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Fran McCaffery already has a new job. Penn hires ex-Iowa coach Fran McCaffery to restore program - ESPN

This should help Nebraska against ASU Transfer Joson Sanon chooses St. John's, Rick Pitino - ESPN

It has been reimagined - it will be real grass soon (for 2026 I think).

Elliot Cadeau from North Carolina is in the portal. Doubt we can get him, but if his improved shooting isn't a one year blip, he'd be a good get. North Carolina guard Elliot Cadeau enters transfer portal - ESPN

Gotta love the phrase "going rate".

Minnesota hires Miko Medved from Colorado State Minnesota names Niko Medved head men's basketball coach - ESPN Iowa hires Ben McCollum from Drake. Iowa hires Drake's Ben McCollum as men's basketball coach - ESPN

DeVries from West Virginia announced as new coach at Indiana. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44306900/sources-indiana-targeting-west-virginia-hc-darian-devries

Two teams from all the conferences with "Big" in their names (Big Ten, Big 12, Big East) are guaranteed spots + 10 at large. I initially thought there was two from the Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, SEC, but recently saw otherwise.

Not defending Hoiberg's evaluation, but he made a big jump as a junior (as many players do) and then got injured and spent his senior year recovering. I'm sure the hope was that he'd return to his pre injury level.

Players have stepped up for Creighton & Nebraska's players regressed. The team still revolves around Ashworth & Kalkbrenner, but a couple of players have gotten better though the season as they've gotten playing time. Sorry I can't see the future.

Fred's seat will be VERY hot next year. He'll need to do a better job in the portal this Spring/Summer - of course that will take NIL money.

At least they didn't fire him at 2AM like Minnesota did to Ben Johnson.

A few more details in the USA Today story. Apparently, they announced his firing at 2:19 AM. Also have the lowest men's basketball budget in the B1G and pretty low NIL money that was mostly raised by Johnson & his staff. Good luck finding a coach when you treat the previous one so poorly. Minnesota fires basketball coach Ben Johnson in middle of the night

I know they reached out to him in their last search. Wouldn't have minded having Ashworth instead of the two point guards Nebraska had. Good enough ball handler & he can shoot. May be Kalkbrenner's last seven figure compensation package. He's not a very good on ball defender (he is really good off the ball at rim protection) & will get pushed around at the next level unless he goes to a mid-level league in Europe where he won't get paid seven figures.

Ben Johnson fired at Minnesota. Minnesota fires coach Ben Johnson after 4 seasons - ESPN