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Bergen Reilley meets with fans this weekend in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — She's one of the best college volleyball players in the country and she just so happens to be from Sioux Falls. Bergen Reilley is a two-time 'Big 10 Setter of the Year' and a 2nd team All-American for the Nebraska Cornhuskers' volleyball team. Structure fire burns townhomes in north Sioux Falls Bergen has come a long way since playing at O'Gorman High School, but despite all of her accolades, the 6'1″ junior still wants to accomplish one more thing. Reilley played two years under legendary volleyball coach John Cook. But Cook announced his retirement at the end of last season. KELOLAND News sat down with Reilley Friday afternoon to talk about Cook and what he's meant to her and the volleyball program. 'It's hard to put it into words, he's a legend in the game and for great reason, he had a great track record, but he really cared about his players and I think that's what made him so special he made us feel loved and special, even when he was hard on us, we knew it was out of a place of love,' Reilley said. Nebraska hired Dani Busboom Kelly, who coached at Louisville. 'She again also has a great track record; she flipped the Louisville program around; she just runs a new style offense and I think that'll be really fun for everyone to watch and it's been fun for us to practice already,' Reilley said. Being in the national spotlight, Reilley knows that comes with a huge responsibility, because a lot of young girls look up to her. She says her role model was another O'Gorman grad, Taryn Kloth, who played beach volleyball in the Olympics. 'She's the kind of person I try to emulate, she was always so good to me and that's how I hope to be with these younger girls, because volleyball is growing and women's sports is growing and it's awesome and it's great for the game and these younger girls now have these people to look up to,' Reilley said. Don: What is the one accolade that you are still after? Bergen: I mean it's a national championship of course, we go into every season and we are lucky enough at Nebraska that that's the goal every single year, obviously we want to win the Big 10 and all these other accomplishments too, but at the end of the day our goal is to win a national championship no matter how we do it. Bergen Reilley will be in Sioux Falls tomorrow at Luxury Auto Mall, signing autographs from 11 am to 1 pm. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
21-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Philadelphia 76ers 2025 draft big board 2.0: The best fits at No. 3
Philadelphia 76ers 2025 draft big board 2.0: The best fits at No. 3 The Philadelphia 76ers were rewarded with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 NBA draft following a tough 24-58 season. The Sixers entered the season with championship expectations, but injuries decimated the roster and derailed any chances the team had at seriously contending for a title. As they head into this draft, there are plenty of options for the Sixers to look into. The goal for them is to get younger and add a player who can help them bounce back and turn things around. Philadelphia should be looking into every option in order to take the next steps forward toward title contention. Here is the second draft big board with the draft now five weeks away. If one wants to see big board 1.0, it can be seen here. With that said, let's get into big board 2.0: 1. Ace Bailey, Rutgers 2024-25 stats: 17.6 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 1.3 apg, 1.3 bpg, 1.0 spg, 46% FG, 34.6% 3FG Previous ranking: 2 Let's get one thing straight: Bailey is not Kevin Durant. It doesn't mean he isn't going to be a good player, but he is not Durant. He has good measurements with star written all over him, but the knock on him is that he settles for bad shots and the fact that Rutgers did not make the NCAA Tournament. Despite having Bailey, and Dylan Harper, the Scarlet Knights finished 15-17 and barely made their own conference tournament in the Big 10. With that being said, Bailey figures to be a great NBA prospect with his length, finishing ability, and athleticism. In terms of his catch-and-shoot percentages, he shot 36-for-93 (38.7%) on those opportunities from deep. He shot 29-for-66 (43.9%) on those attempts while he was guarded. It shows that he has the skill and the want to take and make tough shots. There is a lot to like about his game, but there are some rough edges he needs to smooth out. 2. VJ Edgecombe, Baylor 2024-25 stats: 15.0 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 3.2 apg, 2.1 spg, 43.6% FG, 34% 3FG Previous ranking: 1 Many will be clamoring for Bailey, and he will be a top option for Philadelphia, but Edgecombe could be the better player. He is supremely athletic, able to take any defender off the dribble, and attack the basket, and he is more than solid defensively as he is aggressive at the point of attack and can create turnovers. He is an outstanding worker, and even though there are some finishing issues at the basket, he is somebody who can contribute on that end right away. In terms of his catch-and-shoot ability, a skill needed on a team with Joel Embiid on it, he shot 45-for-124 (36.3%) on catch-and-shoot 3s per Synergy Sports. However, he did shoot 21-for-45 (46.7%) when unguarded on those attempts. It shows that he can knock down and open look should it be needed. That shows he has a lot of shooting upside for his position and should be a great option. 