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That's not the worst news by far. Hopefully be back before Orlando event.

I love this. My optimistic view is such that I have MN in bubble at 21-10 season, 11-9 conf. play. Conf. Tourney will determine bid. I have MN going 6-1 in "Beat top half in the Barn" games, but 2-4 in "Winnable Road Games", and 0-4 in "Big Boy Pants".

Visual of MN non-conf opponents, pending Orlando results.

CBJ seems to be recruiting, building rosters, establishing a culture around people of faith. That may or may not explain the recruitment or lack thereof regarding certain players. Merely an observation.

Totally agree, but we have to remember that Christie was a big defensive liability. It only takes one guy out of 5 to completely blow up a defense.

I just love "expert" opinion predictions. The difference between 8th and 18th in the Big Ten this next year is razor thin. MN shouldn't be last when the dust settles, and could very well win 11 conference games.

With the talk about players going from D2 to P5 with limited success, it reminded me of Alex Illikainen, a top 100 ****national recruit from Grand Rapids who went to the Badgers at UW, flamed out, and transferred to D2 UMD. Coach Justin Wieck was thrilled to have him, but he wasn't great at UMD...

With the final schedule released, looking at the current state of the B10, just a few thoughts in anticipation of the upcoming season. Torvik has no B10 team projected inside the top 10, but NO team outside the top 74! (Projections w/grain of salt always). Every team top to bottom has weak...

Couple guys up there who haven't ever played a college game. Clearly they can play, but imo there should be some success at that level to be "best".

When do you think Torvik will add Tyler Cochran to the Minnesota roster? Its weird how he is still persona non grata on Torvik site.

...and Jarts!

Once again, for fun. Looking at Power 5 Collectives, Big Ten (Ave. $10.2M) is second behind SEC ($12.7M) from published data (nil-ncaa.com). Approx. 90% of all Collective funding goes toward Football and Basketball. From a smaller data pool of reported BB NIL, the average P5 basketball...

Yes, and walk-on Lincoln Meister from UMD is in his 4th year '24-25 but likely not a contributor. Smart guy, mechanical engineer I think. Rigsby is a junior, no? Played '22-'23, '23-24'.

Ur right. I miss-typed. Proballers site was my source for most players. Should be 23 yrs old. Thx.

We'll see firsthand if experience means as much as we think. The top 10 rotational players expected for MN have an average age of 23.2 yrs. If Asuma is included in that rotation, the average age drops all the way down to 22.7yrs. old. As best as I could, here is the breakdown with comparisons...

Players are kept happy by contributing in their way independent of minutes and winning.

Just for fun here in the silly season. I compared the scoring rates of recent transfers into MN from bigger D1 schools vs. smaller D1 institutions in hopes of gleaning some insight into scoring expectations. First year after transferring in, with a small sample size of high minute players...

Yea, 100% true. I just estimated what Garcia is likely to do, took normal expectations from the known commodities, and downgraded the contribution from the unknown coming from lesser conferences. Most glaring adaptation: Not expecting Caleb Williams (21pts/game DIII) to contribute nearly as...

Deepest and most intriguing roster, complete with no glaring weaknesses. Most pressure imo will be on FMitchell as the 5 to provide post presence, dish out, and rebound. Not having seen a lot of the new guys play many games-- Garcia (5th yr) obvious starter will be back at natural 4 stretch...

Its hard to get actual data, but MN has to be the oldest team in college bb