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Episode Date: December 8, 2025

Nebraska men's and women's basketball squads collect wins over the weekend. College Football Playoff Bracket reaction. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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top 25. The women log themselves in at number 24. That's coming off the 101 to 83 win at Penn State and the Big Reds conference opener on Saturday. My Hargrove, Brett Prince, and I think Petro Bozon her presence is changing what that team is going to look like. A different type of post-up game, different sort of fluidity to how she plays.

She folds into spaces a little differently than Markowski did. Markowski was the space. Bozon will get to the soft corner and flood. Then she'll dip and dive into the paint. She'll get back out. so catch and will be mobile, great face-up game as well, not the three-point shooter that Markowski is. Currently not the rebounder that Markowski is,

but I don't think that was required. But a big step-up for my Hargrove. And of course, Bert Prince is playing at an all-conference level again. In the NCAA rankings, in the net rankings, which is kind of power source and strength and all that, the Huskers are ranked number 12. toughness of schedule, differential, all those things in place. So, bravo to that, to the men.

I thought yesterday's win over Creighton was a statement win in the sense of this. And Bach, go with me here, that I think we need to re-identify this. this particular Husker basketball team as a physical defensive presence? Would that be a fair statement that I think that what they're doing this year, which gives me a little more hope, is their commitment to being physical

and on the defensive end to the point where they're taking things away and making folks take bad shots? Bach, what say you? Yeah, I'd say that that's appropriate. You know, they do, I mean, they give up a lot, lot of threes, and that's by design. They're going to live and die with you hitting the threes.

And obviously, Creighton couldn't get going there. But this was one of the better defensive showing, certainly, for Nebraska. And it's impressive. I mean, you look at their kind of makeup while they have some length. And, I mean, they've got some talented athletes in there. You know, it's not an overwhelmingly athletic team, you know, that Nebraska, you know, will run up against sometimes. So, you know, the defense that that is there, I should say, is going to be determined a lot based on their effort.

And, and obviously their knowledge of the game that they've been running with Nate Linser's defense, obviously that baseline help that they give. But altogether, it's a, it was, it was really impressive yesterday. It will continue to be. And, and, yeah, I think, I think it's interesting because Hoyberg's teams that, you know, it's kind of, you know, the identity has kind of shifted here throughout a little bit. And so you've had teams that are defensive minded. you have teams that, you know, maybe you're trying to put the ball in the bucket a little bit more. This is kind of a nice blend of the two.

Yeah, it seemed to me there's a lot. This team is louder defensively than some previous teams. And I think more of the rotation seems defensive-minded rather than, you know, hey, let me get some points on the floor. Whoever's on the floor is seeming to find their shots and getting into space. This team, I will say this. If they're holding teams under 40%, they're going to do well. And I think that is the risks that you're going to take this.

There's certain buildings. We know in the Big Ten, there's certain buildings on certain nights where those threes are going to go and you're going to have to do something else. But in that particular case, the style of defense, one, not allowing penetration to the middle, pushing things to the corner and baseline, those things generally translate. Because then you're talking about kickout passes, dribble and drive kick to corners, or sometimes you can get hands in passing lanes. It makes you better defensively if you take away the middle of the floor

and they do a really good job of it. So there's that. But at number 23, men's basketball and a pretty good run. I mean, Bacchamie, is this as good a run as you can remember to start a season? And are you, this is a two-part question? One, is it a good run for you for both programs? But two, do you trust it? I do. I think injury certainly could always play a factor, you know,

Connor's season out. You hope to not get hit by that too much. We'll see Ugi, obviously getting back that'll help within the rotation. But I thought that was kind of interesting last night. You know, they kind of had the eight-man rotation with the season in. I was kind of wondering, okay, well, what's that mean with him out, you know, against some legitimate competition here. And it just kind of broke down to seven-man rotation. So, you know, if that's the case, and again, I think Ugi will be somebody that they'll play, but we'll have to see. you know, you just got to avoid that injury.

But yeah, I mean, I think they're two games away. And they got two games this week, some tough ones from the best start in Nebraska program history for what it's worth. Year number seven under Fred Hoyberg. This is the first time they've been ranked under Fred Hoyberg. So it's got to be certainly one of the better times in Nebraska basketball, certainly in recent history and where they've done. And I think part of it, too, you know, cratens down a little bit.

I think everybody could see that too with that, you know, that's not exactly right. runner's team walking into the building. But still, quality victories now over Oklahoma and Kansas State and Creighton as part of this nine game, you know, start. So it's not necessarily any fool's gold or a weak schedule

or anything like that. Yeah, I'm of the school that I don't care who walks in wearing the Creighton jersey. Like, you think Creighton took it easy on Nebraska in the years where they didn't have dude in those Husker jerseys?

