GAME #20: Gophers (14-5, 3-3) v. #8/9 Wisconsin (16-2, 3-2) [BTN, 1/22, 8:00PM]

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Jarvis Johnson will be at the game tonight per Ryan James.
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Leave the quiet and timid at home tonight as The Barn will rocking for the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Gophers&src=hash">#Gophers</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Badgers&src=hash">#Badgers</a> game!!</p>— GopherHole.com (@GopherHole) <a href="https://twitter.com/GopherHole/statuses/426065599504986112">January 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Just to appease MplsHawk who scolded me via PM about my 72 font Iowa sucks comment before the Iowa game:

WISCONSIN SUCKS!!!
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
It could be a tinge of defiance against Maturi, Ellison, and the no-fun crew of the recent past in our athletic department. They stifled creative, unique things, such as the flyers that had the names of our opponents' girlfriends at the Barn and prohibited the pep band from singing along and having the drummers help with the beat when the student section would sing the "Hey" song a capella. I guess if the athletic department takes away the students' scalpels, then the students will pull out their hammers.
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I think there is a kernel of truth to this, but saying F Izzo and F Ryan aren't cheers or jeers that should ever be allowed. It's sad when a few students thought it was a great cheer so everyone else hopped aboard that bandwagon.
 


BleedGopher said:
The last couple of years, a few GHers posted that they had little kids with them at the UW game and when the students started the F BO RYAN chant they told their kids that the students were chanting "DUCK BOAT RIOT" and their kids bought it hook, line and sinker!

Go Gophers!!
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They should switch to actually chanting that. It would still get the point across, while not being as classless. Personally though, I'd prefer "Stop Stealing Christmas!"
 


Gopherguy0723 said:
I think there is a kernel of truth to this, but saying F Izzo and F Ryan aren't cheers or jeers that should ever be allowed. It's sad when a few students thought it was a great cheer so everyone else hopped aboard that bandwagon.
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We agree.
 

I went to a "Duck Boat Riot" one time, and Bo Ryan had his pants down to his knees, and bent over. Ugly comparison, front and back. ISH.
 



Gopherguy0723 said:
I think there is a kernel of truth to this, but saying F Izzo and F Ryan aren't cheers or jeers that should ever be allowed. It's sad when a few students thought it was a great cheer so everyone else hopped aboard that bandwagon.
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I agree. I will almost never discourage a student section from making noise but that type of vitriol is unwarranted. Why not "Bo Stole Christmas" chant as suggested, or "Bo Eats Babies" (looks like a vampire)? Just as effective, more clever, no controversy
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Jarvis Johnson, a 4star PG from DeLaSalle, will be a Gopher guest this evening as Minnesota takes on Wisconsin.</p>— Ryan James (@RyanJamesMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanJamesMN/statuses/426067586686529536">January 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Considering Wisconsin is recruiting him, it would be nice to get the W tonight.
 

Gopherguy0723 said:
It's a bad chant. It's an embarrassing chant really. I noticed the student section doesn't have many good chants anymore. Heck, they don't even do the Maroon and Gold chant anymore. They did it when Grier was playing. The chants have gotten lazier and less clever and more offensive.

The best job by the students that I can remember is when the students displayed blown up pictures of Brian Butch wearing a bra over his bare-chest in what looked like a hallway of a dorm. They held it up for the first time during the national anthem for the entire arena to see. Even the Badgers players laughed at Butch during the national anthem. That was good!
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Fully agree. Liked the Bo Ryan chant the first time, mostly because of how it was on TV. Still shocked the announcers didn't even try and talk over it.

Sinc then, it has just been lazy and is being used too often for too many coaches.

Creativity. That's the bottom line.

Nothing ground breaking, but Iowa chanted "MVC" at Joey King when shooting free throws (Missouri Valley Conference). Nothing too earth shattering, but shows an ounce of creativity.

At the very least, we NEED a "We Want Jarvis" chant. or a "Who Stole Christmas", "You stole Christmas" chant. Like the Who Hates Iowa chant. I don't know, something!
 

