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Ersery didn’t make First Team AA on any of the 5 teams used to pick consensus AA. He made 2 second teams and 1 third team. Seems like Gopher all-star candidates don’t get quite the love that they should.

Also sets him up to be First Team AA in the future.

Wish Kussow would release a top 5-10 list. Lots of teams putting in a lot of work to recruit her. She’s been to Iowa recently. Purdue, which has had players from her high school, also been in to see her recently. Probably many more. Her recruitment has been pretty quiet on her end.

I think Coach P was very intentional about the schedule. You don't end up with a non-conference schedule ranked 353 (using the NET) or 343 (using the RPI) without purposely scheduling a relatively high number of Quad 4 teams. Coach P's comments at the State Fair make clear that she understands...

Will be interesting to see if the All Defensive and All Freshman teams remain 5-player teams, now that the BIG has 18 teams. If they stay 5 player teams, will be really hard for McKinney to make the All Freshman team, and highly unlikely to make the All Defensive team this year. In the future...

That’s her stock line. All coaches have them. Said the same thing at the state fair this year.

The return (revenge?) of Annika Stewart. Last year was a very strange year for Stewart. Amy Williams seemed to sour/give up on Stewart, despite her shooting improvement. In conference play, her efg% (64.1%) was way up because her 3-point fg% was way up (42.9%). Her per-minute player...

Good to play Nebraska now. They seem discombobulated since the Potts injury (leading scorer and rebounder). 3 different starting lineups in 3 games since Potts was injured. Like the Gophers, they haven’t beaten anybody good, but they did lose again to rival Creighton (after the Potts injury)...

Perich as a true freshman First Team All Big Ten honoree is in some rare air. Pretty sure the Gophers have never had a 4-time First Team All Big Ten football player (freshman ineligibility made it impossible back in the day). Doubt Perich will stay for 4 years given the path he is on. Think...

Minnesota's initial NET ranking (12/2/24) of 31 is a good start to making the tournament. Will be interesting to see how the new Quad system this year impacts tourney selection and, more likely, seeding. This season is the first season that the women's tournament committee is evaluating resumes...

Add kicking and punting to the exceptions where Iowa has frequently dominated.

A Fleck team would never do that. So dumb.

I too think the Gophers are an NCAA tourney team, even without Braun. I am a real fan of the portal pickups and McKinney. Lots of help there. But I share 60's Guy's concern about the offense. In the offseason, Coach P talked repeatedly about playing fast, and improving their shooting...

IMO this is malarkey. Last year the excuse was she just got the job. This year there is no excuse. Creighton, Drake, South Dakota State & Northern Iowa would all love to play Minnesota. Those teams are all an upgrade from this year's schedule. Instead we hunt for teams like UMASS Lowell...

Confused why you posted 2023 schedule info. Minnesota had a weak 2023 schedule with Whalen trying to save her job.

The Gophers didn’t end up with their pitiful non-con schedule because they couldn't find better teams to play and better multi-team events/tournaments to play in. Coach P is playing the teams she wants to play. Kim Mulkey makes it work playing a weak non-conference schedule, and I am...

McKinney is another example of Coach P's good recruiting eye. McKinney can really play, and is a plus athlete who will really help in the new BIG 18. ESPN had 32 BIG signees in the top 100 (no McKinney), and ASGR had 34 BIG signees in the top 100, with McKinney finishing at 103. I would take...

Good reminder about the national recruiting the Gophers have been doing, which included getting visits from both Cearah Parchment (ESPN # 40) and Kaelyn Carroll, who moved up to ESPN # 15, but was much lower when the Gophers started recruiting her. I'm curious if you have a source for "The top...

Mara's value should be appreciated, even with her efficiency challenges. As of today, Mara is top 15 in the league in both Win Shares and Per*Minutes (an estimate of total value created by a player using their per minute player efficiency rating). These stats aggregate by game, and Mara didn't...

Any idea how the economics work for the Gophers for this event? Any revenue for the Gophers?