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Football players Vedral, Banks added to Husker hoops roster for Big Ten tournament

Quarterback Noah Vedral and offensive lineman Brant Banks will both travel with NU to Indianapolis for the Big Ten tournament, the program announced Tuesday.

Vedral (6-foot-1, 200 pounds) was an all-state player at Wahoo Neumann who score 1,286 career points and helped lead the Cavaliers to back-to-back state titles as a junior and senior.

Banks, a 6-foot-7, 300-pounder from Houston, last played organized basketball his junior year of high school, when he averaged 11.5 points and 7.6 rebounds per game for Westbury Christian High School in 2017-18. He didn't play as a senior, as he enrolled at Nebraska in January of 2019.