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Husker Basketball's Kobe Webster Earns Academic All-America Honors

Third-team laurels go to senior Nebraska guard.
Joe Hudson|
Nebraska Athletics Communications

Nebraska men's basketball senior guard Kobe Webster was named Friday as third-team honoree on the CoSIDA Academic All-America team.

Webster, from Indianapolis, carries a 3.75 GPA while working on his master’s degree in educational administration. He graduated last spring from Western Illinois and will continue his master’s work next season as he competes again for the Huskers.

Webster is the first Husker men’s basketball player to receive Academic All-America honors since first-teamer Shavon Shields in 2015 and 2016.

On the court, Webster has totaled more than 1,600 career points and 300 assists during his collegiate career. He averaged 8.1 points per game for the Huskers last season and had a pair of 20-point efforts.

Webster is one of two Big Ten players on the 17-member roster, joining Michigan’s Franz Wagner, who is a first-teamer.

It marks the ninth time a Husker men’s basketball player has been named Academic All-American. Webster joins Chuck Jura (1972), Curt Hedberg (1978), Jack Moore (1981), John Matzke (1984), Beau Reid (1989, 1991) and Shields (2015, 2016).

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Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.

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