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We didn't take very many 3s last season and played at a slower pace. We took 657 3s which works out to approximately 20.5 per game. In Fred's first year we played at a very fast pace and took a higher % of 3s, 796 in total, approximately 24.9 per game I'd think that 700 is the floor on attempts for this year. Depending on the number of game we play, the school record of 800 attempts might be on the table.

Already mentally preparing

He's Jordy's brother. Talking with a Summit League coach recently (not UNO), he'd be a no-brainer for them. They just haven't offered yet because they're gauging his level; don't want to put too much into recruiting him if he's going to end up as a sure high-major kid. That's where he's at right now — D-I for sure, but what level remains to be seen. Ball-handling and athleticism would be the concerns, but he may still get to true wing size (his brother is 6'7" and played baseball at UNO).

If KT shoots anywhere near 40% again this year I predict we will have a very good season. He's going to get 200+ 3pt attempts this year I'd imagine. Baylor Scheierman took 239 and Caleb Love took 244 last year.

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Reading the tea leaves, it sure sounds like Jamarques is our point guard. If so, I’m all for it. I want the ball in his hands a lot, and I want him and Keisei on the floor at the same time a lot. I’m also ok with Boogie as a veteran coming off the bench.

I think you can probably pencil Tominaga, Lawrence and Williams in as close to 40% guys. Less confident about Mast, Coleman, Wilcher and Allick. They're the swing guys. We've all seen what Wilcher has been; hard to predict what he'll be this season because of it. Mast has been low-volume; there's really not a whole lot separating 35% from 28% when you're taking 2-3 per game (see Mast's three seasons a Bradley). He really needs his feet set to shoot a good percentage from what I saw when I did my film study, which limits his versatility and effectiveness as a shooter. Allick is similar in that he's shown the ability to hit 3s at a decent rate, but it's been low volume and in only two of his four seasons. Coleman's shooting has been all over the place throughout his career (including 30% during his only high-major season to date), and in the film I watched from last year he missed a lot of good looks but also knocked in some really tough ones. Overall, I would have liked to see more of his shots go in than I did based on the kind of player he is. I'll believe it when I see it on Gary (didn't love what I saw in the 20 minutes of practice warm-up we got to see).

Trying to see if he can still figure out how good he can be.

I will be a bit of a contrarian. One of the most important things Keisei did last year was to draw the opposition out to the perimeter. If we have two or three players on the floor that can shoot and hit the three, then we should have a party driving to the hoop, or dumping it to the post for a rather high percentage basket. We really took advantage of that during the last half of this past season. So although the three point shooting will be important, our points in the paint may be more important (as will our free throw shooting).

The one thing I can guarantee is that Wilhelm Breidenbach won't miss any shots in the 3pt contest this year.

I will be there...

Noah Boyed and A'mare Bynum are visiting Saturday. They won' be there tonight, unless something has changed.

I'm looking at last year's basically opening day starters and what they did the year before. And I'm forecasting this year's starters with preference for anyone who was a starter here the year before. Increase in competition level appears to correlate with reduced 3-point proficiency. Therefore, probably exercise caution in expectations for what Boogie, Rienk and Brice do this year from downtown. We were among the worst 3-point shooting teams in the Big Ten a year ago. We were 9th by percentage, but a fraction of a percent separated 8th from 13th. We were tied with Maryland at 10th/11th in made treys per game. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict we'll improve our overall team 3-point accuracy. And we'll probably have a corresponding bump in made treys per game. I'm also going to predict that we won't have anyone with 30 or more 3-point attempts who shoots under 30% from that range. If that happens, that alone will move the needle a bunch.

I would venture to guess that one of the metrics to evaluate this list is based on the amount of leg hair each shooter has.

Don't think bahl has been mentioned in here yet. Did really really well on the AAU circuit and can shoot. Only has one offer so far too Bryant, but Creighton, ISU and others are sniffing at least.

Yes! It's Michael Jacobson / Cale Jacobsen and somehow I correctly had that on my first attempt

The bloated Big Ten then could make all the traditionalists happy by creating two divisions: one consisting of the pre-1990 schools and one consisting of the newcomers (PSU, Rutgers, Maryland and UNC in the east; Nebraska and ND in the Midwest; and USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington in the west). In basketball and other Olympic sports, play a round-robin in your division with a couple of crossover games. Top 4-6 in each division qualify for post-season conference tournament. Further, with such a national schedule, Nebraska in all sports could reduce travel by scheduling almost all of its non-conference contests with schools within driving or short flying distance: UNO, Creighton, ISU, UNI, Kansas, KSU, Wichita, Colorado, CSU, Air Force, UMKC, Mizzou, Drake, SDSU, USD, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Tulsa to name several.

I only looked at the top dog. And that's Keisei, no idea who anyone else was since I didn't care.

Question is.... where do you think those 3 programs' destination will be? It's either SEC or B1G, presumably. My guess is 2 to the SEC & then 1 to the B1G with a certain independent that might be persuaded to move ALL its programs (beyond hockey) to the Big Ten to create a Big20, a bloated two-sided Big10 with a true nationwide following. The only league that could legitimately claim a national product with N.D. aboard. Who knows, it's all a cash grab at this point. Poor Wazzu & the Beavs might be the Pac2 and keep all the "Pac-ssets" in 2024! I hope those 2 pull it off, it would serve all the others right to get screwed out of the assets they left behind to leave WSU & OSU at the altar with no partner.

Yup...and I have always opined that my home corner of the state has/had some of the best athletes and basketball players around. Northeast Nebraska, a little piece of heaven!