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Yes, that was probably the best they’ve played this year against a real opponent. Maryland’s MO is to turn you over, so that stat was as expected - but the Gophs did much better on non-turnover possessions than normal. And a lot of that is about making the FTs like a normal team.

Maryland is very good at causing turnovers and not turning it over themselves. Rebounding is above average on both ends of the court. They also play a lot better at home. They are also #1 in the country in not getting their shots blocked, for whatever that’s worth. I’m not finding a lot of...

Yep, I am in the coaching matters group. Can you explain how Northwestern has remained competitive? Or Wisconsin, who got hit just as hard (probably more) by portal losses? Even PSU manages to be a hard team to play against. Oh, they all whine about their disadvantages with NIL, too, but there...

Well, I won't argue that they're bad, but we'll disagree that those coaches wouldn't have been able to get them to play together. Yes, it is unpopular. Also unsupported by evidence. But, it's fine to have a dissenting view. SMH. You've bought into "poor Ben" and that personnel is the only...

Maybe not along the same lines, but I thought Garcia's quote (paraphrasing) about "this is our livelihood and how we pay our families" was also telling. Cronin and Barnes are good coaches, full stop. They also have boatloads of NIL to play with, and that has - perhaps unconsciously - changed...

I don't disagree with any of this at the individual level. However, defense is much more about 5 guys playing as a team. Being a good one-on-one defender doesn't help you with the other 80% of offensive players on the floor - having a defensive system/rules is a great equalizer for talent...

You're confusing production vs. talent. Collins put those players in a position to develop and produce. Martinelli had no other P6 offers and flipped his commitment from Elon (the college). Barnhizer was a 3-star. Leach spent 4 years at Fairfield, which is in the same league big Frank came...

Northwestern’s talent is about equivalent. You can argue that, but it’s not wildly different. They even lost a college-level superstar in Buie, and remain competitive. Hmm, what lets them do that? I can’t think of anything.

Agree to disagree - not about the talent so much, but that coaching matters. It’s all speculation, but if this group were coached by any of the top ten coaches in this conference, it’d look a lot better. They look like a group of disconnected individual players for a reason.

Odukale is quoted in the full article, The first half competitiveness probably had more to do with Wisconsin playing poorly than the Gophers playing well. Water finds its level - the triple-digit ranked MN defense was extremely unlikely to keep the Badgers’ top ten offense shooting at only 32%...

Established statistical precedence undefied.

So here you have two teams that got hit hard by portal losses and graduation/going to the NBA. They both lost 3 starters: a big man (Payne/Wahl), a PG (Hawkins/Hepburn) and a scoring wing (Christie/Storr). In terms of production, I'd argue UW lost even a little bit more. And of the remaining...

I see we have the cloud-yeller generation here. NBC paid a ton of $ to the conference. That helps the school more than the refusal to pay $10 a month hurts. This ain’t going back.

Do you have Peacock? You can complain about having to pay for it, but it's the same as NBC-level production - same announcers and studio hosts and everything. Are you confusing it with BTN+, which is truly horrible?

It’d also be funny to have Tinkle and Sprinkle coach in the same league…

Am I missing something? Lakeville is more south, but it’s pretty east. But point taken - Davison was a westsider and Jordan Taylor went to BSM.

Wisconsin is currently a top 10 offense and the Gopher.defense is in the 120s. It’s not a flipped script that’s needed so much as it is defying the established statistical precedence. It does happen, but not that often. One thing that might help is that Klesmit rolled an ankle against Rutgers...

This was correct. But I think this is another thing that's changing, too. I doubt recruits (at least the ones worth having) worry much about whether the coach is going to be there. If he gets fired, you can easily enter the portal if the new guy isn't a fit for you. The player might be thinking...

This little tiff reminds me of the discussion of MN native, Eli King, who entered the portal after barely playing with Iowa State his freshman year. A lot of folks on this board were confident that if he would just sign with MN, he'd be good. He ended up at UND - he plays a lot of minutes, but...

That attitude is very unlikely to fly. Don't like how you're being treated? Transfer. And then transfer for a 3rd and 4th time. Plus, if you get a reputation as a tough-on-players coach, attracting the next round of talent becomes harder. That's where we are, unfortunately. Coaching in this...