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I can be just as wrong as the media experts/coaches are every year, so here is my summer dead time Big Ten preseason prediction in order/hope of conference finish. Barring injuries, etc, picking the 5th team was way more difficult than any other. The top 4 should be pretty solid. Most teams...

I disagree with his conclusion. The MN roster doesn’t have to be 6x stronger based on funding. And, yes we do still have excuses because every other Big Ten school got an infusion of money. Its a beginning, but we are just now starting to compete at a more level playing field. Should be more...

As fans we are starving for input at this point. Its ok, embrace the anticipation of Nov. Already this is a deeper team than recent years. We just have to wait and hope no injuries occur this summer.

Yea its all guess work, but the optimism comes from having multiple pieces that could over-perform expectations and fill holes competitively.

Its a dead zone now, with the roster set, I've been crunching numbers to come up with reasonable expectations for each player (For team, see above) in '25/'26 season. Big Ten toughness, non-conf stat padding, finding rotations, injuries?.. Purely looking at the Gopher roster, the ten most...

On a purely opinionated optimistic note, if MN has that stat line I listed above, they should be solidly in the NCAA tournament discussion--the ceiling. I may be wrong but I think Iowa, Indiana, Ohio St., Wisconsin, USC have overrated expectations by media sources. Looking at roster...

Looking at the last Four Seasons statistically from Colorado St. under Niko Medved, and Minnesota coached by Ben Johnson, the sample size is big enough to build some expectations. Coaching styles differ, the level of competition is higher in the Big Ten, but statistical trends have developed...

I don't think that graphic means a lot. A bad team that returns a lot of players will likely still be bad. Teams that do great in the transfer portal clearly won't return a lot of scoring. Taking nothing away from Purdue, they will be solid obviously.

At Cal it was a hand injury. Greenstick tibia fracture not a huge deal but FFS.

Was hoping he'd go to Delaware

Its interesting he sees shooting 3's as a detriment, and lists Cade Tyson on the roster update. Tyson 42.4% career, JCJ shot 35.4% last year, Durkin 35.5%, Asuma 35.7%, Chance Stephens 36.4% career, Langston Reynolds 40.9% last yr.(very few attempts). BJ Omot is lower at 29.3% career-still not...

Good question. Other than the guys we all know, I only included juniors and seniors for the most part. Been following portal updates closely, but am not that familiar with a lot of those transfers.

UCLA still has Biledeau, Dailey ORE Nate Bittle returns also

Looking at Torvik rosters, which are somewhat incomplete at this date (Turner, Tyson not listed at MN) the Big Ten post guys for each team look like this: Purdue--Dan Jacobsen 7-4, Oscar Cluff 6-11 Michigan--Aday Mara 7-3 UCLA--Xavier Booker 6-11, Steve Jammerson II, 6-10 Illinois--Tom...

In the 2024 portal, Cade Tyson was one of the country's most coveted acquisitions by NC. Ranked #28 4-star, 95.38 rating. So we should believe he got worse (or was overrated in '24) after a year at NC? Perhaps exposed a little defensively, but not worse. I think the crucial aspects to MN...

They are not rewarding medocrity. There are waaaay more good teams in college basketball now than there were even 10 years ago. (Last year MN was mediocre and didn't get in.) The money and loose transfer rules have raised the floor AND raised the ceiling on the best of the best. Don't even...

I just keep thinking what our season would look like if Nehemiah Turner goes down w/injury. At that point we'd have to be active in the trade deadline. Dang, couldn't do that either.. Playing the Big Ten schedule without the rotational big dude in the middle wouldn't be optimal.

Pretty sure you guys remember correctly. The students were there in striped rugby shirts, etc. but definitely not the center of rowdiness or focus. The entire Barn was rocking w/Juli Perlt on PA.

And Kristupas Keinys!

Plus the influx of dollars available. All the great players will eventually settle in BigTen/SEC/B12.