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KGFW Sports – DCAP on Lott List, Husker Predictions, NU Baseball and GI 3Star

By News Jun 5, 2020 | 6:14 AM

Husker defensive back Dicaprio Bootle is on the 42-member watch list for the Lott IMPACT Trophy. The award, named after NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, is presented annually to the college football defensive IMPACT player of the year. IMPACT is an acronym for integrity, maturity, performance, academics, community and tenacity. The 5-foot-10, 195-pound senior is a two-year starter and earned All-Big Ten 3rd team honors last season. He’s has also earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and is a member of the Nebraska Citizenship Team.

According to Street & Smith’s the Huskers will finish second in the Big Ten West and earn a trip to the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida. In their breakdown of the Big Ten, the publication predicts Wisconsin winning the west, followed by Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Purdue, Northwestern and Illinois. Among the teams in the West, only Illinois fails to qualify for a bowl game.

College Football News puts the Huskers’ win total at seven-and-a-half. According to the publication, “This might not be the Big Red that Husker fans so desperately want”, but they feel Coach Frost and the program will turn things around this season. They predict the Huskers will be 5-2 after the first seven games, and say it’s likely the team will be favored in each of those games.

Nebraska is 9th in the Big Ten power rankings from 247Sports. According to the website, the Huskers will need more consistent play out of both sides of the football and needs the leaders — most notably Martinez — to step up. With a little luck, they feel Nebraska could get to its midseason bye with five or more wins.

Several members of the Nebraska baseball team will be back on the field soon competing in summer leagues. Four Huskers will compete with the Expedition League’s Hastings Sodbusters: Shay Schanaman, Trey Kissack, Colby Gomes and Aaron Palensky. Ten Huskers are off to the Northwoods League, which has a tentative start date of July 1: Quinn Mason and Kyle Perry (Duluth Huskies); Kyle Wisch and Ethan Bradford (La Crosse Loggers); Braxton Bragg and Spencer Schwellenbach (Traverse City Pit Spitters); Luke Roskam and Griffin Everitt (St. Cloud Rox); Jaxon Hallmark (Wilmar Stingers) and Leighton Banjoff (Wisconsin Woodchucks). Two others, Cade Povich and Logan Foster, are headed to the Savannah Bananas of the Coastal Plains League. Other destinations: Caleb Feekin and Bo Blessie (Mulvane Patriots, Sunflower League), Luke Boynton (Brookhaven Bucks, Sunbelt League) and Max Schreiber (Santa Barbara Foresters, California League). By the way… the NCAA’s super regionals would have begun this weekend, with the College World Series to follow next week in Omaha.

Two basketball prospects from Nebraska debuted Thursday in Rivals’ recruiting rankings for the 2022 class, which recently expanded from a top 75 to top 150. Millard North forward Jasen Green is at No. 116 overall, and Grand Island forward Isaac Traudt came in at No. 118. Both are considered three-star prospects.

The two Creighton seniors-to-be who’ve declared for the NBA draft will have until Aug. 3rd at the latest to decide whether to return to school or start pro careers. That NCAA-mandated deadline will move up if the NBA decides to hold its pre-draft combine in July. Denzel Mahoney and Damien Jefferson have been testing NBA draft waters since April, but the pandemic suspended the NBA calendar. The NBA draft, originally scheduled for June, will now take place Oct. 15th.