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Some of the reason he played more minutes was that he wasn't in foul trouble which was an issue today with Verge and Trey picking up 2 each before the 10 minute mark in the first half

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Banton is obviously a good player but it feels like trading Banton for Verge is a win.

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In terms of consistent 3pt shooting at this level, Trey and Lat have proven it more than anyone else on the roster. (Kobe also has). Then you're talking about whether or not CJ or even Keisei should start instead of Bryce. This IS hard. Assuming we stay relatively healthy, the coaching is going to dictate how many games we win between 11 and 20.

Verbal commits aren't the same thing as LOIs so yeah.

Nebraska lands class of 2022 6'4" shooting guard Jamarques Lawrence from New Jersey. After transferring to New Jersey powerhouse Roselle Catholic last year and a summer with the AAU NY Jayhawks, Lawrence saw his recruiting profile increase. Known for his shooting ability, Lawrence decided on Nebraska over Wake Forest. This is the 4th known verbal commit for Nebraska's class of 2022. Nebraska would currently be two over the limit if every single eligible scholarship player returned next year which won't be the case. View full article

There are several B1G preseason all-conference teams made up of just centers. Of the guys who didn't make it into the game in the first half, Andre easily has the clearest path to future playing time.

If it had been an official game last night, the 71.55% eFG% would have been the best of the Fred Hoiberg era. Nebraska's 50% from 3 (11-22) would have been tied for 3rd best.

He's had 3 fairly miserable games against them, all loses

They bring in a bunch of new faces so you the same could be said for them. They also play slow, they're a defensive team, and the game is at 11 am. I'd expect it to be a grind. They also have the type of size that Peru St could only replicate with 2 guys and a trench coat

Yup, Bryce looked like a freshman playing in his first game. Looked like he pressed a little less in the 2nd half.

We're going to climb KenPom and cover the point spread to start the season on weaker teams because of this depth. It was fun to watch a game in person but 2 years ago we beat Doane 91-63 right before we put up less than 50 against UC Riverside; this game isn't much of a measuring stick. Colorado will tell us a lot more and it's nice that we get to watch this game as typically this would be a secret scrimmage type deal.

Did Verge not come in right away because the other guys practiced better or did he get held out as a form of discipline for something?

At the end of the game I couldn't believe it because I mentally had Walker down as 0-4 from the line instead of 2-4

Verge strikes me as someone who can weather adversity but I recall Cam Mack looking quite good, especially against lesser opponents

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He played a like a guy who was pissed he was on the bench

Entirely too early at that point to light the human victory cigar

Had almost forgotten we offered Davison many moons ago

The hard part of this is figuring out how many guys we will have coming back and thus how many scholarships we need to fill. Do we have 12 guys coming back? 10? 8? If I had to take a number I'd probably guess 10. If we have just 10 guys coming back, then we probably have a need for a SG. He's a shooting guard who is known for shooting/shooting from outside. This is the minimum requirements for us to successfully execute the type of offense we want to run. Otherwise I can't seem to find video of him playing in the last year so it's tough to know what to think other than his lack of power-5 offers would make one hope we got in on the ground floor. Just naturally harder to get invested in an unknown quantity like this. Seems like all the recruiters think he's coming here. We shall see.

Doesn't seem like we'd need to recruit Lawrence to entice Simeon with CJ already here.

Edwards get downplayed because of what happened at DePaul. Possible he would have been as highly regarded as Bryce had he stayed in high school another year. Really doubt we get him in that scenario. People sleeping on Edwards have been working for us so far.

It seemed like the columnist version of putting Wichita St on NCAA probation to show Kansas they're not messing around. Hey, be hard on basketball I guess though it's hard to reconcile that vs the relative kid gloves being used on a football program that is doing less with more.