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Norm Peterson

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  1. Five of our top 8. The only rotation player to portal was a non-starter. We honestly wouldn't have to do a ton in the portal to improve our standing. At this point, Brice probably slides back to his 3 spot, Gary to the 4, Jamarques re-enters the starting rotation at the 2, and Ulis probably starts at point. Land that trio of Bellevue West guys, though, and I would feel pretty good about things, provided we keep those other five guys.
  2. I'm hearing of another departure. Not from the rotation guys.
  3. OUT: Keisei Allick Boogie Ramel* Eli* Blaise* CJ* IN: Janowski Frager I'm sure we've reached out to more than what's quoted above, but that's all I saw with a twitter search of "Nebraska portal." Ideally, I'd like to see us bring in freshmen and develop them over the course of their careers. In the era of NIL deals and the transfer portal, that appears to be an aspirational goal that isn't very realistic. So, the second choice would be to grab a kid who's got at least 2 years of eligibility left and has demonstrated some development already. Problem with that is that competition for those guys is pretty stiff. Transfers with one year seem plentiful but our success rate with them hasn't been great. And, finally, Jucos are still a possibility but they've also been more miss than hit for us. We've got a lot of spots to fill, though, so I'm sure the coaches are getting after it. * = portal departure
  4. Looking back, this question almost seems comical. Like update the thread to say "if we only had five spots to fill ..."
  5. A week ago, we had one more spot open. One more senior exhausting eligibility than signed recruits. Now, we have five more spots to fill. As long as we keep Mast, Gary, Williams, Lawrence and Sam H., I think we'll have a pretty solid nucleus that we can build around. So far, nothing has been like a gut punch losing a guy I really hoped we would keep. Fingers crossed it stays that way.
  6. If being bashed for opposing the happening of a hypothetical event that is never going to happen isn't what message boards are for, then I don't know what is.
  7. Let me just say, in fairness to Eli, I think he'll end up being a good player somewhere. But it's probably sort of like what @basketballjones observed a couple of years ago about Teddy Allen. Good player, but maybe not quite good enough to be the best player on a good team. Ironically, Teddy ended up being the best player on a good team. His game just didn't jive with being the best player on a Hoiberg team that had any chance of being good. And I get the same feeling about Eli. He might end up being a really good player for someone else. And I wish him the best. By the way, Indiana needs to build a roster and so does Michigan.
  8. Tarris Reed, Mich Frankie Fidler, Omaha Koren Johnson, Wash William Kyle, SDS JP Pegues, Furman Tony Perkins, Iowa
  9. Mike Sautter reporting we reached out to William Kyle as soon as he entered the portal. Among bigs, we've also reached out to Michigan Sophomore Tarris Reed. Guards, the list is long. And appears to be of pretty high quality. We don't have our sights set low, for sure.
  10. So far as I know, the NCAA hasn't ruled on Uhlis's eligibility and I don't think we can reliably depend on his availability. We need to look for other options as an insurance policy.
  11. I think CG, but I read somewhere that he was working on his PG skillset in AAU club.
  12. Color me skeptical. Extremely skeptical. That one year of language barrier would also be the covid year, which didn't count anyway. He's played 5 years of college basketball. No injuries. No partial seasons. He's going to move on.
  13. I have no idea what this even means. But here ya go.
  14. Saw that. He's from Indianapolis. And IU basically needs to build a new roster from scratch.
  15. So far, I'd say it's just like last year and the guys who are portalling are the guys who the coaches probably told to portal. We have 4 spots to fill; we are early to the trough; we have some selling points to make for ourselves; and we probably have some cash to spend. If you've entered the portal and you want to see how you'd fit into our system, here's some film. Feast your eyes.
  16. It'll be interesting to see how he turns out. I think I kept pretty quiet about my thought on Rice. I liked his shooting. I thought he was the kind of guy who didn't seem to be phased at all if others on the team were struggling. But what jason said about him above has been my take, too. He just lacks that fluid athleticism. He might be straight-line fast, but he's not change-of-direction quick. I don't see him doing spin dribbles into the lane to get to the rack like some of the aTm players did against us. But he's a good shooter. I think he's solid. I think he could have had a role here. But I think he has a ceiling that isn't much higher than CJ Wilcher's of it's higher at all.
  17. Honestly, if I had my choice -- and it's probably a good thing I don't -- I'd take the 3 kids from Bellevue West and the James kid from Louisville.
  18. Former 4-star Louisville transfer guard, 6'5, athletic, can attack the rim off the dribble and hits ~35% from deep.
  19. I went through the play-by-play. It surprised me, too. I thought it was only 4. But 3 of them were uncontested, point-blank misses. And I'm not blaming Josiah for the loss. I'm only pointing it out to make the point that the teams were a little more evenly balanced than the score. The hit a bunch of shots they ordinarily miss and we missed a few that should have been near 100% makes.
  20. For the sake of completeness, I present the On3 #268-ranked portal transfer. Carter Whitt - Furman Paladins - Point Guard (on3.com)
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