Kentucky (2024) and Abilene Christian over Texas (2021).