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Episode Date: January 23, 2026

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Here is your host, Derek Pearson. 11.05. Five below. Freaking below. Yeah, it feels like 26 below. Yeah, it does. It really does. Not really necessarily feels like that,

but this, this, this feels like it's in search. So we're going to go with that. It's Friday still deserving of a boom. Friday booms are good. It means you made it through your weekend. Maybe three weeks,

you get to your weekend, you get to have some, some fun. And it is a busy, uh, pack, Husker sports weekend, lots to cover.

Lots to talk. about over the course of the next two hours. Carrier will come in at noon and take you through. And then Bach, what do you, what do you have in store for Bach? Yeah, Harrison Arons coming in. Oh, look at. We rarely get a crossover. But yeah.

Harrison in daytime hours, proving once again that he is not in fact of a vampire. He can come out during the daylight hours greatly appreciated. Bach, how the heck are you? Well, not too bad. Like you said, other than the fact that it hurt. hurts to go outside, but other than that doing well, like you said, made it to the weekend. As I keep saying, as a Nebraska basketball fan, you just can't come down from this feeling. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know that we want to, if this is a dream, don't wake me. If this is a dream, don't wake me. 19 consecutive wins in the season sitting on top at the very top alone of the Big Ten basketball conference for men. That is crazy talk for January in 2026. Bok kind, sir, before we dive into a full hour of sports talk and entertainment, would you please, sir, pay the bills, pay the bills. Today's show sponsored by Hamilton Telecommunications,

bringing you the latest quality technology and communication services since 1901. Whether it's residential or business, Hamilton has the answers. Visit HamiltonTel.com for more info today. Thank you, kind sir. Lots of news, lots of things to talk about. We'll start in Husker Nation and in the immediate proximity of things at first things first and not necessarily setting a priority. Trying not to do that, but I think the lead is a Nebraska men's basketball team that is number seven in the country. They're going to head to Minneapolis to take on the golden gophers. And there are some things to just point. Minnesota goes in this thing.

There'll be 10 and 9. It's an early game, early Saturday road games are often weird, but the fact that it's Minneapolis and not California or, you know, East Coast certainly makes it a little less weird and throws things off. 11 o'clock tip, the Huskers at 190, 8 and 0 in the Big 10.

8 and 0. Bach, let that marinade for just a moment in the air. Nebraska basketball, Nebraska men's basketball are 8 and 0 in the Big Ten. And the fact that it includes wins over Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Oregon. There's some names in there. There's some programs in there. Minnesota goes into this at 10 and 9. They are 3 and 5 in the Big 10.

Minnesota has a player, a Cracker Johnson who comes into this thing. He scored 26 in an overtime loss to Ohio State. But they are 9 and 2 in home games. So it's not an easy building to play in. Minnesota struggle in one possession, games, but that's kind of what we're talking about. Nebraska is 7th of the Big 10th and scoring it 81 points and they're shooting 47 plus from the field. Minnesota's average

of eight made three-pointers a game is just one per game fewer than Nebraska, so they will shoot it. Nebraska, again, as I said, shooting a 47.6% from the field, which is five percentage points better than Minnesota. So circle that. Yes, the fact that Brayden Frager, as a part of the conversation, certainly plays into it. Kay Tyson is their leading score at 20 points a game. Also, averages five and a half rebounds.

Crocko Johnson averaging 16 points and five rebounds just in the last 10 games. So step up mode, Bach. I think the immediate reaction is that somebody has to step up, to replace what Braden Frager brings to the table. I'm not sure that I agree that they need to step up to replace. I just think they need to do what they've been doing. So if you add minutes to Garcia and Jacobson, is that enough?

