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    Caitlin Clark offered 5 million to join Ice Cube's BIG3 basketball league

    I knew it existed and actually was rooting some for former Gopher Royce White (this was years ago before it was clear he went off the deep end). It started out with more well known former players (Allen Iverson played one of the years, "White Chocolate" Jason Williams played a year or two...
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    Joshua Ola-Joseph Enters Transfer Portal

    Who you blame here is dependent on your perspective. I lean towards JOJ just not being willing to be the type of player this staff thinks he should be. If they see your role as an energy/rebounder guy who hopefully can be a versatile defender and you don't rebound (and at least occasionally...
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    Former Waseca HS and NDSU 6-foot-10 big Andrew Morgan will visit the Gophers on Thursday

    This would be the concern as our backup big IMHO. His advanced stats suggest he's not very good defensively (this year he had a career worst Defensive Box Score Plus Minus at -2.4) and the biggest red flag is he's not a rim protector at all. Morgan had a total of 8 blocks in 32 games this...
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    Official 2025 Gophers Football Recruiting Thread: Links, Tweets, Videos, Rumors

    Normally don't engage in stuff like this, but they've had a number of QB visitors in, including one that finished a visit tonight. I clearly said SOME other position coaches, not ALL. This is no longer true two weeks later BTW. It is true that Winston is killing it terms of getting nice...
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    All Things 2023-2024 Minnesota Timberwolves In-Season Thread

    I am not able to watch as many Wolves games as I would like (largely due to blackout rules) but I feel like I make a complete 180 on this team 2-3 times a month. They do something completely awful like collapse against the Bulls and then have a dominating win in LA against the Clippers. With...
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    Gophers Pro Day

    I didn't want to start a new thread but Nubin said he had meniscectomy after the season which is why he didn't work out at the combine and still wasn't back to 100% at pro day. For his sake, I hope they only needed to remove torn pieces and not the total meniscus as that could affect his draft...
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    All Things Turd Sandwiches

    Go Illini! Having Iowa and Wisconsin come in to Minneapolis and win both the Women's and Men's Tournaments would be quite the kick in the nuts. Apparently the "U" invests in a titanium cup though as stuff like this doesn't seem to bother them. There will be two teams from Iowa in the NCAA...
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    Former Gopher coach Dan Monson fired by Long Beach State

    So interesting to see how a couple of locals are trying to frame Monson and Pitino making the tournament as some black eye against the Minnesota job. Monson went from the Big Ten to coaching in a one bid league for 17 years where he just made his 2nd NCAA tournament tonight. I was rooting for...
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    Do you want Ben back for a fourth year?

    These results are shocking to me. Hopefully it's some Badger and Hawkeye fans coming over and "Izzoing" the poll results. In Selection Sunday's final field of 68, I count THIRTEEN coaches who started at their new job at the same time or after Ben Johnson. If you go through the next 8 teams...
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    Cashman coming home

    Really happy the Vikings signed Cashman. It's great to have a Gopher on the roster after not having one last year after Esezi's release. On the field he seems like a great fit for Flores defense with his blitzing ability. I think the Vikings have a really nice free agency with their 3...
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    NO SPRING GAME! Gophers start spring practice March 21; open practice for the public is April 11

    I really hope the lack of a Spring game is because of roster depth issues and not some sort of paranoia on PJ's part. I have heard speculation elswhere that PJ is either concerned with other teams being able to see what we run OR other teams being able to see our players and poach them after...
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    Official 2025 Gophers Football Recruiting Thread: Links, Tweets, Videos, Rumors

    Winston seems to be killing it on the recruiting trail with a lot of Dline visits set up for this Spring/Summer. I cannot say the same for some of the other position coaches where we still don't even have a single (at least publicly known) visit set up.
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    Badgers will finish ahead of Minnesota in the Big Ten standings for a 26th-straight year.

    This is a choice. Just like it's a choice to allow past poor results to excuse current poor performance. It was a very bad omen when Coyle did that interview with Andy Greder and the topic of " Minnesota only being in X number of tournaments in X number of years" was brought up in relation to...
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    Four Gophers Receive 2023-24 All-B1G Honors

    I agree with Spottedmuskie in that I was surprised to see the Coaches have Dawson on the 3rd team while the Media had him on the 2nd team. I would have guessed it would be the other way around with the coaches recognizing how big a part of Minnesota's season Dawson was and the media maybe not...
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    STrib: Gophers men's basketball excited about its potential if the core stays together

    First of all, Ben's answers come off as so entitled to me. You cannot miss the NCAA tournament 4 years in a row and stay employed, "a step" isn't optional for you no matter what your roster looks like at any point next year. Transfers, injuries, whatever, you are completely out of excuses...
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    ***OFFICIAL INDIANA AT MINNESOTA IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    Remember when Ben talked about "culture" during his awful first season? That we were supposedly building it? This was an awful "culture" loss. Indiana didn't even play particularly well, we just were completely lethargic from the opening tip. There have been a lot of home games where the...
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    Would you support Coyle giving Fleck a raise and extension to keep him at MN?

    I haven't been on the board since the Fleck/UCLA thing, but I am pleasantly surprised the majority of posters wouldn't have supported a raise/extension to keep Fleck. 2019 was a long time ago. This last year was absolutely horrific and every year since 2019 has featured some truly terrible...
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    What are the odds everyone comes back next year?

    I went with 10%. There is so much of this season to still play out that there are a lot of unknowns. My working assumption is that Ben will get another year and it will finally be "no bs" time- either make the tournament or you are gone. Garcia- Have to have him back. One of the best...
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    Week #13 Field of 68 projection with a focus on "record vs. the field"

    I have a rough count of 18 coaches currently in the field that are in their first through third year in their current jobs. That's only coaches in leagues getting more than one bid so that's 18 of the 43 bids from non 1 bid leagues. Take out Arizona, UNC, Duke, and Texas and you are still at...
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    ***OFFICIAL NORTHWESTERN AT MINNESOTA IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    Payne's back to back blocks were the play of the game. The recovery to get back up to get the second was incredibly impressive. As discouraging as the last 30 seconds of regulation was, the response to win in OT was encouraging and incredibly surprising. The Gophers were lucky that Boo Buie...



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