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No real surprise but no Gophers on offense made 1st-, 2nd- or 3rd-team All Big Ten. Jameson Geers HM by coaches and media, and Greg Johnson HM by media.

Didn't she once have a Gopher offer? WBB Blog lists Mack as a Gopher target for 2025. https://wbbblog.com/minnesota-womens-basketball-recruiting/#class_2025

Perich - 2nd team media & 3rd team coaches. No surprise given his season, but ends the possibility of being the ultra-rare 4-time First-Team All-Big Ten.

Runner up in the recent local guys without Gopher scholarship offer might be Amani Hooker. Went to Iowa and became Big Ten DB of the Year in 2018.

Grace's teammates must love her. She hunts shots against teams with a pulse (or better), because she can score efficiently in a lot of ways, and defers to her teammates who need to get going against the bottom feeders. Her 4 double-digit shot-attempt games this season are Marquette, Kansas...

Would like to see the Gophers play without Hart or Tonga for extended minutes in the 4th quarter. Need experience playing small.

KU lost both of its Thanksgiving week games to less than stellar competition: Georgia and Dayton. Not helpful for the Gophers’ metrics.

Still think the Gophers can make the tournament, but it will be a lot easier if they can avoid a big hole the first 8 games of the BIG season. The early BIG schedule is beyond brutal: Maryland at Indiana at Michigan Northwestern USC UCLA at Washington at Oregon 3-5 would be a really good...

FloSports App says 5:30 for Gopher game, with South Florida Harvard at 3:20. Confusing. Edit: When you click on Gopher game on FloSports App, says 3:20 start time.

Curry left Purdue just as Purdue was about to receive sanctions for both academic and recruiting violations under her watch. Never understood how she escaped punishment.

Battle and Braun are really struggling from the field this year, though I loved Braun's stationary 3-point shooting yesterday. There are 53 BIG players averaging 25 minutes a game. Battle is last in that group with an effective field-goal percentage (EFG) of 30.4%, shooting just 27.5% from 2...

Will be interesting to see how many Gopher fans made the trip. Watched some of the Ohio State game there this morning, and it was a pretty empty ballroom doubling as a stadium. ESPN says 237 were at the OSU game, which seems inflated from the shots of the crowd (seats).

Class ratings are a funny thing, balancing quality and quantity. Over time, class rankings seem like a worthless exercise. Iowa signed 1 player and has the 17th-ranked class, and Minnesota signed 4 players and has the 19th-ranked class.

Duke v USF tonight on ESPNU at7. Good preview of Gophers' next opponent. USF playing at home trying to avoid 3 losses in a row tonight against a challenging schedule (Fairfield, UCLA, & Duke).

The good moments from Mara are so good that it makes you want more of that. But she is a puzzle. Not sure Mara is cold. Her old self has always been a puzzlingly inefficient scorer. In conference play her sophomore year, before her first season-ending injury, she shot 30.7% from 2 and...