Rhule licking his lips to put him at WR
Holy sheet!! Nebraska is going to the Sweet 16!!
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And wouldn’t be playing for Huskers if they had anyone, anyone else. He had a miserable night with turnovers, fouls and missed shots.
I think Rice will be a good player eventually, but if he plays more than 5 minutes/game next year, it's going to be a very rough season. Major college basketball is all about experience now. Most Big Ten rosters are going to be full of guys with 3-4 years of D-1 college basketball experience. You're not going to win many games with an inexperienced roster.
We are going to need to bring in at least 3 very good players from the portal to replace the experienced guys we are losing. After the season we had this year, we should be able to do that. However, Fred has to find the right guys who are willing to buy in to what he wants to do offensively and defensively. We can't go back to the "hero ball" we played his first few years here.
Two of the best point guards we faced this year were true freshmen.
hmmm, I gotta admit I thought he was fair and very complimentary throughout both games
Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention and totally missed something.Risky move when we have a ton of momentum and a ton of good publicity. Need to capitalize on our success. May not get this opportunity again.
What would be the downside to signing an experienced pg out of the portal? If a freshman can beat him out then we would have a backup with experience? Oh, no.
If Sandfort and Frager come back I think we are in position to be right back and ready to make a run.
I’m sure we’ll try to land an experienced point but we really need at least two in this year’s class.
You mean we beat the clarkeyes in rassling in the B1G tournament and National tournament.
I wonder if Rhule got bumped to the smallest coaches office in the building
That kid from Vandy…. Wow. He was unguardable. I don’t remember the last time someone did that to Nebraska.
Maybe he was nominated, but Mr. Basketball went to Jaidyn Coon of Storm Lake. Now former Creighton commit (he decomitted yesterday with McDermott retirement). I think Rice got Gatorade player of the year, though.
Jacobsen is a fine bench piece, and the Huskers have won a lot of games with him on the floor. It seems like you're forgetting that March 8th OT win vs Iowa pretty quickly. Jacobsen won that game, and I know (as do you) that Fred loves him. He's going to play big minutes next year. And yeah, he sucked against Vandy.
Cale is fine against teams that don’t have great guards. He literally won the Iowa game with two 3s in OT.
Coon is a nice player and I know Fred offered him before he committed to Creighton, but I can't imagine he would take another high school wing when he already has Lanier and Rice committed. He needs to find a couple of experienced guards to replace Sam and Lawrence. And a couple of experienced post players to replace Mast and Garcia.
Coon will probably end up at Iowa or Iowa State.
And Huskers will take a giant step backwards if he is playing “big” minutes next year.
He's already playing big minutes genius. I don't expect 28-6 next year but we'll be a tourney team regardless.
It depends on what OP defines as “Big minutes “ ? 15-20? Over 20 ? I need clarification.
He's played in every game and averages 19 mins, 4 less than the 6th man of the year. He's a major rotation piece this year and will be next year as well. I'm guessing we bring in a PG that starts and Cale's situation remains similar, depends on who we get. Acting like his performance against Vandy is representative of his season is just ignorant. He's shooting over 50%, 38% from 3, his assist/turnover ratio is 2-1, has more steals than Lawrence, he's a decent rebounder, and he's 3rd on the team in blocks. He sucks at the FT line and needs to get that straightened out.
Jacobson will being coming off the beach next year as well.
He isn’t the starter like Frager will be.
Makes a person wonder how Nebraska won as many games as they did this year without 8 guys in the rotation that average 20 PPG, 10 RBG, and 5 APG, especially since every other Sweet 16 team has those types of players.
No, actually Rice was named “2025-26 Gatorade Iowa Boys Basketball Player of the Year”. I watched him play several times this year and at the state tourney. He will be a decent college player, but like many high school seniors, he will need to get stronger in college. When his Waukee NW team got beat at state, the opponent held Rice in-check with strong defense and Rice settled for jump shots.
Actually, Jaidyn Coon from Storm Lake was named this year’s Iowa Mr. Basketball. He had originally committed to Creighton, but when head coach Greg McDermott retired, Jaidyn recently re-opened his recruitment. Hopefully, he flips to Iowa, as he would be perfect in Iowa’s system. 6’6” athletic, tough defender, and smooth shooter.