Bach, is that enough? Well, I don't know, again, I don't know if it's going to make you better. I mean, obviously, Freger has come along and played fantastic basketball and risen to the occasion. But remember, I mean, they've done this. They beat Illinois without Braden Frager really affecting too much in score, you know, at least in the scoring column for one of their bigger wins this season. So we've seen it all year long, you know, maybe not so much for injury,

but just kind of, you know, players stepping up, you know, might be an off day for rink mask. Somebody steps up and comes to the leading score. You know, maybe price isn't hitting as much. And, you know, and then we see, we've seen Hoyberg step up. We said Lauren sit game winning shots and stuff. So, you know, I think that there is definitely a path. I agree with you.

There's no straight replacement of Braden Frey. You just don't have the body type or what he kind of brings off the bench. But we'll see. It changes a little bit, I think, the dynamic, you know, what Garcia is going to be looking for when he goes in. Usually he's kind of trying to make an impact one way or the other with a few more minutes. Maybe he can kind of relax into his game. And I also kind of, you know, I think it asks more.

out of some other players. And I mentioned Sam Hoyberg the other day. And how could you ask more out of him, right? Because he's scrambling and he's going everywhere. But it kind of gets to the point, okay, what is a good shot on a possession? And Sam Hoyberg's, you know, an open three, certainly, but even partially contested three, is a much better shot than it was a few years ago for him because he's developed into that type of player.

And I think you're going to need, again, when you talk about step up a little bit, okay, where are the areas of my game that maybe I could improve upon just a little bit to do my partner placing Braden Frager. Did you catch Sam's interview last night here at this station? I did not. So for folks that, and this is part of bit and parcel of the responsibility, so Sam Hoeryberg, who, you know, we partnered with a long time ago to allow him voice and allow him to speak his journey.

And he was on Arden's angle with Arden O'Kheim of Husker Golf. And those are two exceptional young people. Great ambassadors for Nebraska athletics, great ambassadors for their families, of course, the Hoyberg family and their place in basketball and what they were doing is coaches and players. And then Arden and her family, her dad is the play-by-play voice of the Utah Jazz.

She's here playing golf and she has all the chops to represent Nebraska professionally when it comes to broadcast. She's going to go far and it's an easy win. Together last night, they got together last night and had a conversation. And in that conversation, and sometimes it takes like athletes and like-minded student athletes to get to the same conversation point. but she asked Sam about how what the transition was from the end of the bench into starter status and to tell you that he said that from from the practice squad and the scout squad that he he had a night where he hit seven against the number one defense he hit seven straight threes and he thought that that would be his path he originally thought

that defense would be his path into playing time, but then to realize that he could knock down shots. And we forget that that's how Sam fought into the lineup. We think defensively, right, that, you know, they would call him sweater, talked to Bryce McGowan's this week, and, you know, he was applauding Sam. They used to call him sweater that he'll stick to your skin

like a tight sweater when he defended. He says, but the fact that he would always mimic and mirror the opponent's shooters. And we forget that about Sam. Sam came to this thing as a shooter. His dad. It's part of the prototype. So Sam Hoyberg hitting threes is not, it's more foreign when he doesn't, quite frankly,

that the belief system should be that those are going to go down. And the same for Garcia, that this is how they found their place in Nebraska basketball. Also, shout out while I'm in that space. Also last night, Emma Spence, Canadian Olympic gymnast and Husker, all Big Ten. On her show, she brought in Nouri,

who's in town from Canada. And Nouri is making his transition in the CFL from Montreal to Ottawa, Ottawa. And he was in a Norrie. Norie was open about his time at Nebraska and how proud he was, how proud he is of being a Husker.

But a big part of this thing is to hear from the athletes themselves. It's wonderful to have a building where the athletes can come and interview each other. And Bach, I have to fully admit, I was kind of like a proud dad watching Emma interviewed Norie. Right. The pioneers. Like the part. Nory and Sam are part of the pioneers who were the first athletes to come in and partake in what the ticket was offering. And we could just go through a roll call of the Michaela Curtis from gymnastics. She and Kenzie Robey.