3. Tre Johnson, Texas 2024-25 stats: 19.9 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 2.7 apg, 0.9 spg, 42.7% FG, 39.7% 3FG Previous ranking: 3 Johnson has his flaws, but scoring and shooting certainly aren't one of them. He has an ability to light up the scoreboard at any moment by taking defenders to the basket, being able to knock down tough 3s, and he can shoot off the catch or off the dribble. If the Sixers are thinking a microwave scorer, then Johnson should be their guy. One can argue that he isn't worthy of a No. 3 pick, but he has skills that will translate to the NBA level. As mentioned, he shot 51-for-125 (40.8%) on catch-and-shoot 3s. He was 32-for-77 (41.6%) on those attempts while guarded. Even off the dribble, he shot 38-for-99 (38.4%) on those 3-point attempts. He is an electric player and the Sixers should certainly give him a look before they decide on a player with this selection. 4. Kon Knueppel, Duke 2024-25 stats: 14.4 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.0 spg, 47.9% FG, 40.6% 3FG Previous ranking: 4 Knueppel would be more of a trade down option should the Sixers not like what they see at No. 3. Either way, if the Sixers are thinking spacing and elite shooting, then Knueppel should be their guy. He has a high basketball IQ being able to navigate off screens to get himself open for looks, he competes on the defensive end, and he is an underrated playmaker. There are limitations so he may not grade out as a starter in some cases, but he is for sure a rotation player in this league due to the shooting ability. He shot 77-for-178 (43.3%) on catch-and-shoot 3s and was an impressive 36-for-84 (42.9%) on those attempts while guarded. He cannot do the things Bailey, Edgecombe, or Johnson can do, but Knueppel should be on the radar of president Daryl Morey and Co. should they decide to trade down and add to the depth of the roster--which is another need for this group. 5. Khaman Maluach, Duke 2024-25 stats: 8.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 0.5 apg, 1.3 bpg, 0.2 spg, 71.2% FG Previous ranking: 5 Maluach would be an option for Philadelphia should it want big man depth behind Embiid. With that being said, the Sixers do expect veteran Andre Drummond to exercise his player option for 2025-26 so he figures to return, and there is already young big man Adem Bona who made a name for himself as a rookie. However, Maluach stands at 7-foot-2 and the Sixers could always use some more size off the bench which has been an issue in the past. With that being said, Maluach is a bit raw offensively as he limited to putbacks and lob dunks off the pick-and-roll. While he does have soft hands to make all of this work on the offensive end, the Sixers would need him to add some type of jumper to his game. Philadelphia needs versatility out of its big men and Maluach would have to add to his game in order to stick.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Sport
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Rob Vaughn hitting milestones with Alabama baseball: Why he almost didn't take the job
Rob Vaughn still remembers getting the call from Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne. He and wife Kayleigh were on the way back to College Park, Maryland, from a game at Penn State on May 20, 2023. In the hours before, the Terrapins had won the conference regular season championship. Advertisement "I'm getting 200 messages saying congratulations and then I had a 205 number I didn't know ... " Vaughn told the Tuscaloosa News on Tuesday. Vaughn knew the state Alabama baseball was in. If Vaughn answered Byrne, it meant he was open to inheriting the turmoil and pressure left by fired Crimson Tide coach Brad Bohannon's involvement in a gambling scandal. If he didn't, life could go on peacefully in Maryland, where he was celebrated for seeing the program to its best season ever in 2022 and a historic league tournament championship the next year. Two years later, a two-time Big 10 Coach of the Year with two 40-win seasons at Maryland already under his belt, Vaughn now has his first 40-win regular season at the helm of Alabama — a feat UA hasn't accomplished since 2002, but