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It's one game early in the season with a bunch of inexperienced first year players getting major minutes. Everyone was railing on Johnson for not playing younger players like Thompson and Thiam last year. The a55 kicking by DePaul is what you get when boys who think they know what they are doing...

McCutcheon isn't saying that winning isn't important. He is obviously extremely competitive and has been uber successful. He is likely saying that the most important competition is within ourselves and our team. If you've done everything possible as a person and team to bring out your best...

Here is the official release by Whalen and the program... Nice to see some size in Dalan and some athleticism in the whole group.

Johnson wants their identity to be "a blue collar team that is gritty and fights." Last night was the first time that I didn't see that under his watch. I knew that there would be growing pains with the youngsters. It's one game but I didn't expect the whole team to be so flat. Sometimes it...

Wow! I noted that Louisville had lost again but I hadn't seen that FSU lost a second time. #15 TCU lost by 1 to Northwestern State yesterday. There have been a lot of unexpected losses already this season.

The Free Treyton club from last year will agree with you. They will cite his impressive and team-leading -1 in the =/- and his projected 16+ rebounds per 40 minutes. (Of course he played less than 5 minutes!) In all seriousness though, Thompson and the coaching staff need to determine who he is...

Johnson has been horrible at blocking out and crashing the boards.

I am sure both players talked with Whalen after their respective commitments and made it clear whether they were 100% solid or not. I do not see many basketball players flip their commitments. Depending on their relationship, Whalen may reach out on occasion to check in but it is highly likely...

Ummmm.... can you please rephrase?!

I had to laugh at that! Detroit isn't exactly a tropical paradise. I think they might be 5-10 degrees warmer in the winter on average. MSP is certainly more likely to have extreme weather.

Read my post again. I am not talking about rankings. I said that the buzz surrounding Betts was much higher than Thompson. The rankings did not necessarily follow the buzz because he committed so quickly when the MN offer came in. Betts reclassifying to this year also led to his ranking not...

The buzz surrounding Betts this summer was on a whole different level than Thompson in 2017. Betts rankings shot up across the board with PrepHoop bumping him all the way to 87th in the nation. Betts was getting interest from some notable programs but he committed to the Gophers quickly after...

Thanks for sharing. The B1G is represented in each column. Interesting to see so many highly rated recruits who did nothing or seriously performed below their ranking.

First, Betts comes in much more highly regarded than Race Thompson. The plan the whole time was to give him a chance to prove himself this summer and fall or redshirt. He was fully aware of this. Johnson and the program wanted to lock Betts up as there other programs sniffing around. Betts got...

Yep... in his first year, he and the coaching staff took a roster of marginal talent and got them to work together as a team. It led to an undefeated non-conf record and a team that ran out of gas in the B1G.

You can't necessarily rank a coach based on a team's on-the-court performance... especially a first-year coach in a single throw away year. I've said this once and I will say this one thousand times, a coaching staff of Coach K, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight, and the legendary John Wooden would not...

You are correct to some extent. B1G refs also are known to not give newbies the benefit of the doubt so there may still be some WTF calls.

I posted a couple of narrow victories by ranked teams over vastly inferior opponents to remind some Holers not to jump off the band wagon quite yet!

Kerwin Walton with 9 pts off the bench in Texas Tech 73-49 win over Northwestern State.

They 'competed' with only 2 'legit' players last year. They certainly miss shooters in Battle and Carrington. Hard to win without 2 of your top 6 players on the roster. Payne had a hard time getting going today. I am sure that he and the other frosh will have up and down games but we'll hope to...