Skip navigation
Favorites
Sign up to follow your favorites on all your devices.
Sign up

Jorge Brian Diaz leaves Nebraska

Jorge Brian Diaz

Nebraska’s Jorge Brian Diaz makes the first of two free throws with 11 seconds left to give Nebraska the lead as the struggling Cornhuskers upset No. 11 Indiana 70-69 in their NCAA college basketball game in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

AP

Tim Miles hasn’t been the coach for long at Nebraska, and today he had his first major announcment. 6-11 center Jorge Brian Diaz - who missed the final 14 games of the regular season - is leaving school and returning home to Puerto Rico.

Diaz, a junior, had chronic foot issues this season.

As a sophomore Diaz was 2nd on the team in scoring. This year he averaged 8.6 points and 4.3 rebounds. In his career he started 65 of 81 games.

His departure leaves the new head coach in a position that he’ll be breaking in an almost entirely new starting lineup. Four of the five starters for Nebraska were seniors, and the only ju