Michaela Curtis is now on the Ohio State Buckeyes coaching staff for gymnastics and to watch her grow into what she's growing into. to watch Kobe Webster, who's now overseas balling out and doing this thing. C.J. Wilcher, who is now a GA for Maryland basketball. He's on the bench for the Terps. To watch these folks come in, Brand Banks, of course, who's giving the big boy paycheck with the Green Bay Packers, Sunday morning pancakes. I'm fascinated by all, by it all, to watch these folks come through and grow and to be able to be a part of the journey.

Bill and Ben and asked the question, would it be safe to say that Sam Hoyberg is a modern day version of Bobby Hurley? No. I wouldn't put them in the same space. Hurley, Hurley was a score distributor. I mean, they're both field generals,

but different kinds of field generals. Hurley would take you into the mid-range jumper space, like in each year. you up. But Hurley also, I mean, let's be clear, Hurley's playing with Grant Hill and Christian Leightner. He had some, he had a whole, he needed to distribute. He had, he had two of the greatest college players in history on, on his team. So, yeah, the, the responsibilities. I think the gritty aspect of it, if I had to, Bach, is there somebody up maybe Matine Cleaves? I don't I mean, I love where Nebraska is that, but even, you know, Bobby Hurley and my team

leaves are pretty well accomplished. Well, but I think, I think we're leaning towards the things that they do on the floor. Yeah. There are, you know who I would put him in the space with? Steve Blake from Merrill. Well, Steve Blake will fight you. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, Sam, a big part of Sam's growth was his change. his body. And the work that he put in away from the, away from the basketball court, fully allows him to defend the way he does,

run the way he does, and impact the game the way he does. I think Sam, in another situation, I think Sam could average double figure. If that wasn't, you know, different personality type of the team, right? And also, if this wasn't as good a team, I think Sam could certainly, you know,

average, you know, 13, 14 points a game. for teams in the Big Ten. If he was somewhere else, I think that would be the case. A part of the discussion last night on the Big Ten was whether Sam was all Big Ten, which is fascinating to me because that, Bach, right, the easy, the mental lazy thing would have been to go to Rink Mask, which was part of the early season. And then I think they did a mid-season and Rink Mask was the All-Big Ten picked from Nebraska. But if you did that poll now, one, I think, I think Price-Sanford is staking his claim and planting his flag.

But when you listen to the coaches in the Big Ten, especially the upper echelon coaches in the Big Ten, they talk about Sam as no he's he's he he plays the hardest of anybody the Big Ten and that resonates right because then that falls in line with the Big Ten media people the Big Ten network right who certainly drive that conversation right that who the all Big Ten guys are but what say you if there's one Husker who's all Big Ten who is it at this point I would probably lean toward Price Stanford, but I mean, to your point, it is, it would be a tough call because everybody's got their, their argument. I mean, to Marcus Lawrence coming up with some of the biggest moments of the year. I think Berka is playing his best ball. I mean, so, you know, I, you look up and down

the lineup, but that's what's so impressive about it is it's a team, right? It's, you know, it's not led by by one guy and you hope that he doesn't have an off night, you know, again, if they do, then there's another guy to step it up. Brayden Frager's certainly making much of a case for freshman of the year, six men of the year, and of course, we'll see what happens with how quickly he's able to return. You don't want to miss too much time to be in consideration for those awards. But yeah, I mean, it is, you can pretty equally say a few different names and you're not wrong. I don't know how that's going to play out. There is, you know, we're Nebraska focused and we recognize that Frager, the work.

the Frager's doing that there are also other Big Ten players who would be in that conversation for Six-Man and Freshman of the Year, and they're having crazy numbers being put up. So it certainly makes sense. But Fringer also, absolutely in the conversation for all Big Ten freshman team. Yeah. I think that's kind of, I think he's earned that. I think the title as Freshman of the Year and Sixth Man in a Year, it depends on how the season finishes, because there's some dudes. There's some dudes. There's some dudes all over the Big Ten. And Texan, I'm open to your suggestion. Who is the Husker selection?

