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Bad Gopher said:
Unless you count ISU.
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Wow, now that was fun! Gotta give the coaching staff at least some credit for the 2-3 zone. That slowed UCLA down big time and took them out of their game. Also, loved how much we ran. We just seem to play better when it's a more uptempo game.
 

Nice to see that only one B1G team got beat in the second round, and it was Becky. :clap: :clap: :clap:
 

Tubtastic said:
During a day full of upsets, our team not only upset a 6 seed, we destroyed them -- something no lower seed did to date. Damn it's good to be a Gopher!
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I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Iowa State (10) beat the hell out of Notre Dame (7) tonight too. Still, definitely a great result!
 

Get past Florida and anything can happen. One game at a time but you can't help but look at that sweet 16 matchup with SDSU.
 



GophersInIowa said:
Wow, now that was fun! Gotta give the coaching staff at least some credit for the 2-3 zone. That slowed UCLA down big time and took them out of their game. Also, loved how much we ran. We just seem to play better when it's a more uptempo game.
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Someone should have told that to Tim Brando and Clueless Buttcheeks behind the booth. They never stopped talking about how an open game was exactly what UCLA needed. So unprepared.
 


TLHGO4 said:
Nice to see that only one B1G team got beat in the second round, and it was Becky. :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Yes, a little cherry on top to tonight is the Big Ten going 6-1 and Wisconsin being the one loss.
 




I wonder what the largest margin of victory is in an 11 over 6 upset??
 

GophersInIowa said:
Yes, a little cherry on top to tonight is the Big Ten going 6-1 and Wisconsin being the one loss.
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Oh, did Wisconsin lose? I know Badger fans hadn't posted here today, but I just figured they were all too drunk from celebrating a big win today. Did that not happen?
 

mnsports1 said:
I wonder what the largest margin of victory is in an 11 over 6 upset??
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Great question. I know ISU destroyed ND, but that was a 10-7 and who in their right mind would bet against Hoiberg? Gophs upset = most impressive.
 



What a game! This game really reminded me of our victory in Illinois earlier this season. We got out and run and finished and shot early in the shot clock. It was really a joy to watch and I hope we use this tempo on Sunday. Most of the players played well today, we got some key contributions from the bench early. The one negative is that I still don't know why Oto saw so much action. His biggest contribution was getting elbowed by Parker.

I hope Dre is ok. It seemed like he came up lame late in the second half, but he stayed in and scored a couple buckets. It still looked like he was limping around. We really don't need another Eric Harris situation, so hopefully he's fine.
 

Awesome game! So great to see the team play up to their capabilities again and DOMINATE another team! Great win! Let's beat the Gators!!
 


mnsports1 said:
I wonder what the largest margin of victory is in an 11 over 6 upset??
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Pepperdine beat Indiana by 20 in 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

As far as I can tell, tonight and that game are the biggest victories by an 11-seed in the first round since the tournament expanded to 64/68 teams.

Lamar beat Alabama by 23 in 1983 but that was before the tournament expanded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament
 


Great game from 'Dre Hollins and a very good game from Austin Hollins. I really feel like UCLA makes that game very uncomfortable for us if 'Dre doesn't hit those back to back 3's. I was disappointed with the play of both Rodney and Trevor tonight. Both guys missed free throws and failed to convert easy opportunities down low. Eliason gave the team some very nice minutes in the first half.

Gophers will have to do a much better job limiting second chances opportunities than they did in the first half of this game if they want to hang with Florida.
 

Gopher07 said:
Pepperdine beat Indiana by 20 in 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

As far as I can tell, tonight and that game are the biggest victories by an 11-seed in the first round since the tournament expanded to 64/68 teams.

Lamar beat Alabama by 23 in 1983 but that was before the tournament expanded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament
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Darn slow start/FT's (kidding of course).
 

