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tOSU -11.5 at Nebraska (ov/un 119.5) Sat 7 BTN

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BB73 said:
The next game will be on Saturday - I might not be able to set the lines in the thread, so the 2nd column at www.vegasinsider.com will be what's used.
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This link is not working correctly but Ohio State is favored by 12 so I don't know if the Bookie would set the line at 11.5 or 12.5. Also, the over/under is 120 and I don't know if that means 119.5 or 120.5. Maybe someone can figure this out or maybe the Bookie will make an appearance.
 
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• Matchup to watch: Nebraska guard Ray Gallegos, who took 18 shots, including 15 threes, and scored 14 points against Ohio State on Jan. 2, had 30 points (on 17 shots) at Minnesota on Tuesday. He leads the Big Ten with 23 three-pointers in conference play. Lenzelle Smith Jr. said his primary focus is “not to let him score. Everything after that is a bonus.”

• Notable: Deshaun Thomas is one of three players in NCAA Division I averaging at least 20 points and six rebounds per game. … With 210, Aaron Craft is five steals from cracking the top 10 in Big Ten history. The record is 324 by Illinois’ Bruce Douglas (1983-86). … Nebraska moved 6-foot-5 wing Dylan Talley to point guard five games ago.

• Next: at Michigan, 9 p.m. Tuesday
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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/02/02/osu-mbk-chart-2-2-gl2lfmer-1.html
 
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I continue to be baffled by the Nebraska sports administration firing Doc Sadler only to replace him with a coach who, in all honesty, is at best mediocre. Sadler was doing a better job there than he got credit for, and his career record is better than Tim Miles's. I see no reason to think Miles will be a better recruiter, which really is the problem in Lincoln - not enough good players. (Duh.)

If you're going to change coaches, wouldn't you want to hire one who is actually better? Just not a good move IMO.
 
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MaxBuck;2299184; said:
I continue to be baffled by the Nebraska sports administration firing Doc Sadler only to replace him with a coach who, in all honesty, is at best mediocre. Sadler was doing a better job there than he got credit for, and his career record is better than Tim Miles's. I see no reason to think Miles will be a better recruiter, which really is the problem in Lincoln - not enough good players. (Duh.)

If you're going to change coaches, wouldn't you want to hire one who is actually better? Just not a good move IMO.
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Man, that's harsh. It's Miles's first season. What did you expect? He isn't John Calipari, who can bring his 5* recruits to whatever job he chooses and win right away with them. For 99.9% of coaches, it takes at least a couple years to see results. You can pretty much say that it at least takes 2 years to turn around a team from a moribund program to an NCAA tourney team, and you saw that with Beilein at UM ... and the NCAA record books don't have it but I seem to recall a great turnaround season for a second-year coach in 1999 in the Big Ten. I think Miles has done a good job of keeping Nebraska competitive this season while their talent level has remained dismal. He has a great, magnetic personality, and he has been successful at turning around multiple other programs. I think Miles was a good hire at Nebraska.

Putting Miles aside, I think Sadler was not a good coach for the image or quality of the Big Ten. Sadler never took NU to the NCAA tourney in spite of having several seasons. Sadler had a veteran team last year that he promptly led to the Big Ten's basement in their debut season. Sadler also had featured an extremely slow paced team, which further harms the image of the Big Ten and makes recruiting even more difficult when you're not a winning program to start with. Most of Nebraska's key players last year aren't even on the team this year - Miles had inherited a pretty bare cupboard. With a tremendous new hoops building on the horizon for next season, combined with Sadler's poor results, it was a good time for a change in Lincoln.
 
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