Nebraska has added one other from the portal with a commitment from Taj DeGourville.
“After the visit and talking with the staff and AD, I trust that this is the right decision for the next step in my career!” mentioned DeGourville in a social media commitment publish shared by Envision Sports Group.
The 6-5, 211-pound capturing guard beforehand was at San Diego State, the place he averaged 5.5 factors, 2.8 rebounds and three.0 assists per sport this previous season. Originally from Las Vegas, he performed round 19 minutes per sport over the previous two years for the Aztecs.
Set to be a third-year junior, he had six video games in double figures for San Diego State this previous season, together with 12 factors as a season excessive in opposition to Utah State on Feb. 25 that he additionally coupled with eight assists.
DeGourville was No. 7 within the Mountain West in assist-to-turnover ratio and twelfth in assists. He additionally had 27 steals on the season. Having began 5 video games this previous season, he shot 37.1 % from the sphere and 34.5 % from behind the arc (19-of-55) whereas going 65.5 % on the line.
DeGourville was the No. 150 total within the class of 2024 as a highschool recruit when he dedicated to the Aztecs. At the time he selected them over Oklahoma, UNLV, Iowa, USC and VCU, amongst others.
“I’ll be working on being able to score in more variety of ways whether that’s off the dribble, off the catch, getting quicker vertically, horizontally, or getting better defensively,” he advised 247Sports as he started his faculty profession.
As a portal prospect he’s ranked No. 236 amongst all gamers and forty seventh on the record of capturing guards. He has a portal participant of 88, in response to 247Sports. Another go to he took through the portal cycle that was reported was to Saint Mary’s
According to KenPom, DeGourville ranked 173rd nationally in help fee and 451st in steal proportion whereas on the court docket.
With the addition Nebraska now has two roster spots out there, having already added Sam Orme (Belmont), Trevan Leonhardt (Utah Valley), Boden Kapke (Boston College) and Kadyn Betts (Utah).
Husker coach Fred Hoiberg spoke throughout Nebraska’s March Madness run of believing the system would provide a variety of portal attraction to prospects.
“I think the system and the style that we play, if you’re a skilled big, it’s a great system for you. It’s a great – if you can shoot the basketball, you see what Pryce is doing in our system this year, and Braden, and multi-skilled players,” Hoiberg mentioned then. “Yeah, I mean, when everything opens up and we try to reconstruct the roster, we’ll talk a lot about this. We’ll have edits and be able to show potential recruits on what it looks like if they come here.”
The 2026-27 Husker roster as its recognized:
Seniors (7)
Pryce Sandfort
Trevan Leonhardt
Connor Essegian
Cale Jacobsen
Boden Kapke
Kadyn Betts
Henry Burt
Juniors (2)
Sam Orme
Taj DeGourville
Sophomores (3)
Braden Frager
Leo Curtis
Will Cooper
Freshmen (2)
Colin Rice
Jacob Lanier
