Isms: Views on life in rural America

My dreams of Nebrasketball landing a spot in the National Invitational Tournament shattered into a million intricate threads, faster than a glass photo frame dropped on a tiled surface breaks into multiple shards.

Sunday’s news that Fred Hoiberg’s crew did not make the cut and have an opportunity to bounce back from an unnecessary - and costly - loss in the first round of the Big 10 Conference tournament leaves me feeling, well, broken.

You cannot fall to a less-than-mediocre drove of Minnesota Gophers in conference tourney play and pack your bags for the Big Apple. Nope, miscues and mistakes...