Big Ten recruiting in national ranking #1, #10, #18 & #23

[AuroranHusker]

That is, Michigan State, Penn State, Minnesota, and Maryland.

 

[49r]

Maryland is #23 with 2 top 100 guys (#57 and #62)

 

We have one top 100 (#89) and one top (presumably) 150

 

I mean, we're not *that* far off...

[AuroranHusker]

Maryland is #23 with 2 top 100 guys (#57 and #62)

 

We have one top 100 (#89) and one top (presumably) 150

 

I mean, we're not *that* far off...

 

It's fairly subjective, these type of rankings.

[Norm Peterson]

 

Maryland is #23 with 2 top 100 guys (#57 and #62)

 

We have one top 100 (#89) and one top (presumably) 150

 

I mean, we're not *that* far off...

 

It's fairly subjective, these type of rankings.

 

And it's also rarely about just 1 recruiting class.  It's about an accumulation of talent.

 

As things stand, we'll have 6 players on the roster next year who were Rivals 150 players, 5 of whom were 4-stars in roughly the top 100.  That includes:

 

1 PG (Watson)

1 SG (Gill)

2 SF (White and Roby)

2 PF (Morrow and Horne)

 

We don't have to add a lot of pieces to that particular puzzle to field a quality playing rotation.  Very high quality rotation by Nebraska standards. 

 

And I expect that, by next season, we'll have a very good idea who those other pieces would be.  Jack McVeigh looked like a pretty solid weapon in Spain.  Hammond, Jacobson or a player to be named later to lock down the post?  Be nice to have one more combo guard.  Tai Webster, perhaps?  He started as a true freshman on an NCAA tourney team.

 

Just sumthin to think about.

[Norm Peterson]

Just to further my point about it not being about just one class, I took a look at PSU.  They lost 4 of their top 6 minutes guys from a year ago (including their 20 ppg scorer in Newbill) and have a couple of decent returning players. 

 

They have Shep Garner who averaged 29 minutes and just over 9 points as a freshman last year.

 

They have a 6'6" senior power forward in Brandon Taylor who kicked in 9 and 5 per game last year. 

 

Outside of those two, though, they ain't got much in the way of returning umph.

 

The three other seniors on their roster (outside of Taylor) COMBINED to contribute 8.8 and 8 per game last year.

 

They have one junior sitting out as a transfer from UConn this year.

 

They have the one sophomore who was really pretty good.

 

And they have 4 unheralded freshmen recruits.

 

By the time this super class of freshmen hits campus next year for them, they'll have one other guy on their entire team who, to this point, has really shown anything.  Two super freshmen aren't going to be able to carry a team, I don't care who they are.  Unless they're the kind of super freshmen who go to Duke and Kentucky, which these aren't.

 

Compare that to our situation.

 

We have two very solid seniors this year, including a guy who should have been pre-season all-conference.  We have an eligible junior transfer who was a Rivals top 100 kid out of high school.  And we have another junior guard who started for us as a true freshman and has been a big minutes contributor (read:  experienced player.)

 

And we've brought in a recruiting class this year that is comparable to what Penn State has committed for next year.

 

When their really good class arrives next year, the cupboard, for them, will be close to bare and they're going to have to rely on those newcomers for significant contributions right out of the gate.  Our really good class arrives this year and combines with a decent returning cast.  Plus we have some Rivals 150 kids committed for the year AFTER our really good class.  So, it'll be a second really good class in a row.  Stockpiling some talent for the first time in a couple of decades of Nebrasketball.

 

So, it's interesting that PSU has this good class coming in.  But it's an anomaly for them.  Miles at least bootstrapped another good class on the tails of one that is special.

[AuroranHusker]

I thought it was interesting that Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio State were not listed in the recruiting top 25.

[hhcmatt]

I thought it was interesting that Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio State were not listed in the recruiting top 25.

 

It's a combination of highly regarded recruits plus numbers. Ohio State, for instance, currently only has 2 recruits.

[AuroranHusker]

 

I thought it was interesting that Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio State were not listed in the recruiting top 25.

 

It's a combination of highly regarded recruits plus numbers. Ohio State, for instance, currently only has 2 recruits.

 

 

I understand that most of the teams listed have at least 3 recruits but there are quite a few teams with only 1 or 2 recruits in the top 25: it looks to be 11 teams in all (with 4 of them have 1 player).  Quality matters more than quantity, for sure.

[fred1212]

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