You think they celebrated less? No, they rubbed their nose in it. They rub their nose in it and reminded Nebraska ball at times where they were the little brother. And so when you get the upper hand, be a bully. It's okay. It's okay to say, hey, Creighton, you're not very good this year. Because the conversation two months ago was how good that this was possibly a grade 18. No, no, no, I listened to a lot of Creighton folks.

As a matter of fact, I listened to a lot of Husker folks. folks tell me, well, we can't really trust it until, you know, Creighton's coming this week. And I said, man, that's not, that, that's not who that is. Were you at the arena last night? Uh, no. Because I talked to Thornton. I mean, it was interesting. As we all know, the, the, the J-Sker exists. Um, but he said there wasn't a whole lot of blue in the arena. So it sounds like, you know, with Creighton struck a little bit, those, uh, Creighton Blue J fans are still supporting their Husker Red a little bit more. Well, I mean, that that's the thing, but in that part

the identity of a J-scar? Like, seriously, you can't, I don't understand how you can pull that off, how you can be, we're talking, we're not talking about where the pro team is Nebraska and the college team is Creighton. We're talking about two colleges and, oh, you're, this is what you're going to root for? You're going to split this. you're all red for nine months out of the year or six months out of the year or five months out of the year

and then you slowly slowly peel the skin off and reveal Blue J. Blue. Like that's a weird thing to me. I understand it exists. Yeah. I just think it's weird. Like I just think it's like you can't tell me.

Like you sing. I mean, do Jasker sing Hale Vars? Do they sing the words to fight something? in the fall and then not like they cover their ears during basketball and baseball season? Is that how that works? I don't know. It's weird. I'm not a J-scare myself.

I do somewhat understand right if you're in Omaha or up near Creighton, maybe to cheer for them. But when it comes down to rivalry time, I mean, you've got to have a favor, right? I mean, you got to have a team that you're really cheerful. Well, you can't, you can't, it's to me in my mind, that's rooting for BYU until they, they play Utah, which is just weird. Like, it's just weird. Like, it's like, oh, no, I'm going to root for the Cowboys until they play the commanders. No. No, that's not how I'm a Red Sox fan until they play the Yankees.

It's just weird. It's a rivalry and there should be some contention. If you're a person who identifies as a J-skirt, do you ever find yourself singing the words to Husker fight songs? Like, that's my question. like what are you what are you doing like can can somebody help me out here is that is that a thing right is that a thing that you can you can do and get away with and nobody calls you on it well there's plenty of calling on it that's the whole jskirtura like it just it's just weird to me so you know there's that um Bach we're going to make an attempt to simplify the college football

playoff system. Okay? We're going to make an effort. You, you down for this? I'm down for it. There's plenty of, plenty of schools out there that would be interested in this. Right. Okay. So, do rankings matter? As it's currently constructed, they matter quite a bit of deal. But then there's not 12. There's not, you didn't take the all best teams. For the at-larges, right? Rankings matter.

Obviously, they can't. So the rankings matter, except for they don't matter. Well, I mean, they matter Notre Dame today. If there is exception to the rule, then there is no rule. So, does ranking matter? Hey, what's up, y'all? Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. My favorite thing about the holidays, decking out my whole house.

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Wayfair, every style, every home. I mean, I still got to argue, yes, because there's a few teams that are mad that they're not ranked a little bit higher and if they were they'd be have a chance to play for a title so therefore if ranking matters then you take the the 12 best the highest ranked teams is there simplicity in that uh as much simplicity as there can be to the rankings uh to begin with i mean the rankings are i mean we're just talking about a board of 12 or 13 people you're walking right into my into my pitch you're leaning into the pitch because if rankings matter then the rankers matter more right so the committee now if you're going to allow every coach in america to vote that's one thing right but then

you you run into hey what if somebody fires somebody in mid-season or late in the season and you technically don't have a coach then who votes right it's a thing or the athletic directors right the athletic directors could vote or the media could vote right i don't know it can can you be outside of the outside of the power four and be in the top 12 ranked teams how likely is that i think you can be i think i think a lot of people would argue or rather have it be where you know this year is an exception that maybe the group of five teams should get in if undefeated or if you know they have two or three games against uh power four competition even power five is supposed to include somebody in there uh but uh yeah i mean i i don't know i don't know if a two

loss american team should necessarily be in there much less you know maybe a one lost sunbelt team who got in even less if if if in matters if if can be a thing if the word if can be a then it is an exception and it is not a rule So, then it's, can a G5 be ranked in the top 12? Should they be ranked in the top 12? I think there are, again, are years where you could argue, you know, Boise States, the Utah's in mid-2000s. I mean, there's examples, but this year, they're not,

