It seems to be working the opposite way. As fans, we're still annoyed that they let that game slip through their fingers multiple times and when they had a 99.95 chance of winning it. But the prognosticators never thought that game would be a Gopher win and probably weren't even watching it (and...
Part of the cognitive dissonance in this and other threads is that there are a couple main ways to look at scheduling: A team can schedule lots of teams that will (presumably) rack up tons of wins in bad conferences, which is an accepted way to game the system and possibly get into post-season...
Even fans find these games irritating and useless. Have to think sportswriters agree. I assume things will pick up when the Gophers play more real teams. (FYI, the paper is not yet printed in Des Moines)
...and when Hart is making less than one-third of her shots in the game, almost all right under the basket. (At this point, she is barely above 50 percent on the entire season, including all of those cupcake opponents.)
He also said the announcers don't think she will play the next game, but unclear if that's pure conjecture or if it's based on some information they can't elaborate on. Speaking of pure conjecture, could it be concussion protocol?