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When will we get over the hump?
When will we get over the hump?
Options are listed in order played.When do they play next?
Options are listed in order played.
Or is this your vote?
My vote.
Sorry, feelings don't count, we will need statistics to back that opinion. [emoji12]I'm going with @Northwestern just a feeling
The optimist in me thinks we are going to win the last four games in conference and the first game in the tournament. That would be an encouraging way to end a dismal season.
I think they win Thursday and then their last 4 of the year to finish 5-13 and have a positive trajectory for next year (wouldn't be bad considering we were 6-12 last year)
I am just naturally optimistic though so the chance it all goes down in flames is also there.
I think after tonight the question now has become, will they get their first B1G win? For the first time I think it's possible we're as bad as Rutgers.
I think after tonight the question now has become, will they get their first B1G win? For the first time I think it's possible we're as bad as Rutgers.
Anybody that picked them to beat NU tonight in this poll should have their head examined....Any sane person knew that Rutgers at home is the only shot.
Any sane person knew that Rutgers at home is the only shot.
There are 80 teams between Minnesota and Rutgers in the KenPom rankings. Minnesota is bad, Rutgers is historically bad. Minnesota, for instance, has no 50 point home losses.
You do have to give major props to the schedule makers for putting both of these exciting tilts at the end of the season.
Being 80 spots ahead of Rutgers doesn't preclude the Gophers from being historically bad. Certainly there's an argument that Gophers are making a run at "historically bad" relative to their basketball history? I give you the 1986-87 Gophers (9-19, 2-16 Big Ten) and the 2006-07 Gophers (9-22, 3-14 Big Ten including BTT) as examples.
Agree about how the schedule worked out. It actually will be interesting (for the wrong reasons) if the Gophers and Rutgers are both "unblemished" when they play so late in the season.
I meant "historically bad" in the context of the Big Ten. In KenPom's records (starting 2002 season) there have only been 5 200+ Big Ten teams:
'03 PSU (212)
'04 PSU (218)
'05 PSU (215)
'09 IU (209)
'15 RU (215)
Rutgers currently sits at 277. In terms of all D1 schools that makes them roughly 17% worse than the worst Big Ten team this century. The '07 Gophers were only 170. The Gophers 196 would be in the bottom 8, but that's a huge improvement from 17% worse than the worst team.
As an aside, the little table above makes a minor case for "The Rutgers hoops program will likely get better by being part of the Big Ten like the PSU program did."
At least SDSU is a good team. South Dakota, on the other hand, is 2-8 in the Summit League.