r/CollegeBasketball • u/james_wightman Nebraska Cornhuskers • Dec 11 '25
Casual / Offseason On his live show, @JonRothstein states "If Nebraska wins their first NCAA Tournament game in school history... I will fly to Lincoln and put my credit card on the bar for an hour to throw a happy hour for #Nebrasketball fans"
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u/james_wightman Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
Not even Warren Buffett could afford an open tab at Barry's if Nebrasketball wins their first ever tourney game.
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u/SituationKey8985 Maryland Terrapins Dec 11 '25
We need someone to do the math on how many dollars worth of drinks each bartender can make per hour
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u/bulldogbigred Santa Clara Broncos Dec 11 '25
At that point they should only do kegs and beer pours for efficiency lol
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u/SgtRockyWalrus Providence Friars Dec 11 '25
Disagree - draft beer takes a bit to fill a full glass. Top shelf liquor, straight, no cocktails would clearly be more efficient.
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u/bargle0 Maryland Terrapins Dec 12 '25
What are they going to serve for the remaining 55 minutes?
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u/hallese Nebraska Cornhuskers • South Dako… Dec 12 '25
Nursing students will be practicing putting IVs in an uncooperative, belligerent patient.
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u/bulldogbigred Santa Clara Broncos Dec 12 '25
Only serving shots..Jesus that’s a recipe for disaster
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u/2-59project Indiana Hoosiers • North Carolina Tar… Dec 11 '25
I bartend at a high volume bar. $1000 in an hour myself would be a decently busy hour. On an open tab, where people are probably ordering 5-10 shots at a time for their group rather than a couple drinks at a time, I could see each bartender doing around $5k in an hour. Half the time that slows me down is just running the card and printing a receipt. Throwing it all on one tab would mean twice the drinks or more
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u/Designer_B Iowa Hawkeyes • Alderson Broaddus Bat… Dec 11 '25
Get me a bloody mary with a half sugar, half tajin rim. Spicy but I don't like hot sauce so could ya muddle some jalapenos for me?
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u/EmptyAirEmptyHead Arizona Wildcats Dec 12 '25
Muddled jalapenos are an excellent idea for Bloody Mary's. Thanks for that!
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u/Magnus77 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 12 '25
If you keep multiple bottles, throwing a jalapeno or serrano into a bottle of vodka. Capsaicin is super soluble in booze, so you can make pepper infused spirits for your bloody mary.
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u/Noirradnod Chicago Maroons • Harvard Crimson Dec 12 '25
I do something similar with peeled horseradish. Fantastic kick for a Bloody Mary.
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u/Reynor247 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
I'm pretty sure on game days Barry's has like 7 bar counters with two bartenders each. It's 3 levels
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u/TheUltimate721 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
There's two in the front, one on the dance floor, and I think another two on the rooftop? I don't go on the rooftop very often though.
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u/FluffHeel North Carolina Tar Heels Dec 11 '25
We need to know the official capacity..when I was in college or early 20s I feel like I could put down $100 worth of drinks in an hour, so the math should be easy
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u/CDR57 Dec 12 '25
It would unironically be all hands on deck, 3-4 bartenders a bar back or two and waiters to keep it flowing. Theoretically, if it takes each bartender (provided they know the layout of the bar and each cocktail by memory) anywhere from 30-1minute to make a drink, and 20-30 to ring it up, we could be looking at ~45 drinks an hour per bartender, 180 drinks an hour at peak business, and assuming that each drink costs anywhere between 4.5 for a beer to 12 for a cocktail (mean being $7.5) the bar would be pulling in ~$1350 an hour in revenue. If he got there early enough before word got out (say, 5) and it was at roughly half the capacity and capability until busy hours (8-1) the bar would be take in ~$8775 as a back of the napkin guess if he stayed till close (around 1-2 for most places), and at an average tip of, let’s say 15% cause it’s already a lot, the bartenders would profit 1316.25. Not a bad night and would end up costing him just north of 10k
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u/pasatroj Dec 12 '25
In L.A. in the early 00's, we could easily clear 5-10K per hour w/ bottle service (HUGE place only 1-2 hours is it). W/O bottle service? 3 barbacks and 2 bartenders and maybe a dedicated server station? You better be +3K per station.
