As we inch ever closer to the basketball season, we continue to give you the preseason coverage you all keep visiting this basketball centric website for! Starting today we kick off the player profile series for our Nebraska Cornhuskers with the most familiar face to you all in yet another season of huge roster turnover: Thorir Thorbjarnarson.
You all know the God of Thunder came to Lincoln as an unique Tim Miles find from Iceland starting in the 2017 class. He was not heavily utilized as a player given his offensive skill set was not always the best fit for Miles’s system and there were a host of skilled upper-class men ahead of him in the rotation, but he was one of the best defenders on the team.