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Case in point: Tori McKinney and Grace Grocholski. Two players with huge positive impact for the Gophers, and neither of them made any of these national rankings, but the coaches saw their potential.

I don't get why some are so hung up on this. Rookies don't usually make the Olympic team, and why would you want them to? In such high competition environments, you really want to send your best and most tested athletes, and someone in their first year of professional basketball is unfortunately...

Great overview with a lot of detail. I agree with him that the ceiling for this team is very high if things go well. It will be very interesting to see how it all shakes out, because media predictions range from the Gophers being 4th in the Big Ten to being 8th or 9th. I know a lot of teams...

It looks like the tweet I saw yesterday was deleted, so maybe it was a mistake.

Very excited for this schedule! I was curious if we'd be getting an exhibition before the official start to the season. Yesterday, the team's social media accounts started a countdown to Sunday, October 26th, so I was thinking it might be that day. But you'd think that would be announced with...

Bigs are hard to come by, but I'm hoping for a combination of Bershers (who is just a freshman this year!) being able to make a big impact and getting a transfer to replace Hart once she graduates.

Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised to see them get an experienced post player in the portal next spring instead of recruiting a freshman to replace Sophie.

Even after the upcoming season, there is still hopefully one more year with the high impact players Braun and Grocholski, and two with McKinney. Just because the Gophers haven't gotten 2026 commitments announced by...August 2025, doesn't mean they won't succeed with new recruits or maybe more...

It looks like they spelled Bershers's last name wrong. And they said Glenn played last season, when she did not get any minutes at all in the 2024-2025 season, which is why she was able to get another year to use at Minnesota. But I'm excited that we kept our core players and didn't need much...

Historically, athletics departments could justify the exorbitant amounts of money they spent by partitioning athletics off as generating enough revenue themselves to be self-sufficient and by keeping the academic money pot separate from the athletic money pot. There hasn't been much direct flow...

Not that we needed another piece of evidence, but the Gopher Athletics website has her listed as a redshirt junior, so it's official.

There hasn't been much of a need to make a big splash with recruitment yet. We've still got the 2 seniors and 2 juniors who were part of the best recruiting class the Gophers ever had. And it's definitely not a given that those 4 would have stuck around through the coaching change and rebuilding...

Also, for what it's worth, the Instagram follows they were talking about on the UConn forum may just be coincidental. It looks like she follows a bunch of players from a bunch of different teams, including Janay Sanders as an example.

Yeah, according to Skim Milkey, the Gophers are going after Phelia very hard (or at least were as of last week). I've always been skeptical that we could get someone of that caliber in the portal just for money reasons and lack of minutes available. But I'd be pleasantly surprised if they were...

Yeah, this move makes me think that the coaches are confident in how good Zoey Bershers will be if they wanted to give her this "extra value."

I'm wondering if the intent is to have a combination of Zoey, Tracey, and Niamya be Sophie's backup. Zoey could end up being great if the goal is to grow our own post player rather than relying on the portal every year or two.

Exciting! Looks like she'll bring a good deal to the team based on her stats from prior seasons. Out of curiosity, is she the one you were hearing rumors about, or was that someone different? Looks like she's only 5-11 and hasn't taken a ton of threes, so just wondering if there's someone else...

Daley would be a good get for a backup guard! She was averaging 11 points per game and shooting just under 50%, but isn't much of a 3 point shooter. Now whether she's willing to play off the bench and get relatively fewer minutes at Minnesota than she might at other places is a whole other...

The 2022 recruiting class was the highest the Gophers have ever had, but due to injuries and less than ideal coaching in their first year, they haven't reached their full potential. Then beyond those four, we've also added immensely talented players like McKinney and Grocholski and have...

Don't need to do much in the portal when you've already got a team with a lot of talent that wants to stick together! Also, last year she had picked up Stewart, who ended up being a high impact player on offense, and Rose, who ended up being a very high impact player on defense. I'm sure she...