Dr.Don said:
Just to appease MplsHawk who scolded me via PM about my 72 font Iowa sucks comment before the Iowa game:

WISCONSIN SUCKS!!!
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We are already 0-1 whenever Dr. Don does a 72 font, bold, this team sucks post.

Can we break the streak tonight???
 



howeda7 said:
They should switch to actually chanting that. It would still get the point across, while not being as classless. Personally though, I'd prefer "Stop Stealing Christmas!"
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That'd be kind of funny actually.
 

MadtownGopher said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Jarvis Johnson, a 4star PG from DeLaSalle, will be a Gopher guest this evening as Minnesota takes on Wisconsin.</p>— Ryan James (@RyanJamesMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanJamesMN/statuses/426067586686529536">January 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Considering Wisconsin is recruiting him, it would be nice to get the W tonight.
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An extremely loud, we want Jarvis chant would be incredible.
 

fryguy22 said:
I agree. I will almost never discourage a student section from making noise but that type of vitriol is unwarranted. Why not "Bo Stole Christmas" chant as suggested, or "Bo Eats Babies" (looks like a vampire)? Just as effective, more clever, no controversy
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"Bo didn't like the call, What a shock to us all."
"Bo-ring Ry-an"
 


Jarvis won't be the only one in attendance:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>RT <a href="https://twitter.com/GophersNow">@GophersNow</a>: DLS teammates Jarvis Johnson & Sacar Anim, possibly Hill Murray's Marshawn Wilson expected to attend tonight's game...</p>— GopherHole.com (@GopherHole) <a href="https://twitter.com/GopherHole/statuses/426086252690309120">January 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Go Gophers!!
 


golfing18now said:
The "Reid" chants were really weak earlier this year. Do we have a Barnyard representative on this board?
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MadtownGopher said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SKOORB_SIWEL">@SKOORB_SIWEL</a> We'll try. Won't be our main focus.</p>— The Barnyard - UofM (@TheBarnyardUMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBarnyardUMN/statuses/426116232387899393">January 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
 

Grantlan had its top 12 NCAA power ranking, number 9 was Wisconsin:

http://grantland.com/features/tituss-top-12-ncaa-power-rankings/

9. Wisconsin
Twice this season, Wisconsin has been outrebounded and let their opponent shoot better than 50 percent against them. Twice this season, Wisconsin has lost. You’re never going to believe this, but those losses happened when the Buzzcuts didn’t play defense or rebound. I’m no mathastician, but I’m gonna go ahead and call that some good old-fashioned correlation.

Don’t get me wrong — Wisconsin has other problems to address. They stand around too much on offense. Sam Dekker is 6-foot-8, but he almost never catches the ball inside the 3-point arc. And Traevon Jackson’s pattern of following up three plays nobody else on Wisconsin can make with head-scratching decisions makes him a roller coaster of emotions. But ultimately, Wisconsin’s defeats in the last two games can be boiled down to one word: toughness.

As someone who read the back cover of Jay Bilas’s Toughness and who even thumbed through the pages before deciding not to buy it, I know all there is to know about being tough. The good news for Buzzcut fans is that Wisconsin’s problems are almost entirely between the ears. They have a ton of talent and can create all sorts of mismatches with their lineups. But to return to their dominant ways, they have to get tougher. They can’t let guys like Michigan’s Jordan Morgan and Jon Horford get more combined rebounds than Dekker and Frank Kaminsky. They can’t give Nik Stauskas open looks off something as simple as a down screen. And they can’t just stand around the perimeter on offense, probe the defense with a few dribbles, pass to a teammate when that fails, and repeat this process until the shot clock runs down and they’re forced to jack up a bad shot.
 

scher215 said:
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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My word how hard would that be? It's not like they coordinate these incredibly clever chants (like many others here have suggested). It would take a simple list of chants/ideas to keep in clean, funny, and LOUD in the Barn tonight. Get it going students if the Barnyard won't oblige.
 

