Richmond just lost at the buzzer to Saint Joseph's in the A-10 Semifinals and since Richmond is a lock to make the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team ahead of the Gophers there is now zero chance the Gophers will back there way into Last Team In of the NCAA Tournament based on whatever happens...
Barring any bid-stealers, Big East upsets, etc. I wonder:
Do any of the Ivy League teams move down if they don't make the Ivy League Championship and if so how far? Outside of Harvard winning at Indiana the only claim to fame the Harvard/Princeton/Columbia trio seem to have to me is that they...
The only difference is the Gophers choke away multiple games in which winning and losing is the difference between making the NCAA Tournament or not while Illinois losing today makes no difference in that regard since they've already won enough games to be a lock.
I made the mistake of reading small print too fast and read "underprepared" as "unprepared". I will adjust my eyes from now on.
I hate playing 357 of out 362-ranked non-conference schedules as much any anybody, but I'm not sure how true that is because under the previous coach beating/playing...
If the non-conference schedule left them completely unprepared then they wouldn't have easily beaten Penn State and Wisconsin. Maybe the Gophers aren't built to be able to beat good teams with much regularity if they don't have anybody who is capable of going off for 30 points or being a...
The only Power Conference school I can find with a larger losing streak against ranked teams than the Gophers' almost six season-long, 35-game losing streak is Pittsburgh who, if I counted right, appears to have lost 70 staight since they last beat a ranked team in January 2015.
Wake Forest has...
I know but it's annoying that they can't even take advantage of the weakest bubble ever and make the NCAA Tournament because (unless they win tomorrow or make a big run in the Big Ten Tournament) of their inability to compete against top teams in their confererence at the same level as 1-16 Penn...
On the other end of the Top 16, I was glancing at the Purdue at Penn St game on BTN and at halftime Autumn Johnson still had Minnesota in her Last Four In. If they could just win one more dang game. I see Virginia Tech lost in overtime at Boston College (just a Q2 loss). Without any bid-stealers...
I should have never brought her name up. I'm frustrated that the Gophers, no matter who the coach is or who the players are, can never seemingly achieve what should be a very low bar of making it back to the NCAA Tournament because I hate that the most successful season in recent history...
Illinois has won at Maryland, at Indiana, and beaten Iowa, Oregon, and Nebraska. Otherwise using that logic, Wisconsin is better than Michigan this season since they beat them (or MIchigan isn't any good because they lost to Wisconsin), etc.
How did she, at South Dakota, ever beat Iowa State, Missouri, Ohio State, Creighton, South Dakota State, Ole Miss, and Baylor, or was that the flukiest run ever?
Illinois has been playing almost like a Top-25 since Cook was out for the season.
Nebraska beat Oregon without Britt Prince and Potts out for the season are a likely Tournament team right now.
Iowa won at Washington without Stuelke by 24 points which more than cancels out barely losing at...
Then we'll have to live another year knowing that the greatest coach in Gopher WBB history, based on results, was Marlene Stollings, the coach of the only team in NCAA history to miss the Tournament with an AP First-Team All-American and who couldn't last more than two years on her subsequent...