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You could have just said nine years.

Crean was a great recruiter, had great connections with the top AAU programs, the shoe companies, etc. Just check out the number of guys he has put into the NBA. Because of that, he has had success as a coach. Won Big Ten titles, been to multiple Sweet 16s, been to a Final Four. Has major...

Fran had some great years at Iowa. He's had teams ranked in the Top 5, teams that have been 2-seeds in the NCAA, multiple players who won National Player of the Year awards, won a Big Ten Tournament championship, and was pretty consistently in the postseason. There was good reason for his...

Just to play devil's advocate........ Not sure that's a big selling point specific to this candidate. Guy may like smaller towns. He was born in Iowa City (population 75,000), grew up in Storm Lake (population 11,000), went to junior college in Mason City (population 27,000), went to college...

He's been to every home basketball game.

Curious, what are those things he could sell to McCollum that would persuade him to go to Minnesota instead of Indiana or Iowa? Not saying they don't exist, just curious what you have in mind.

How bad must all the other teams be? Lots of terrible teams apparently. Gophers had four regulation losses all season. That said, it wasn't a great weekend of hockey against Notre Dame. But, they outshot the Irish all weekend, territorially they were mostly better, they missed a shitload of...

Fred has been in Lincoln for six years. He's been to one NCAA Tournament (last year).

This is true, although neither came straight from D-III (not suggesting you were suggesting that.) They each had stops at a D-I school prior to taking the Wisconsin job.

It is truly one of the more amazing stats of the basketball season. Only nine teams in the entire country have more Quad 1 wins than Minnesota. Gophers have more Quad 1 wins than: #1 Duke (6) #8 Gonzaga (3) #9 Iowa State (6) #14 Wisconsin (6) #16 Misssouri (6) #19 St. John's (3) #21...

Buffalo is in the MAC, which is a several steps up from the MAAC and even more steps up from the NEC. Many Big Ten and high major coaches have come from the MAC over the years. Not very many have come from the MAAC, as McCaffery did at Iowa. (I think that was the poster's point)

Yep, that team was actually ranked 16th at one point, with several impressive wins, including one over the eventual #4 overall seed in the NCAA tourney, the #7 overall seed in the NCAA tourney and three other ranked teams. Then Liam Robbins got hurt. Gabe Kalscheur got hurt. And they went...

It is a little disingenuous to compare the situation Scott Drew walked into at Baylor to what Ben Johnson inherited at Minnesota. If anyone needs a history on Baylor men's basketball in 2003, go search it. Short version, one player on the roster murdered another player on the roster. There...

Ben's biggest saving grace is that Dawson Garcia stayed. He is a top end Big Ten player that allowed a mostly middling roster to win 7 Big Ten games.

Hawkins and Payne are both significantly better and more valuable players than Patterson and Mitchell (God bless them.) Hawkins set the Minnesota single season assist record and is currently leading the Big 12 in assists. He is currently the quarterback for a team ranked in the Top Ten. Payne...

Thought the same thing. Ryan even has NBA head coaching experience, which the Utah guy does not. Plus, Ryan is a legacy Gopher, multi-generational with an overwhelmingly popular last name. But, every time someone brings up Saunders' name in these threads, he gets crushed as a candidate. He...

Two weeks ago? Most had Nebraska in the NCAA field as recently as tip off against the Gophers five days ago. Heck, some still had them in the NCAA field heading into their Ohio State game just two days ago.

Yeah we are in the tourney for sure. Question is will we be the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, or 15th seed. USC, NW, IA, NEB, RUT also fighting for same real estate.

https://bball.notnothing.net/big10.php?sport=mbb This will answer all of your questions...punch in the outcomes, it spits you the seedings. Fun to mess with. Enjoy.

I believe with Nebraska's loss last night and knowing the Cornhuskers face Iowa head-to-head this weekend, the Gophers have clinched a spot in the Big Ten Tournament. The Iowa-Nebraska loser will have to fight it out with USC, Rutgers and Northwestern for the final elimination spot.