Souhan: Gophers Will Be Winners Faster than You Can Say Plitzuweit

[Ignatius L Hoops]

How soon until Gophers women are winners again? Faster than you can say Plitzuweit

New coach Dawn Plitzuweit's savvy and the Gophers' talent should combine next season to yield immediate results.

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Souhan:

The last time the University of Minnesota's athletic bosses hired a women's basketball coach, they were investing in hope.

This time, they're working with something much closer to certainty.

Hiring Lindsay Whalen as she completed her playing career with the Lynx was a unique and attractive set of circumstances. It was worth a try, to see if she could transition quickly into coaching and recruiting.

She managed the latter, if not the former.

Now the Gophers women's basketball program might have the best of both worlds — Whalen's recruited talent, and a coach with a resume so ideal for Minnesota that if she didn't exist, the Gophers might have invented her.

In an informal chat following the conference, Plitzuweit showed the side of her that probably wins over those recruits. She was funny, self-deprecating, relaxed and down to earth.

But that's not what matters most.

What matters most is her resume.

 

[arborlax]

Watched per presser and came away thinking the same thing. Should be very good for Minnesota!