The Fun Part Of The Season Starts Now

For all basketball fans in state, either the blue ones or the red ones, the best part of the basketball season start now.

Conference season.

The rest is the preseason. It's like the non-conference in football. Some good games, but for the most part we see teams like Houston Baptist and Maryland-Eastern Shore. There's nothing like a good Florida A&M or Texas Pan-American to get your basketball blood pumping.

Now we will see familiar teams with coaches and players that know each other and know their style of play. There are no more guaranteed wins. Anybody can beat anybody. Upsets will happen and tempers will flare. You can't tell me that it is not fun to watch Creighton and SIU battle on the hardwood. That's fun basketball.

So, with the college football and bowl season all but over, here's to the round ball and fun few months until March Madness.

Prediction Time

My prediction for tonight's Holiday Bowl between Nebraska and Arizona:

NEBRASKA - 24
ARIZONA - 10

Suh will get 3 sacks. The defense will get 5 take aways. Zac Lee will throw a couple interceptions and Cody Green will see a lot of playing time, especially in the 2nd half. We will see a lot more of the power running game with long drives by Nebraska. Player of the game: Rex Burkhead. All of the Nebraska TD's will be scored on the ground.

New Season

Tonight begins a new season for the Creighton Bluejays. They will host the preseason Valley favorite UNI Panthers at the Qwest Center. The team needs to forget the non-conference teams, the non-conference record and resume's and begin the season fresh tonight. They are not going to the NCAA Tournament if they don't win in St. Louis. Period. Game 1 is tonight and you have 18 games to A) find a leader on the team, B) get back to playing Creighton basketball, C) play for a good seed in the MVC Tournament, D) learn how to finish games and especially learn how to play on the road.

The season starts tonight at the Qwest Center against UNI at 7:05. You can hear game on The Mighty Big Sports 590. Pregame coverage begins with the McGough Law Bluejay Report with Action 3 News Sports Director Travis Justice at 5:30.

Bowl Games Are Boring

I'm not a fan of bowl games. I think they are boring. The only bowl game that is good to watch is the national championship game because they are playing for something. Every other game (including the rest of the BCS games) are pointless. The only good thing about them is that it's football. The teams are not playing for anything. They're playing so that their conference and university can get some money. That's it. Oh yeah, the best thing about the bowl game is not even the game itself, but the extra practices that the teams get in December.

Some of the teams don't want to be there. Some of the teams are disappointed with the bowl that they are at. The teams that are most excited to be in a bowl game (besides Alabama and Texas) are the small conference schools that treat a bowl game trip like it's their national championship game (and they should).

Will I watch a Tuesday night bowl game between two mediocre schools. You bet . . . because it's football. But that doesn't mean that I will enjoy it.

Best Sign Of The Night At The Nebraska - Kansas State Game . . .

'Suh Don't Swerve 4 Wildcats'

Football Weather

One thing that all Husker fans need to do is think whoever they need to think for the wonderful weather that we have had for home games this season. Not once was it bitter cold. Not once did it snow for a game. Every home game has been amazing. The only bad weather that the Huskers and their fans had to deal with was in Columbia, Missouri. But I think 27 4th quarter points and a 27-12 comeback victory was enough to keep all of the players and fans that were there nice and warm.

Big 12 North Champions?

What a season so far. Kind of reminds you of last season. A loss to Virginia Tech in a game that you could have won. A couple stumbles early in the season against Big 12 teams. A team that sticks together and figures things out and finds a way to win. And now they're a win away from winning the Big 12 North . . . just like last year. The only difference is that other teams in the division have fell to the side to allow the Huskers to climb to the top of the pile. Now they are one win away from making a trip to actually play in the Big 12 Championship game this year against Texas in Dallas. Will they win that one? Who knows. But all you can ask for is a shot

And with a win tonight against Kansas State, the Huskers will get just that . . . a shot.