Game Day Essentials: Game #1 vs Northern Kentucky

[hhcmatt]

#21 Nebraska Cornhuskers (0-0) vs Northern Kentucky Norse (0-1)

SARAH HOFFMAN/THE WORLD-HERALD

Date: Sunday, Nov. 16

Time: 1:05 p.m.

Arena: Pinnacle Bank Arena

Capacity: 15,000

Broadcast Information

Television: None

Online Watching: BTN Plus (subscription required) - available online and on the BTN2Go app

Announcers: Hunter Cave and Michael Dixon

Radio: IMG Husker Sports Radio Network, including KLIN (1400 AM) in Lincoln, KFAB (1110 AM) in Omaha and KRVN (880 AM) in Lexington. Also available online at Huskers.com, on the Huskers App and on TuneIn Radio and the TuneIn Radio App.

Satellite Radio: Ch. 98 (Sirius) Ch. 196 (XM)

Play-by-play: Kent Pavelka

Expert Analysis: Matt Davison

Northern Kentucky Scouting ThreadNorthern Kentucky Info

Head Coach: Dave Bezold

Location: Highland Heights, KY

Conference: Atlantic Sun Conference

Nickname: Norse

Last time out: Lost to Wisconsin

Typical Rotation Depth: 10+ players

Tempo: Doc Ball

Offensive Style: Jack awful 3s

Defensive Style: Watch the other team score

Line:

Shirt not to wear: Gold, Black, Bumblebee

Other Previews

Huskers.com - http://www.huskers.c...TCLID=209764083

NKUnorse.com - http://nkunorse.com/...spx?path=mbball

Journal Star - http://journalstar.c...df96a5deca.html

Possible Starters

Huskers

0 Tai Webster 6-4 199 So

5 Terran Petteway 6-6 215 Jr

31 Shavon Shields 6-7 221 Jr

2 David Rivers 6-7 200 Sr

35 Walter Pitchford 6-10 237 Jr

Norse

11 Jordan Jackson 6-2 185 Sr

33 Anthony Monaco 6-4 180 Jr

0 Chad Jackson 6-4 200 Sr

25 Cole Murray 6-7 200 So

20 Jake Giesler 6-7 230 Jr

The Skinny

Welcome to year 3 of the Tim Miles era. We all had the feeling he was going to be different but did anyone expect it to happen this quickly? The Huskers enter the season ranked for the first time 1995 and only their second appearance in the AP preseason poll. Back are all of last year's major players minus Ray Gallegos to graduation. Instead of spending the pre-conference forming an identity, expect Miles' squad to focus on refining their offense to go along with that defense that had them dancing last year.

The Huskers open up the first of two paycheck games with a Northern Kentucky squad that was held to 31 points on Friday by Wisconsin. Expect a slower ugly game where the undersized Norse mostly take 3s on defense while attempting to pack the lane against the Huskers. Nebraska is going to win this game but hopefully we'll see this veteran squad take care of business in the first half.

Things to watch for

- Can the crowd get the Husker Power chant going at the first game?

- Has Jake Hammond made it into the game? He probably isn't going to redshirt but his clock doesn't start until he checks into a game.

- How will Moses, T-Smith, Fuller and Hammond fit into the rotation?

- Is post-hype Tai Webster as real as he seems?

- Can Benny and Rivers continue to provide offense?

- How does the team respond for an opener against an inferior opponent? How about the crowd?

- Is Pitchford really going to hang in the lane on offense this year?

- Will Shavon turn it up another notch?

- Can Petteway consistently hit a 3?

Prediction: Nebraska 75 - 52 with a 97% chance of Runzas

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[trickey]

Prediction: Nebraska 68 - Baylor 63

 

Dimes...   You missed a spot!

 

 

Now that you have played Russian historian with the post...nobody will understand WTF I was talking about.

 

PS   I hope this prediction is better than the last...I need some Runzas.

Edited November 16, 2014 by trickey

[hhcmatt]

This site doesn't do rough drafts so well and I didn't set the the publish date far enough in advance.  Should be good to go now

[jimmykc]

I like this first "essential". It has a bit of humor and took my mind off football this Sunday morning. And I note the tempo will be "baseline to baseline". Bring it on, although beginning the season at one on a Sunday is not ideal.

[Silverbacked1]

HUSKER!!!

[busticket]

POWER!!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness it's Husker Hoops time!

[49r]

My seat upgrade moved me from the "Husker" section to the "Power" section, so...

POWER!!!

[AuroranHusker]

Doc Ball make me chuckle. Nice work dimes!

[nuhusker7]

What is a Norse?

[hhcmatt]

What is a Norse?