EG#9 said:
Great game from 'Dre Hollins and a very good game from Austin Hollins. I really feel like UCLA makes that game very uncomfortable for us if 'Dre doesn't hit those back to back 3's. I was disappointed with the play of both Rodney and Trevor tonight. Both guys missed free throws and failed to convert easy opportunities down low. Eliason gave the team some very nice minutes in the first half.

Gophers will have to do a much better job limiting second chances opportunities than they did in the first half of this game if they want to hang with Florida.
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Mo too.
 

@tmbakwe32: Great win tonight, now we have to play the same way Sunday. Thanks for the support #gophernation. Florida will be tough but we will be ready

Go Gophers!!
 

gopher the gold said:
Or FGCU they looked pretty legitimate against Georgetown.
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They did, but they were 25-10 playing in a soft conference. Fluke game? Probably. But you never know I suppose, maybe something has just clicked, like George Mason not too long ago.
 

cncmin said:
Someone should have told that to Tim Brando and Clueless Buttcheeks behind the booth. They never stopped talking about how an open game was exactly what UCLA needed. So unprepared.
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Yeah, I didn't watch much of the game until the last 10 minutes, heard Brando say that the pace was too fast for the Gophers? C'mon now. Of course, right after he said that they blew the game open with a lot of quick baskets early in the shot clock.

UCLA was ripe for the upset today.
 

The only Bruin that appeared, part time at that, was Shabazz, who just turned 19, or is it 20, or what?
 

notoriousgod71 said:
What a game! This game really reminded me of our victory in Illinois earlier this season. We got out and run and finished and shot early in the shot clock. It was really a joy to watch and I hope we use this tempo on Sunday. Most of the players played well today, we got some key contributions from the bench early. The one negative is that I still don't know why Oto saw so much action. His biggest contribution was getting elbowed by Parker.

I hope Dre is ok. It seemed like he came up lame late in the second half, but he stayed in and scored a couple buckets. It still looked like he was limping around. We really don't need another Eric Harris situation, so hopefully he's fine.
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Nice post, agreed. I'm not sure why Welch got so few minutes. But this is part of Tubby's substitution strategies that I've never understood.
 


OSUfan said:
Yeah, I didn't watch much of the game until the last 10 minutes, heard Brando say that the pace was too fast for the Gophers? C'mon now. Of course, right after he said that they blew the game open with a lot of quick baskets early in the shot clock.

UCLA was ripe for the upset today.
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It's too bad we didn't get Gottlieb who is in Salt Lake....He would have known that we need a fast pace and transition...Looking ahead, I'm not sure if Florida won't play into our hands as well. As long as the national media think we're Wisconsin, maybe opposing teams will try to run with us...let'em.
 

cncmin said:
Nice post, agreed. As a sub for Williams and/or Coleman today, Tubby chose...Oto. Now, I'm a fan of Oto in general, at least he always tries hard. That said, why not Welch? How do some of those bench players seem to go from playing big minutes to hardly seeing the court from one game to the next? I'm happy with the result tonight, however, I think this inconsistency is part of what leads to player negativity, perhaps discontent.

That said, except for excessive minutes for Oto tonight, too few for Welch, and probably too many for Mo as well, I was otherwise pretty happy with Tubby's substitution patterns tonight; that was surprising.
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I think part of it had to do with the zone. Having an extra big player in the game made things more difficult for their offense. Oto didn't do anything exceptional tonight but he did play solid defense (drew a charge, and almost had another one) and didn't do anything stupid on offense. I thought Mo did some nice things as well.
 

howeda7 said:
I'm guessing there's been bigger ones. 11/6 is so common.
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Gopher07 said:
Pepperdine beat Indiana by 20 in 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

As far as I can tell, tonight and that game are the biggest victories by an 11-seed in the first round since the tournament expanded to 64/68 teams.

Lamar beat Alabama by 23 in 1983 but that was before the tournament expanded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament
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So, yes, technically Lamar over Bama is the biggest 11 over 6 at 23 points. Tonight and 2000 are tied for #2
 

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