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Putting aside our madcap desire to dribble continually against a ball-hawking team—the unanswerable question is whether Cochran would have provided the bull strong guard action needed to play through contact. It’s a huge help in Big Ten road games. And, yes, I’m hopeful for the future...

Who will ever forget John Thomas(?) dancing with Al McGuire after the ‘97 win? McGuire loved Clem and Thomas/James/Lewis dominating in the paint.

A top ten accomplishment would have been Musselman’s first two teams winning consecutive Big Ten championships and then came the inexplicable loses at home to Iowa and at Northwestern to end the ‘73 season. The sight of Jim Brewer blocking Kevin Kunnert’s shot and the ball coming right back to...

At the risk of repeating myself the per capita enthusiasm for the Big Ten games has been terrific if the team gives us any reason for hope in a given game—and like football and hockey the students are engaged. I’m 62 and my Gopher basketball fire burns bright—give me 40 competitive minutes for...

Waiting for takeoff & following game on-line. Guy sitting next to me asks which game I’m tracking. I tell him. His response: “You’re a glutton for punishment.”

Memories of the 1980-81 season triggered by today’s USC game: Minnesota played USC in 1980 Winston Tire Classic semi-final at the decrepit LA Arena. I recall Jim Dutcher was passionately upset with the officiating (a rarity) but the Gophers beating USC setting-up one of the great Gopher wins...

Beating Wisconsin in 2014 with Big Mo scoring hoop after hoop off the pick & role as Bo Ryan watched helplessly was great fun… Richard was to basketball as Brad Buetow was to hockey: “let the kids play…”—not a recipe for success in the Big Ten or NCAA tourney hockey.

H.L. Mencken’s quote on Puritanism applies: “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.” I’ll gladly take every Gopher win I can get my hands on and smile every time.

Wow!— those tapes are treasures. Friends reported I was briefly shown on camera looking tense before the start of the overtime in the UTEP game.

One of my favorite Gopher basketball memories was going to Richmond for the round of 64 & 32 in 1990. Venue was the Spiders’ modest 12,000 seat arena. Saw four games each with a memorable story line: Eldon Miller and Northern Iowa upsetting Missouri with hot three point shooting; Minnesota...

I was in third grade in the 1971—so I’m a youthful 62…

Honestly, until I started reviewing the thread I thought he had played for the Gophers at some point. The rosters in the Ben Johnson era are one big mash-up…

Hopefully not Gary Cuozzo; Bobby Lee & Norm Snead…

Issues with officiating are about 50th on the list of problem areas for the program. That said, I’m pleased Reusse ridiculed the technical foul given Frank Mitchell. It was a classic case of an official injecting himself into the game when a simple warning would have sufficed. That’s not even...

Canceling their entire 2025 season may make sense for this reason.

Randomly remembering the ‘77 football game at Memorial Stadium with Warren Moon quarterbacking the Huskies and Paul Rogind kicking four field goals for a 19-17 win. The Huskies, led by Robin Earl, easily won the ‘76 game in Seattle. (Of course these facts have no relationship to a basketball...

Forget Izzo 2.0: the whining UPer. They’ll get all the calls at Breslin. Play hard & physical & don’t worry about fouls. It’s a puncher’s chance game. Gave MSU too many open three point looks at the Barn.

All things considered—the per capita fan enthusiasm for the Big Ten games has been robust.

Bernie Bierman or Pappy Waldorf?