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I really whiffed on my prediction that we'd hear something right away on transfers for the upcoming season. I was basing my opinion on the early signing period for both basketball and football where we'd typically see a list of signees on the very first day of the period. Granted that the early...

Today is the first day of the spring signing period for basketball recruits - expect to see some announcements soon - 4 commitments plus a surprise or two? Fingers crossed. Go Gophers !!

Last year's spring signing period when we got 3 starters from the transfer portal (Robbins, Johnson and Gach) and a highly touted foreign shooter (Mutaf). Robbins and Johnson were major contributors, Gach was a disappointment after a promising start and Mutaf was never given a chance before he...

Perhaps. I didn't get a long enough look to determine whether or not he was slow and/or a poor defender. None of us know how he shot or defended in practice - if he didn't bring his "A game" to practice, then the lack of playing time is on him - if he showed potential at practice, then the...

Agreed. Mutaf signed with the Gophers after a positive recommendation from fellow countryman, Alihan Demir. However, due to the pandemic restrictions, he totally missed out on the college campus experience - confined to his room taking online classes and not being allowed to socialize and party...

With Race recommitting, that makes 4 of 6 Indiana players entering the portal who have decided to return - there's seems to be a lot of interest in Robbins on the Indiana board - arrrgggghhh. I wonder if any of the Gophers in the portal will also decide to return - the uncertainty makes it...

As touched on in another thread, Mutaf is currently playing in one of the Spanish pro leagues on a team located in the Canary Islands. In an admittedly small sample size (6 games) he is averaging 23 minutes and 12.2 points per game, shooting 48 percent from 2-point range and a team-leading 50...

Instead of saying we can't have a winning program, I should have said we're less likely to have a winning program. Theoretically, we should have a recruiting advantage in signing the in-state talent. In my opinion, failure to capitalize on this advantage is the main factor in the lack of success...

To me the chicken and the egg discussion goes like this: The elite Minnesota talent want to play for an established winning program so they go elsewhere. The Gophers can't have a winning program unless the elite guys decide to stay at home. To turn the program around some of these guys need to...

Are any top assistants at Power 5 schools on the radar? I keep thinking of how Mark Few took over at Gonzaga after Gophers hired Monson - in hindsight it looks like we should have gone after the assistant coach rather than the head coach at that time.

I would go all the way back to 1978: Darryl Mitchell Mark Hall Gary "Cookie" Holmes Trent Tucker Leo Rautins Kudos to Pitino and staff for a job well done, especially the off-season signings during the spring recruiting season. The pressure is on to translate the recruiting success into...

SS, thanks for your schedule updates - it's a great service to us fans of Gopher hoops. Do you have any insight as to whether fans will be allowed to attend the games? I wouldn't be surprised if we were barred from attending at least through the end of December due to Covid concerns. I notice...

Good luck to Alihan. I appreciate his contributions to Gopher hoops. Coming in, he had the reputation as a decent 3-point shooter - unfortunately he had that horrendous shooting slump which can happen to any shooter; even so, he appeared to be a good teammate and hustled whenever on the court...

I feel sorry for Coach K - that wrist slap will sting for a few minutes.

I thought all these guys have signed LOIs (except Walton?). A commitment is easy to change but I didn't think it was allowed to change your school once you've signed on the dotted line - if you could change would you be subject to the "sit one year" transfer policy?

Wally Ellenson. I remember seeing him and Charles Buggs at Midnight Madness prior to their freshman season and thought they were both very impressive and would have excellent careers with the Gophers.

I guess that effectively kills the Hurt speculation if the messenger says it's not him.

I commented on this when the Gophers released their schedule several months ago - the failure to schedule the maximum allowable number of games may come back to haunt us at selection time. If we had scheduled another beatable opponent at home, a 10-10 Big Ten finish would have yielded a 17-14...

For anyone that has been to the State Fair and visited the Gophers sports area: Are they offering any ticket deals for the Sep 14 game or any other game this season?

What do y'all think of redshirting Hurt next season? Amir has proven he can play major minutes at the 3; Fitzgerald is likely to need some minutes at the 3/4; also, with four quality guards we'll likely play small occasionally with three of the four on the court at the same time - barring...