***OFFICIAL MICHIGAN STATE AT MINNESOTA IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

[DinkyTownDawg]

Agree with you 100% on the shortened bench. To me tonight feels like a "play 8, trust 7" (circa Jim Molinari quote) kind of game:

Trust
Hawkins
Mitchell
Payne
Christie
Garcia
Ola-Joseph
Fox. ...
with a dash of Carrington for defensive minutes on Hoggard/Walker/Akins/Holloman.

I don't need to see anyone else get minutes in this big of a game.

so much for that dash of Carrington minutes. What a game for him defensively!!!!!

 

[RogueGopher]

This team has gone from being the kid who gets his ass kicked all the time while bullies laugh at them to the kid who will drag every fight out and make those bullies wish they never laid eyes on them. We win more of these battles now because we have experience being in the dredges. Impressive!

You have to go through the suck!

 

[BTChamp]

This fucking team is turning into something impressive. I am fucking extatic for the guys that battled through the bullshit and are creating their own narrative. So impressed with them.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Makes sense. I'm just loving seeing it.

Major corner turned!

 

[Gold Vision]

Rough night for Hawkins and Mitchell. Nice to see Christie and Fox step up huge tonight. Payne was also obviously a game changer. The game was completely different when he was out with 2 fouls.

 

[howeda7]

Ben looks like he ran a marathon.

 

[Ewert86PC]

This didn't age well!!!

For this game. It's a long season.

We're 1-0 in the Sparty Bowl.

 

[stocker08]

Worst coach in B1G history is above .500 in the B1G in February.

And fourth in the Big Ten after 11 games.

Spoiler

What a disaster.....

 

[mnhoopboy]

BJ coach of the year!

This is a real possibility now. He's gotta be one of the frontrunners.

 

[rivergopher]

One of the best stats we only gave up 2 offensive rebounds tonight that was great!

 

[BTChamp]

I'll say it again. "Cam is better"!

 

[Gold Vision]

Garcia has hit a couple huge 3s in crunch time too.

 

[rivergopher]

9 left can we go 6-3. Hell I am riding high.

@iowa Win
@Purdue Loss
Rutgers Win
Ohio State Win
@Nebraska Loss
@ILL Loss
Penn State Win
Indiana Win
@Nwestern-Win

 

[DarthGopher]

Other than the money, they do a nice broadcast.

Well worth the $6.

Damn, I may have to actually go to a game

 

[BroncoRedux]

9 left can we go 6-3. Hell I am riding high.

@iowa Win
@Purdue Loss
Rutgers Win
Ohio State Win
@Nebraska Loss
@ILL Loss
Penn State Win
Indiana Win
@Nwestern-Win

Are you ever

 

[BTChamp]

Rough night for Hawkins and Mitchell. Nice to see Christie and Fox step up huge tonight. Payne was also obviously a game changer. The game was completely different when he was out with 2 fouls.

The impressive thing is there are options now. Plus gaining confidence and experience together.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

This is a real possibility now. He's gotta be one of the frontrunners.

the CBJ Disaster crowd, aka the GH Hoops Intelligentsia, will say the award isn’t factual/actual because their limited hoops knowledge can’t fathom they were WRONG

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

Failure is growth.

Success is better growth.

 

[howeda7]

the CBJ Disaster crowd, aka the GH Hoops Intelligentsia, will say the award isn’t factual/actual because their limited hoops knowledge can’t fathom they were WRONG

Calm down, Josh Dobbs.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Rough night for Hawkins and Mitchell. Nice to see Christie and Fox step up huge tonight. Payne was also obviously a game changer. The game was completely different when he was out with 2 fouls.

And Ben correctly sat him, so he could dominate in the second half

 

[Gopherbbdude]

For this game. It's a long season.

We're 1-0 in the Sparty Bowl.

I'll take that as u giving Ben some credit

 

[DarthGopher]

This fucking team is turning into something impressive. I am fucking extatic for the guys that battled through the bullshit and are creating their own narrative. So impressed with them.

And nobody had to get punched in the dick!!! Just the threat set them boys straight.

 

[bc2211]

the CBJ Disaster crowd, aka the GH Hoops Intelligentsia, will say the award isn’t factual/actual because their limited hoops knowledge can’t fathom they were WRONG

This is what is what’s f’ing wrong with the gopher hole. Grow up. Enjoy the win with the fanbase. This shit is old.

 

[GophersInIowa]

It wasn’t pretty. Christie and the defense were the difference. This is fun.

 

[Ewert86PC]

I'll take that as u giving Ben some credit

Is it outcoaching when an expert makes beginner level mistakes?

Haven't seen consistency anywhere on this team yet. Maybe if they would Row The Boat....

 

[Gopher Ally]

That Barn is a special place when it’s rockin, Pisscock announcers said one of the better environments in the Big Ten and maybe country

 

[sal]

Ben getting outcoached..... again.

Good take

 

[BTChamp]

Garcia has hit a couple huge 3s in crunch time too.

For a couple games now.

 

[skiumah1]

It wasn’t pretty. Christie and the defense were the difference. This is fun.

Hawkins, Christie, Garcia and Payne is a legit quartet. Better than most have in the Big 10 I'd think.

I liked Carrington tonight as the 5th. Maybe see more of that?

 

[MNVCGUY]

Awesome.....good lord if this team ever figures out how to play the 1st half the way they play the 2nd half look out....

Cam Christie has arrived.....