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Gophers run into wall against Spartans
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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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Third straight has Gophers in thick of conference
Posted on 22. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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 21. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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 19. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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 16. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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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Conference losing streak reaches 10 in Purdue blowout
Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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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Gophers fall to 0-3 in latest conference loss
Posted on 05. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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 03. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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 02. Jan, 2012 by zipsofakron.
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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Gophers drop wild conference opener
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by zipsofakron.
A roller coaster of emotions for Gopher fans in a back-and-forth B1G conference opener against Illinois ended in an 81-72 double-overtime defeat, sending Minnesota to its first loss since Thanksgiving. Meyers Leonard, the big Illini center, was a monster and Illinois had five players register double figures in scoring. Playing in only their second game [...]
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B1G Preview: Illinois Fighting Illini
Posted on 26. Dec, 2011 by zipsofakron.
It’s not that the Fighting Illini have fallen on hard times; quite the contrary. However, after finishing in the top two of the Big Ten in each of Bruce Weber’s first six years as head coach, the relative regression for Illinois has been evident. In fact, the last four seasons for the Illini has brought [...]
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B1G Preview: Michigan Wolverines
Posted on 24. Dec, 2011 by zipsofakron.
It’s hard to look at a team like Michigan and not see some similarities to the Gophers. This is a team with a fairly strong history of winning on the hardwood that found itself down on its luck in the past decade. Bringing in Jim Beilein a few years ago, expectations rose for a Wolverine [...]
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B1G Preview: Indiana Hoosiers
Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by zipsofakron.
Well that was fast. Not even four years ago Indiana was dismantled due to the infractions committed by Kelvin Sampson, which left the program in shambles. The team was in such disarray, in fact, that it won a total of eight conference games over three seasons and had quickly joined Iowa as the Big Ten [...]
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B1G Preview: Iowa Hawkeyes
Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by zipsofakron.
Whatever momentum was gained by taking down then-ranked No. 6 Purdue in last season’s regular season finale has surely waned in an abysmal start to the new season for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Despite only going 4-14 in the conference last season, our rival to the south was hoping to build on a core of returning [...]
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Gophers roll but what are we learning?
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by zipsofakron.
After a slow start out of the gate against Central Michigan, the Gophers recovered to post a 76-56 victory in their second to last non-conference tune-up before starting Big Ten play. As expected the Chippewas featured a heavy dose of three-point shots and a fairly inept inside game, which the Gophers took advantage of. In [...]
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