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Probably. She played, but wasn’t a star at either of her post HS stops. But she was just the first in the long line of great Minnesota HS players to leave. We all bemoan Paige, Tessa, and others, but the seeds were planted much earlier when Karvonen, Skalicky (although she did return to the U...

Janet Karvonen has indeed done a lot for girls basketball in Minnesota over the years. Ironically though, rather than staying home to play at the U, she went to Old Dominion, one of the early powers of women’s college basketball, where she played alongside the late, great Anne Donovan. After...

Snippes velocity is OK for this level. Not great, but not bad. It was Grayson who was leaping the latter part of the season. Snippes spin is fine as well, but she needs to get control of it, as her stats indicate. She must be fine in bullpen sessions or Piper wouldn’t put her out there. With...

Agree in principle. However, the difference in talent level in club is significantly more between best and worst than it is at the B1G level. The decision to transfer is complicated. Nobody on this team will transfer solely because the players on their new team are all significantly better than...

Earlier this year, Grayson wasn’t leaping and she topped out at 58-59 mph. Now she is topping out at 60-61. So, I would suggest that Piper actually encouraged her to do this now that it is no longer illegal.

B1G teams (including us) have proved that a World Series run is possible about half the time. These are big schools with deep pockets. They are attractive to some players over some of the softball factories on academic reputation alone. The realistic ceiling in the portal/NIL era may not be a...

Ultimately Piper’s tenure will be defined by her ability to field a respectable or better pitching staff. That is her bread and butter, she is known in softball circles for the product she has put in the circle through the years. Now she needs to prove she can attract the kind of pitchers needed...

Schwartz has a lower body injury and is taking a medical redshirt. Enter has a hip flexor that just hasn’t responded enough to treatment to get her cleared to pitch. Yes, Limdmark is a mystery. But we know she left the team after just six at bats. Reilly Gardner is also somewhat of a mystery...

While our chances would be enhanced had Enter and Schwartz not gone down, I really like this draw for the Gophers. They have been susceptible to dominant aces all year, but Illinois and Nebraska would be the first two games, and neither team has a dominant ace. Playing the extra game against...

They were also leading at Illinois by six or so pretty late in the game when Braun went down. Maybe they could have hung on without her had that been a home game but it’s tough on the road. Bottom line, if you look at the way they were dispatching inferior opponents in non-conference, that was...

Creme and his ilk can’t possibly understand all the nuances of why a team finished with the record it did. Just too many teams to follow. He is probably aware Braun was out for a period last season, but has forgotten how they were performing before she went down, and he probably forgot that Hart...

Congrats Jess! Jess Oakland could have arguably won this award practically every week since conference play began, and here’s why. She’s so good she hits 500 for the week with only one weekend of play remaining and sees her conference batting average decline.

I think the frustration is starting to show on some players. This is something nobody on the team has ever had to really deal with. Regarding facing Kniesche, we have hit her pretty well in the past. The pitcher they faced last night was wild early in the year but has won her last seven starts...

Who did Trachsel recruit who was All B1G caliber from Day One who is now a senior or fifth year senior? Or a senior or fifth-year senior who sat the bench for two years but became a solid player in her last two years? That is a large part of the current staff’s depth of talent problem right...

That’s the kind of solid beat reporting we don’t get from our local media outlets, Gopher68!

That was the least dominating no-hitter I’ve ever seen. I counted at least six balls that we lined right at Wisconsin fielders or they made diving grabs. The home plate ump had a generous strike zone, and Magnamino took advantage. We didn’t. Game 2 was better, against a pretty mediocre pitcher...

It was supposed to be on the regular B1G Network.

Indiana is a team that feasts on positive momentum. No extra outs, as they wreak havoc on the base paths. But they also run themselves out of innings so our defense needs to step up and make accurate throws, hit cutoffs, etc. To beat them, you must jump ahead of them early and not let up. We...

Both of these teams are in the same boat. A series win here would be huge for us.

Yet Ohio State is the only team to have beaten Northwestern, and the same Emily Ruck who we pounded shut out the Wildcats. On the other hand, look at Indiana’s stats in-conference vs overall. Their non-conference schedule wasn’t great, but they are hitting and pitching well below what they did...