Archive for '2007-2008'
Gophers to play Northwestern in Big Ten Tournament
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by JF.
Don’t feel too bad if you can’t get off work early on Thursday afternoon. The Gophers will play the Wildcats at 4pm Central Time on ESPN 2. Its Northwestern. It should be an easy win, and if they lose, do you really want to watch that? I’ll be back with a full preview in the [...]
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Big Ten Power Rankings: The Pre-Conference Tournament Edition
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by JF.
First an apology or two. As you’ve probably noticed, my posting frequency has decreased a bit lately. While it is admittedly cliche, real life got in the way. A couple of weeks ago I came down with a nasty case of the flu. Sitting upright was a challenge, and sitting upright while typing just wasn’t [...]
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Indiana rides the Free-throw Express to a win over the Gophers
Posted on 06. Mar, 2008 by JF.
When you play well can sometimes be more important than how well you play. In Minnesota’s two games against Indiana this season, they played better than the Hoosiers for 70 of 80 minutes. Unfortunately, the last two minutes in Minneapolis and the final 8 minutes in Bloomington last night were more than enough to give [...]
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Senior Day ends how it should as the Gophers send Ohio State to the NIT
Posted on 02. Mar, 2008 by JF.
It only took four years, or in the cases of Dan Coleman and Lawrence McKenzie, 5 years to learn how to win a big game. But when the final horn sounded on Saturday at The Barn, just about everyone was willing to overlook the previous missed opportunities and enjoy Minnesota first semi-surprising win of the [...]
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Purdue’s extended defense shuts down the Gophers
Posted on 28. Feb, 2008 by JF.
An eight day lay off usually affects a team in two ways. They are either unfocused and lazy, or completely and energized. For the last eight days, Purdue must have been watching film of Minnesota’s loss to Florida State in the early days of the season. Using an in your face defense that extended at [...]
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Gophers turn to find out just how good Purdue can be
Posted on 27. Feb, 2008 by JF.
When Minnesota’s schedule came out several months ago, many Gopher fans must have had flash backs to the seemingly dozen or so time when the Minnesota Timberwolves could not pick the right ping-pong ball. The Gophers were selected to play Iowa and Purdue once each, with the Iowa game at home, and Purdue on the [...]
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Gophers get mention in Katz’s upset watch
Posted on 25. Feb, 2008 by JF.
Check it out here: • Wednesday: Minnesota over Purdue, 9 p.m. ET The young Boilermakers have answered the bell for coach Matt Painter all season. E’Twaun Moore, Robbie Hummel and Keaton Grant can all knock down 3s, rebound and pass. Their man defense has great intensity, and they make opponents work for every shot. The [...]
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Big Ten Power Rankings
Posted on 25. Feb, 2008 by JF.
You mean there was action in the Big Ten that didn’t involve back room deals, player walk outs, and press conferences? Who knew? #1 Indiana By virtue of better wins (if you want to call the outcome of the Northwestern game a win) Indiana jumps to the top of the list. They beat Purdue, and [...]
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Minnesota beats Penn State in the battle of the comebacks.
Posted on 25. Feb, 2008 by JF.
Every basketball prediction should come with a built in caveat or two. If a player is unstoppable, like Lawrence McKenzie was the other night, no amount of analysis of the factors that can determine the outcome of a game really matter. Another caveat, on display yesterday afternoon, is that if a team that is shooting [...]
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Regarding the no dribble free throw mandate
Posted on 24. Feb, 2008 by JF.
Since Minnesota’s free throw induced loss at home to Indiana, Tubby Smith has banned any sort of pause, movement, or chest pat (sorry Lawrence McKenzie) before free throws. Instead, barely a second after catching the ball from the referee, the Gophers must shoot. After another mediocre day at the line today, many are wondering why [...]
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Minnesota shouldn’t need a miracle to beat Penn State
Posted on 23. Feb, 2008 by JF.
You wouldn’t know it by looking at Penn State’s record, but Minnesota’s shocking, come from behind victory at Happy Valley in the first week of the Big Ten season was as close as Minnesota has come to a quality victory. Back then, the Nittany Lions were the upstart team in the conference, with consecutive road [...]
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Why to root for Tennessee tonight
Posted on 23. Feb, 2008 by JF.
They don’t beat their girl friends, or the opposing student section. For a much, much, larger view of that photo click here.
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McKenzie’s career high helps Gophers overcome poor rebounding
Posted on 22. Feb, 2008 by JF.
At least it was entertaining. On a night featuring Spencer Tollackson dunking in traffic and hitting a three pointer, Jonathan Williams bailing out the Gophers and air-balling a free throw, Lawrence McKenzie scoring a career high 26 points, and even some relatively productive minutes from Kevin Payton, Minnesota beat the much improved Michigan Wolverines. I [...]
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Minnesota hopes to end shooting struggles against Michigan
Posted on 21. Feb, 2008 by JF.
Have the Michigan Wolverines finally figured out Jim Beilien’s dare I say high-powered version of the Princeton offense? After struggling mightily in both conference and non-conference play, they have put together their first three game winning streak of the year. While it is not as impressive as beating Indiana, Purdue, and Wisconsin in consecutive games, [...]
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Minneosta picks up good loss against Badgers
Posted on 17. Feb, 2008 by JF.
Yes, I know there isn’t such a thing as a good loss, there are no moral victories, and to say that a team had either a moral victory or a good loss does little more than indicate how bad that team actually is. Well, the Gophers aren’t very good, but they played much better than [...]
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