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Richard Pitino offered Rocket Watts out of high school. We also played against him in Ben Johnson's first year when he was playing for Mississippi State. He scored 8 points on 3-7 shooting off the bench.

I'm not sure the site explicitly states it, but I think their offensive efficiency metric is just points per possession (and defensive efficiency is also probably just raw defensive points per possession). The number given for Minnesota is 1.118, and I think points per possession are usually in...

I like that it mentioned Pitino's teams always being competitive. With the exception of 2015-16, the Gophers had reasonable hopes of making the tournament at some point of every single season he was here. Pitino's effectiveness at spring recruiting might also prove to be a very valuable skill...

Let's start playing North Dakota State in football again too. They have a bunch of players I've never heard of who apparently went to high school in Minnesota, which means I'm supposed to care more as a fan for some reason and definitely buy tickets.

They also said "This is anyone's game" at multiple points at the second half when the Gophers were up by 20+ points. The last specific instance I can recall, it was "anyone's game" with Minnesota leading 89-50 with 10 minutes left to play.

Good call

I thought it was less egregious than that, maybe said something to a black player about how he was playing with a noose around his neck. Idk if there was player abuse stuff too maybe?

Wasn't there talk toward the end of last season that Jamison Battle was likely done playing college basketball because he wanted to move on with life and start making money somewhere, like playing professionally overseas? Ohio State seemed to present the option to both stay in college for a...

And weirdly one of the biggest things we did wrong against San Francisco was just repeatedly giving the ball away. If anyone remembers, Minnesota was #3 in the country in fewest turnovers in Ben's first season. Granted that stat is inflated by the fact that we played at a slow pace, but still...

They wouldn’t make a bowl game be a rematch of a regular season game I wouldn’t think, so playing Eastern Michigan in the Quick Lane Bowl seems unlikely. Quick Lane seems like the most likely destination, I just don’t think it would be against Eastern Michigan. Guaranteed Rate maybe a...

2022: New Mexico State, Wisconsin, Syracuse. Michigan State was 5-6 going into the last week of the season and lost to Indiana in double overtime. 2021: Miami (OH), Purdue, Maryland, Wisconsin, West Virginia.

One wrench to throw in with the Quick Lane Bowl is that 5-6 Eastern Michigan is playing Mo Linguist’s 3-8 Buffalo for bowl eligibility tonight. Buffalo is a 5 point favorite. If EMU wins, I would think there’s a decent chance they get the Quick Lane Bowl because it’s nearby, and I think they’d...

We were a finalist for Trent Pierce as well coming out of high school

Jon Leuer and Jordan Taylor were very good, probably the most recent players from Minnesota to actually be stars at Wisconsin, but they were 15 years ago now. Jared Berggren was pretty good too. Nate Reuvers was third team all Big Ten once. Tyler Wahl has been good, but he's from Lakeville...

Nebraska scored 17 unanswered after I posted this and beat Rider 64-50

Nebraska up 47-46 on Rider at 10:24 left in the second half. Nebraska then hits back to back 3's, 53-46.

Maryland and Rutgers seem to be disappointing early on. Do Michigan or Indiana have a good shot at getting in this year? Indiana got a big time transfer big man and a 5 star freshman this year. I thought I remember Michigan losing a lot to the portal in the offseason and that they were...

Maybe 5 minutes into the second half, we were up by about 35 points, and I thought at least part of it was some unsustainably hot shooting, but we hit 48% from deep for the game, so it didn't drop off much if at all. It looks like Garcia, Ihnen, Christie, Mitchell, Hawkins, and then maybe...

Couple early turnovers from Hawkins just losing control