ESPN: The 2025 men's college basketball coaching hot seat preview (Ben Johnson also enters a critical campaign)

[BleedGopher]

Per Jeff:

Minnesota's Ben Johnson also enters a critical campaign, with two years remaining on his deal after this season. While last season showed clear improvement over his first two years in Minneapolis, the Gophers need to continue the upward trajectory. They went a combined 22-39 (6-33 in the Big Ten) in 2022 and 2023, but finished 19-15 (9-11) last season.

There was some speculation regarding Wisconsin's Greg Gard toward the end of last season, but the Badgers made a run to the Big Ten title game and earned a 5-seed in the NCAA tournament; Gard has now guided Wisconsin to six of the past eight NCAA tournaments. A first-round upset loss to James Madison -- which means the Badgers have now failed to reach the second weekend since 2017 -- and the transfers of starters AJ Storr and Chucky Hepburn don't help, but Gard would need a disastrous campaign to force a change in Madison.

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Go Gophers!!

 

[Sane24]

In Marcus' column regarding Ben Johnson's pre-Hamline scrimmage comments, Ben specifically listed Kaydn Betts as a PERIMETER player (rather than a post player).
I think that is the first time that I have seen him be specific on that subject.
I hope Betts can do the job defending big wings.