Nebraska Basketball among wave of major schools offering Jovani Ruff

The Nebraska basketball team saw its season come to an end a couple of weeks ago. Now the hard work of improving the roster and building up for the next season and beyond are underway. Among the efforts to build the program up is an official offer to one of the best shooting guards in the country. The one problem is that the Huskers have quite a few big-time competitors for the services of Jovani Ruff.

Ruff announced on Monday afternoon that the Nebraska basketball program is one of the latest schools to give him an official offer. It appears that the Huskers came calling in the middle of a flood of some of the best programs in the country, all realizing what Ruff has to offer.

Up until recently, the only offers for Ruff were from Long Beach State and Loyola Marymount. However, the California prospect, a consensus 5-star guard, has gotten other teams to take note of him recently. According to Verbal Commits, LSU, Texas A&M, and Arizona State, all offered Ruff on Saturday. Then the Nebraska basketball team made its offer on Monday.

It’s a safe bet that more schools are going to be looking hard at the prospect in the coming weeks. That’s likely why it’s become so hard to figure out just where Ruff might find himself when he does decide to commit.

The seventh-best guard in the 2025 class is going to have some big decisions to make. However, Nebraska basketball getting its foot in the door has to be considered a good sign, especially early enough that some of the college basketball world’s biggest of the big schools haven’t seemed to catch on to Ruff’s talent.

In his freshman year at Long Beach Poly High he averaged 14 points and six rebounds a game. Having just finished his sophomore season, Ruff saw his scoring go up to roughly 19 points a game and still managed to haul down half a dozen boards per contest. It’s not hard to see why the Nebraska basketball coaches want him in the fold.