 

Essentially a fancy name for Vikings

[Nighthawk]

Pretty much all the game observations have been made...so I've got a few arena observations/opinions (and these are just mine).

 

1. The Husker Power chant started but seemed to very weak (at least from where I was sitting) when the visiting team was introduced? Was this because the student section over by the band was pretty much empty until people started moving down?

 

2. Again this might have something to do with the student section being what it was. That music that play for the Husker intro...the fans didn't seem to get into it. I mean some did...and this might come in time...but It would be cool to see the Arena rock like Memorial stadium has done with the tunnel walk. It's the students energy that everyone else feeds off of. I was up in the 200 area doing the Husker Power with everyone else that was doing it..but I was pretty much the only one in my section that was.

 

3. What is it going to take to get this place rocking for every game. Better Competition? They play some patsys over at the stadium..but the fans still get pumped. 

[HuskerActuary]

Pretty much all the game observations have been made...so I've got a few arena observations/opinions (and these are just mine).

 

1. The Husker Power chant started but seemed to very weak (at least from where I was sitting) when the visiting team was introduced? Was this because the student section over by the band was pretty much empty until people started moving down?

 

2. Again this might have something to do with the student section being what it was. That music that play for the Husker intro...the fans didn't seem to get into it. I mean some did...and this might come in time...but It would be cool to see the Arena rock like Memorial stadium has done with the tunnel walk. It's the students energy that everyone else feeds off of. I was up in the 200 area doing the Husker Power with everyone else that was doing it..but I was pretty much the only one in my section that was.

 

3. What is it going to take to get this place rocking for every game. Better Competition? They play some patsys over at the stadium..but the fans still get pumped. 

It's a little hard to compare to football, in my opinion. There are only seven home games per year in which most season ticket holders are paying well over $75 per ticket per game. In basketball, there are almost 20 home games in which most of us are paying less than $20 per ticket per game. By human nature it's a little easier to get amped up only a few times per year.

[hhcmatt]

Pretty much all the game observations have been made...so I've got a few arena observations/opinions (and these are just mine).

 

1. The Husker Power chant started but seemed to very weak (at least from where I was sitting) when the visiting team was introduced? Was this because the student section over by the band was pretty much empty until people started moving down?

 

2. Again this might have something to do with the student section being what it was. That music that play for the Husker intro...the fans didn't seem to get into it. I mean some did...and this might come in time...but It would be cool to see the Arena rock like Memorial stadium has done with the tunnel walk. It's the students energy that everyone else feeds off of. I was up in the 200 area doing the Husker Power with everyone else that was doing it..but I was pretty much the only one in my section that was.

 

3. What is it going to take to get this place rocking for every game. Better Competition? They play some patsys over at the stadium..but the fans still get pumped. 

 

1. They are pumping in a lot of background music during the opposing lineups intro.  It's possible this is an attempt to quell the Husker Power chant

 

3. The crowd cheers to the competition level. Maybe one day we'll have such a tradition where fans are loud when paycheck teams come to town but expect it to be dead during the pre-conference except for Creighton and Cincinatti

[Silverbacked1]

it was a first time out for some of the new student section leaders I would think. They also along with the crowd and team will get better as the season goes on.

[49r]

It would be almost embarrassing, IMO, to act like it's the Super Bowl when we're playing Northern Kentucky.

 

I think most people were more concerned with the Amazing Sladek and hoping he didn't break a hip getting down off all those chairs.

[Silverbacked1]

He was fun wasn't he. When he walked off at the end I told my wife you can almost hear him say," Sedlac is done remove the things from the floor." In what accent that you would think he has.

[nuhusker7]

As for thinking that they might be trying to quell the husker power chant by playing loud music, I have to disagree. The cheerleaders are still using the signs for the husker power chant, and I would think that they would put an end to that first.

[Nighthawk]

As for thinking that they might be trying to quell the husker power chant by playing loud music, I have to disagree. The cheerleaders are still using the signs for the husker power chant, and I would think that they would put an end to that first.

you'd think there'd be a statute of limitations on not having a yell squad. It was two people in the student section (and not the cheerleaders [although I'm sure you noticed that. ] that were doing the Husker Power thing at the last game...unfortunately the Husker part had to fall onto the non (they really need to hook caffeine IVs up to these people) students on the other side of the court..who didn't make a lot of noise. while the Power side hit the highly energetic student section behind the benches. This is just the way it's going to be until Creighton and then the Big 10.

[49r]

While watching the ESPN tip-off marathon last night I noticed that Iowa State did a "Cyclone Power" chant right before tip-off of their game.

 

It wasn't during the player introductions for the opposing team, but still, felt a little dirty.