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  1. golfing18now

    Grading college basketball hires for 2025-26 (Minnesota, Niko Medved: B+)

    Interesting write-up on the Johnson hire.... Would Johnson have been hired at Minnesota if he wasn't a Minneapolis native who played for the Gophers from 2002 to 2004? The bet here is no. While there is nothing wrong with hiring a coach who has ties to the program -- see favorable grades...
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    2025-26 Gopher Mens Basketball Roster

    @Otis is also doing this in the Niko's Roster Construction thread. Updating the first post.
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    Meh. For my money, I like having a thread devoted to generic transfer portal news as the title of the thread suggests. We have enough Gopher specific threads including the Niko roster construction thread to deal with Gopher news. If we start opening threads specific to other teams, I'll agree...
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    Sign right here if you love the Duke choke!

    It was a great basketball game.
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    Niko’s roster construction

    Must Have Minnesota Connections! Or we are not interested.
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    Kyan Evans

    In fairness, these threads never stay on topic so it would be hard to legislate what/when/how these threads are allowed to turn. This thread turned into a debate on how valuable Asuma is going forward. Clearly his usage impacted his performance and that ultimately is on Ben Johnson. So it...
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    Kyan Evans

    Is there an option between..... (a) if he wasn't from Minnesota we would be looking to replace him and (b) he is one half of the best guard tandems at Minnesota of the last 35 years? If so, I would take that option.
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    Niko’s roster construction

    Thank you sir. You have a much better chance of keeping up with this than I do. 👍
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    Ben Johnson is a Disaster

    I understand the sentiment, but it would be impossible to not draw parallels to the previous regime. When Tubby was let go for Pitino and even a whiff of negativity was voiced toward Tubby, it ended up being a bat signal for @dpodoll68 to defend him for years. Eventually the criticism faded...
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    Niko’s roster construction

    Could we get a tally of the current roster on the front end of one of these threads, like @SelectionSunday and his road to the tournament thread?
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    All Things Class of 2027 Minnesota Gophers Basketball Recruiting Thread

    For sure! @MaxyJR1 is a good poster on this site and his posts were separated by two plus months so it's a friendly jab. :)
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    All Things Class of 2027 Minnesota Gophers Basketball Recruiting Thread

    This made me laugh. Back to back posts. But kudos to your for posting regardless.
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    Xavier Hires Pitino

    We got him one job too early.
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    Nadine asks Medved about hanging the 1997 banners and playing St. Thomas

    If there is so much fan apathy on the St. Thomas side then how is this so "great for Minnesota" as others have suggested? Which side of this discussion are you even on?
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    Nadine asks Medved about hanging the 1997 banners and playing St. Thomas

    That's a fair question/observation. At one point part of the justification for not doing it would be from a recruiting perspective. Now that recruitment has changed in the NIL/free agency era, it probably isn't as big a consideration. Hopefully we are finally past the "lock down the border"...
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    Nadine asks Medved about hanging the 1997 banners and playing St. Thomas

    I absolutely think their fanbase would get excited and that is kind of my point. I would fully expect the Barn to fill up more with St. Thomas fans than Gopher fans. As a cash rich B1G program you don't really gain anything by winning but it's embarrassing if you lose. Maybe I'm in the wrong...
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    Nadine asks Medved about hanging the 1997 banners and playing St. Thomas

    Well they weren't that far apart this year. That's true. But Omaha was just edged by 30 points in their round one NCAA game. Hopefully Niko elevates the program to a level where this isn't a conversation.
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    Nadine asks Medved about hanging the 1997 banners and playing St. Thomas

    That might be true. I'll be real interested to see how Niko schedules. It can't possibly be worse than the last guy.



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