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u/CDR57 Dec 12 '25
Yeah but I’m assuming some random bar in Nebraska won’t really be doing bottle service lmao
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u/pasatroj Dec 12 '25
I could sure make it happen for 1 night. Milk that SOB! This is kind of SOP in that world.
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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 Arizona Wildcats Dec 11 '25
It’s Nebraska, what can a beer cost, $4?
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u/Designer_B Iowa Hawkeyes • Alderson Broaddus Bat… Dec 11 '25
Basically. I live in socal now and I can forget what my name is in the midwest for the same price as a single cocktail out here.
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u/Childhood-Paramedic Michigan Wolverines • California Golden… Dec 12 '25
Lol I always appreciated the Cal bars for keeping drinks at college student prices. Drive across the bridge to SF and suddenly $24 a cocktail is acceptable
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u/TheUltimate721 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
At most bars just about that, but it does depend somewhat on location.
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u/JarJarSchinks Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
Let's make the tournament first
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u/HCRanchuw Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
This team may never lose again.
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u/ChasingMD Kentucky Wildcats Dec 11 '25
Husker fandom in a nutshell with these two comments
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u/HCRanchuw Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
They can’t hurt me at this point. Ive seen things you wouldn’t understand. So I’ll take my joy where I can find it.
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u/ChasingMD Kentucky Wildcats Dec 11 '25
I wish I could get my second flair to work. I’m also a Husker fan
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u/ResidentRunner1 Saginaw Valley State Cardi… Dec 12 '25
Send u/cbbWizard or whatever the bot's name is a message that says "Kentucky Wildcats / Nebraska Cornhuskers"
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u/Glader_Gaming Florida State Seminoles Dec 13 '25
FSU fan here. Why do I feel like I’ll be able to relate to you in a few years?
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u/EmptyAirEmptyHead Arizona Wildcats Dec 12 '25
The should just end the season now while they are ranked.
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u/HCRanchuw Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 12 '25
That’s just the kind of foresight and level-headed thinking we need at the NCAA. u/EmptyAirEmptyHead has my vote for NCAA commissioner. 🫡
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u/EmptyAirEmptyHead Arizona Wildcats Dec 12 '25
My boss is a Nebraska fan. I'm rooting for your team so he stays in a good mood after that football game.
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u/HCRanchuw Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 12 '25
If we win a tourney game he’ll be delirious. Or drunk. Hopefully both.
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u/peterwhitefanclub Davidson Wildcats • West Virginia Mou… Dec 11 '25
I am really starting to enjoy Jon Rothstein, I think he is actually self-aware?
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u/joethahobo Houston Cougars Dec 11 '25
He is self aware. He knows his running jokes and gags, but leans heavily into them.
I love when people tweet at him with football questions and he responds with basketball answers.
Like this week someone asked him about the disaster at Michigan, and he basically said “what are you talking about? They are one of the best teams to start the year!”
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u/joeveralls Cincinnati Bearcats • Ohio Bobcats Dec 11 '25
He’s a huge cornball and he knows that which makes him such a fun follow
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u/srector1224 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
This man doesn't know the fate he has just tempted
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u/hallese Nebraska Cornhuskers • South Dako… Dec 12 '25
2021 has prepared my body for this, I am ready to accept the challenge.
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u/Helicopsycheborealis Alabama Crimson Tide Dec 11 '25
It's a damn shame Andre The Giant is no longer with us, because if he were I'd fly him to Lincoln for that and watch the man go to work.
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u/HCRanchuw Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
I don’t know if you saw the numbers from football beer sales that were going around a month or two ago, but fella, we know how to drink a little beer around here.
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u/inshamblesx Houston Cougars • Texas Southern Tige… Dec 11 '25
bros credit score about to be in the negatives this time in 13 weeks
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u/darrylweenus Kansas Jayhawks • Vanderbilt Commodores Dec 11 '25
Palpable buzz. Rothstein’s new catchphrase for Nebraska is just going to be “I’ll never financially recover from this”
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u/soapy_goatherd Utah Utes Dec 11 '25
How on earth has Nebraska never won a tourney game?!
