Gophers streak into East Lansing with something to prove

Posted on January 24, 2012 by .

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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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Third straight has Gophers in thick of conference

Posted on January 22, 2012 by .

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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

Posted on January 21, 2012 by .

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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

Posted on January 19, 2012 by .

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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

Posted on January 16, 2012 by .

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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

Posted on January 14, 2012 by .

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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 the hundred plus year history of Gopher basketball. Now the young Gophers must use it before it is gone.

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Gophers win in Bloomington, and save their season in the process

Posted on January 12, 2012 by .

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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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A Gophers win in Bloomington would make sense in the Bonkers Big Ten

Posted on January 11, 2012 by .

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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 beat the Buckeyes. Seemingly every game, except of course Minnesota’s loss to Purdue or Purdue’s loss to Penn State, has gone down to the wire. Everyone can beat anyone at any time anywhere. No one likes to see the Gophers season slip sliding away, but college basketball junkies can find some solace in at least one team trying to make sense of a mind boggling loss almost every night of the conference season.

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Conference losing streak reaches 10 in Purdue blowout

Posted on January 9, 2012 by .

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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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Boilers come to town with Minnesota’s season on the brink

Posted on January 8, 2012 by .

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  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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Tubby, this is your warning.

Posted on January 5, 2012 by .

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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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Gophers fall to 0-3 in latest conference loss

Posted on January 5, 2012 by .

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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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Pre-game chatter: Iowa Hawkeyes

Posted on January 3, 2012 by .

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The Iowa Hawkeyes come to town to face Minnesota in the team’s first home conference game. Rick Reese from Black Heart Gold Pants provided some input on who the Hawkeyes are this season and what we can expect come game time. Check out our answers to Rick’s questions over at BHGP. FTB: A less-than-stellar non-conference season [...]

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Gophers come up short again, fall in Ann Arbor

Posted on January 2, 2012 by .

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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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