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The next two Big Ten Women's Tournaments are back in Indianapolis (then Las Vegas, then Detroit). How convenient for them to have had the games at Target Center for Caitlin Clark and out west for Juju Watkins' senior year (assuming the WNBA doesn't change the rules for her to be able to declare...

It's a tad lazy analysis because the reason Minnesota is ranked by some pollsters ahead of say Michigan and Nebraska as of right now is because those teams had the privilege of getting their losses to USC/UCLA out of the way to go along with their other losses to teams currently ranked higher...

No but this stretch allowed Tori McKinney to prove she is fully capable of being a major contributor right now and therefore should be getting way more than just regular backup minutes (and no reason to be compelled to have to play Braun near 40 minutes every game when she returns).

If Illinois didn't get Braun injured last year they likely lose and might not end up making it to the WBIT (which, off course, they won) so they owe Minnesota.

Ski U Mah Gopher might've just forgotten that different ranges are used for women's basketball compared to men's.

Nobody knows how good Gopher WBB really is yet because the easiest way to prove you are a tournament-caliber team (what is what the expectation is for Gopher WBB should be by now) is by beating other tournament-caliber teams, not beating up on teams that would be lucky to go better than 0-18 in...

I don't know where to find the rules but I believe all conference tournament games only count as one game and postseason games do not count.

Yes, obviously NET alone doesn't get you into the NCAA Tournament as, for example, Penn St was 27 last year and Oregon 19 the year before (both probably inflated from blowing out many of the bad teams they faced) and both teams missed the cut.

Not counting the top-25 teams that only played cupcakes, the best recent comparison I can think of that hopefully the Gophers can somehow match this season is Illinois a couple years ago. The only team with a pulse they played non-conference (they had a non-conference SOS of 306) was at Missouri...

Somehow Iowa and Iowa St survive playing Drake and UNI every year. I know hockey is way different than basketball but the Gophers men's hockey team is supposed to be the best team in the state and they have no problem playing St. Thomas and they even managed to survive barely beating Bemidji...

Then either the freshmen are overrated and/or Whalen stinks as a coach, since Utah had no problem this year going from 5-16 to 21-12 thanks to adding two freshman from Minnesota, also the Gophers under Stollings went from being no good to miraculously making the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament...

South Dakota has 1/6 the population of Minnesota and not one, but two D1 teams that are vastly superior to Minnesota every year.

At least we know that in Muffet McGraw there is at least 1 coach in NCAAA WBB worse than Whalen.

The Gophers were a Top-25 caliber team by the end of Stollings' last year, and the pollsters had the Gophers ranked in the top 25 before this season and much of the beginning of last season. The Gophers probably would've made the NCAA Tournamnet last year if they knew how to inbound the ball...

Any coach given a Top-25 team should be able to at least randomly win one or two games against decent teams a year; only terrible head coaches can take Top-25 teams and not even make the NCAA Tournament. Whalen also has going winless against Illinois (responsible for half of their Big Ten wins...

That just proves how terrible the current coach of the Gophers is, since at least the Gophers won an NCAA Tournament game and never finished as bad as 5-13 (11th place) in the Big Ten under Stollings, while Whalen took over that 2nd Round NCAA Tournament / Top-25 caliber team and turned them...

Then again, the State of Minnesota is paying more money to the coaches to make Marlene Stollings look like a better head coach than Pat Summitt.

He probably thinks/knows it's in his players' best interests that they play for teams with actual good coaches instead of having their talents wasted at schools with proven lousy head coaches like the U.

Every blind squirrell finds a nut. It was the perfect time to hire someone who could lead them to a Sweet 16 or beyond but Teague wasn't interested in trying to get a top assistant coach from a top program, or anybody else that would be a splashy hire.

These Gophers are making the Stollings' era teams look like the 2004 Detroit Pistons when it comes to defense.