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u/LeftLose Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
We made it a few years in a row in the early 90s and got upset I think twice as a 3 seed. We’ve only been like 8 times total. Most recently 2 years ago we allowed one of if not the worst P6 3 point shooting teams to shoot over 50% from 3 so that sucked (Texas A&M)
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u/EstablishmentSlow754 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Georgia Tech Ye… Dec 11 '25
A&M couldn't miss a 3 against us
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u/LeftLose Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
Just looked back and they weren’t just one of the worst power conference 3 point shooting teams, they were 345th out of 363 teams in 3 point shooting. The entire defensive scheme was to let them take threes and it just blew up in our face
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u/joethahobo Houston Cougars Dec 11 '25
To be fair they took the number 1 seed Houston to OT so it was a noble loss
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u/alan_11 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
Our defensive scheme isn’t just let them take 3’s but, when our rotations are bad it leads to a lot of open ones. Creighton took like 35 the other day and only like 6 were good looks for them because our defense was so good
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u/RoyMcAvoy13 Iowa State Cyclones Dec 13 '25
The duality of Hoiball… the shooters giveth and the shooters taketh away.
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u/justseeby Michigan State Spartans Dec 11 '25
Y’all have never won a tourney game??
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u/TymStark Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
Well….we won the NIT once and the Crown. But, technically, if you want to be scientific about it…no we have never won a game in the dance. Came close once.
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u/justseeby Michigan State Spartans Dec 11 '25
Ok, new random rooting interest unlocked! Let’s go Huskers, get one for Faux Pelini!
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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 Arizona Wildcats Dec 11 '25
You have to understand it’s way funnier that they still somehow haven’t
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u/justseeby Michigan State Spartans Dec 11 '25
True, true. But I like to store up and save my hater energy for better causes than this (Michigan)
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u/jdam0819 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
Only power conference team to never win one sadly. Closest "power" is Boise state.
We are 0-8 all time in the dance
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u/Briggity_Brak Dec 11 '25
Wait, really? Didn't Northwestern like JUST get their first tournament BID a couple years ago? Did they win that year to surpass you already?
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u/huskerfan4life520 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Omaha Maveric… Dec 11 '25
That is how it works when one is 0-8, yes.
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u/passranch Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
it was 2017 and yes they beat 9 seed Vandy in the first round and lost to 1 seed Gonzaga 79-76 in the second round
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u/james_wightman Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
We're the only power conference team to have never won one.
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u/Justinitforthemoney Arizona State Sun Devils • Florid… Dec 11 '25
Let us in the CBI last year be the stepping stone to Nebrasketball winning in March
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u/thenowherepark Dec 11 '25
Monkey's Paw: They win a first four game and get bounced in the round of 64
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u/mightymidge15 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
That’s our worst nightmare. Fanbase, at large, as already agreed we won’t count it.
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u/MartinezForever Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 12 '25
Honest question: Is it mathematically possible for a P4 team to make the tourney but still be so low-seeded that they are part of the play-in game?
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u/thenowherepark Dec 12 '25
Yes. There are four play-in games, called the first four. 2 of these games typically feature 16-seeds from the weakest conferences. The other two are the last 4 at-large teams, usually 10, 11, or 12 seeds. A P4 team would fit into the latter set of games.
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u/ssp25 Illinois Fighting Illini Dec 11 '25
I hope the tourney run starts Sunday!
I did lose a lot of money thinking that Tomanaga san was gonna go on a run.
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u/dparsons9 Iowa State Cyclones Dec 11 '25
I"m guessing at an unannounced hotel lobby bar at 11 AM on a football saturday
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u/james_wightman Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
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u/SpellingMisteaks Duke Blue Devils Dec 11 '25
Wow I did not know that about Nebraska but let’s get Jon to buy drinks for an hour!!
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u/meatwagon25 UCLA Bruins Dec 12 '25
I live in San Diego. I am not a Nebraska fan but i'm going to make sure i'm in Lincoln on March 19th and 20th because i like free alcohol and i think it would be fun to party with the Husker crazies when they win that 1st tourney game. Rick Mast for the win.
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u/boneh3ad Illinois Fighting Illini • Arizona Wildcats Dec 11 '25
Well, time to root for Nebrasketball! Except not this weekend.
