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Just checked - looks like ND has 4 McDonald's All Americans, plus another 3 that were nominees but not selected. Paige Buecker's buddy Sam Brunelle (from Team USA) also won the 3-point contest at the actual All-America game. Taiye handled her fairly well in our early-season game with Notre Dame...

With this game, Taiye Bello reaches 1,001 career rebounds - the 5th player in program history to break the 1,000 barrier! And with only two years as a full-time starter. She is still 33 points shy of 1,000. Here's to having four more Big-Ten playoff games at about 9 Taiye points per game. Go...

Mistake in the box score, I guess. I'm in favor of her playing, if she's healthy and her added height is just what it takes to advance another game in the B1G tournament. I mean, maybe she'd just as soon graduate in 4 years and then move on to grad school or career. Assuming that she does...

By the way, box score shows Justice Ross played a fraction of a minute. Whay must have had the discussion with her, "Do you want that extra year of eligibility from the red-shirt, or would you rather play a game (or five) this year? Apparently, the latter. Yup, although FT shooting was a little...

To illuminate the situation a bit, Notre Dame ends the season with an 8-10 ACC conference record and a 13-18 overall record for an RPI of 114 and an SoS of 30. They were stuck in a similar boat as us, needing to win the SEC Tournament to move on to the NCAAs. They didn't move on - a fairly...

Brunson on fire from 3.

A couple charges into Bello not called. Latest charge into Bello called blocking foul, now Taiye has 3.

It must get old trying to answer presser questions. After a typical loss it’s usually “Give credit to _______.” In this case I guess the trite answer must be “Give credit to teams 1-10.” The real answer is something like ... “We lost 2 guards, plus we have a guard and a post on injured...

Quotable (per Whalen) from some (unidentified, but sounds a lot like Lisa Bluder) Big-Ten coach: “Minnesota is the best 11th-ranked Big-Ten team that ever existed.”

Here's some additional interesting statistics about Minnesota + Maryland that go beyond the normal basketball game metrics. Some of the stats are about their respective Big-Ten seasons. But we start with a comparison of their relative physical height. I computed the weighted average height of...

Here's the details on the 1 Times the Gophers have shot 40% from the field during the current losing streak. Last 6 lost games listed in increasing order of FG% ... Against Maryland we shot under 30%. At Indiana our overall shooting was under 40%, but our three-point shooting was at 47.1% -...

> ... only terrible head coaches can take Top-25 teams and not even make the NCAA Tournament OK, @SpaceJunkie, I totally refuted your claim that Whalen inherited at Top-25 Team in a post in the thread B1G Game 18: Gophers Host Maryland (3-1-20) - see ...

The men’s team is ranked 12th in the Big Ten. How is that any better than the women’s team that is ranked 11th in the Big Ten (and that due largely to several couple-point losses that would have been wins if the Destiny Pitts fiasco had not thrown the team for a loop). DP is gone now so we have...

All good points. And Shea Kelley played for the Lynx. I acknowledge Stollings left a lot to be desired in terms of *not* going after in-state players, and that her best recruits were out-of-state. I wasn’t focusing on that part, just pointing out that she did bring in at least some good talent...

Whoa, let me bring you back to reality a bit. I’ll get back to Marlene’s positive contributions in a short sec. But first we should acknowledge what’s fairly clear to most of us GHers in hindsight: Namely that Stollings was always a short-timer by her own intentions, and was largely using...

OK, let me clarify. I didn’t actually click the Like button on this. Just one of many bugs in the iPhone version of this application. For some reason most embedded videos don’t play. I clicked the Play button 10 times trying to get it to work. App must have thought that I really liked it cuz I...

Yeah, perhaps - I’m guessing similar to Destiny Slocum, who got Big-Ten Freshman of the Year at Maryland, and national Freshman of the Year, but apparently disliked Maryland enough to pay the NCAA wait-out-a-year penalty so as to transfer to the Oregon State Beavers. Where she seems to be...

Well (in a sense) quarters 2 and 4 weren’t quite as bad as quarters 1 and 3. We held them to 15 and 16, respectively in 2 and 4. Problem is, they held us to 6 and 5, respectively. The multiples (of Maryland scoring to Minnesota scoring) for each quarter were: Quarter Multiple 1 2.31 2 2.5 3 1.9...

Thank you so much, Seniors!!! Your strong efforts on the court and in the classroom are very much appreciated by us fans. We feel so lucky to have been graced by the wonderful and entertaining brand of basketball that derives from your efforts. Whay’s Appreciation tweets do a good job of...

@whalenfan gives you the short answer - which is pretty much on target as far as it goes. For the multi-faceted answer see the following ... > Why almost 10 losses by 10 or less points? Ignoring our non-conf games as less relevant, I put our 17 Big-Ten games (all but the upcoming Maryland...