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in a follow up-- St Thomas got manhandled by Denver on Saturday.

at the risk of sounding even older---- it seems like the strategy of more, louder music and ads at every conceivable break in the action is plan 1, 2 and 3. The band standing and listening to 3 minutes of pumped in music at crucial points in the game goes against what i think of as the...

regarding the strength of the Summit-- it struck me at the St Thomas vs Oral Roberts game the other day how quickly a team can move in stature. Usually down quicker than up, but just 3 years ago (20-21)Oral Roberts was a 3 point shot at the buzzer away from being in the Elite 8 and even through...

well stated. a couple things to add-- my ideal hire was Brian Dutcher with Ben as HC in waiting for about 3-4 years, just to not have what we had in year 1 and 2. Any new head coach that doesn't bring recruits from their previous job is 1-2 recruiting years behind. That is why year 1 players...

Justin Gaard @Gaardsy FYI: Get-in price for next 3 @GopherMBB home games is $20 (most expensive is $55 which includes lower level!). The U is listening, take advantage and come and watch this team! https://gophersports.evenue.net/events/MBB-SG

Ben has adjusted what they want him to do in the post also. Last year, it seemed like they expected him to get double-teamed and kick it back out to shooters, or worse, cross court to shooters. Too many passes ended up in row 3. This year he just goes and scores or they run more cutters to spots...

Big shift in the thread-- moved off of Ben's coaching to Ryan Livingston's scheduling. I call that a win for Ben. scheduling is hard-- other teams have to want to play you also. I would guess the better teams were looking at the Gophers and thinking it would be a drain on THEIR strength of...

you made my point-- completely forgetting about Hoffman. lol I always considered Barrett to be a suburb of Hoffman- but when they moved the high school there, the economics of the small towns changed

life is relative-- us Grant County residents used to think the Alexandria (Douglas County) people were the "city smart asses".. The Holmes City people, not so much then when I went to college, my friend from Grafton ND taught me that potato or potatoe, either way it meant cash to them, selling...

sorry if this is mentioned later, I just don't have time to read all of it right now, but Gopher Illustrated had this nugget today in a good article about all of the Gopher transfers "Sam Freeman (Cal State San Bernardino). Sam is playing eight minutes a game off the bench of a D2 program out...

I have only watched Cherry twice, so real small sample size, but Noah seems like a more natural scorer. Looks for a shot way more than Isaac. Maybe because other teams are gameplanning towards Isaac and that leaves Noah with more space. I like the way he hunts shots and doesn't hesitate. It will...

Kelly Pfeifer (not always a good sign when you know the refs name- you generally recognize the bad calls not the good ones) Kelly was the ref that Fran McCaffery had the starting contest with a couple of years ago also.

there was a lot of young kids in the student section, so that may have helped lower it to 70- and the Mahtomedi youth program was in the upper deck, so tonight's average age was probably lower than most games

i would like to see the Gophers play St. Thomas. Both coached have said they would let the players play in the TC Pro-am also, but then both didn't - or the Pro-Am didn't get NCAA sanctioned. Sell out the Barn for a couple of games and then move the game to Target Center and sell more tickets...

I don't know about the Gophers plans but Wisconsin women's team played at St Thomas yesterday

1. I thought I heard Jim Dutcher saying Brian was very interested---and my hope was Brian for 3-5 years with Ben as the lead assistant/coach in waiting. Maybe if he thought it was a 3-5 year re-build that it didn't fit his timeline. But Marcus Carr, Gabe Kuelsher and Liam Robins all staying...

low key-- important player in the 2nd half was the punt returner- just because he started coming up and fair catching the punts instead of giving Iowa another 25 yards of roll

I thought the best thing about JOJ's game last year was that he played hard every possession, wasn't afraid of the moment and knew how to play without being the centerpiece. I had never understood the concept of going to a prep school and being guy #4 or 7 or not being the star, until I watched...

Ben probably deserved the T, but he only got it because of Fran McCaffery. Larry Cerato called the foul-- good/bad/close, whatever you think of it. Ben was yelling at him and Larry knew it was a bang/bang call that could go either way and so he was smart enough to just walk away and let Ben...

I have 2 tickets in section 117 I can't use if anyone wants them