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Badger loss stings, but tournament hopes still alive
The Gophers left a tremendous opportunity to bolster their NCAA at-large resume on the table Thursday night against Wisconsin and further solidify what was shaping up to be a decent argument to be one of the final teams selected in March. The Gophers, winners of five of their previous seven conference games, battled back from [...]
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A rivalry renewed: The Badgers come to The Barn
On Thursday night the Gophers and Badgers renew their always heated rivalry, with a lot on the line. The Golden Gophers are one win away from reaching .500 in the Big Ten and a clear path to the NCAA tournament. With a win, the Badgers can climb right back into the thick of the Big Ten race, and all but lock up an NCAA tournament bid themselves. Throw in national television coverage...
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Why eight wins gets the Gophers into the Dance
It’s been an interesting road this year for the Gophers, to say the least (then again, is it ever any different?). Left for dead after Trevor Mbakwe’s torn ACL, the Gophers actually won six games in a row directly following his departure from the roster, including two wins over BCS conference teams in Virginia Tech [...]
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Gophers take care of business against Nebraska
After an up-and-down week that saw the Gophers continue their mid-season turnaround against Illinois before throwing much of it away in a loss to Iowa, Minnesota rebounded to take home a road victory against Nebraska, walking away with a 69-61 victory in Lincoln. The Gophers came into the game desperately needing a victory to keep [...]
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Gophers first Big Ten game in Lincoln is a must win
When the Golden Gophers lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes this week it wasn't a must-win game, and thank goodness for that. The Gophers won the middle twenty minutes of the game, but were absolutely dreadful in the opening and closing moments, and let what should have been a win slip away. Now with only eight games left on the conference schedule, the Gophers face the prospect of nearly...
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Joel Maturi’s reign of error finally ends
Months of breathless speculation and restrained hopefulness, Joel Maturi finally announced that he is stepping down as the University of Minnesota Athletic Director. Nearly ten years after he was hired in part to clean up the department after it was implicated in the academic fraud scandal that decimated the basketball program, he noted one of his greatest achievements was the lack...
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Selfishness vs. Selflessness: The Gophers head to Iowa
Minnesota beat Illinois, in part, because of unselfish basketball. Players made the extra pass, looked to get their teammates involved, and did not settle for poor shots. A couple of weeks ago, the Gophers lost to Iowa because they made the extra pass, deferred to their teammates, and would only settle for the "perfect" shot. Unselfishness is good, to a point, and at that...
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Post-game thoughts, after the Gophers – Illini Insanity.
Between consoling myself over another hard to believe lose from ahead loss and having flashbacks to Frank Williams knocking in a last second floater to end the Gophers NCAA tournament hopes, a Minnesota team was in a must win situation, and did win, in overtime no less. I can’t begin to explain all the twists [...]
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Gophers vs. Illini starts key three game stretch
A big game on a cold January Saturday night. What could be better?
This space is usually reserved for disclaimers that there is no such thing as a must win game in January and platitudes about how a season isn't over until it's over because of the automatic NCAA tournament bid awarded at the end of the Big Ten Tournament. Nope, I'm not going to do it this time. This...
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Gophers run into wall against Spartans
Heading into East Lansing is a daunting task in itself; heading into East Lansing against a big, powerful, physical Michigan State team is even tougher. After turning their season around with three straight conference victories the Gophers saw their string of success end in a decisive loss to the Spartans. It’s hard to get on [...]
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Gophers streak into East Lansing with something to prove
Welcome to the most important week of the 2011-2012 Golden Gopher basketball season. That I can use the word "important" and that there is even basketball worth watching at this point is in itself remarkable.
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Gophers face Spartans for a share of first place
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Third straight has Gophers in thick of conference
So this is what a winning streak feels like. The Gophers decimated the Northwestern Wildcats 75-52 on Sunday for their third straight conference win, putting them at 3-4 in the Big Ten and square in the middle of the conference race – marking the first time since about when Al Nolen went down with a [...]
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Pre-game chatter: Northwestern Wildcats
The Gophers face Northwestern this weekend in another critical matchup as the team tries to continue its current turnaround. After two straight wins on the road against conference opponents, the Gophers come back to Williams Arena for a quick homestand and a chance to go for three straight wins and further establish themselves in the [...]
