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Don’t pencil in OSU as a loss. OSU can lose to teams that don’t turn the ball over, which is usually Minnesota.

Braun is listed on today's injury report as out.

3-pt defense looms large today. In BIG play, IU is first in 3-pt percentage and 3-pt makes. In BIG play, Gophers are 16th in opponent 3-pt percentage and 3-pt makes.

Not sure what you're looking at: 7/12/2024 At its summer meeting this week in Austin, Texas, the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee approved a move to quadrant-based team sheets in 2024-25 and to provide the full championship field seed list on Selection Sunday. The committee also...

Old Quads. New Quads Quadrant 1 (Q1). Q1 Home (1-30). H 1-25 Neutral (1-50). N 1-35 Away (1-75). A 1-45 Quadrant 2 (Q2). Q2 Home (31-75). H 26-55 Neutral (51-100). N 36-65 Away (76-135). A 46-80...

Will be interesting to see how the NCAA bubble plays out. The 2025 tourney is the 5th year the NET rankings will be used, but the first with the revised quad system. Under the original Quad system, only 1 team has ever been selected as an at-large team without having a single Quad 1 victory...

I’m still in the camp that would like more Johnson because this team needs better shooting. But you make a good case that I’m wrong.

Coach P’s reluctance to play and develop Johnson is a puzzle. Preseason Coach P identified increased offensive efficiency as the # 1 priority. She talked about trying to shoot 50% from the field (or perhaps from 2). The team is failing on the goal to be a better shooting team. In conference...

Addie Deal is no Caitlin Clark.

Iowa can get national top 25 recruits to take a look, but will struggle to reel them in. It’s Iowa after all. The one they landed has a brother with whom she is close at Grinnell. Otherwise they struck out this year on their other McDonald AA recruits.

Coach P is a better coach than Coach Gottlieb or Jan Jensen. Gophers should win. Gopher players will also be very motivated coming back from LA and after the Clark game last year at Williams. Gophers PA announcer basically treated Clark as a home team player last year. Had to annoy the...

Iowa will struggle to keep the sellouts going as time goes on. They had 3,000-4,000 empty seats last week for a Northwestern sellout.

The 2-game LA trip did wonders, as expected, for the Gophers' strength of schedule. As of February 3, based on NET rankings, the Gophers' SOS is up to 78 (from 126), while it is up to 109 (from 159), based on the RPI.

In conference play, the Gophers' turnover rate is 12.4%, the lowest rate for any BIG team in conference play in the history of advanced stats for WBB (since 2009-10). The low turnover rate has helped produce an Assist-to-Turnover Ratio of 1.54, which is top 6 in BIG conference play since...

Agree, but Teri Moren knows how to coach. Unclear if Jan Jensen can be a good head coach. She has struggled this year with lineups and substitutions.

As of 1/27, the Gophers strength of schedule is ranked # 126, based on the NET, and #159, based on the RPI. But on an RPI basis, the Gophers are predicted to finish the regular season with a strength of schedule ranked # 81. Opportunity Row will really increase the Gophers' strength of schedule.

The new BIG schedule makes the bottom seem worse. In previous years, the BIG scheduled extra double plays among the bottom teams, but now only Penn State and Rutgers get a bottom-bottom double play (against each other).

The Gophers should take care of business, but the Badgers aren't quite as bad as their 1-7 BIG record. The Badgers were, however, one of the big losers with the new BIG schedule this year. First, with double plays eliminated (except for 1 game), the BIG can no longer schedule more double plays...

Agree 100%. This team needs 1 more player.

Agree with your sentiment 100%, but not sure it's right to say Mara "could have gone anywhere." Her publicly announced final 6 were Minnesota, Arizona State, Michigan, Oregon State, Maryland and Iowa. That would be an interesting list if you could go anywhere. I never saw a complete list for...