What Should I Expect This Season?

[mnhoopboy]

I might be in the minority, but I'm expecting this to be a tournament caliber team this year that will far exceed expectations.

 

[SplitDecision]

The injuries completely blew up my optimistic expectations, inaccuratized the results. Irregardless here's how I can be just as wrong or better than any expert prognosticators. EVERYONE picked MN in the bottom 3 of conference. Expectations were based on prev. CSU numbers, player's historical output, and realistic growth in system. I very poorly predicted non-conf games, where I hoped MN would be 10-1 (7-4).
Team SplitDecision projection (actual '25/'26 number):

FG 26.6 (24.1)
FGA 56 (52.6)
FG% .475 (.458)
2P% .550 (.559)
3PA 24 (24.8)
3P% .361 (.345)
FT 17 (19.1)
FT% .720 (.701)
ASST 16.6 (17.2)
STL 5 (6.5)
BLK 2.8 (2.6)
TO 11 (10.5)

Pts/gm: Not great due to injuries sustained.
Willis 10 (6.3)
Asuma 6 (11.2)
Durkin 13 (10.2)
JCJ 8 (13.4)
Reynolds 11 (11.7)
Tyson 11 (19.5)
Grove/bench 0 (3.9)
Vaihola 8 (5)
Omot 2 (-)
Stephens 3 (-)
Turner 2 (-)

Big Ten Standings: Was waaay off on NEB expectations!
Top 4 in no order (actual final standing):
PUR/MICH/ILL/UCLA (MICH/NEB/MSU/ILL)

Next 10 in no order:
WISC/MSU/OSU/WASH/MN/ORE/IOWA/USC/IND
(WIS/UCLA/PUR/OSU/IOWA/IND/MN/USC/RUT)

Bottom 4:
NEB/NU/PSU/RUT
(NU/ORE/MD/PSU)

Schedule for MN: 9-11 with 4 road wins and MN only had 2. (finished 8-12)
Home games only, predicted 5-2, (finished 4-3) Iowa-W, MD-L, MSU-W, USC-L, NEB-L, RUT-W, UCLA-W

Away games: predicted 1-6, (finished 1-6) ILL-L, MICH-L, OSU-L, ORE-W, PSU-L, WASH-L, PUR-L

Home and away series: predicted 3-3, (finished 3-3) IND-W/L, NU-W/W, WIS-L/L

Torvik WAS waaay off on MN having MN #84 preseason rank, yet MN finished #56

That puts a bow on this year's expectations/results. Cheers all.

 

[gopherbadgerman]

I’d expect a team that tries hard but is not that talented. 6-8 B10 wins is my prediction

Wish I would have been wrong on the high end.