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2025-26 Season Notes



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Big Ten All-Conference

Pryce Sandfort - 1st team (Coaches), 2nd team (Media)

Sam Hoiberg - Defensive Team (Coaches), Honorable Mention (Coaches & Media)

Rienk Mast - Honorable Mention (Coaches & Media)

Braden Frager - 6th Man of the Year (Coaches) & Freshman Team (Coaches)

Fred Hoiberg - Coach of the Year (Coaches)

May somehow got COTY over Hoiberg with the media. Bewildering.
 
presidentjlh said:
May somehow got COTY over Hoiberg with the media. Bewildering.
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ESPN selected Scheyer from Duke as national coach of the year over both Hoiberg and May. Probably because ESPN does their best to ignore the B1G now that they don't have a TV contract with them.
 
ECisGod said:
ESPN selected Scheyer from Duke as national coach of the year over both Hoiberg and May. Probably because ESPN does their best to ignore the B1G now that they don't have a TV contract with them.
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Lmfao, that's incredible. Whoa, what an accomplishment, winning at Duke.
 
presidentjlh said:
Lmfao, that's incredible. Whoa, what an accomplishment, winning at Duke.
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Agreed - below is what they had to say.

There are plenty of great candidates for Coach of the Year this season. Arizona's Tommy Lloyd and Michigan's May are at the helm of two clear national championship front-runners. Nebraska's Fred Hoiberg took a team picked 14th in the Big Ten preseason poll and has it in the mix for a top-three seed in the NCAA tournament. Miami (Ohio)'s Travis Steele is close to a historic unbeaten season with the RedHawks.

But our pick is Scheyer, the head coach of the No. 1 team in the country.

We get it. "It's Duke, how hard can it be?" But let's dig a little deeper. This isn't last season's team that had three NBA lottery picks, including generational talent Flagg. There's only one Blue Devil -- Player of the Year front-runner Boozer -- in the lottery of ESPN's most recent projected Big Board. Duke didn't enter the season as one of the favorites to cut down the nets; it wasn't even in the top five of the preseason AP poll.

It's also impossible to ignore the fact that Scheyer lost all five starters from last season's 35-4 Final Four team -- all were selected in the NBA draft -- and rebuilt the roster to the point the Blue Devils are entering the ACC tournament as arguably the best team in the country. They have the best defense and they've lost only two games all season, with both coming in the final seconds by a combined four points.

This has been Scheyer's best coaching job since taking over for Mike Krzyzewski, and it has been the best coaching job in the country. -- Borzello
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ESPN did give Nebraska the "Biggest Surprise" award.

Nebraska entered 2025-26 with only one NCAA tournament appearance in Hoiberg's six seasons as coach, off a campaign in which it went just 7-13 in Big Ten play. Despite winning the first College Basketball Crown postseason tournament last March, the Cornhuskers were picked 14th in the Big Ten in the fall. Expectations weren't high.

Entering the Big Ten tournament, they're No. 11 in the AP poll and knocking on the door of a 2-seed in the NCAA tournament. They opened the season with 20 straight wins -- including at Illinois and over Michigan State -- with only Arizona and Miami (Ohio) lasting longer as unbeaten teams. Even after last week's surprising loss to UCLA, Nebraska is still ranked in and around the top 15 in every NCAA team-sheet metric.

What's fascinating about this team is the way it has achieved success. It doesn't have the high-powered offense of some of Hoiberg's best teams when he was at Iowa State, but it has the Big Ten's best defense in conference play, with Sam Hoiberg the catalyst for a unit that forces turnovers at the highest rate in the league. And it has plenty of firepower at the other end, with Pryce Sandfort, one of the elite transfers in the country, and freshman Braden Frager, who has established himself as one of the best sixth men in America.

High-level 3-point shooting and an elite defense? It's a recipe to win games in March. -- Borzello
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presidentjlh said:
Lmfao, that's incredible. Whoa, what an accomplishment, winning at Duke.
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It is impressive to take a group of kids that have never played together and get them to perform at the level they have. That said, with an almost unlimited budget, and a team of all future NBA players, they should be a top 10 team virtually every year. From an actual coaching standpoint, Fred over achieved more than any other coach in the country imo.
 
ECisGod said:
Miami (OH) loses in the MAC quarterfinals. They will be sweating until Sunday.
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Lundardi moved them to Last 4 In after their loss. I'm guessing they're still in but they might be playing Tuesday/Wednesday next week
 
GSG said:
Lundardi moved them to Last 4 In after their loss. I'm guessing they're still in but they might be playing Tuesday/Wednesday next week
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That was my guess too, but they will still be sweating it out until they see their name on the TV come Sunday.
 
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