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It doesn’t get any worse than this. Margin for error in this tournament is gone. Have to finish the game. Needed to come out of this weekend 3-2 to move up in RPI/KPI. So the weekend can still be salvaged but it will take a lot better play and particularly closing games to do it. And today...

I think it is better for Carly’s career to start out as a head coach at Fairfield and learn how to build a successful program than she would have been starting out at Minnesota or any Power 5 school for that matter. That said, I was always a big fan of Carly’s and thought she was a great hire...

The only season I can recall when we legitimately had .300 hitters through the entire lineup was 2017. Most teams that are good but not great suffer the same fate. Given the pitching BU threw at us, I was happy to see four runs and that should have been enough. Good RPI loss, but have to keep...

Agreed. Especially when they have the cameras in place for these tournaments but only show the games where the host is playing. I’d rather listen to an announcer reading statsbroadcast than just reading stats broadcast myself! Bring back the Stone Age!

Valenica is a freshman. Valencia is a junior. 🤪 Seriously, they load names into Statsbroadcast before the season, so any misspelling will show up game after game unless/until someone fixes it.

This double header with Clemson was really the first time I’ve felt good about the potential of our pitching staff this year and beyond. It also proved that we can rally for a win against a top pitcher (Valerie Cagle). I still think we are too vulnerable to pitchers like Millie Thompson who have...

Richardson is showing me a great deal of promise despite the HR. She throws hard enough that if she gains more command and refines that off-speed a little, she could become a very good pitcher for us.

I get it. But until someone comes along who can match her results, Jess Alister’s tenure will continue to be the standard against which all our coaches are measured.

Piper knows that recruiting pitching talent is top priority, so it’s not for lack of trying. If she gets the talent in here, she won’t waste it. But the elephant in the room, so to speak, since her hire has been whether she and her staff can identify AND recruit talent at a level approaching...

Chloe Barber struck out 15 for Wichita State in a complete game win at Arkansas today. I know she was a top high school pitcher locally, known for her strikeouts but also for her wildness at times. Piper brought in three freshmen pitchers this year, only one from Minnesota. Does anyone know any...

Too early to get a feel for three freshmen pitchers but Schwartz, Enter, and Hambrick can all be effective if they can command the zone. Once the nerves settled, Enter looked great for about four innings before she started to miss her spots just a bit. That San Diego State lineup can hit if a...

We are now at #35 in the NET rankings, plus our Quad 1 loss to Maryland is now a Quad 2 loss as the Terps have for the time being fallen out of the Top 30. If I was doing Bracketology I would still have us in as a 10-seed but we cannot afford to lose many more Quad 1 or even Quad 2 games without...

No, Illinois is not a must win. It would be a Quad 1 win if we could get it, which means a win will help more than a loss would hurt. However, we have to win a few of our remaining Quad 1 games AND not lose any Quad 3 or Quad 4 games to stay on the right side of the bubble.

We played poorly offensively, not just shooting, but we lacked the crisp passing and off-ball movement we’d come to expect from this team. Maybe this was in part due to tired legs and mental fatigue after 4 games in 10 days, with the last one being on the road. I thought Wisconsin looked like...

That kind of assist/turnover ratio is unheard of for a post. We are very lucky to have Sophie, and she is only going to get better!

RPI is strange indeed. Whatever the Gophers RPI is after the Illinois match, we will get an RPI boost simply by playing Nebraska, win or lose, because 50% of your RPI calculation is your opponents’ winning %, which will increase by virtue of us just playing the match.

The Clearwater Invitational released its schedule today. Great opportunity to play some very well-respected teams and bolster our RPI. Gophers Clearwater opponents: 2/16 - Washington 2/16 - Georgia Tech 2/17 - Stanford 2/17 - Georgia 2/18 - LSU Historically ESPN has been a big player in this...

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I don’t recall BTN televising THAT many games anyway. It seems there are plenty of slots still available that could be dedicated to more softball. Maybe this move will get more games on regular BTN and improve the quality of both regular BTN and BTN Plus telecasts.

Last season, Utah won the PAC-12 tournament. When the tournament started, they were behind the Gophers in RPI. It’s personal preference, I understand that, but I’d rather see my team ranked in the Top 25 consistently (which I think is more likely with these additions and the quality win...