and I don't think they necessarily should be. Well, every year is the year that you're judged by, right? So you can't make a rule because it fit this year, but it didn't. it doesn't it won't fit two years from now because the rules you make now where you set to go play go post now is the measuring stick good luck you're right the bcs right there's there's there's going to be changes based off how this year played out there are changes the last year's playoff system based how it played out it's it defined a perfect system is going to be difficult well but why because there's 140 teams playing uneven schedule how many how many how many

how many conference championships matter again tough to say there i mean i supposedly five of them i mean all of them do right um not really not really not really again we can make rules we can make rules for a tournament right because the tournament requires playoffs require rankings Seedings. And the people who do the seedings have to have a policy and protocol for that. And if you have a policy and protocol, don't get into the intangible, the eye test, the speculative, anything, all of the analytics. If you tell me that at the beginning of the season, everybody knows what it's going to take for them to get into the playoffs, right? Every single team knows if I win all of my games in the Jeep Power 4, I'm going to get in the playoffs. That's a fair thing, right?

Just don't ask Florida State from a few years ago. Right, but that's why they, that's why they, the envelope got folded differently after that because they were like, well, wait a minute. And then we also know we made an exception because of Florida State. We made an exception because of Notre Dame. We made an exception because, like, we keep making exceptions and then realizing that there is no rule of law, there is no boundary set because you continually move the goalposts. Is this a 50-yard field goal? No. It's a 55-yard field goal, no.

It's a 57-yard field goal. No. It's a 60-yard field goal. No. Do we get it right, right? At some point, you have to get it right. And if you say the rules that we set now protect and. defend the integrity of the thing that we're fighting for, which is you want a champion.

Ultimately, you want a champion, right? You want one champion. So the best way to get one champion is to play for the championship. The Super Bowl went through the same process. It is football, by the way, right? There are ways, there are championships that are won every year in football, all over the country, different fashions. FCS has a set of rules, NFL has a set of rules,

Canadian Football League has rules, State of Texas High School has a state rule, Nebraska High School has a rule. And the things that cause problems in all of these spaces is the rankers, the people who set the seeds and determine how you're going to decide who gets in. Ultimately, if you say, hey, when your district title, and you get in, somebody say, well, that district

isn't as tough as this district. Okay, but the rule is the rule. The rules the rule. And if you said to me, can you win all of your games, if you're in the SEC and you win all your games, are you in the playoffs? Yeah.

The ACC, if you win all your games, are you in the playoffs? Yeah, with 12. Big 12, are you, if you win all your games, you're in. Yep. Big 10. Yep. Let's go outside of that. Big 12.

Big 12, yeah. Let's go Sunbelt. Not necessarily. Not, yeah. Okay, so we have an exception, so we have no rule. So then you almost have to say either this is a power for playoff, or we have two wild cards, right? Two wild cards.

You decided to call it G5. I'm going to say wild cards. because then if let's say that the Buffalo Bills don't win the AFC East, but they have a better record, right? A better record than the Central. Who gets in? The Central first. The champion gets in. And then, would it make sense this year if you said all the power four champions get in,

you can say, hey, Bob, ready for this? If you make your conference championship, you get in in the power fours, right? That's eight teams. That's eight teams, Bach. We got room for four more. right because then the conferences have to set parameters to make sure that Miami gets in the championship game because if Miami you know Miami had two ways to get into this thing you know they could have won the ACC right if they would have made the championship game but why didn't they

win to make the championship game bot tiebreakers who determined the top tiebreakers, Bach? The ACC. Hey, Bob, were they in a tie in a division of the conference? No, there's no division.

There's no division. So they made rules to say, we are going to use these rules to determine the two best teams in the Atlanta Coast Conference. Is that what they did?

That was the plan. That was the plan. And in their rules, they came up with a plan that said, Miami is not one of the two best teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference. You allowed a five-lost Duke team

because it tells me your rules stink. Now, Duke did win. But that's the next question. Because winning should matter more within the conference. Not for the playoffs. It seems like the conference got it wrong. The number three team in the lowest rank of the power four conferences

set its number three team to the playoffs in place of teams who were playing for the championship. And those teams only lost to teams in the top four in the country. BYU only lost to Texas Tech a number one rank top four yeah for all we know could be the national champion Notre Dame only lost to top 10 teams

can you say that about Miami? No no you can set rules for this thing but the people in charge are so obligated to nonsense They're so obligated to chaos and money It just it makes my head hurt

We're going to try to get to some common sense All right, Bach, we're going to try to We're going to talk this thing through We'll be back Download