You forgot to add Bozan as leaving and Williams and Potts are staying.
Just hadn’t gotten around to it. I thought I had the flu. Turns out it’s walking pneumonia, and I’ve been hacking up my lungs for over a week lol. I’ve had pneumonia three times before, and this version seems much “less fun” and much more annoying than the others.
I’m not surprised Petra’s in the portal. When you get benched during a game, and then the head coach’s answer to the lack of depth at your position is to ask the starters to play more minutes, it’s not a good sign that you’re in the team’s plans going forward. IMO not only did Petra’s game not take a step forward this season, it might have actually regressed. Given that she joined the team late, just before school started in August 2024, I had hoped a full offseason of training/practice would help her a lot going into 2025-26. Somehow, that didn’t materialize.
I am a bit surprised about Johnson. She was only a sophomore this year, and we lose Callin Hake. I hope this means Amy’s got a portal addition coming in addition to the one guard HS recruit. Or, maybe it means we’ll see a lot more of G Alanna Neale in 26-27. The Huskers never confirmed it, but given that we didn’t see Neale at all after December 2025, I gotta think she was injured.
I
want to believe we’re going to have a fully healthy Allison Weidner in 26-27, because when she’s been healthy she might even be a better offensive player than Jaz was. Not to mention that seeing PBA go absolutely bonkers for her the last time she played was so much fun! But her knees have betrayed her before. Sadly, I don’t think Amy can/should heavily count on those knees cooperating with Allison’s brain and heart for a full season. I know she’s (unsurprisingly) coming back, but we still don’t know if Potts has been medically cleared yet. Hopefully, Natalie will get fully cleared this summer too. I thought she’d be healthy enough to play at least by Big Ten season this year, (1 year after surgery) and her knee wouldn’t cooperate. So there’s no sure thing even though she’s thankfully staying.
Tennessee just literally lost their entire roster
and all but one incoming recruit. No joke, they currently have one player on next year’s roster right now. I’m not sure we’ve seen a P4 program with that problem, absent NCAA sanctions. Seems like Tennessee’s players didn’t care too much for HC Kim Caldwell’s “we’re spoiled” message after they lost in the 1st round of the tournament. I hope Amy might be able to take advantage of the unfolding disaster in Knoxville, because I’m pretty sure schools like UCLA, USC and Michigan will. UCLA’s gotta reload after losing Betts to the WNBA draft.
Amy, Fred and HCMR have their work cut out for them! I can’t remember when all three major college sports NC winners came from the same conference. (Hopefully, Jordy, Kennadi and their teammates can get to OKC and extend the Big Ten’s NC streak to softball too.)
Lastly, maybe it’s just my Husker football “inevitability the sky will fall” paranoia sneaking in, but anybody else concerned we
haven’t heard from Britt Prince yet?
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