Tom Jones

If I heard the commentators correctly, TC had 12 transfers in after last season - and two of those transfers in became transfers out w/o ever setting foot on campus - apparently after learning of later transfers who would have affected their playing time. Maybe the next liberalization of the rules will permit players to transfer at halftime.

were she to transfer here, what is Williams gonna do with all these guards? I mean we lose only Rimdal, retain Hake, Prince, Nissley, and Weidner, and have two seemingly talented recruits, and Kennedi Williams will be ready.

She he can count on drawing a lot of interest from other schools offering to add themselves to her shopping list. Thus, she can afford to spend time assessing to which program she would best be an asset. A lot of considerations for her to balance.

yes, we have only two incoming freshmen, the pool of as yet uncommitted HS seniors is thin, and AW has historically made very little use of the portal. There is another source of players and that is Europe. Or maybe UNL will surprise us with another Aussie - they have been good for us.

The headline, "NU Likely Will Turn to Portal" tempts the reader to think (or hope for) more than the actual content delivers. A key sentence puts a bit of a damper on enthusiasm by saying that the Huskers will become "slightly more aggressive in transfer recruiting". Slightly. On a related matter, it reminds us that Weidner did not participate in Senior Day and is working to get healthy. It also describes Prince as being a player who is committed to program long term. Sure hope so. It does not cite AW as having specified what types of player (like big, shooter, or defender or rebounder) NU will be prioritizing.

publicly announcing now that he is done a year from now ... thus immediately making him a a lame duck? What does that do to recruiting?

too bad that two of our best players go out with plays they wish they had back. And before those plays, there were two more - AM having a rebound firmly between her hands before having it swiped away and BP's bucket that was out of her hands a quarter of a second too late. Turnovers, having too little ball movement on offense, and giving up way too many rebounds spelled our doom. I hope that all the underclassmen stay around next year.

oh, the turnovers. Also giving up offensive rebounds - but amazingly that hasn't hurt us much - yet. we are constantly out-quick-ed.

yep. https://www.psucollegian.com/sports/women_basketball/report-penn-state-center-gracie-merkle-enters-transfer-portal/article_3b7bb886-0365-11f0-addd-1307cd8a8a6d.html

i recently sent in my $1K. a drop in the bucket I know, but i hope it helped a little

the presence of the other coaches - as well as her very lengthy list of offers - just strengthens that she is a must get.

If we can get past Louisville, the next game would feature a fascinating match up .... Prince vs Van Lith. Freshman vs senior. Could BP23 have imagined, a year ago after having won another state championship that one year later she could be in such a match up?

There is a nightmare in this article ..... https://www.sportskeeda.com/college-basketball/serah-williams-transfer-portal-top-5-landing-spots-wisconsin-star-ft-lsu warning: not for the faint of heart - too horrible to think about for very long.

why do you say that? what am i missing? I mean Amy and some players are following her on SM

she is #22. you will like what you see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkKtpNbzzb0

I see that Prince, Potts, and Amy Williams are all "following" Serah Williams on her X account. What does it mean?

https://sportshakers.com.ng/2025/03/08/28-4-points-per-game-nebraska-just-locked-in-one-of-the-most-lethal-scorers-in-america/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI-pytleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY_gMP2tb9ln9DCm3jc-eD1xLbrGEHl3uk9uW4D2NeCwDrWrli81vlk-ew_aem_r-B4K5HA4yjt98DYG3FG5Q The praise for Hamlin might be a bit over the top, but it's a fun read.