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Rube Roundtable
The Gophers are on a week-long break from action, which gives us ample time to reflect on what has gone wrong, what has gone right and what has just been plain strange. Because, face it, the Big Ten sometimes just doesn’t make sense. Two straight road conference wins has Gopher Nation with a renewed interest [...]
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Two straight has Gopher Nation buzzing
It’s amazing what four days can do to a Big Ten program. Little more than 96 hours ago the Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team had been left for dead by much of its fan base as well as the local media. Going 0-4 to begin conference play does little to inspire confidence in a team, [...]
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Gophers go for two on the road at Penn State
Momentum, if it even exists, is extremely fleeting. It can be neither created nor destroyed. It just happens, and then leaves as quickly as it appeared. A bad break combined with a bad bounce can turn around a game. A fifteen footer from a bad shooter can save a season. If momentum exists, the Golden Gophers have it after their still stunning win in Indiana, the best road win in...
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Gophers win in Bloomington, and save their season in the process
Sing it with me now: The strange thing about young teams is that they rarely react as expected, and the Gophers are no exception. They couldn’t manage to hold off the Hawkeyes at home, came out flat in a blow out to Purdue. The season was over, the program was in shambles. There were [...]
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January 12, 2012
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January 12, 2012
A Gophers win in Bloomington would make sense in the Bonkers Big Ten
Golden Gophers 12-5 (0-4) vs. Indiana Hoosiers 15-1 (3-1) 7:00 PM CST at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, IN TV: Big Ten Network Radio: 1500 AM In the bonkers Big Ten, nothing is certain except the chaos. Wisconsin has as many homes losses as Ohio State has total losses. Illinois barely beat the Gophers but then [...]
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January 11, 2012
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January 11, 2012
Conference losing streak reaches 10 in Purdue blowout
What can you even say about a loss like last night? Less than two weeks after the Gophers nearly pulled out a thrilling double-overtime victory in Champaign and had us thinking they might actually need to be taken seriously, they were handed 13-point drubbing at the hands of the Purdue Boilermakers, getting run out of [...]
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January 09, 2012
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January 09, 2012
Boilers come to town with Minnesota’s season on the brink
Thank goodness it has been a mild winter. I don’t ask much from Golden Gopher basketball other than to be a distraction through the coldest months of the year. Now, on January 8th, the season is already in danger of spinning hopelessly out of control. I won’t rehash the home loss to Iowa other [...]
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January 08, 2012
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January 08, 2012
Tubby, this is your warning.
I try not be a reactionary perched on an imaginary bully pulpit screaming into the storm after the Gophers lose a basketball team. People have been calling for Tubby Smith’s head since the Gophers were swept by an absolutely terrible Illinois team in his first season. I’d like to think that those people, as obviously [...]
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January 05, 2012
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January 05, 2012
Gophers fall to 0-3 in latest conference loss
At first glance the numbers from the end of Minnesota’s latest comedy don’t seem that bad: They lost by merely two points They shot 44% from the field They won the rebounding battle But for those of us who had the misfortune of actually tuning into the latest shortcoming by the Gophers know the real [...]
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January 05, 2012
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January 05, 2012
Pre-game chatter: Iowa Hawkeyes
The Iowa Hawkeyes come to town to face Minnesota in the team’s first home conference game. Rick Reese from Planned Sick Days provided some input on who the Hawkeyes are this season and what we can expect come game time. FTB: A less-than-stellar non-conference season led us to believe that the Hawkeyes had a pretty [...]
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January 03, 2012
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January 03, 2012
Gophers come up short again, fall in Ann Arbor
Minnesota traveled to Ann Arbor to take on the #16 Michigan Wolverines but came up short again, falling in the final seconds 61-56, sending the Gophers to 0-2 in conference play and 12-3 on the season. The end of the Gophers’ latest conference loss felt eerily similar to the wild double-overtime defeat at the hands [...]
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January 02, 2012
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January 02, 2012
Gophers travel to Michigan hoping to replicate last season’s success.
For the Golden Gophers to make the NCAA tournament, they will have to win a game or two on the road that they are not supposed to win. Games against the bottom tier of the conference (the Iowa’s and Penn State’s of the world) should be wins. Winning at Wisconsin and Michigan State isn’t impossible, [...]
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December 31, 2011
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