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Missed a huge opportunity to not have both of them in the Keisei hands on the head pose for the announcement 

Nebraska lands former Rutgers transfer Gavin Griffiths from the transfer portal. The 4 star 6'8" sharpshooter was a big commit for the Scarlet Knights but struggled during his freshman year until the end of the season.  Despite the size look for Griffiths to slot at either the 2 or 3.
 
Griffiths will have 3 years of eligibility left and is the 3rd known commitment for 2024-25.  Nebraska currently has 4 scholarships remaining.

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Until they pass a Legislative Resolution that clearly states that Creighton Sucks, I have no positive things to say about the State Legislature

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Hate seeing Jamarques leave.  He was one of my favorites on the team and always seemed like a really good kid and a good teammate.   We have benefited from the portal in some cases - but really hate all the transition it creates overall and REALLY hate it when we have players leave like this.   Hoping it is an April Fools joke but assume it is not.

Jamarques Lawrence commented on that Instagram post with a heart emoji. Come on back JL. We’ll pretend you never left. 

THEY'RE BAAAAACK!!!!
 
LETS GO!

WIthin a couple hours of confirmation of Musselman leaving for USC Arkansas has apparently hired Jerome Tang from K State.   Got to be one of the fasted coaching "searches" on record.   Guessing they knew Musselman was leaving before today. 

Nebraska’s Fred Hoiberg is the recipient of the 2023-24 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year award.  The award is presented annually to the top head coach in division I college basketball.  Hoiberg led the Cornhuskers to their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2014. Nebraska finished with 23 victories - the program’s most since 1991.  Nebraska was top-40 nationally in adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency, holding opponents to a top-20 defensive field goal percentage. The Cornhuskers finished third in the Big 10, posting a winning record for only the third time since they joined the league for the 2011-12 season. Hoiberg is the second Husker men’s basketball coach to earn the honor, as Tim Miles was the 2014 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year.
 
The Jim Phelan Award is named in honor of a legendary bow-tied coach who spent his entire head coaching career at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Phelan graduated from La Salle University in 1951 and played one season in the NBA with the Philadelphia Warriors. After a brief professional career, Phelan went to Mount St. Mary’s as an assistant in 1953. One year later he began his historical career as a head coach. He led the Mountaineers to 16 Division II NCAA tournaments. Five times they advanced to the Final Four and he led them to the DII National Championship in 1962. When he retired in 2003, after coaching for 49 years, he had amassed 830 wins (overall record of 830-524) in all divisions. In those 49 years, 19 of his teams amassed 20 or more wins in a season. In 2008 he was inducted into National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The recipient of the annual award is determined by a 10-member voting committee, which consists of current and former head coaches, as well as two senior staff members of collegeinsider.com. 
 
Here is Fred finding out about the award from his family
 
 

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Hate seeing Jamarques leave.  He was one of my favorites on the team and always seemed like a really good kid and a good teammate.   We have benefited from the portal in some cases - but really hate all the transition it creates overall and REALLY hate it when we have players leave like this.   Hoping it is an April Fools joke but assume it is not.

Honestly that lineup might finish last

Wow that is a surprise.   Not sure why he would have not liked Wisconsin although for whatever reason I could not figure out he spent alot of time on the bench during their NCAA tournament game debacle.    At times he seemed to look for his own shot a bit too much but this kid has tons of talent - without him WIsconsin would have had very little offense this season.

Wow that is a surprise.   Not sure why he would have not liked Wisconsin although for whatever reason I could not figure out he spent alot of time on the bench during their NCAA tournament game debacle.    At times he seemed to look for his own shot a bit too much but this kid has tons of talent - without him WIsconsin would have had very little offense this season.

I'm glad that CJ stuck it out the last three years.
He won us a couple games this year especially the Wisconsin game. 
He is a guy we should all be rooting for in his final collegiate season. 

OK, guys, hear me out here:
 
I know that you can't do the "what if" stuff and it works both ways, BUT ...
 
In the first half, they waived off a Keisei bucket and clearly incorrectly called him for travelling. Count that basket. Now, we're only down 12 at half.
 
In addition, Josiah Allick missed 5 layups in the first half. Point blank. If he makes just 3 of those, now we're only down six.
 
For the game, they shot an unbelievable 13 of 23 (56.5%) from beyond the arc. Let's say they just shoot a torrid 40%, which is still 12% better than their average and 5% better than they shot against Houston. That's 9 of 23. That's 12 points difference. Maybe they get a couple of offensive rebounds off those misses and get 2-point put-backs. That's still 8 fewer points on their end.
 
So, instead of losing 83-98, that puts it at 91-90, good guys on top.
 
My point is we weren't as bad as the final score made us look AND the game really came down to them being way uncharacteristically hot from deep.
 
And to add to this point, that same team, shooting a more ordinary 35% from deep, just took a #1 seed to OT.
 
That's who we lost to.

We absolutely need Williams, Gary, and Mast to return. 

I would add Jamarques Lawrence to that list.

I love this team, I love Keisei, I love Jo, and I even love boogie. Everyone found their role on this team, everyone bought in, and the team was awesome to watch.
 
We ran into an absolute buzz saw tonight against Tamu. We didn’t play great defense by any means, but they came and shot out of their minds in the first half. At that point we didn’t have a chance.
 
GBR always

One team looked like they returned 6 players from an NCAA tournament team that got beat by a Big 10 team.
 
The other team looked like they had 1 player with little tournament experience.   If we can make it again, I like our chances next year.  Especially,  if we get Brice, Mast, CJ, Sam, Gary, and Lawrence back.

This is how I feel right now
 
“Don’t cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
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Tonight hurts. But I refuse to say this season was a failure. So many good memories from this season. Let's do it again next year. 

Yes, that was one of my biggest memories from the Coliseum days.  My dad said to look at the floor sweepers, and I thought it was awesome.  

Was too young at the time to remember my exact first game - but would have been in the late 60's in the Colisseum.  Parent had season tickets.   Remember watching Leroy Chalk, Tom Scantlebury and Bob Grattop in those days.   Al Nissen too who is still in Lincoln I believe.

Was too young at the time to remember my exact first game - but would have been in the late 60's in the Colisseum.  Parent had season tickets.   Remember watching Leroy Chalk, Tom Scantlebury and Bob Grattop in those days.   Al Nissen too who is still in Lincoln I believe.