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Her conference-games FG% is 30.7, which is terrible. With the near-term schedule easing up a bit, I’m hoping for a material uptick.

Agree. Also wish you could find stats for close 2-point attempts versus far 2-point attempts. The men’s game has those, but not the women’s game, as far as I know.

Starting to think the issue is more offensive design/2-point shot selection, rather than slump. Although part of it is that Braun is forced to take tough late shot-clock shots, when the offensive fails to generate a good shot. Still, she is 26 games into her career against BIG competition, and...

Intriguing game between first-year coaches of teams who both find themselves 3-3 in conference, after both playing weak non-conference schedules (Sparty - non-con strength of schedule 191; Gophers 168). Both teams begin a 5-game stretch tomorrow where they will play each other twice, but avoid...

Agree. They are ahead of schedule against a front-loaded league schedule. Already done with IU and MD, with 4 games left against the clear weak links in the league (Bucky, Rutgers & Northwestern).

A highly-motivated IU team will be hard to beat. Still, IU is a bottom-half team in the league in terms of pace, as are the Gophers (and the conference teams Minnesota has beaten). If IU doesn’t shoot it great, pace may help Minnesota stay in the game.

They also bumped the salary of Seth Wallace, their linebackers coach/assistant defensive coordinator, to $1mil. Also gave him the title assistant head coach, the first time that title has been used in the Ferentz era. Some have claimed on Iowa message boards that Wallace turned down the Gopher...

FWIW, at the end of Q1, IU was winning the rebounding battle 11-10, with Gophers winning the O-rebound battle 4-3. In the 2nd Quarter, the defensive boards were equal, with IU winning the offensive glass 3-1.

Minnesota and IU played once last season, and Minnesota won the rebounding battle 40-32, with 15 offensive rebounds to IU's 7 offensive rebounds.

6 conference games is only 1/3 of the conference season, but Scalia’s conference numbers are not only sharply down from the non-conference season, but down from prior seasons. She is shooting under 30% from both 2 and 3 in conference play. If she and Garzon continue to struggle on Wed...

Where does Shudlick rate among the all-time Gopher greats? Certainly behind Whalen and McCarville, correct? Banham, Zahui B, and Shudlick are next 3, in some order?

Agree 100%. Especially in this 4-games-in-10-days stretch, GG needs more bench. She is not ready and does not have the versatility to be top 5 in the league in minutes in conference play (she was 3rd coming into today).

Quite the lineup today of west Metro basketball talent. Assume there are some long-standing friendships, jealousies etc. among the players on the two teams given their shared/close geographies and overlapping histories. Nebraska Callin Hake - Chanhassen Annika Stewart - Wayzata Kendall Coley -...

Agree on big game. Hope we get the Nebraska that played Illinois last night. Big Red looked pitiful at several stretches in that game, including a 7-point 4th Qtr.

Awesome win. Could really see the coaching with 6 days since last game. Not sure there was 1,000 people there. Will be interesting to see what they claim.

This week's games should help us get a better read on this year's Gophers. Starting off the real BIG season with Iowa and Maryland was a tough draw (as is the lack of Wisconsin, Rutgers, Northwestern etc. until later in the season). As a team, Minnesota's 3-game conference-only stats are bad...

45,019 was highly likely the sold number, not scanned tickets that were actually used. Even in the great 2019 season, scanned tickets were only 81.6% of the tickets the Gophers sold. In recent years, that percentage is likely materially lower, but haven’t seen the Strib or others report the...

As has been covered on The Boneyard and various other places, the call in question was wrong, but “gave [the] game to Iowa” is not close to accurate. The game was tied when a shooting foul was incorrectly called. The MSU played killed the Iowa player, but she wasn’t shooting. A correct call...

Does anyone have recent data, 2022 or 2023, for actual attendance at Gopher football games? Hard for all the no-shows counted in the announced attendance to contribute to non-ticket game-day revenue.

Really need to find some rest minutes for Battle. She has a lot on her plate, and is being asked to do too much. It’s early, but her 3-game conference totals are horrendous.