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Minnesara said:
I knew that the wheels would eventually fall off when we got to the end of the first half. Despite the big lead. But that doesn’t make it any less frustrating to have seen the wheels go rolling down the hill without the bus, and down to the canyon floor.
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The 18 point lead was basically gone in 10 minutes.

That's all she wrote.
 




Anybody have a clip of the Carrington leg kick on the 4pt play? That was absurd. Realize that doesn’t get called often, but that was pretty obvious.
 








Just watched the replay and the 2nd half officiating was criminal.

It was obvious from the start of the 2nd half that the refs were going to interject themselves in the game after letting them play the 1st half. For anyone criticizing Reynold both of the traveling calls against him at the start of the 2nd half were horseshit calls. Clearly the refs were looking for something to call. It wasn't the amount of fouls called, it was when they were called and when they weren't.

Blackwell started the 2nd half just putting his head down and plowing to the basket and he got all the calls. He shot more FT's than the Gophers team did. Carrington held and grabbed and bumped Durkin the whole 2nd half and never got called for a foul. He also should've been T'd up for pushing Reynolds down. BS.

Awarding Winter the TO when I think he was on the line and sure as hell wasn't in the air and signaling TO was ridiculous.

Carrington kicking out was obvious and dangerous.

Calling 2 T's on Boyd and Shinholster was an absolute cop-out. Watch. Ref blows whistle and signals T and only points to Boyd, yet the call magically gets changed to a double T. Couple minutes later, Boyd, after being stripped by Reynolds dives into the pile with a shoulder block better than any Badger made all year. No call.

22-11 FT disparity.

There's more but I'm tired of typing and going to bed. God I hate the Badgers.
 

First off credit to Niko and the guys for competing, I thought this was a guaranteed 20 point loss. Objectively, we can barely put 5 guys on the floor that have scholarships. It was nice to see Durkin finally have a lights out game from 3, in hindsight it would have been nice to have those 5 made threes spread out in a couple of these other losses.

That said, I am really bummed. You can't blow a 35-17 halftime lead. You can't give up 50 points in a second half (actually the second time in a row they've done this against Wisconsin). Starting the 2nd half with 3 straight turnovers and then 4 in their first 5 possessions really set a bad tone. The second half was every bit as bad as you'd expect from a team with ~6 scholarship guys (really hard to call Gizzi a scholarship guy to me who'd be 7, but also that's kind of on Niko). 50-28 is the type of score you put up on a team outside the top 300 on KenPom. I haven't heard Niko's postgame comments, but I have been glad in the past that he hasn't tried to excuse away losing so I hope he had a similar tone tonight.

I can see the optomist viewpoint that if Niko can be competitive with this group, we should be very good going forward. My view is that we're in the same tier as Wisconsin, USC, Iowa, and Indiana this year. There's a possiblity all 4 make the tournament. Some/all of them will have momentum to sell for next year that we will not. Two of those teams have first year coaches as well. We had a chance to breakthrough this year and there's no guarantee that will be available to us next year. We could easily be 7-3/6-4 in Conference play with a couple wins over Wisconsin and some real excitement around the program. Maybe next year will be that breakthrough, but we're going to need some significant additions from the portal/overseas to make that happen.

I have some minor quibbles with how we've played out the end of some of these games (Tyson midrange against USC twice late, not bringing a second defender to Blackwell, Asuma's 3 tonight), but for the most part it's just been horrible luck. We were very lucky at times last year, but the rebound from that has been unreal. Carrington making 7 3's, Langston fouling when Mezza was going to fall down or throw up a prayer, the goal tend at the end of the Ohio State game, and then some of the stuff tonight...it's just hard to believe all of that could happen to one team in such a short period of time.
 

And with a bench as short as this, we need more than 4 points from JCJ and more than 7 shots.

I am not tryin to ascribe blame to anyone. Just really frustrated.

And I’m really pissed that the announcing crew and the guys on the BIG show on BTN kept talking about how we were short because Tyson was out without mentioning the other 4 guys that were out. 7 scholarship guys able to play.

AND on top of that, they described traitor Carrington as “former Gopher great” traitor Carrington. FFS
 
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