As anyone who has participated in a live blog here can tell you, I
check my objective blogger persona at the door when the Gophers are in
a close game. This is especially the case at The Barn when Wisconsin
comes to town. While comparisons to past games and various statistics
are still floating around in the back of my head, I am reduced to yells
of "Yes!" and "No" and am caught up in the emotion that makes college
basketball my favorite sport. So much so in fact that I'm lucky if I
remember who made the last basket let alone what happened a few plays
ago. That was once again the case last night. I know the Gophers won,
and I know Lawrence Westbrook had a lot to do with it, but the
specifics are all missing. In intense rivalry games, concentrating on
anything other than red being evil and Bo Ryan being even worse would
have just gotten in the way of the exciting chaos that swept the
student section during the Gophers' first close home win ...
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From The Barn:
PLAYERS:
Joe Krabbenhoft,
Marcus Landry,
Trevon Hughes,
Colton Iverson,
Damian Johnson,
Lawernce Westbrook
TEAMS: Wisconsin Badgers, Minnesota Golden Gophers
TEAMS: Wisconsin Badgers, Minnesota Golden Gophers
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