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BIG teams: UCLA 1 Maryland 3 Michigan 4 USC 5 Iowa 5 Michigan St 6 Washington 6 Ohio St 7 Indiana 8 Minnesota 8 Nebraska 9 Oregon 9 Illinois first four out. So basically every team except the holdover bottom five has a good chance to make the tourney.

Coyle: “The expectation for our program is to compete for championships, and unfortunately, we have not done that in the last four years [in fact we only have 1 top 3 conference finish in the last 40 years.]” Not a fan of press release BS. How ‘bout “our goal at this point is to regularly make...

https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltca750cef518bc6e4/blte5c04fb400fbb087/2024-25%20WBB%20Postseason%20Honors.pdf https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2025/3/3/24375548/big-ten-womens-basketball-postseason-awards-ballot-juju-watkins-lauren-betts-usc-trojans-ohio-state The lists, and an...

In conference play, the Gophers' turnover rate is 12.4%, the lowest rate for any BIG team in conference play in the history of advanced stats for WBB (since 2009-10). The low turnover rate has helped produce an Assist-to-Turnover Ratio of 1.54, which is top 6 in BIG conference play since...

Before the recent Caitlin-Clark era boomlet, 2004 was a big year for WBB TV ratings, including the Gophers (see # 10 above).

Not the official teams, but good for them. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/2023/11/28/all-big-ten-football-team-2023-usa-today/71721769007/

Nubin - 2nd Team Coaches & Media Sori-Marin - 3rd Team Coaches I know it's tough to make First Team in a 14-team league, but as good as the Gophers defense has been the last two seasons, not a single First Team All-Big Ten defender. Think Nubin may have belonged on 1st Team.

The mantra about outplaying Iowa only to lose tends to ignore special teams, where the Gophers have decidedly underperformed versus Iowa, especially in the kicking game. 2019-Gophers miss a long first half FG (50 yards);Iowa scores TD on next possession. Gophers miss a 4th quarter XP, making...

Six metro players made 1st, 2nd or 3rd-team all Big Ten. Certainly the highest number that I can recall. Have there been other years with such strong metro representation? Minneapolis North - Tyler Johnson (1st Team/2nd Team) Park Center - Amani Hooker (1st Team) Eden Prairie - Carter...

1999, 2003, 2014 and 2016 are the last 4 times the Gophers have won 5 conference games in a season. For those that think this year isn't a substantial accomplishment because the Gophers had an easy conference schedule, the same could be said of 1999 and 2003. There is scant difference between...

I don't expect Brew to go 0-7 at home this season, but I'm thinking that 6 home losses in 1 season might be a Big Ten Record, and 7 home losses would surely be a Big Ten record. Has any other Big Ten team ever lost 6 or 7 games at home in 1 season. Maybe NW? Anyone else?

Small overachieved big time. Many others underachieved or left. Has anyone else overachieved from the '07 class? What does the '07 class tell us about Brewster? I certainly agree that he was hired too late to get many highly rated kids (not his fault), but what does the '07 class say about...

The other thread on turnarounds was interesting, so I took the idea back to 1960. For coaches who started in the Big Ten since 1960, i.e. the last 50 years, if they were ever going to win a Big Ten championship, it usually happened by year 4, though there are 2 YR 5s, and 1 Yr 6. If Brew...

Iowa BB, with an experienced HC is what the bottom looks like. Gopher FB, with the recruiting-driven TB, is what a poised-to-improve program looks like (even if I have my doubts about TB). The near total lack of talent on the Iowa BB team stands in stark contrast to the young talent on the...