Nebraska held its final practice in Lincoln on Wednesday before taking off to New York City for this week’s Big Ten Tournament at Madison Square Garden.

After racking up 22 wins and a school-record 13 league victories, the Huskers locked up the No. 4 seed in the conference tourney. Yet despite all of that regular-season success, NU’s postseason fate remains very much up in the air.

As of Wednesday, Nebraska was still on the outside of the NCAA Tournament field looking in according to most every national bracketologist.

Many of those so-called experts feel the Huskers must get at least one more win - ideally over No. 5-seed Michigan - on Friday, while others think it will take even more to punch their ticket.

The only sure thing left in NU’s control at this point is to clinch an automatic bid by winning the entire Big Ten Tournament. So obviously that’s all head coach Tim Miles wants his team to worry about.

“Three more wins and we get to shut everybody up,” Miles said. “That’s really what the message is, is we have a chance to earn our way in, let’s do it.”