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You want to be able to separate yourself from similar teams in other conferences though. They might not have had it in them, but if the Gophers could've beaten one good team non-conference, without any poor losses (if Northwestern could beat Utah, anything should be possible, but Northwestern...

And casual fans don't know how good a team actually is until they actually start playing better teams so it's hard to know how excited or what expectations to have for a team. Obviously, just in terms of just wins and loses and not what you get out of the games, if you play good teams...

FWIW, Beating Oregon State and Vermont is probably not much different than beating Wisconsin and Rutgers since they are only tournament teams by virtue of getting an auto-bid. Vermont probably will finish just short of being a Quad 3 win and will still be a Quad 4 win. Harvard just beat...

That's why i'm always upset too. It seems like nowadays every team with Minnesota players who weren't 5-star mega-recruits are helping leading their teams to success while Minnesota, in the past 15 or so years, except for one year, never has any success (as in NCAA Tournament success). Though I...

Richmond just lost at the buzzer to Saint Joseph's in the A-10 Semifinals and since Richmond is a lock to make the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team ahead of the Gophers there is now zero chance the Gophers will back there way into Last Team In of the NCAA Tournament based on whatever happens...

Barring any bid-stealers, Big East upsets, etc. I wonder: Do any of the Ivy League teams move down if they don't make the Ivy League Championship and if so how far? Outside of Harvard winning at Indiana the only claim to fame the Harvard/Princeton/Columbia trio seem to have to me is that they...

After tiebreakers it is still: 3. Ohio State, 4. Maryland

The only difference is the Gophers choke away multiple games in which winning and losing is the difference between making the NCAA Tournament or not while Illinois losing today makes no difference in that regard since they've already won enough games to be a lock.

I made the mistake of reading small print too fast and read "underprepared" as "unprepared". I will adjust my eyes from now on. I hate playing 357 of out 362-ranked non-conference schedules as much any anybody, but I'm not sure how true that is because under the previous coach beating/playing...

If the non-conference schedule left them completely unprepared then they wouldn't have easily beaten Penn State and Wisconsin. Maybe the Gophers aren't built to be able to beat good teams with much regularity if they don't have anybody who is capable of going off for 30 points or being a...

The only Power Conference school I can find with a larger losing streak against ranked teams than the Gophers' almost six season-long, 35-game losing streak is Pittsburgh who, if I counted right, appears to have lost 70 staight since they last beat a ranked team in January 2015. Wake Forest has...

I know but it's annoying that they can't even take advantage of the weakest bubble ever and make the NCAA Tournament because (unless they win tomorrow or make a big run in the Big Ten Tournament) of their inability to compete against top teams in their confererence at the same level as 1-16 Penn...

On the other end of the Top 16, I was glancing at the Purdue at Penn St game on BTN and at halftime Autumn Johnson still had Minnesota in her Last Four In. If they could just win one more dang game. I see Virginia Tech lost in overtime at Boston College (just a Q2 loss). Without any bid-stealers...

I should have never brought her name up. I'm frustrated that the Gophers, no matter who the coach is or who the players are, can never seemingly achieve what should be a very low bar of making it back to the NCAA Tournament because I hate that the most successful season in recent history...

Illinois has won at Maryland, at Indiana, and beaten Iowa, Oregon, and Nebraska. Otherwise using that logic, Wisconsin is better than Michigan this season since they beat them (or MIchigan isn't any good because they lost to Wisconsin), etc.

How did she, at South Dakota, ever beat Iowa State, Missouri, Ohio State, Creighton, South Dakota State, Ole Miss, and Baylor, or was that the flukiest run ever?

Illinois has been playing almost like a Top-25 since Cook was out for the season. Nebraska beat Oregon without Britt Prince and Potts out for the season are a likely Tournament team right now. Iowa won at Washington without Stuelke by 24 points which more than cancels out barely losing at...

Every team other than the Gophers seem to have no problem being able to compete and win games with players injured though.

Then we'll have to live another year knowing that the greatest coach in Gopher WBB history, based on results, was Marlene Stollings, the coach of the only team in NCAA history to miss the Tournament with an AP First-Team All-American and who couldn't last more than two years on her subsequent...

I have no idea why Nebraska would've been behind Minnesota since all I could figure is they are being punished for having played at Creighton and at Georgia Tech (both losses) instead of playing two more cupcakes. Going off of Charlie Creme's last update on Tuesday, the good news over the past...