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1. With Payne still in the fold, I didn't think MN would be able to attract a B10-starter quality big in the portal - there's just a limited supply of those guys to get more than one on a team these days. Frankly, even the ones that are B10-rotation quality are tough to come by. Now there's a...

I think everyone is burying the lead - there was a basketball player whose name was Max Hooper? Is this April 1?

Side topic - there seems to be some confusion about the singularity of MN HS basketball players' names - it's Grove not Groves, it's McAndrew, not McAndrews, and it was Winter not Winters. Carry on.

There was a player on the Cornell bench with a big brace on his leg. My guess is that was him.

They seem to lose guys with one year left - they lost headband guy (Mulcahy) to Washington last year, and a big dude to UCLA (Myles Johnson) a couple of years before. I was surprised to learn big Cliff had eligibility left, tbh. He'll make some money somewhere - a 5-man with his abilities...

I guess it got rewarded…

Did MN still finish last?

I don't know if this was tongue-in-cheek or not, but Clary was dismissed from the team in mid-February link He's a good player, but from the tone of that article, I wonder who will want to take the gamble.

If the Gophers did want him out of high school, it'd be odd that he chose the Salukis instead. So let's assume MN did not pursue him at that time. When he went to the portal last year, he was highly sought after. Illinois had the right combo of an open spot in the rotation and, perhaps the big...

Both he and PU's Lance Jones were on the same team at Southern Illinois last year, I believe. There is a large list of overlooked players out of high school that go to a lower level school and blossom. A guy like Domask might've been buried on the bench at a Wisconsin or Marquette, and he'd...

Baldwin went to UW-Milwaukee to play for his dad, so he didn't really leave the state. You could add Sam Hauser who played at UVa after Marquette, nd his brother is in the G-league and played for Sparty.

I'm hearing Mick Cronin, which would be an intraconference move...

It's a pro sports town, and the administration's fault.

Bless your heart. The complaints (or maybe it’s more the lack of praise) I’ve heard are coming from the people running the tournament. It’s just … fine. And there’s novelty in moving the tournament to vacation spots during a lot of school’s spring break. There are a lot of B1G alumni in SoCal...

After OSU and Iowa?

Just for the record, the comment on the physical shortcomings of Target Center from the B1G staffer had to do with the running of the event, not so much the fan experience - things like getting the bands, cheer squads, and different media folks and VIPs situated. I think the technology and the...

I think Mpls does better with national events. Maybe they won't get another Super Bowl, but I thought the men's final four in 2019 was good enough for the NCAA to come back (that was at US Bank). The women's final four was just ok - we will need to either replace or significantly upgrade Target...

I volunteered at both the women's and men's BTT this year (as well as the women's BTT last year). Let me start by saying that having it here while Caitlin Clark was in school basically saved this from being a complete embarrassment. I'm not exaggerating when I say there were 20x more Iowa fans...

Situations are different everywhere. Most of those hundreds of coaches have a rotation hole to fill through graduation, portal loss, or early entry into the draft. That hole is the sales pitch. Mast goes to Nebraska to replace Derrick Walker. He doesn't go if he's still there.

This isn't quite what I was saying. Most people were talking about adding a player as adding to the core that's already here. What I'm saying is that if they do add an upgrade (a very big if), the player losing their spot hits the portal. That's just the way it works now. Depth is very hard...