Nebraska will have four familiar faces in the 2026 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, with Rienk Mast and Connor Hoiberg set for their professional debuts and Josiah Allick and Brice Williams also on the roster.
Mast will suit up for the Indiana Pacers, while Hoiberg is headed to the Phoenix Suns. Allick will play for the Charlotte Hornets, and Williams returns to the Detroit Pistons after appearing in the 2025 Summer League. It marks the second straight summer Nebraska has sent four players to NBA Summer League action.
The Las Vegas event runs with at least five games for every team. Four preliminary games are scheduled from July 9-16, followed by the semifinals on July 18 on Prime Video and the championship game on July 19 on ESPN. Teams that do not reach the semifinals will still play a fifth game between July 17-19.
Allick gets his first Summer League opportunity after a strong run with the Greensboro Swarm, the Hornets’ G League affiliate, where he helped them win a title last season. He averaged 6.6 points per game on 68 percent shooting, along with 5.7 rebounds and 1.0 blocks in 28 games after spending the summer of 2025 in New Zealand.
During his season at Nebraska in 2023-24, he put up 7.3 points per game on 55 percent shooting and 5.4 rebounds while helping the Huskers reach their first NCAA Tournament since 2014. Across his college career, which also included stops at UMKC and New Mexico, he finished with 1,246 points and 781 rebounds.
Hoiberg’s path to Phoenix comes after a five-year Nebraska career that turned a walk-on guard into one of the Big Ten’s top players. He posted career highs across the board, averaging 9.3 points per game on 54 percent shooting with 5.3 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
He also set Nebraska’s school record for assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.75-to-1, which ranked ninth nationally. Hoiberg landed on the Huskers’ single-season top 10 in steals with 70, good for sixth, and assists with 157, seventh.
He earned honorable-mention All-Big Ten honors and a spot on the Big Ten All-Defensive Team.
Mast’s first Summer League appearance follows a decorated Nebraska career and a big final season in Lincoln. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 13.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 2025-26 as Nebraska won 28 games and reached the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time in program history.
A two-time All-Big Ten selection, Mast scored in double figures 24 times as a senior and had five 20-point games. He led the team with three double-doubles and posted a triple-double against FIU with 18 points, 12 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists.
He finished his career with 1,849 points, 1,094 rebounds and 351 assists, including three seasons at Bradley.
Williams is back with Detroit after spending the 2025-26 season with the Motor City Cruise, the Pistons’ G League affiliate. As a rookie, he averaged 14.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists while shooting 46 percent overall and 42.4 percent from 3-point range.
His final Nebraska season in 2024-25 was even louder. Williams averaged 20.4 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists to help Nebraska go 21-14 and win the first-ever College Basketball Crown championship.
He earned first-team All-Big Ten and all-district honors, had four 30-point games, and set a school record with 43 points at Ohio State. His 713 points broke Nebraska’s single-season scoring record, and he also finished in the top five in program history for free throws made with 189, free throw percentage at .883, free throw attempts with 214, and minutes played at 1,192.
He closed his two-year Husker run with 1,168 points and 1,969 career points overall, including three seasons at Charlotte.
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