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With the final schedule released, looking at the current state of the B10, just a few thoughts in anticipation of the upcoming season. Torvik has no B10 team projected inside the top 10, but NO team outside the top 74! (Projections w/grain of salt always). Every team top to bottom has weak...

Couple guys up there who haven't ever played a college game. Clearly they can play, but imo there should be some success at that level to be "best".

When do you think Torvik will add Tyler Cochran to the Minnesota roster? Its weird how he is still persona non grata on Torvik site.

...and Jarts!

Once again, for fun. Looking at Power 5 Collectives, Big Ten (Ave. $10.2M) is second behind SEC ($12.7M) from published data (nil-ncaa.com). Approx. 90% of all Collective funding goes toward Football and Basketball. From a smaller data pool of reported BB NIL, the average P5 basketball...

Yes, and walk-on Lincoln Meister from UMD is in his 4th year '24-25 but likely not a contributor. Smart guy, mechanical engineer I think. Rigsby is a junior, no? Played '22-'23, '23-24'.

Ur right. I miss-typed. Proballers site was my source for most players. Should be 23 yrs old. Thx.

We'll see firsthand if experience means as much as we think. The top 10 rotational players expected for MN have an average age of 23.2 yrs. If Asuma is included in that rotation, the average age drops all the way down to 22.7yrs. old. As best as I could, here is the breakdown with comparisons...

Players are kept happy by contributing in their way independent of minutes and winning.

Just for fun here in the silly season. I compared the scoring rates of recent transfers into MN from bigger D1 schools vs. smaller D1 institutions in hopes of gleaning some insight into scoring expectations. First year after transferring in, with a small sample size of high minute players...

Yea, 100% true. I just estimated what Garcia is likely to do, took normal expectations from the known commodities, and downgraded the contribution from the unknown coming from lesser conferences. Most glaring adaptation: Not expecting Caleb Williams (21pts/game DIII) to contribute nearly as...

Deepest and most intriguing roster, complete with no glaring weaknesses. Most pressure imo will be on FMitchell as the 5 to provide post presence, dish out, and rebound. Not having seen a lot of the new guys play many games-- Garcia (5th yr) obvious starter will be back at natural 4 stretch...

Its hard to get actual data, but MN has to be the oldest team in college bb

Yes.

He was very weak with the ball going to the basket

Laugh it up all u want, but I believe that’s the plan. Every kid wants NBA, and when Coffey was entering the rotation he couldn’t hold the ball in traffic. Betts is being groomed. Not saying he’s there now but he could be later.

I believe CBJ has Betts in development phase to be the "next" Amir Coffey-type, which would be the most likely position at the next level. Betts is very quick with good hops, shooting mechanics, and if he put weight onto his frame he'll be the formidable wing you seek. Defense is unknown. He...

I would think CBJ has had that conversation with Betts, and he will see time at the 3.

I'm just going to take one year at a time and hope for the best. MN does have some talented recruits in the pipeline, and the portal will be a constant.

I love when "experts" declare power rankings, winners and losers, etc. After looking at all the Big Ten teams, additions/subtractions I can make an argument against any team NOT winning the conference, and how every team AT BEST will have at least 6-7 conf. losses, and the worst team will have...