First, let’s get this out of the way: it’s “Coh-yah-nets” as in “they’re gonna cut down those Kojenets at the end of the season!
Our preseason look over the Husker Hoops roster continues with the biggest player on the team. At 7 feet tall and 220 pounds as a true freshman, Oleg Kojenets immediately adds frontline depth and the type of sheer mass necessary to live in the upper half of the Big Ten standings.
Originally from Kaunas, Lithuania, Kojenets arrives in Lincoln having played a (Covid-shortened) nine-game high school senior season in Ohio, four games for a Lithuanian U18 team in a 2020 tournament, and five games for Lithuania at the 2019 FIBA U16 European Championships.