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So much more fun to portal departure announcements

What a day for Fred! First the national COTY award, then news of Brice & Juwan returning, then Keisei's 3-point title!
 

How could you not want him back!?!?  He IS Him!

And none of the experts had him picked to win.
 

Perhaps we can replace his production but his infectios personality will be impossible to replace.  I am glad he is getting this exposure, he deserves it!

I love Doc, but I really want to set that Rock Chalk shirt on fire.

Mast, you’re up.

THEY'RE BAAAAACK!!!!
 
LETS GO!

Amazing, amazing turnaround this year.  Let’s sustain it because it’s much more fun to be in the dumps after a March Madness loss than a 1st round B1G tourney loss.
 
congrats coach!  Well earned!

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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Disagree about "talentless" daughter, while she might not be for everyone, definitely not talentless. Agree with Billy Ray's lookalike 😀

Disagree about "talentless" daughter, while she might not be for everyone, definitely not talentless. Agree with Billy Ray's lookalike 😀

Disagree about "talentless" daughter, while she might not be for everyone, definitely not talentless. Agree with Billy Ray's lookalike 😀

Disagree about "talentless" daughter, while she might not be for everyone, definitely not talentless. Agree with Billy Ray's lookalike 😀

Eliminate the NIT. Add 28 teams to the tournament so the bottom 64 have a play in game on Tue or Wed at higher seed. Top 32 get a bye.  Or just expand to 128 teams if you don't like the bye. Keep the CBI or the new tournament for your mid major schools that don't make the tournament.

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

During conditioning drills, the Indiana State staff makes sure to not make Avila get in shape, because if he did he’d be going someplace bigger.

I saw an interesting idea today for the NIT.  Someone mentioned the NIT winner getting an auto-bid to the following years tournament.  

Negatives I saw were people saying it's completely different teams from year to year... especially with NIL.  But this could be one thing that makes a team stick together.  If they KNOW they have a spot in the NCAA tournament the following year.

I'll never forget where I was when I saw that.

Much like the bowl system, just more watered down tournaments that kids won't want to play in if they aren't in March Madness. Unless you start throwing cash to winners like the NBA IN-Season Tournament. 

Freshman will become vastly more important after the Covid year funnels out if the game.  Going to be massively harder to get as old as teams were as able to this year and will be even more able to do next season.