"McKewon: Jessica Shepard feeling good, ready for fresh start as Huskers embark on new era"
LINCOLN — Jessica Shepard was so good as a Nebraska basketball freshman it seems rude to suggest she could have been better. But it’s true. That’s how much natural talent and court sense Shepard has.
Shepard achieved so much with one creaky knee that was not fully healed from surgery to fix a torn ACL.....But Shepard this summer is feeling as good as she has since the injury, which happened in late 2014.
“That first step is coming back.”
Nebraska will need every step Shepard has this upcoming season. NU has a grueling nonconference schedule — toughest I’ve seen the Huskers play — put together by former coach Connie Yori, in part because she envisioned Nebraska, with Shepard, being able to handle it. Simultaneously Nebraska has its least-experienced, least-explosive roster in many years. New coach Amy Williams is installing her system, which is different from Yori’s, and two-thirds of the roster is composed of freshmen and sophomores.
