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Fred Hoiberg Wins Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award

It took coach Hoiberg five years but Nebraska made it back to the NCAA Tournament.

Those years, were tough a times. Coach Hoiberg’s first year was when COVID came around and reared it’s ugly head. The NCAA Tournament was cancelled and Nebraska played Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament. Ending the year on a loss and was actually one of the last games of that season.

They went 7-25 that first season.

The next year was not much better. Fred was still trying to figure out how his system worked in the college game. It had changed a big since he was coaching Iowa State.