Gophers Game Preview: at Middle Tennessee [NIT] 3/21/12 & JB's Jottings

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Former Cyclone LaRon Dendy Leads the Sun Belt Regular Season Champs

Middle Tennessee (27-6, 14-2) earned the right to host the Minnesota Golden Gophers (21-14, 6-12) with a win at Tennessee. Wednesday night the Blue Raiders & Gophers will battle for a trip to Madison Square Garden and a spot in the NIT Final Four (6pm CT; TV: ESPN2).

http://www.gopherhole.com/news_article/show/139790?referrer_id=388419
 

This one looks like another coin flip, with the slight edge to Middle Tennessee because of their home court advantage, which should be more substantial than what the Gophers saw in Miami (a pitiful crowd of 1,649). Yeah, it might be tough coming out of there with a W.
 



"While the victory was impressive, Minnesota has to be worried coming into Wednesday night's game"

I'm sure they are terrified Jesse. Absolutely terrified.

What a drama queen.
 


Well no one can say the Gophers aren't getting any experience playing true non-conference road games. This should help them tremendously next season!
 

Time to troll on JB a little bit. Sorry.

JB, do you try to be a journalist, or do you write a blog? It gets really old to see you infuse your little grinding axes into the stuff you put into your articles. So you'll throw a little dig at the 20 win threshold in this game preview. Which, obviously it's a dig at "some" specific coach. Gee, who could that be? But beyond that, I'll cite the Wisconsin game preview that you wrote, where you led with a gem about how "In the timeout huddle, coach Tubby Smith decided an isolation play for true freshman Andre Hollins against senior Jordan Taylor made a lot of sense. It didn't."

We all know how detail-oriented you are with this stuff, you couldn't remember Andre saying afterwards that he messed up and didn't run the drawn up play at all? Please. You're not really fooling anyone with the little editorial turds you hide in your otherwise well-researched articles. At the very least, you should either report facts if you want to be a journalist, or obviously lay out your opinions in a column, like the "Gophers are falling even when their shots do" article. That would be fine.

But really, my point is that "new media" toes the line between writing a blog and appearing to have some sort of professional journalistic credibility. Which one are you? You don't get to be both. I don't get why you don't get more crap for that kind of thing, because you do it a lot.
 

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