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The first season for Minnesota under coach Niko Medved has become an iron man event, with injuries depleting the roster and forcing most of the current starters to be ready to play the entire game.
The stipulations in the Big Ten's media contracts have benefited the basketball program beyond the annual revenue of more than $60 million that goes to the athletic department. The Gophers badly need those TV timeouts, too.
Their core four players — Cade Tyson, Isaac Asuma, Langston Reynolds and Bobby Durkin — are all among the top 18 in the Big Ten in minutes played per game. No other team in the conference has more than two players in the heaviest-usage group. Tyson, the transfer from North Carolina and leading scorer, is logging an average of 36.4 minutes per game. Tyson has played the entire game six times in Big Ten play.
“Obviously it’s a dream, but it’s also really tiring at the same time. Going back to the summer, all the hard work we did is just kind of paying off," Reynolds said, smiling. “When it gets to that point in the second half and you’re past the second media timeout, you’re like, ‘Oh, OK. I’ve been here before. I know what I need to do.’”
The first season for Minnesota under coach Niko Medved has become an iron man event, with injuries depleting the roster and forcing most of the current starters to be ready to play the entire game.
The stipulations in the Big Ten's media contracts have benefited the basketball program beyond the annual revenue of more than $60 million that goes to the athletic department. The Gophers badly need those TV timeouts, too.
Their core four players — Cade Tyson, Isaac Asuma, Langston Reynolds and Bobby Durkin — are all among the top 18 in the Big Ten in minutes played per game. No other team in the conference has more than two players in the heaviest-usage group. Tyson, the transfer from North Carolina and leading scorer, is logging an average of 36.4 minutes per game. Tyson has played the entire game six times in Big Ten play.
“Obviously it’s a dream, but it’s also really tiring at the same time. Going back to the summer, all the hard work we did is just kind of paying off," Reynolds said, smiling. “When it gets to that point in the second half and you’re past the second media timeout, you’re like, ‘Oh, OK. I’ve been here before. I know what I need to do.’”