Nebraska Loses to Kansas, Screwed By Refs

by Jon Johnston on Mar 14, 2008 8:36 PM CDT in Nebraska Husker Basketball

Nobody expected Nebraska to stand a chance against Kansas tonight, but we played a hard fought game and ended up with a 64-54 loss.

Nebraska lead at the half, 27-22. We'd hit 50% of our three-point attempts, 6-12, we'd stayed about even on rebounding, down 12-14, and had fewer turnovers 7-12.

Free throws were close, Nebraska 1-3 and Kansas 3-6. For the game, the Cornhuskers ended up shooting 10 free throws to the Jayhawk's 31 - a second-half deficit of 25-7.

Doc Sadler picked up a technical after a non-call when Paul Velander was knocked down without a foul call on a three-point attempt. Good for Sadler, defending his guy.

It's one thing to know that Kansas has a much better basketball team than we do. It's another for the game to be handed to them by a bunch of striped boobs. I'm normally a Jayhawks fan during basketball season, although I'll confess that's died somewhat since Roy Williams left and Bill Self came to Lawrence.

No one will say much about it because the Jayhawks are supposed to win these types of games. Fact is, they had to fight for it until the end and even then they had to have it handed to them.

The consolation will come when Kansas tanks in the NCAA tourney because they don't have a heart enough to win it.

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Kansas

Always gets the calls in conference play. If there is something I have learned following Big 8/XII basketball for 18 years, it's that Kansas always gets the calls, and gets away with no calls. The thing that frustrates me about it is that it's not only a disservice to their opponents, but it always comes back to bite KU in the butt in the NCAAs, where they have to ease off on defense and play less aggressive on offense because the big dance crews don't give them the calls.

That said, while I'm disappointed that we lost, and that we lost the way we did, I am really happy that Nebraska made them fight for it every step of the way. For the first time in ages, we weren't intimidated by Kansas, which really shows how far we came this year.

by huskerlibrarian on Mar 14, 2008 11:27 PM CDT reply actions

nice

point on the intimidation factor, and that they fail in the tourney when they don't get the calls.

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Mar 15, 2008 1:59 PM CDT up reply actions

From the other side

comes this crap from the KC Star:

First, you had Ryan Anderson elbowing Darnell Jackson in the stomach, sending him to the floor in pain. Jackson said he thought it was a cheap shot.

"I was thinking about trying to catch my breath so I didn’t pass out," Jackson said.

Second, you had Ade Dagunduro talking after the Jackson-Anderson incident and fouling Sherron Collins hard on a fast break. Collins responded by flexing and getting close to Dagunduro, which resulted in a technical foul on Collins.

"He didn’t have to do that," Collins said. "If you’re gonna foul me, just foul me. I knew something was going to happen. I thought he was going to do something worse than that."

As if the angelic Jayhawks were preyed upon by barbarians from the north..... give me a break.

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Mar 15, 2008 1:58 PM CDT reply actions

Interesting threads

from the boards over at Husker Hoops Central:

Referee Statistics for last night's crew

and from the Journal Star's "Life in the Red" blog, apparently Doc went into the Big XII office after the game to visit with the director of officials.

by huskerlibrarian on Mar 15, 2008 2:34 PM CDT reply actions