***Official Game Day Thread - ISU vs. Nebraska***

[ISUFan22]

Gritty effort...don't think we would have had enough gas for OT anyhow.

Worried about the team not having any legs for KU.

Correct on both.

[scyclonekid]

Oh yeah, Rick Hartzell eat *****!!!!!!!!!!!!

[swarthmoreCY]

The refs, Railey's stupidity, and Scotty's arm were too much to overcome tonight.

[CydeOut]

The game being decided on the line sucks...but I agree that we may not have fared well in OT

[CycloneErik]

The game being decided on the line sucks...but I agree that we may not have fared well in OT

Yeah, OT would have been painful.
The effort would have been tremendous, but we were likely to run out of gas.

[cayin]

Are you kidding me? They have two guys- Walker and Jeter - that obviously lift. After that they have two Mexis (one with knockers the other looks like he could snap in two) and a plethora of interchangeable adolescent-looking pasties. We are obviously in better shape as a whole

Those two guys showed up as brick **** houses. they have good genetics. the better the genetic blueprint, the easier it is to build muscle. A skinny guy with poor genetics won't be able to handle as high work load and his muscle building upside will be a lot lower than the naturally bigger guys. So "more time in the wt room" is not a good thing for that type of individual. To solve this problem, recruit guys that are naturally bigger, thicker, and stronger. They have a bigger upside anyway. Or in the game of basketball, neutralize size and strength with athleticism, length, and speed.

[Cyclonefarmer]

Too bad because there are plenty more wins for this team ahead.

Not really-Fans like that just p1$$ me off. We were undermanned and down 10 on the road in a B12 game to a team that's 12-0 at home and came back and maybe shoulda won. Yes it sucks to lose when we were up but I'm still damn proud of my "unanimous last place" team.

[Cyclonefarmer]

We have the ball with 6 seconds left out of bounds, and we get the ball stolen and we foul with .4 remaining and they get 2 shots making one for the win. That's an ISU-style loss right there. We somehow find the most heartbreaking ways to lose.

To go on, we led 62-58 and let Nebraska score the last 5 points to win. I believe we had that lead with 1:30 to go. Tough to swallow.

With that being said, once I get past the heartache of a loss like that, I'm really proud of the way we played. 7 guys deep is all we are which is a HUGE disadvantage, especially for the way we try to play and yet we had our shot to win. We shot better percentage-wise than Nebby in FG's, 3's, and FT, but they attempted 11 more FTs and I don't know the exact stats on turnovers, but it can't look good for us I imagine.

All you can do sometimes is smile at our bad luck and move onto the next one.

Not to disagree as I'm probably older than a lot of posters on here,but many of my best memories of being at games when Johnny was coach is that we were the ones who pulled off a lot of those kind of wins. Give CFH a little time and I think you'll see the same thing.

[Cyclonefarmer]

DG is the driver of this team. He made some bad decisions in the last 2 min. Add that to some poor decisions from a true freshmen in Ejim and we now are probably out of the NIT. My expectations just dropped from 7 conference wins to 4. We will finish 17-14 regular season. That isn't too bad for the depth we have. It is great that FH got us off to the start we did and got my expectations up though.

On a positive note IMO Godfrey had some solid minutes and showed he can have some solid Big 12 minutes.

I still think we win 5 minimum and are possibly in the NIT, which I never would have thought last March/April. And Texas Tech did go with 4 conf wins last year.

[enisthemenace]

I love this team. These kids battled...never gave up and they easily could have.

[Cyclonepride]

I really think this team has taken on Freddy's demeanor. They may make mistakes from time to time, but it doesn't phase them. They just come back at you. We're 7 deep, our point guard and starting big man both missed a lot of time due to fouls, and our premier difference and shot maker looked to be about 70%. On the road. That tells me that all 7 were out there busting their butts.