He'd still make time to get to the Ames rec center, where he'd play some pickup games with a high school junior who had already been making a name for himself.
Hankins and Hoiberg were college roommates a couple of years later. More than 20 years after that, they're co-workers at Nebraska — Hankins serving as the Husker men's golf coach and Hoiberg, as of Saturday, running Nebrasketball.
Their reunion in Lincoln may have been kick-started during a standard AD-coach meeting between Hankins and his boss, Bill Moos, to talk golf.