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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 View full article

Do you think he can still hear Tom Izzo's screams in the portal?

Not making this up that Andrew Morgan is considering Nebraska and Minnesota because of their ag program as he plans to go back to the family farm after basketball.

Considering he's a poor defender, he can either hide in our double teams or get the stink eye from Dawson Garcia for 2024-25.

To truly maximize your NIL potential you need a mix of party and business to your game.

You know that thing where we host recruits during a football game? Not this game.

They should have most of those tickets already. If that game lines up with at all with the football game what some of us might find is that the resale value on those tickets could be cheaper than they have in years.

Is there any reason for Creighton to schedule a Nebraska vs Creighton game on a football Saturday other than just out of spite?

The home team gets to decide when the game is played. There is no way we would schedule a basketball game on the same day as a football game.

'Mullet Josiah' seems apt One thing you'll notice is that Morgan's usage rate is much higher than Josiah's. If he comes here i'd expect that to drop sort of like Josiah's did when he moved from Kansas City to New Mexico/Nebraska

Hard to say as last year it seemed like there were higher seeded teams that lost last year because they didn't really care to be there.

This got me earlier, it's made up

We have 6 open scholarships and ran multiple bigs last year. Need doubles on the Mast though triples is best, makes it safe.

Central

I watched Creme Abdul-Jabbar yesterday

I wish I could take credit

From their perspective, all the other channels are broadcasting college basketball and they're not. The real interesting thing here is the timing because they're looking at the week between the Elite 8 and the Final 4. Regionals (Sweet 16/Elite - March 27-30 CBC - Monday, March 31 to Sunday, April 6 Final 4/Championship - April 5th, April 7th Possible this is a no-go because it puts you behind in Portal Combat and maybe because coaching staffs are used to travelling to the Final 4 locations for networking.

I am not joking that I have Indiana St. winning in my bracket in part because I found out they were playing the Final 4 in Indiana. I'm doing well!

Fox Sports has contracts with the B1G, Big 12, and Big East. It's going after the top 2 schools from those competition that don't make the NCAA.