pulled off in a ninth-inning thriller at Florida. He almost didn't take the job, though. ALABAMA BASEBALL BRACKETOLOGY: Will Tide host in 2025 NCAA Tournament or hit the road? Advertisement LIVE UPDATES FROM GAINESVILLE: Alabama baseball ties series after frightful final inning at Florida After Alabama baseball's first 40-win regular season since 2002, why Rob Vaughn chose the Tide "I was like, 'I'm gonna call back. I mean, you never know, but I don't think this is probably it,' " Vaughn, 37, said. He was singing a different tune when he walked back in the house 30 minutes later. "I could have stayed in a Big 10 at University of Maryland and been as happy as could be in, coached a good team and had a great life," Vaughn said, having turned down multiple jobs in the years prior. "We weren't even looking to leave." Advertisement More than being a coach, Vaughn loves being a husband to wife, Kayleigh, and a father to Wyatt, 8, Beau, 2, and five-month-old Annie. Coming up on 15 years of marriage, Vaughn and Kayleigh's relationship began on October 14, 2007 and the two were married on October 23, 2010. The typical husband might get the two confused. Not Vaughn, and he's proud of it. "I didn't know if you could coach in the SEC and be a good husband and still be a good dad," Vaughn said. Byrne promised Vaughn that he could be all three. A pretty sweet deal. "When I left my interview with Greg, it was the first time I was ever like, 'Man, I think I can do it with him, and I think I can do it here,' " Vaughn recalled. Advertisement "What I saw here is a place that is a great family place in a league that is absolutely the most cutthroat in all of sports," Vaughn said. "I saw somebody that wanted me to do it the right way." Before talking with Byrne, Vaughn wasn't sure that "existed" in the SEC. "I thought, you come to this league, you got to sell your soul, and I wasn't willing to do that," Vaughn said. Alabama head coach Rob Vaughn watches the game progress from the dugout as the Tide played UAB at Sewell-Thomas Stadium Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Meet the village behind Rob Vaughn Vaughn knows why he's in Tuscaloosa when he makes spaghetti dinners for his parents on Sundays, or when he looks in the sleepy eyes of "best baby ever" Annie James, or watching milestones at "sweet, kind, thoughtful, awesome" Wyatt's baseball games. Advertisement Even mornings before school are picture-perfect. Vaughn's "freaking bull in a china shop" Beau tends to barrel downstairs, eat his yogurt and hit balls — until it's time to yell at dad for making him put down the bat to get in the car. "That dude is a savage. I love him. He is so much fun," Vaughn said of Beau. "All he wants to do all day, every day, is play baseball." "Since we've been here, I just feel like once a week, something happens where my wife and I look at each other, and we know we're exactly where we're supposed to be," Vaughn said. "This is exactly what we signed up for." Emilee Smarr covers Alabama basketball and Crimson Tide athletics for the Tuscaloosa News. She can be reached via email at esmarr@ This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Rob Vaughn restoring Alabama baseball, but he almost didn't take the job
USA Today
18-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Ohio State is looking for a different kind of postseason purpose at National Golf Invitational
Ohio State is looking for a different kind of postseason purpose at National Golf Invitational The past two postseasons have been dramatically different for Ohio State. A year ago, the Buckeyes lineup included four seniors and a redshirt freshman, and that squad battled all the way to the semifinal match at the NCAA Championship. This year, at No. 75 in the national rankings after a fifth-place finish in the Big 10, they weren't selected to the NCAA Championship field at all. Head coach Jay Moseley realized his team would probably be on the outside looking in as they traveled home from the conference championship on April 27. He gave his team a bit of tough love. 'Look, this isn't how our season is supposed to end,' he told them that evening, 'and that should leave some pain and suffering that gets you guys fired up and ready to go for next year.' His men agreed. National Golf Invitational: Scores The next morning, however, Moseley started talking with his administration about competing in the National Golf Invitational. He called a meeting with the team at noon that day and met with a squad that still had the deer-in-the-headlights look of being at such a low point 14 hours earlier. Regardless, the team aligned on what a different kind of postseason event could do in terms of building momentum for next season. The NGI is in its third year, and this year more than ever it's apparent that it can mean different things to different teams. Ohio State, for example, leads the 