Sunday night was not a particularly fun or enjoyable night for the Nebraska basketball team. First there was finding out the team didn’t get into the NCAA tournament while squads like Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona State did.
To some degree, that was to be expected. We spent the week hearing that the Cornhuskers were long shots at best to get in. But then the second “slap in the face” as NU head coach Tim Miles put it, was finding out the team’s seeding in the NIT.
It’s safe to say most people thought Nebraska was going to be a second or third seed in the NIT.