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He has however, been able to recruit older guys who he thought could play and fit in this system. For the past couple of years, Ben has had to cobble together a roster from nearly scratch. Niko is a much better coach with a better system and I think that the talent has is at least comparable if...

Well...for years there has been a talent gap between Wisconsin and teams they finished ahead of in the standings...but they made it happen. Let's hope we can make up any difference with team play.

I love that the ball almost always gets into a cutter in the paint at some point in the possession. If they don't collapse- we shoot, if they do collapse- we kick out for the shot.

Slowly but surely Betts, Edmunds and to a degree, Rigsby, all dropped out of the regular rotation. Rigsby had a little surge late but generally Ben played 7-8 guys. Niko tends to play 9, it seems. Usually during the year, one or more of your guys is going to get injured for a while. You had...

I can recall games that were out of hand one way or another and Ben would refuse to play the deep bench. By contrast, last night, Niko was looking to put the kid in - Lorenson (?) and when play continued he called time out to get him on the floor. I think it means so much to the whole team to...

This Gopher squad has 10 guys that you can put on the court without a concern. Hopefully Turner does the work to become the 11th as we need that size at times. Last night Shinholster proved he can play and I think he will play plenty. The kid has skill, quickness and energy and that will come in...

It could be the 2 fouls. Gophers were 16 of 20 on 2 pt fg attempts.

I like Shinholster. Active player and goes without hesitation.

We have a Minneapolis newspaper?

Reid thinks he's a wing, it appears. All he does is fire 3s.

Last year his CSU team was similar inside with Mbemba at 6-7 and JCJ as the two bigs- very similar to Vaihola and JCJ this year. Obviously Nique Clifford was a great rebounder at 6-5 so that helped a ton. But, Niko has shown he can win undersized and that conference was as good last year as all...

I think KOC made a mistake not putting Brosmer in, but it's just that, a mistake. KOC is a good coach and a guy most any player would want to suit up for.

Bottom line, from what I have seen- we have not had a drop off in talent from last year and we will have a better coached team. I think we will have a better year than last year.

On the other hand, if coaches do set up their defenses to stop Tyson, and Tyson moves the ball within the Niko offense- others will get open looks. In the past we have had star players who were operating in a less movement and pass oriented offense who ended up forcing shots that were lower...

If the team is in bubble or better position much of the Big Ten season and if the team is getting better each month- it will be a success for me.