What is Gopher Basketball known for?

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Historically people would equate cheating to win as the most notable trait of Minnesota basketball over the past 50 years.
After that it might be the trait of not being able to win outside of Williams Arena.
Third would be constant mediocrity.
 

cjbfbp said:
The question, as the OP put it, is what are we known for now (in the Pitino era)? Nationally, we're not known for anything in basketball because we're simply not covered much by media. Within the Big Ten, if I had to think of something noteworthy (in terms of a strength) in the Pitino era, I would say shot blockers. We had Reggie, Oturu, now Robbins, and even Murphy to a degree although his greatest strength was rebounding. There was also Matz who didn't play big minutes but had pretty good blocks per minute numbers.
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We are known for hiring Rick's kid...
 

short ornery norwegian said:
I would say that, in the Pitino era - MN is the program that typically has at least one outstanding player or even two,
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I dont think they've had at least one "outstanding" player.

I think they've had one or two players who put up big stats. Partially because they're never a deep team, and partially because Pitino coaches that way.

But the big stats come at the expense of efficiency and when no there, the team is easy to beat.
 




Maybe if Chet defies the prognosticators and comes to Minnesota, we could become "Big Man U" again?

Behagen - Stud
Thompson - Stud
McHale - Stud
Breuer - Stud
Petersen - pretty good
Winter - pretty good
Thomas - stud
Pryzbilla - Stud who left early
Humphries - Stud who left early
Sampson III - pretty good
Mbawkwe - Stud
Oturu - Stud
Robbins - could be a Stud

Been a long while since we've had a real stud Big Man though.
 
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Absolutely nothing other than playing in a unique old building.

Oh, and consistently pissing their pants when things are supposedly going well.
 

MRJ said:
Absolutely nothing other than playing in a unique old building.

Oh, and consistently pissing their pants when things are supposedly going well.
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That second part applies to all Minnesota sports teams!
See Twins post-season history.
 

Otis said:
Maybe if Chet defies the prognosticators and comes to Minnesota, we could become "Big Man U" again?

Behagen - Stud
Thompson - Stud
McHale - Stud
Breuer - Stud
Petersen - pretty good
Winter - pretty good
Thomas - stud
Pryzbilla - Stud who left early
Humphries - Stud who left early
Sampson III - pretty good
Mbawkwe - Stud
Oturu - Stud
Robbins - could be a Stud

Been a long while since we've had a real stud Big Man though.
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My only edit would be Sampson III being pretty good.
 

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