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Nebraska basketball has a new problem

Fred Hoiberg is moving on from a historic Sweet 16, while Amy Williams has a team that looks ready to lean even harder into what has already worked.

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Erin Sorensen
Sep 22, 2026
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There is a funny thing happening around Nebraska basketball right now.

For the men, everyone is still celebrating something that had never happened before. For the women, reaching the NCAA Tournament has started to become the expectation rather than the breakthrough. And yet both Fred Hoiberg and Amy Williams spent Monday talking about teams that are very much starting over. Not completely, obviously, but in some ways, yes.

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Practice officially begins now and both coaches seemed ready to look ahead and not back, so that’s where we’re going to start.

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