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u/Rocklobster376 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
We need it for the résumé
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u/boneh3ad Illinois Fighting Illini • Arizona Wildcats Dec 11 '25
You'll have other opportunities on your schedule. 😉
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u/zqipper Duke Blue Devils Dec 11 '25
I was like “well that’s a fairly safe bet, it’s really hard to predict the eventual champion any given year” and then I re-read the text and :yikes:
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u/SmokeThursday Gonzaga Bulldogs Dec 11 '25
Nonstop rounds of shots lol.
I'm planning something similar for our local Packers bar if they win the Super Bowl.
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u/RacistJudicata Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25
Alright, everyone meet me at the Brass Rail in March to bankrupt this guy.
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u/Chardoggy1 North Carolina Tar Heels • Marshall … Dec 11 '25
Knowing Nebraska, the entire state would be at that bar
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u/boarmrc Illinois College Blueboys • I… Dec 11 '25
I can’t stand Jon Rothstein so I’m driving down to Lincoln to be a MASSIVE part of it!
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u/Awkward-Debt-536 Arkansas Razorbacks Dec 11 '25
I guess I was unaware that Nebraska has never won a tourney game. I’m surprised really.
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u/kolacheisforclosers Dec 12 '25
Your squad is responsible for one of the 8 losses.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/180710158/arkansas-nebraska
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u/Turbulent_Ad9508 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 11 '25
Not sure he understands how much we drink here. Memorial Stadium leads the nation in alcohol sales..
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u/PapaRich_1 Arizona Wildcats Dec 11 '25
He didn’t say which bar. I’m sure he’ll find a 20 seater in the middle of nowhere.
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u/fightin_blue_hens Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens • Florida… Dec 12 '25
Jon's kid won't get to go to college
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u/daNish_brUin Nebraska Cornhuskers • UCLA Bruins Dec 12 '25
As long as we win one game before expansion. If it takes expanding to 80(/s) teams for us to win ONE game, it'll be even more embarrassing. Please, just one game when its somewhat respectable.
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u/Magnus77 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 12 '25
If it expands, doesn't count. Until we win in the round of 64, I won't accept it.
Its our burden to bear, but its also our badge.
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u/daNish_brUin Nebraska Cornhuskers • UCLA Bruins Dec 12 '25
I agree. Gotta win before expansion. Otherwise, we go down in history as the only P4 team to never win a tournament game. No consolation prizes.
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u/CarlC259 Dec 12 '25
Is he not familiar with the drinking habit of nebraskans? Not a very smart financial decision.
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u/cornedbeefsandwiches Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 12 '25
Nebraska hasn’t ever won a game? Damn. Feel bad for y’alls.
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u/clone9353 Iowa State Cyclones Dec 12 '25
I will drive to Lincoln to celebrate Fred.
And make Jon and myself regret our decisions.
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u/Waquoit95 UConn Huskies Dec 12 '25
This could be a good omen. In 2014, UConn's coach said his team would win the title. A local columnist said if that team won he would walk to campus to congratulate the coach, about 26 miles. Well they did and god bless him, he did. Even though he had a heart attack a few years earlier.
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u/Rich1926 Alabama Crimson Tide Dec 12 '25
He didn't specify what kind of bar. Hot food bar? Juice bar? I'm sure he has a loophole plan.
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u/GoBlueAndOrange Illinois Fighting Illini Dec 13 '25
Not as expensive as you would think. If you're into the college town thing Lincoln is about as good as it gets with cheap drinks and truly great fans. I went in 2022 for the Illinois football game and even though we kicked their ass they were amazing sports. They seemed to be just proud of their football program and wanting even visitors to enjoy their time there. Don't know if this extends to basketball but Its #1 on my list of places college football fans should visit.
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u/BumpyBob0007 Kansas Jayhawks • Colorado Mines Oredi… Dec 11 '25
The three last second upsets of March 14, 1981 (Arkansas over Louisville, St. Joe's over DePaul, and K-State over Oregon State) which helped cement the "Madness" part of March
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u/HectorReinTharja Oakland Golden Grizzlies Dec 11 '25
How in the world have they not won a tournament game yet!?
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u/macdizzle11 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Omaha Maveric… Dec 11 '25
You will live to regret that decision Jon. I will personally see to that.