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Purely hypothetical, looking at the current list of players I have to assume MN has spent about $3M thus far on Asuma, Crocker-Johnson, Omot, Durkin, Vaihola, Reynolds, and Willis, Jr. The needs remaining are C, PF, CG for rotations. I am expecting MN to make a "splash" signing at Center rim...

Freitag passed on MN when Asuma committed and was garnering more momentum as a legit 3/4-star recruit. Couldn’t see Freitag as Gopher at this point unless it was for PJ.

Lu'Cye Patterson in portal further emphasizes a likely NCAA 5th year allowance to be ruled in June....

The ranking of portal addns to rosters, having MN #10 is not a "thing". leib0039 is correct as it is a numbers game based more on volume of transfers than roster quality moving forward. A far better/fun purely analytic evaluation of the current rosters is available on Torvik. Go to...

I told myself I wasn’t going to do that this year, yet here I am.

Great to hear! Fantastic memories as a high schooler going to Jim Dutcher BB Camp at St. Olaf. Phil Saunders taught me the finer points of shooting free throws. Watched some great teams in the Barn but none top '76-'77 team (24-3/15-3 conf) with three 6'10" guys and starting five: Mychal...

Terrance Brown to Utah. He played well against MN in FD game. I can understand if Niko or he passed on MN. Big Ten body maybe not ready, and more volume shooter like Caleb was esp against us. MN kid.

If there is any credence to my prev post, I would anticipate the NCAA to make its announcement allowing a 5th year of eligibility after the NBA draft day 2–after June 26. There must be some stipulation in the NCAA settlement regarding athletes to be paid over “four years”. Allowing 5 years...

Sounds like somebody knows something. Otherwise why wouldn’t Wolfson just say, “no”. Theoretically, the NCAA payout to past players would be decreased by allowing a 5th year to the guys that were freshmen around 2019. The court case mandated in July 2021 payments of $2.75 billion to athletes...

We need a big dude, and he does have the rare ability to shoot better from the field than the free throw line. I trust he's on the board in the War Room. :)

Retired

With guys leaving Michigan St., it makes me wonder if Izzo let them know ahead of time that he is going to retire.

I respectfully disagree. In the current portal era, a team CAN effectively build a successful NCAA Tournament caliber team in a short time. The next month or two will seem like an eternity to me. Historically through recruiting HS athletes it has taken years to develop and build prolonged...

Recruiting is way more than throwing money at the guys with big statistics. Maybe certain kids don't study and can't get into a particular school, maybe he and mom just want to stuff the stat sheet, maybe after meeting the family the coaches smell weed in the house, or maybe the kids feels he...

He’ll follow God’$ plan

Ok, “Endowment” 😁

IMO, the only way MN basketball gets and sustains a large steady income stream is to convert a lot of MN bb supporters to pledge a % of their life insurance to the “MN Gopher Basketball Trust” which would manage the money in interest-bearing accts for distribution. Large chunks of money gained...

Yesssss! We were Class A- Ely, Orr, and Chisholm were always good. Chisholm had legendary coach MacDonald with buzz cut, and I played well against his son who went on to South Dakota St. I believe. Our team stunk, were poorly coached, but we played different sports every season with varying...

The MN tide of beating Iowa teams in all sports has turned in our favor.

Watched the press conference, and would probably give it a "7". Didn't knock it out of the park or energize the room very much, but also said the required things and answered questions honestly without cliche. He seemed very genuine and settled into it as the questioning continued. Nice nod...