Nebraska Basketball: Fred Hoiberg updates Huskers’ injury situation

The Nebraska basketball season has officially started as Fred Hoiberg and company kicked off their first official practice. Thanks to everything being above board and ready to go, the fourth-year Husker coach talked about what the team has been doing during the offseason. That included a few players that have been healing up and getting ready for the impending season.

The Nebraska basketball team got some bad news earlier this summer when point guard Quaran McPherson underwent surgery for a torn ACL. Hoiberg said that injury was severe enough that everyone involved knows that the recovery is going to be quite long. However, the Nebraska basketball coach knows that McPherson is tough and will eventually bounce back.

North Dakota State transfer Sam Griesel is coming back from injury but is expected to be full go when the Nebraska basketball season officially tips off. Hoiberg said that Griesel is on a “load restriction” coming off his off-season hip surgery. However, he’s making it through full practices, and his workload will increase over the 29 practices before the season opener.

Wilhelm Breidenbach is also coming back off an injury of his own, but it appears that at least for now, he’s full recovered. Hoiberg said at his Tuesday press conference that Breidenbach is not on a workload restriction.

The Nebraska basketball position that will likely be impacted the most by injuries is going to be the point guard spot, not exactly an area of strength for Nebrasketball the last few years.

McPherson was expected to be the starter but with him out, the Huskers are hoping Griesel can step up. With the transfer still having to take it a bit easy early in camp, Emmanuel Bandoumel could see an even bigger role than Nebraska basketball thought he’d get. Now it’s just a matter of whether or not he can take that spot and run with it, or whether the Huskers will continue to struggle with someone really running the offense through him.