millerhusker

Over/under how many Jalens and Jadens we add this offseason: 2.5

Envious of the Purdue basketball program. I don't think any of their players are transfers and they'll pretty much all be back next year, including their two all-americans. There are dozens of division 1 prospects that come out of Indiana each year. Almost seems like Painter purposefully goes after the ones who are great college prospects, but not future NBA players, and lets the players who have one-and-done aspirations go elsewhere.

All 8 Big Ten teams advance to the round of 32. Several trendy upset picks were thumped by Big Ten teams. Nebraska beat four round of 32 teams and maybe should've beat a few more (Michigan, @Maryland, St. Mary's).

I'm with you on the coaching matters matter. But TTech has boat loads of money. I'd bet top 10-15 budget in the country.

The coaches have their work cut out for them this offseason, but Rienk Mast is a great centerpiece to build around. He's going to be very underpaid by us next year, relative to what his actual value is. Bigs have the highest price tag right now, especially skilled ones. But he's not going anywhere, as it's been said he's with Fred 100%. Only way Mast won't be at Nebraska next year is if Hoiberg's not here. The Big Ten coaches essentially voted him the second best big in the league last year, behind the two time national POY (Mast was third team, but the first team was four guards and Edey, and second team was five guards). And he did this on one good leg. Could've shut down his season and had knee surgery in December. But chose to play through it because it was pretty clear we had a chance to be a tourney team and he was an important component (suck one, Devries). Transfer shooters and scorers will like his film breakdown. Selfless, excellent vision, great passer. Allows you to play five out with good pace and space.

Minnesota's roster budget was $1.1 million this year. Ben Johnson, a Minneapolis native and Minnesota alum, got a raw deal. I'll still always be of the mindset that coaching and culture matters in college sports. And every year we'll still see low budget teams win in March. But $1.1 million when some of your competitors in conference are working with $6-10 million is pretty ridiculous.

9 of the 11 non-con games are pretty much set. There will be at least four solid non-con opponents, three of them on neutral courts. Nov. 3rd: West Georgia Nov. ?: Maryland Eastern Shore Nov. 11: USC-Upstate Nov ?: Neutral site game at the Pentagon in Sioux Falls Nov. 20-21: Hall of Fame Classic (two games) with K-State, New Mexico and Mississippi St. in KCMO Nov. 29: Creighton Dec. 7: North Dakota Dec. 21: New Hampshire

Some interesting notes from Washut: Minnesota is going to hire Niko Medved and they promised him a $6 million budget to build the roster. Nebraska should also be in the $6 million range. Maryland basketball just got $10 million from a single booster. Devries will have a blank check to build his roster.

The Louisville basketball program will get no sympathy from this lifelong Nebrasketball fan

Yeah, was not impressed with Louisville. I just meant score-wise was pretty much an even game outside of that 12-0 run on four straight made threes in 75 seconds.

Shooters. Creighton and Louisville were neck and neck the whole game outside of a 75 second span in the first half where Creighton made four threes in a row. That's the difference.

He also had the same injury last year. Was injured last January and waited until the season was over to have the procedure. Pretty common for certain injuries. Not a fake injury, but seems very possible they chose to medical redshirt him once they knew dad would be taking the Indiana job. They’re going to be villains in West Virginia for awhile.

I just now learned West Georgia has a division 1 basketball team

Berke had pretty fantastic games against Creighton, St. Mary's and Ohio State. But the game did seem to move too fast for him much of the year. He defense can be a real asset. I still think he has untapped potential, but not sure I agree with Fred on his shooting ability. Way too much wasted lower and upper body movement to be a consistent shooter. Whenever Fred says something like that about a player who hasn't proved it on the court, my mind goes directly to the Lat practice stories.

And the portal "opening" on March 24th just means the first day coaches can start recruiting transfers, right? Although I'm sure there are a lot of players who've known since January where they'll be playing next year.