MadtownGopher said:
Wisconsin is terrible at defending the paint and keeping guards from penetrating. Mathieu should have a solid game if he can stay out of foul trouble. Our perimeter defense will have to be strong because everyone on Wisconsin's team can light it up behind the ark.
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If they can shoot from behind the Ark, we're so f*##$d. Is that worth more than a 3 behind the arc?
 

34Gopher said:
This has been a beef of mine all year, and can be largely attributed to the referees consistently calling 40-50 fouls per game.
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Nah, this has been happening on BTN and the ESPNs as well, for years. They don't want any dead time between games, so instead they schedule for 2 hours, but few games take under 2 hours anymore due to official replays, excessive fouling at the end of games, forced stoppages every 4 minutes in addition to the team timeouts (of which far too many are allotted) and now add on the extra foul calls on top of that. Expect to come in somewhere around 5 minutes in. Or later if the previous game heads to OT.
 

Bad Gopher said:
As always, if Elliott stays out of foul trouble, we have a good chance. If not, we're in tough shape.
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I'd add Mathieu to that list of two. Maybe 'Dre for the list of 3.
 

I am about to head down to the game. It seems to me that the selection of Pitino was timed great with the rules changes to limit hand checking. It seems to have opened the game up. I am also hoping that the rule changes signal the beginning of the end for Ryan's defense. No more grabbing, holding and pushing without fouling. Gophers rise - Badgers fall. That would be great.
 

Gopherocious said:
My word how hard would that be? It's not like they coordinate these incredibly clever chants (like many others here have suggested). It would take a simple list of chants/ideas to keep in clean, funny, and LOUD in the Barn tonight. Get it going students if the Barnyard won't oblige.
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I posted about it in another thread, but basically I think the Barnyard, which is to say the guys who dress up like animals in the first few rows, are going to have their hands full trying to drown out the cussing from the rest of the student section, and if they're not busy doing that, they'll give a shout out to Jarvis Johnson.
 

Goldfinger said:
I am about to head down to the game. It seems to me that the selection of Pitino was timed great with the rules changes to limit hand checking. It seems to have opened the game up. I am also hoping that the rule changes signal the beginning of the end for Ryan's defense. No more grabbing, holding and pushing without fouling. Gophers rise - Badgers fall. That would be great.
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The numbers indicate Bo is adjusting already. Wisconsin really isn't that good of a defensive team this year, and instead they've upped the tempo and are very efficient on offense. Whether or not this is the new norm for him or if he's just adjusted to his players this year I guess we'll find out in the future.
 

scher215 said:
Grantlan had its top 12 NCAA power ranking, number 9 was Wisconsin:

http://grantland.com/features/tituss-top-12-ncaa-power-rankings/

9. Wisconsin
Twice this season, Wisconsin has been outrebounded and let their opponent shoot better than 50 percent against them. Twice this season, Wisconsin has lost. You’re never going to believe this, but those losses happened when the Buzzcuts didn’t play defense or rebound. I’m no mathastician, but I’m gonna go ahead and call that some good old-fashioned correlation.

Don’t get me wrong — Wisconsin has other problems to address. They stand around too much on offense. Sam Dekker is 6-foot-8, but he almost never catches the ball inside the 3-point arc. And Traevon Jackson’s pattern of following up three plays nobody else on Wisconsin can make with head-scratching decisions makes him a roller coaster of emotions. But ultimately, Wisconsin’s defeats in the last two games can be boiled down to one word: toughness.

As someone who read the back cover of Jay Bilas’s Toughness and who even thumbed through the pages before deciding not to buy it, I know all there is to know about being tough. The good news for Buzzcut fans is that Wisconsin’s problems are almost entirely between the ears. They have a ton of talent and can create all sorts of mismatches with their lineups. But to return to their dominant ways, they have to get tougher. They can’t let guys like Michigan’s Jordan Morgan and Jon Horford get more combined rebounds than Dekker and Frank Kaminsky. They can’t give Nik Stauskas open looks off something as simple as a down screen. And they can’t just stand around the perimeter on offense, probe the defense with a few dribbles, pass to a teammate when that fails, and repeat this process until the shot clock runs down and they’re forced to jack up a bad shot.
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LOL
 

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