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    What the future of Gopher’s basketball should be… a High-End Feeder program

    The Gophers need to a wholesale change to their basketball approach and I believe it is as follows: *Become a high-level feeder program to top-tier Blueblood programs / other high-end major P5 schools. Pitch HS recruits and freshman transfer targets on a two year system in which they knowingly...
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    If you were Asuma...what would you do?

    After seeing the first 10 games of the season, we are starting to see a decent sample size of Asuma's freshman year. Some observations (they can change, but are grounded in reality); The Gophers will be at or near the bottom of the Big Ten, and he can't crack the starting lineup for terrible...
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    CBJ to be targeted by UCONN???!!!!

    If Hurley leaves, CBJ will be a tough choice to pass up with his resume and interview chops. He does it the right way, and it could soon be the UCONN way…
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    Can staying in the draft

    https://x.com/draftexpress/status/1795847316806455787?s=46&t=KPsA-2n0ptrtp7zXh0OElQ
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    ESPN Way to EARLY 2024-25 Men's Top 25 - no Gophers...SHOCKED!

    https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39895473/mens-college-basketball-way-too-early-top-25-rankings-2024-25-season A few Big10 teams in the preseason rankings, bolded below: #1 Duke #2 Gonzaga #3 Kansas #4 UCONN #5 Iowa State #6 Purdue #7 Houston #8 Arizona #9 Tennessee #10...
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    Rick Pitino suggests Salary Cap ($2m) and 2-year binding contracts w/ Players

    https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39471080/rick-pitino-says-college-basketball-needs-salary-cap This would make things very interesting! College basketball would be better with the 2 year binding contracts. Just with local examples : Gophers would not have lost Henley &...
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    Lineups We Should Test Out - what's the downside?

    Here is the upcoming schedule: 11/30 Home against New Orleans - Kenpom 280 (certified creampuff) 12/3 at Ohio State (Kenpom 25) 12/6 Home against Nebraska (Kenpom 46) 12/9 Home against Florida Gulf Coast (Kenpom 232 creampuff territory) 12/12 Home against IUPUI (Kenpom 343 - *362 is bottom of...
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    San Fran -4.5 against Gophs tonight - 😞

    San Fran already has losses @ Boise State by 5, and @ Grand Canyon by 4
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    Spartans are the Big10’s last chance for the Sweet16

    8 Big10 teams selected and only Michigan State has a chance to make the sweet 16. This is a pathetic showing for the conference. At what point is the basketball world going to wake up and realize that the Big10 isn’t the powerhouse that everyone says. It shouldn’t be getting more than 5 teams...
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    Who should be our next Coach?

    Since today is a breaking news type of day, let's play the always fun game of...who do we want as our next coach. Here is a poll of some names (big names, local names, P5 assistants at Big time programs...), let's see who the fan's want as our potential next coach.
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    Is the BigTEN still the best?

    Many posters on this forum argue the Big10 is the best basketball conference in the land, here is some of the data (KenPom and Net Rankings): I'll list the Average KenPom & Net of the conference, KenPom and Net of the top 5 teams in the conference, and KenPom and Net of the bottom 3 teams of...
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    Souhan’s Startribune article: When evaluating Ben Johnson's Gophers future, both patience and perspective are required

    Ouch! “If this were an established, winning program, Johnson would be fired. But if this were an established, winning program, Johnson would not have been hired.”
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    UST got the 9th largest donation in the history of an NCAA school today!

    on campus arena coming - live news conference as of 11am. $75M from Lee and Penny Anderson link to the UST article
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    Key Matchups vs Illinois

    IMO the game will come down to the bigs: Battle Garcia Payne Vs Mayer Hawkins Dainja Mayer 6’9” SF - extremely seasoned coming from Baylor, great defender and shooter. Probably sticking on Battle all night Hawkins 6’10” F - Playmaker who has size and speed to stay with JOJ no problem, will...
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    Player Grades 15 Games In

    First, for anyone who hasn't signed up for a free account on https://cbbanalytics.com/ I highly recommend it. You can follow one team for free and you get some insane stats. I'm getting these charts and data from the free user account (I'd be interested in what you could get with the $40 per...
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    Putting your 2022-23 expectations out there

    It may surprise many of you, but I am not an unrealistic fan who thought we would get to the top half of the big ten this year. In starting this thread, I want to make it crystal clear in what my expectations were / are for this program for this season along with providing the opportunity for...
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    1st year coach Dennis Gates has MIZZOU flying

    They are 12-1 and just crushed Kentucky (89-75). A little more about the roster turnover Here. - only 3 returning players from last years team We’ll on their way to an NCAA bid this year. * also just recently bet Illinois by 22 and Wichita State (still a solid program)
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    POLL: Will UST have a better KenPom ranking than our Gophs at all during the 2022-23 season?

    As of today, Gophers 177 and UST 204 Extra data points: -South Dakota state is the highest ranked Summit League school @ 196 -Nebraska is closest B10 school @84
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    Northwestern 83 DePaul 45 …yikes

    For everyone saying DePaul was a real team… Either way, Northwestern has won @ MSU, almost beat Auburn (lost by a point).
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    Nothing like being 18.5 pt dog @ Purdue

    As a big gopher fan, this is sad. Wonder what some of the bigger point spreads have been (Gophers as underdogs) in recent memory…



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