You know, sitting on top of the Big Ten certainly allows you more of the conversation. People don't frown as much when you start talking about Nebraska as all-conference players. Have they had a first-team all-conference player recently? First team. I know that some have made the honorable mention third team. uh, Ksay made second team, right?

Yeah, I'm trying to think because I know Rink and Derek Walker at least made a team. I don't think first team. Yeah, I don't think, I don't think they, I don't know the last time they had a, a, a first team all big 10 men's basketball player. I, I, I, I know that Markowski, uh, Brit, Prince was second team last year, right? I don't think she made first team either. Was Bryce Williams first team last year? And he was Bryce. I think he did.

Bryce made. So that's the standard, right? So there's space for it. And shout out to Bryce Williams, by the way. Jeez. Thank you, sir. We didn't give that dude enough flowers while he was here. Thank you for opening the door and the windows.

Yeah. I mean, I think Bryce would be the choice that, uh, Williams was first team all, all, all big 10. And then I know the, I think Bryce McAllens was second team. So it, it's deep water to consider Nebraska basketball players, men's basketball players to be all big 10 first team. And that's what we get to shoot for.

Then the question was, well, but they also had that, they also did that thing, Bach, that, well, if there are several players from a team that are worthy of first round, first, first team consideration, they will take votes from them, from themselves. And that's where we are. That's where we are. We have transitioned Nebraska basketball from,

yeah, back back to the days of Penway. Yeah, that's why I thought it had been a minute other than Bryce. But, you know, and Bryce is the, so think of the progression. From McGowan's and Walker to Case A to Bryce Williams and now this this group of Huskers who are doing what they do. What a really cool run, Bach, to get it right, to see what's required to get it right and to get it done.

Yeah. Bach, I'll leave that one to you. I can't speak to Jack Moore that way. Yeah, I mean, that would be before my time as well. Yeah, the text was, and I will be open to that. They said, how about compared Jack Moore to Sam? I'm open to the text line. You guys way more invested and more connected to it.

If there's a player that represents the check all of the boxes from an underachiever's place to overachiever status, is there if there's a point guard who fits at Nebraska, certainly open to it, certainly open to it, you know, and the shooting percentage. And then, Bach, can you find Sam's three point shooting percentage over course of his career here? Yeah, let's get up the other day.

Is that 38% for the year, 35% for the career? For the career. What say you? Is that a comfort space you'd like for it to be closer to 40? Is that? I mean, if he, any more, I mean, sir, you'd like to beat more. But, I mean, 35 to 38%, that's, you got a green light still. Yeah.

That's the part I was, when I was trying to make, was that when people talk about Sam shooting the ball, shooting the ball is how he got on the team and how he moved up chairs on the bench. If you take that away, that's a whole different thing. And by the way, I'm still waiting for the Sam Hoyberg in-game dunk. I'm waiting. Yeah, I'm waiting for that. I'm waiting.

I didn't know Sam had bounced like that. But I saw there's, we were down a couple of years ago when we were down in Orlando for the imitational. And they're doing their pre, they're doing their, their warm-up drills. And Sam does the one bounce where he, you know, he threw the ball ahead and let it bounce. And Sam went up, went up, caught it and punched it. And I, I was in my feelings. I was in my feelings. I was like, Sam, what? How are you hiding that in the bag, man? How was, fuck, if you could dunk, you would dunk all. the time, wouldn't you? Yeah, oh, yeah.

Yeah. It's Sam. Explosive. Explosive. We need to add that to the adjectives when we talk about Sam Hoyberg. The explosive, Sam Hoyberg. Sam Hoyberg would bounce. We'll go to break.

We'll talk about Oscar wrestling. Iowa comes to town. It's a big one. And the streak, we need to redirect that streak as well. It's time. Huskers, go get the Hawkeyes tonight at Devaney. We'll talk about that when we come back. Download our app by searching.

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