Norfolk Daily News Blog

I’ve often heard the argument that the current NSAA point system for basketball isn’t fair because it rewards teams for playing down a class.

What the people making that argument say is that teams should be given bonus points for playing up a class – say a Class C1 school playing a Class B team and be penalized for playing down a class – say a Class C2 school playing a Class D1 team.

Currently, bonus points are given for playing up a class, but teams aren’t penalized for playing down.

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Back to the State of the Union speech. The President explained that the current deficit is a result of “not paying for two wars, two tax cuts, and an expensive prescription drug program.” The solution?

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It’s pretty awesome if you stop and think about it. One pre-dawn bowling session brought in more than 2,000 cans of food. Still one problem remains. . . .

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The bus rides back to Wayne from Duluth, Minnesota were probably the best examples of the few downsides of running track at Wayne State—at the time, the southern-most school in the NSIC, which meant lots of time in a bus. 50 or 60 college kids, one bus, seven hours, the drive didn’t start until 8 or 9 p.m., and the end of the ride meant feeling the effects of running a 10K and then sitting on a bus for seven hours. The bus had televisions, which was nice—but the volume was always set to that you-didn’t-want-to-sleep,-did-you? level of screaming. Yes, actually, sleep would be really nice.

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The Nebraska men took on a ranked Kansas State team this week. The Husker women took on a ranked Oklahoma State team. So who won round one, based on the crowd at the Devaney Center?

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