When Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos and head men’s basketball coach Tim Miles agreed to a one-year contract extension back in April, major questions still hovered around the program.
Since then, however, the Huskers were able to bring back their top two players from last year in seniors James Palmer Jr. and Isaac Copeland and also replaced assistant coach Kenya Hunter with former Northwestern and (briefly) Florida assistant Armon Gates.
As a result, the tenor of the offseason has shifted dramatically over the past couple of months, to the point where expectations of what NU’s 2018-19 season could hold have skyrocketed higher than ever.