What you need to know about Iowa

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Gopher Basketball Game Info Opponent: Iowa Hawkeyes When: 1:00 pm, February 9th, 2008 Where: Williams Arena – Minneapolis, MN Television: ESPN It’s that magical time of the year again. That time when 1,000s of people chant their distaste for our neighbors to the south. Let me use this forum to push my favorite modified version […] READ MORE


A look at Wisconsin

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Gopher Basketball Let me just preface all this by saying I’m no Hodger and am hardly an expert in all things college basketball. I’m just a guy who watches a ton of games and sometimes hits on an insightful observation. Please feel free to correct mistakes or post differing opinions on what I have here. […] READ MORE


Past player interviews

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Gopher Basketball While volunteering for The Barnyard, Nadine Babu wrote a series of articles on the Gopher basketball players. With several of those players on the team, GopherHole.com is pleased to republish these articles so readers can get an insight into a more personal side of the players. Follow the links below: Ryan Saunders Kevin […] READ MORE


Thoughts from the Couch- A Golden Saturday

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Gopher Basketball Forgive me if my nerves were in a jumble-it’s just that in the recent context of Minnesota sports moments, I had to see the hat on MarQueis Gray’s head. Certainties (of which Gray to the Gophers was supposedly) had gone awry before and the pessimism which seems ingrained in a Minnesota sports fan’s […] READ MORE


College BB Preview, Part 5: Top 30 Games for ’07-08

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Gopher Basketball People often fantasize about how they would spend their lottery winnings if that lucky day would ever arrive-mansions, parties, women, cars, buying an island may top the list for many, but one of my more modest lottery goals would be having the ability to travel across the nation for the best college basketball […] READ MORE


College BB Preview, Part 4: Top 20 Freshman, ’07-08

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Gopher Basketball Here is a revelation for you-the days where talented freshman sit behind the upperclassmen, working hard in practice so that they can begin contributing as sophomores has long past. With the NBA’s rule that high school seniors basically have to play a year of college basketball before entering the draft that was instituted […] READ MORE


College BB Preview, Part 3: 25 Players Under the Radar

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Gopher Basketball One of the rejuvenating things about college basketball is that each year a different cast of characters rises to the occasion to seize the attention of the sports public. In college basketball some faces become very familiar (Tyler Hansbrough and Roy Hibbert) while others we realize will only be present for a season, […] READ MORE


College BB Preview, Part 2: 20 Questions for ’07-08

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Gopher Basketball Alright, time to get down to brass tacks (never quite understood that saying) and take a look at some questions that have been popping through my mind during this off-season. Without further ado: How will last year’s national championship teams fare this season? Between the two teams that faced off last April in […] READ MORE


College BB Preview, Part 1: Why College BB Rules

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Gopher Basketball The 2007-08 college basketball kicks off at 3 p.m. Central Time today with a tangle between Richmond and Maine in Memphis. Looking to get the upcoming season off to a bigger bang than this inaugural game, I’ve decided to do a week-long preview of the national scene, for each day of the working […] READ MORE


From 30 to 1: Looking at the Gophers Basketball Schedule

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Gopher Basketball Can you feel the crispness in the air? Autumn has settled upon us and with winter coming soon, we can be heartened by at least one thing-the Gopher basketball season is. In fact, we are now less than one month away from the official start to the season. With the season imminent, I […] READ MORE