Rutgers holds of Nebby for the W. Close.

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Of course RU would be better with Clff, but thinking about Cliff on this year's team is silly. RU simply couldn't afford him.

As Pike likes to say, he traded in his Adidas bag for a Gucci bag.

I've got no problem with it. If someone says to me, "Hey, I'll give you more than a million dollars to wash my car," I'm going to wash their car.

A win here would say a whole but I’m not buying it yet - a very young starting five that’s gets off to slow starts does not bode well at a place where the home team has won 22 straight games - 80-69 Nebraska

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Any good ice skating around the state with all this cold? I was surprised Carnegie had some open water still on Sat.

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zappaa said:

It’s strange how we give up the easy layup on defense as well

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We don't do a good job sliding down to cover. For example, if Ogbole moves to stop someone from driving to the basket, someone needs to slide down to cover the man he left. We do that very poorly.

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MCKnight2004 said:

As we all know, only 15 of 18 make the tournament this year. Safe to say Minnesota and Washington look to be the 2 bottom teams, and should finish 17 and 18.

That 16th and third team out is wide open.

Who’s everyone thinking? I’d think it will be one of the following. Most would’ve said USC to start the year, but they’ve looked damn good in last 2 and Musselman can coach.

Northwestern
Rutgers
USC
Indiana
Penn St
Nebraska
Ohio St

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UCLA is 2-4 - technically behind RU at the moment (and lost to Nebraska, Maryland and RU - true, though, all 3 on the road). And Iowa is 3-3 in conference - and lost to USC already (beat NW).

Just saying who the heck knows at this stage?

FYI, 12 of 18 Big Ten teams have 3 or more league losses at this early stage ... and 11 teams are separated by just 2 games (league record from 4-2 to 2-4). Still very early.

RU's problem is they started with 4 of 6 home games and only went 2-4. Meaning they have 14 games left of which 8 are road games, plus MSU at MSG, so only 5 true home games left.

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