BleedGopher
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Per Pat:
The new world of college athletics, with players being paid and able to transfer schools repeatedly, brings some cynicism. This might be particularly true in basketball, where the court is occupied with a small number of players and effort is more easily analyzed.
So, excuse me if we’re getting later into the season and I suspect losing teams in major conferences might have athletes starting to focus on where they might be playing next season, rather than charging hard for, say, the next defensive rebound.
I would never directly accuse players on the Oregon Ducks of embracing that mindset, but this was much was obvious from 1,800-plus miles away in a TV den in a Minneapolis suburb on Tuesday night, Feb. 17:
This was a late-starting game in Eugene, Ore., matching a pair of teams in the bottom third of the Big 18 standings, and Niko Medved’s Gophers were considerably more interested in stealing the road victory than Dana Altman’s Ducks were in defending that garishly painted court of theirs.
Go Gophers!!
The new world of college athletics, with players being paid and able to transfer schools repeatedly, brings some cynicism. This might be particularly true in basketball, where the court is occupied with a small number of players and effort is more easily analyzed.
So, excuse me if we’re getting later into the season and I suspect losing teams in major conferences might have athletes starting to focus on where they might be playing next season, rather than charging hard for, say, the next defensive rebound.
I would never directly accuse players on the Oregon Ducks of embracing that mindset, but this was much was obvious from 1,800-plus miles away in a TV den in a Minneapolis suburb on Tuesday night, Feb. 17:
This was a late-starting game in Eugene, Ore., matching a pair of teams in the bottom third of the Big 18 standings, and Niko Medved’s Gophers were considerably more interested in stealing the road victory than Dana Altman’s Ducks were in defending that garishly painted court of theirs.
Go Gophers!!