10-team field at 18 under through 36 holes, but the Buckeyes started the day trailing Utah State by a shot. The Aggies haven't been selected to the postseason since 1981. Only one player on this season's 10-man Ohio State roster has played in an NCAA regional. The core of Moseley's lineup this season included three sophomores and two freshmen. Through two rounds, Moseley's decision to rally his squad for an NGI start looks like a savvy coaching move indeed. Ak-Chin Southern Dunes in Maricopa, Arizona, is a course where Moseley sees a lot of scoring opportunities. Scores were slightly higher in Saturday's second round across the board as winds picked up, but Moseley liked the venue as much as the tournament itself because he felt like it was a golf course that would create opportunities to work on some targeted areas of development for Ohio State – namely, wedge play. 'Wedge play this spring has certainly not been up to our standards so coming out here we felt like we could really get a good sense of where we've made progress the last couple weeks,' Moseley said. 'For the most part, we've done a really good job of creating scoring opportunities, hitting wedges close to be able to roll in some putts, making some birdies, which has been good to see.' There's another huge advantage to competing at Southern Dunes: The course is set to host a men's regional in 2026 and, as Moseley noted, you have a one-in-six chance of going to any regional venue on a given year. 'We've kind of enjoyed being together – big eyes mindset, their approach this week has kind of been let's run it back one more time this year and leave everything out there and go out and play with as much belief and as much trust as we can in each other and get some momentum going into next year when essentially everybody is back for at least a couple years,' he said. Entering the final round, Ohio State has just a one-shot lead on Utah State, a team that just finished sixth in the Mountain West Conference Championship for its best conference finish in 12 years. The two teams have opened up a sizable gap on the rest of the field, with West Virginia sitting in third at 8 under and Oregon State fourth at 7 under. Oregon State's Bradley Smolinski and Utah State's Enrique Karg are tied for first in the individual race at 9 under. Joe Wilson IV has been Ohio State's leading scorer so far this week, and at 7 under, is only two off the individual lead. The junior underwent double hip and ab surgery 18 months ago and missed all of last season recovering. 'He's been a good shot in the arm for us coming off of basically nine months of no competition and not a lot of physical golf at all,' Moseley said. Timotej Formanek, a freshman from the Czech Republic, has adapted well to desert golf, too, this week and contributed rounds of 70-69. Ohio State leads the field in par-4 and par-5 scoring and has made more birdies than any team. 'We've definitely got some guys that can play well out here, we just need to sharpen up some wedge play and clean up some short game on the par 3s,' Moseley said. 'We'll be in a good spot coming down the stretch tomorrow, hopefully.'
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Sport
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Historic Big Ten Program is Dominating 2026 Recruiting
As the 2025 college football season is beginning with spring practices and training camps underway, we get a glimpse at who may emerge as future stars in college. The USC Trojans had a stellar 2025 recruiting campaign, securing one five-star quarterback and claiming the No. 15 overall class in the country, according to On3. Advertisement Beyond the expectations of improving this season, looking ahead to the 2026 season for the Trojans is understandable, as they have hit the ground running for their recruiting. As of May 1, the Trojans currently have the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, with seven players in the top-100. Southern California Trojans head coach Lincoln Lee-Imagn Images The Lincoln Riley effect is nothing to look over, as he is bringing in top recruits all over the field in the 2026 class. With two five-stars currently committed on the defensive side of the football, they look to balance their team to be one of the top teams in the country. Their first season in the Big 10 was disappointing to their standards with a 7-6 finish, which ended with a victory in the Las Vegas Bowl against the Texas A&M Aggies. Advertisement As a college coach, it is the worst record Riley has had, and the second time he has not been in the AP's top 25 at the conclusion of the year. With a stellar roster heading into 2025, and an incredibly strong start to their 2026 class, Riley looks to turn the USC program back around to become one of the powerhouses of college football once again. Related: Falcons Make Huge Decision on Former USC WR Drake London
