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A new era dawns as Hoiberg's Huskers begin the process of transformation

There is nothing in Nebraska’s past to give any hints as to how this all will go.

The Fred Hoiberg era — a still somewhat unbelievable phrase to some — is upon the Husker men’s basketball team. The season is here. The future is now.

Never has a men’s basketball coach in this little corner of the world walked the sidelines with Hoiberg’s credentials. Never has a Nebraska team played the way Hoiberg’s teams are going to play.

“It seemed like for him that it just kind of came as second nature,” said former Cyclone Melvin Ejim, who was the 2014 Big 12 Player of the Year under Hoiberg’s watch.