Nebraska Cornhuskers News: Juwan Gary injury, meet the new coaches, more
The Nebraska Cornhuskers basketball team lost a big game on the court on Tuesday night. They also lost one of their star players in Juwan Gary. The question now is just how long he’s going to be out.
Gary injured his shoulder in the first half when he and an Illinois Fighting Illini player were vying for a rebound. Gary reached over his head and back with one arm that was either pulled, or got tangled with the opposing player. Gary went to the ground in obvious pain and had to exit for the rest of the game.
Later in the game, he could be seen sitting on the bench with that seemed like about 5 pounds of ice taped to his shoulder. After the game, Nebraska basketball head coach Fred Hoiberg made it clear that the extent of the injury isn’t known yet.
Hoiberg said the team will do some testing on Gary. It doesn’t seem like there was much positive in his comments.
Other Nebraska Cornhuskers news
- The Nebraska football team lost another player on Tuesday. Though the transfer of Truitt Robinson, brother of Ty Robinson isn’t going to have a major impact. He was a walk on that was in Lincoln the last two years.
- The Huskers also picked up a new GA. Shevin Smith Jr announced on Twitter that he’d taken on that job after finishing his Baylor career.
Grateful to announce I will begin my coaching career as the graduate assistant defensive backs coach at the University of Nebraska pic.twitter.com/WwW2w1szxs
— Shevin Smith Jr. (@CoachShev) January 9, 2023
- Nebraska football assistant coaches EJ Barthel and Evan Cooper will meet the media for the first time since joining the Nebraska football team. They will be holding a press conference on Thursday.
Other Sports News
- While the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team has added a transfer quarterback in Jeff Sims, Wisconsin seems to be stockpiling them. The Badgers landed their third transfer quarterback in former Mississippi State QB Braedyn Locke.
- The AFCA (American Football Coaches Association) thinks it has a solve for the whole early signing period. They want to move it up. Which, doesn’t sound like a solve to me.
AFCA executive director Todd Berry says after football coaches' meeting that there's interest in moving the high school signing date up, before the transfer portal opens. Might be the first Wednesday in December or right after Thanksgiving.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) January 10, 2023
"It's so chaotic right now."
- There was a time some Nebraska Cornhuskers fans thought that South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler might join Marcus Satterfield in Lincoln. Those rumors were nonsense. Now he’s made that official, announcing on Twitter he’s staying with the SEC squad.