Recent content by tripledouble

In my opinion, this is all "much ado about nothing". (Yes, a Shakespeare reference on a women's basketball forum. The reference to the fascination with backup quarterbacks is probably more appropriate.) My guess is that Johnson will eventually become a formidable college player, but it may take...

Very big game which will probably have NCAA tourney implications, especially for our Gophers. Despite their nice win over USC, the Hawkeyes are still very beatable. They have some good outside shooters, but maybe Olsen has some trouble with the length of the Gopher guards? Iowa's McCabe is a...

Hart has become so much better at finding an open teammate, whether it's someone cutting to the basket or someone who is open beyond the arc. Is GG this team's most consistent player? I think so. Heyer, despite her outside shooting woes, ends up with a double-double, and finally nails a 3 in...

Random thoughts: No surprise after watching her play in high school, but Olivia Olson is a very good player. Can play inside or outside, and a very competitive, gritty player. Pairing her with a player like Swords will create a lot of problems for opponents. If they can keep these two...

Wolverines are very talented, but also young. Starting 3 freshman, it will be interesting to see how they perform on the road against a more experienced Gopher team. They start 5 guards, including a freshman point guard and all of their starters can make shots from beyond the arc. Gophers...

Random thoughts: Great comeback. Early in the 4th quarter, I thought they were 'dead in the water'. Glad the team thought otherwise. Really good game from GG. Looks to me like she's got a high basketball IQ; that's a likely reason she leads the team in minutes played. Like the fact that she...

One more related note tothe above post: I've now seen quite a bit of all the BIG teams this year and I'm thinking that both WI and Rutgers have enough talent to jump up and beat one of these NCAA contenders. It will be interesting to see which teams fall out of NCAA tourney contention before...

IMO, there are 13 BIG teams vying for maybe 9 or 10 NCAA tourney spots. Four teams are likely locks for the tourney (UCLA, USC, MD, OSU). Indiana is looking good and may be the 5th best team in the BIG. For the remaining NCAA hopefuls, wins against the bottom 5 teams are imperative. Bottom 5...

Random thoughts: Loved the effort. Loved that the Gophers never quit. Terps were ridiculously hot from beyond the arc in the second half, refs weren't kind to the Gophers. Sellers is a terrific leader for the Terps. Even though she is an all-conference player, I feel like she is underrated...

The same person who warned us that players and coaches read this form is now encouraging fans to stop following the team? Go figure.

Is it too early to start complaining about the easy BIG schedule? (That's a joke.) Gophers played really solid defense., holding PSU leading scorer Merkle to 1 shot attempt. Random thoughts: Great all movement. Great games from McKinney, Battle, and Stewart. I doubt that McKinney is ever...

If it looks like dog, barks like a dog, wags its tail like a dog...it's a dog. The Gophers non-confererence schedule was a dog, no matter how anyone tries to spinn it. Hopefully, it's not a dog that will come back to bite the Gophers when it's NCAA tournament selection time. Love the team...

I live in outstate Minnesota and am not able to attend many of the games at Williams. With that in mind, I subscribe to BIG+ and watch most of the games there. I('m amazed that our Minnesota announcers do not give injury information on the telecasts. In the first game after Braun's injury, no...

And one more thing: As weak as the non-con schedule is, the Gophers will still have a chance to make the NCAA tourney, but it may take 10 conference regular season wins instead of 9 because of the weak schedule.

Someone's obviously thin-skinned in regards to those criticizing the Gophers non-conference schedule. No matter how you try to spin it, the Gophers non-conference schedule isn't worthy of a team who wants to make the NCAA tourney in March. Sure, a couple of the teams the Gophers scheduled have...