Zulgad: Gophers continue hot streak on cold night before boisterous believers in Barn

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per Judd:

Richard Pitino admits he knew what most were thinking after his Gophers men’s basketball team blew a 10-point second-half lead and missed on two potential game-winning shots against Michigan State in its Big Ten opener.

“Everybody is going, ‘Here we go again,’” Pitino said.

Pitino is right.

That one-point overtime loss to the Spartans, coming after the Gophers went 12-1 in non-conference play, provided evidence that a much-improved Minnesota team might not yet have been ready for the grind of Big Ten play.

But nearly two weeks later, we now know the meltdown was either a brief hiccup or it provided a dose of mental toughness that has served the Gophers well in the three conference games they have played since.

The latest came on Sunday night as the Gophers returned to Williams Arena for the first time since the defeat and improved to 3-1 in the conference with a 78-68 victory over Ohio State. This came after back-to-back comeback victories at Purdue and Northwestern.

http://www.1500espn.com/gophers-2/2...-streak-cold-night-boisterous-believers-barn/

Go Gophers!!

 

[watertown 1987 guy n]

I agree and have thought the same thing about the Michigan St. loss. If we had won against Mich. St, we probably would not have won at Purdue. In my view, the loss made this team better. Its just like the Florida St. loss, the players learned a lot from that loss.