We can be baffled at the reasons they won't be Huskers, but that doesn't mean that Amy did a poor job of attempting to recruit them. For sure they were offered. Maybe it is location. Or style of play. Or the fact that CU routinely beats the Huskers. The relative paucity of in state talent may make it more important to recruit what there is, but it also may make it more difficult with competitors having fewer to focus on. As for the preference for VB, I think this is to be expected when NE girls grown up annually watching UNL compete for nat'l championships while seeing WBB struggle to get to a 64+ team year end tournament.

we have had our chances to be in the lead - three fast break layups that didn't go in. and we gotta stop fumbling the loose ball why or why won't announcers tell us who the fouls are on

yes, that's right. what was i thinking? I got minutes confused with a guess about # of possessions. Thanks for the alert. I will correct my post

HuskerPapa's possible explanations all are plausible - except maybe this one. "is she the weak link on an otherwise strong talented team, and is she being carried by that other talent?" I am guessing no. Any player averaging 12.1 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 2.4 steals per game while playing the the #1 team in the entire US has talent of her own. They may be a very unselfish team but still to some extent each player is competing for opportunities to display her skills and she apparently is earning her own opps. Seven rebounds in 48 minute games at 5-10 and with long team mates? I like it! Maybe she just has the hops (which would be ok too!) but probably she is getting those with speed, quickness, agility, and sure handedness ... which is just what we need. To the extent that steals in HS translate to steals at D1, next year's Huskers might be receiving arrest warrants. Olivia Hanlon, at maybe the 2/3rds point of her senior season, had 148 steals (!!!), and in her HS school career last i saw had 486 (and counting). In one game she was credited with 16 steals. How is that even possible? Presuming about 48 possessions (my guess) in a 32 minute game, that figures to her having stolen about a third of the opponent's possessions! Perhaps that team must didn't have a good ball handler, but still. So those two coming in ... and we have seen all season that BP is a constant steal threat. We have recruiting needs ... no doubt ... but the guard position looks solid.

Thanks, Bugs et.al. Seems like a step in the right direction - we need players! Maybe she can bring some of her teammates with her.

I don't think so. That sounds excuse -ey The players and the coaches very well know the importance of getting their focus on come game day. That should be more well practiced than any ball handling or shooting technique. And one would think that four seniors want very badly to go out on a high note - and the underclassmen want that for the seniors. And going to sleep on defense for 20 minutes is not moot. Wait, actually it was not just 20 minutes, it was game long, it just got worse as the minutes ticked on. Another topic - the recurring struggle to contain guards who are long, "athletic", ond and quick-nimble. In her freshman season and midway thru the next I really thought - or at least hoped - that Moriarty would fit that mold and be that weapon. She had the size, ball handling, speed, quickness, explosiveness, under the basket agility ... i thought the tool box was full. We saw glimpses of it every year, but only that. Yesterday, watching UW's Ladine, I was thinking "she is the picture of what I hoped Moriarty would become"

yes. but HOW incredible? Let's say that a shooter could consistently hit 40% of the her three pt attempts - which would be a rarity. And let's say that she has already hit the first one. Her probability of hitting the next seven, as i calculate it, would be .0.001638 or fewer than 17 successes in 10,000 attempts. So on average she would first succeed on her 294th attempt. I think I did that right, but I took algebra a long time ago

Went to bed thinking about it. Woke up thinking about it. Best and most exciting game since the two Iowa games last year. Had we filled up a praise bucket at tip off time, and had we been dishing out portions as the game went on, during the OT we'd have been saying "OMG we needed a bigger bucket - a LOT bigger bucket". Everybody made valuable (and essential contributions. Perhaps obscured by all the other impressive stats ... Petrie had five blocks and Markowski had six drawn fouls. Now we might expect that from AM but Hake had five DF of her own. In limited minutes Coley had five boards and Moriarty had defensive on their star. Maybe my amateur view of Nissley earlier in the season, has been unfair, but i have come away thinking "too often she just doesn't seem really engaged/involved". Not so last night - playing defense, getting rebounds, and shooting threes as tho it were her freshman season again. Some of us, me included, have commented on here that we wish we were seeing more improvement over the careers of some players. Not so for Callin Hake. She has come so far - giant steps - since her freshman year. About AM40 ... I have been watching UNWBB for 30 years. There have been a lot of players making sustained, never give up, great efforts. Yes, and i don't mean to diminish anybody's effort. But I can't think of any other player who has so obviously given it everything she's got (and was always looking for the chance to give a little bit more) every time she takes to the court. Let's do it again on Sunday.