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What’s going on everybody. Figured I’d fire up an account on the board to be amongst the basketball folks in the dog days of summer. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m entering my third full season covering Nebraska Basketball for Huskers Illustrated magazine. I also host a basketball podcast, The Stretch Big with Jacob Bigelow. You may have also heard me randomly popping in on 1620 over the last year or so on either the morning or midday shows. In my college years I was a student manager for the basketball program at Nebraska under Coach Miles. Planning to be around this summer and fall leading into the new season. If anybody’s got some off-season questions, would be happy to answer them to the best of my ability. Happy to be here.

Just introduced my friend, and former husker basketball player Albert Maxy Sr to the board. He's hooked.

Her Nike EYBL team, MW Premier, lost in the championship of the Nike Nationals yesterday to Cy Fair (TX) who has the top recruit Aaliyah Chavez (who had 30 points). Olivia had 15 points in the championship game and averaged 16 ppg in the tournament. She was third in the tournament in steals with 3 a game. Jacob Padilla had some comments on Twitter after watching the game.

Not that you have influence over any of this, but the basketball merchandise the university offers is sparse and just bad. It's really sad considering our ticket sales are in the Top 25 basically every year since the PBA opened up. If we take our coaches seriously, the coverage of the sport seriously, then why do they act like we're a Division 2 basketball school when it comes to merchandise?

Welcome to the board Albert. If I am remembering correctly, I believe I met you back in the late 1980s and into the 1990s when I was involved with the Lincoln Track Club. I would usually see you at their road races. I now live in Scottsbluff. I hope you enjoy the board.

Good to have ya Big-N-Low. Always great to have new NU blood aboard this board.

As a regular listener to the 1620 segments, I'm going to add that he's going to have Ali Farokhmanesh and Michael Lewis on the pod in the near future