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Omaha would make a real nice understudy too Gary for a year 

Jamarques Lawrence commented on that Instagram post with a heart emoji. Come on back JL. We’ll pretend you never left. 

Roll call for @jimmykc. Gary heard you. You needed some news!

Nebraska’s Fred Hoiberg is the recipient of the 2023-24 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year award.  The award is presented annually to the top head coach in division I college basketball.  Hoiberg led the Cornhuskers to their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2014. Nebraska finished with 23 victories - the program’s most since 1991.  Nebraska was top-40 nationally in adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency, holding opponents to a top-20 defensive field goal percentage. The Cornhuskers finished third in the Big 10, posting a winning record for only the third time since they joined the league for the 2011-12 season. Hoiberg is the second Husker men’s basketball coach to earn the honor, as Tim Miles was the 2014 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year.
 
The Jim Phelan Award is named in honor of a legendary bow-tied coach who spent his entire head coaching career at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Phelan graduated from La Salle University in 1951 and played one season in the NBA with the Philadelphia Warriors. After a brief professional career, Phelan went to Mount St. Mary’s as an assistant in 1953. One year later he began his historical career as a head coach. He led the Mountaineers to 16 Division II NCAA tournaments. Five times they advanced to the Final Four and he led them to the DII National Championship in 1962. When he retired in 2003, after coaching for 49 years, he had amassed 830 wins (overall record of 830-524) in all divisions. In those 49 years, 19 of his teams amassed 20 or more wins in a season. In 2008 he was inducted into National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The recipient of the annual award is determined by a 10-member voting committee, which consists of current and former head coaches, as well as two senior staff members of collegeinsider.com. 
 
Here is Fred finding out about the award from his family
 
 

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From On3:
 
Iowa State F Omaha Biliew
Intel: Omaha Biliew entered the college ranks with lofty expectations. The 6-8 forward is a former five-star prospect but didn’t necessarily get to show off his ability in Aimes this season. 
Nebraska is the school I’ve heard mentioned the most with him, along with Kansas State. 
The former McDonald’s All-American is looking to make a big impact during his sophomore season.

Morgan is really good.  He’s about the same player as Allick defensively but will give you twice as many points on the other end.  Physical in the paint, great hops at 6’10”, 250lbs, skilled off the dribble in iso, and serviceable (36%) from 3 and ft (70%). 
 
He’s easily athletic enough to play the 4 next to Mast or the 5 next to Gary.  
 
This is an extremely smart priority for Fred.  Morgan is one of the best transfers available period imo and he’ll get overlooked by a lot of programs.  

The more we think we know probably means we know little.

Getting enough size that Gary doesn’t have to play the four would be ideal. So having three solid players other than him to rotate at the 4/5 would be great. About 27 minutes each.

I don’t think he’s coming to replace Mast. I could totally be wrong, but I think Fred is planning on him coming to supplement Mast.

Many boats have two masts. Rienk is the mainsail, Morgan is the headsail.
 

Wait, What?  Posts are Numbered???  (if so where is it shown?)
 
But not likely to help since if a tweet is deleted it won't show up in the original post anymore either.   (unless you take a picture of the tweet and post it in lieu of a link)

I know a lot of our fanbase thinks the sky is falling and that Fred somehow hasn't earned his extension (yes, there are people saying this). But on April 1, 2023, our Nebraska Basketball scholarship roster for 2023-24 looked like this:
 
Keisei Tominaga (did not announce his return until June 1)
Blaise Keita
Juwan Gary
C.J. Wilcher
Jamarques Lawrence
Ramel Lloyd
Wilhelm Breidenbach (would enter portal in May)
Quaran McPherson (would enter portal in late April)
Eli Rice
 
Rienk Mast committed April 12
Brice Williams committed April 12
Josiah Allick committed May 2
Matar Diop committed July 23
 
Deep breaths everyone, it will be OK. We are in a much better spot than we were at this time last year. 

Was up above earlier, Bug eaters shared it.. post 589 if that helps


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I'll predict that we'll get better guys in the portal than those who left.

Looks like we're skipping the trip to Champaign. Either Dainja had better options in Memphis or we had good luck yesterday

Alabama is the future model.  
 
You’re gonna have to be a freak player to suit up for Fred as an underclassman moving forward, and if you are a bench player as a fr/so, you better develop and bust your ass because they’ll happily pay a better upperclassman transfer over you who already averaged 18ppg somewhere else.  
 
This is simply the coaches playing the same game the players have asked to play.  For programs on the up, NIL is a quick conduit to roster overhaul.  I don’t blame the kids or the coaches one bit.  This is just the way it goes now. 
 
We’ll have a scary 7-8 man rotation next year.  Probably the most talented team we’ve ever had coming off an NCAA tourney, great attendance, a fantastic coaching staff, and $$$.  That’s my bet anyway.  

Wasn't there an MTE that we are supposed to be in the Carolinas next year?

I just have this weird feeling that Fred has a plan that we are gonna really like.

Think all this just means we’ll be hearing good news pretty soon.
 
Also can almost guarantee we’ll bring in another Diop-like high school recruit. It’s a lot easier keeping a freshman happy on the scout team than a sophomore. And a 6’10” guy with long arms is a necessity on the scout team. 

For at least an hour or two (hopefully!), I think we still have enough on the roster to field a starting five next year.
 
Williams
Gary
Mast
Hoiberg
Jacobsen
 
Grace as our sixth man
Burt to fill out the rotation
 
We're fine guys - this lineup could beat a Juwan Howard led Michigan team any day of the week.

Good and bad news there....
 
 

I just have this weird feeling that Fred has a plan that we are gonna really like.