UTSA added
Updated tentative Gophers non-conference schedule with 3 games still to schedule. Opponents' final 2023 NET ranking is noted in parentheses.
MINNESOTA (8 of 11)
Nov. 6: BETHUNE-COOKMAN (349)
Nov. 10: UTSA (284)
Nov. 14-21: USC-UPSTATE (253)
Nov. 14-21: ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF (333)
Nov. 26: vs. San Francisco (114)
Nov. 30: NEW ORLEANS (342)
Dec. 12: IUPUI (360)
Dec. 29: MAINE (273)
Average NET (so far): 288.5
Bethune-Cookman - remarkably, there were 3 teams worse than them in the SWAC (who had 8 teams in the 300s)
UTSA - last in CUSA
USC-Upstate - one of the better teams on the slate with an actual winning record in the Big South (won by UNC Asheville over Longwood and Radford)
UAPB - also from the SWAC finishing just above Bethune-Cookman
USF - far and away the best noncon on the schedule - still only 5th best in their conf (WCC)
UNO - from the Southland where 6 of the 10 schools are in the 300s - managed to go 7-11
IUPUI - tied UWGB at 2-18 in the Horizon
Maine - weren't quite as bad as New Jersey Institute of Technology or SUNY-Albany in America East. There's still time to add them, too.
The Gophers haven't gotten anyone from the worst conference yet - the Northeast Conference. Probably scared because their NCAA entrant - FDU - knocked off Edey and the Boilers. LIU-Brooklyn fits the profile of the Gopher scheduling target, though...1-17 in the worst conference is Johnson's kind of opponent
