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At one point in the 2nd half, Viriginia was 7-8 from 3 and was STILL down by 7 points. The Gophers were absolutely destroying Virginia in every facet of the game, except perimeter defense and Virginia was absolutely unconcious. It never even entered my mind that Virginia could get back in the game, much less open up a lead of ten points! Certain players can be called out, but this is a team that would quite possibly not win another game in the next 50 against the Gophers. I agree with those that say it is just one loss, but only to a point. The Gophers absolutely should have entered conference play undefeated and with a ton of momentum. Now, they have a bad loss on their resume and it's conceivable they could lose another game without Nolen. I wanted the publicity of moving in to the top 10 as the Gophers entered conference play (assuming they stayed undefeated of course) as it would have been great for fan interest and recruiting.

I am too young for Villanova-Georgetown, but I've got to feel like what happened at Williams Arena tonight was very similar. The good thing is that it happened early in the year.
 

I agree with this.

We've had problems guarding the 3 for some time. It never killed us too badly because no one else in the Big Ten really relies on it. Hard to win when your opponent is making Blake Hoffarber look like Shaquille O'Neal from 3.

If anything, this loss will shrink our heads a little. You know what happens to Minnesota teams with momentum. So we lost that nice little "13" next to our name, and maybe it takes a little pressure off "winning" and puts more pressure on "working." I'm sure Tubby will be using this as a teaching moment.
 

Again, Hoffarber was one of many, many players playing poor defense. Not sure why Hoffarber is singled out when he mostly made up for his lack of defense with an extremely efficient 19 points and 5 assists.

SickAndTiredOfLosingToWI said:
I agree with this.

We've had problems guarding the 3 for some time. It never killed us too badly because no one else in the Big Ten really relies on it. Hard to win when your opponent is making Blake Hoffarber look like Shaquille O'Neal from 3.

If anything, this loss will shrink our heads a little. You know what happens to Minnesota teams with momentum. So we lost that nice little "13" next to our name, and maybe it takes a little pressure off "winning" and puts more pressure on "working." I'm sure Tubby will be using this as a teaching moment.
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EG#9 said:
At one point in the 2nd half, Viriginia was 7-8 from 3 and was STILL down by 7 points. The Gophers were absolutely destroying Virginia in every facet of the game, except perimeter defense and Virginia was absolutely unconcious. It never even entered my mind that Virginia could get back in the game, much less open up a lead of ten points! Certain players can be called out, but this is a team that would quite possibly not win another game in the next 50 against the Gophers. I agree with those that say it is just one loss, but only to a point. The Gophers absolutely should have entered conference play undefeated and with a ton of momentum. Now, they have a bad loss on their resume and it's conceivable they could lose another game without Nolen. I wanted the publicity of moving in to the top 10 as the Gophers entered conference play (assuming they stayed undefeated of course) as it would have been great for fan interest and recruiting.

I am too young for Villanova-Georgetown, but I've got to feel like what happened at Williams Arena tonight was very similar. The good thing is that it happened early in the year.
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Similar in that the underdog won that game, too. But 'Nova had regularly beaten G-town with Patrick Ewing back then and shot 22 of 28 (79%) for the game - still NCAA FF record for FG % by a team.

Nova won by 2. I think Virginia was a bit more dominant last night in the 2nd half.
 



SickAndTiredOfLosingToWI said:
I agree with this.

We've had problems guarding the 3 for some time. It never killed us too badly because no one else in the Big Ten really relies on it. Hard to win when your opponent is making Blake Hoffarber look like Shaquille O'Neal from 3.

If anything, this loss will shrink our heads a little. You know what happens to Minnesota teams with momentum. So we lost that nice little "13" next to our name, and maybe it takes a little pressure off "winning" and puts more pressure on "working." I'm sure Tubby will be using this as a teaching moment.
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I can't actually remember the last time we defended the 3 very well. It seems like every year we get sucked into the lane only to have it kicked out and get killed by 3's all day. Glad the loss was early rather than later in the season.
 

CentralGopher said:
I can't actually remember the last time we defended the 3 very well. It seems like every year we get sucked into the lane only to have it kicked out and get killed by 3's all day. Glad the loss was early rather than later in the season.
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Tubby's ball line defense will always be susceptible to lights out shooting especially with young defenders on the floor. I got disgusted and channel surfed to the NFL in the second half. Did the team make any adjustment away from our standard defense and shadow Virginia's two shooters? D will get better with time and starters. O should get better with starters back and when Devoe calms down a little. Given all of that we should never have been out rebounded by Virginia (lack of intensity?, fear?, IDK) and we shouldn't have lost.
 

They adjusted to zone defense near the end. I don't think the adjustment help but an increase in intensity and effort did some. Poor shot selection led to players not being in a position to rebound.
 

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