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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.

Have not been able to see any practices or workouts. Covering hoops is my side job so I haven’t been able to make it to any of the summer media availabilities either unfortunately. Right now I’m buying any and all Nick Janowski stock that I can buy. On paper, I’m far more intrigued by this team on paper than I was by this past season’s group before the year. All the vibes have been good, but it’s also July.

Legendary bluesman John Mayall dead at 90. Gave Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck their starts among many. Years ago when he played the Lied, thought I would buy a DVD, there was the man himse!f at the table. Before the concert.

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 sure where to put this, so I'll just drop it in here:

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?

Bob Newhart is one of my favorite guys. His dry wit is something Tom Osborne has been trying to obtain. And Bob's immaculate comedic timing was unrivaled. He will be missed, 94 is a long life.

Bob Newhart...may he rest in peace!