Tag Archives: Game Preview
Boilers come to town with Minnesota’s season on the brink
Posted on 08. Jan, 2012 by JF.
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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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 travel to Michigan hoping to replicate last season’s success.
Posted on 31. Dec, 2011 by JF.
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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Gophers hope for upsetting Big Ten Opener at Illinois
Posted on 26. Dec, 2011 by JF.
The first Big Ten road game is usually a rattling at best experience, especially for a young team that hasn’t played a true road game this season. Assembly Hall has been especially cruel to the Gophers who have won once their since 1996, and even in that game, a win that went a long way [...]
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Gophers vs. North Dakota State: The perfect trap
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by JF.
Non-conference games against low-major teams always make me the most nervous. Nothing good can come from them. If the Gophers win, they do nothing but meet expectations, while risking injuries, laziness, and ultimately a loss that could ruin a season. Close games against unimpressive competition doesn’t produce the giddy excitement that makes college basketball the [...]
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From Ahanmisi to Zeigler
Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by JF.
2010 was the year of the high school point guard. That year’s graduating class had more top flight point guards, and more teams in dire need of a floor general than any in recent memory. The Gophers were involved in that sweep stakes if your remember, putting too much faith in the brother of a [...]
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Here come the Peacocks!
Posted on 09. Dec, 2011 by JF.
The Gophers start to wind down their non-conference schedule Saturday against the St. Peter’s peacocks, and I can’t help thinking this game was scheduled a year too late. For almost all of last season, Fairfield was the trendy pick to go on a deep NCAA tournament run, and break all the brackets of those not [...]
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Appalachian State preview: As big as mountains but not nearly as good at basketball
Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by JF.
And now for the non-conference doldrums. There isn’t anything particularly inspiring about the Appalachian State Mountaineers, the Golden Gophers opponent on Tuesday night at Williams arena, and there won’t be much to look forward to until the Big Ten season starts the day after boxing day, and this break of sorts is just what the team [...]
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Gophers should speed up the Trojans, for our sake
Posted on 02. Dec, 2011 by JF.
The Gophers face their second BCS opponent this week when they play the USC Trojans Saturday afternoon at Williams Arena. When the game was first announced, it was immediately circled on the calendar as an opportunity to pick up a quality win over a team that people actually know. Instead, it will likely be a [...]
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The Mount goes to The Barn
Posted on 20. Nov, 2011 by JF.
And now for the cupcake we have all been waiting for. There was at least a reasonable chance that the Golden Gophers could have lost each of their first three games. Bucknell and Fairfield are decent teams that both could make the NCAA tournament. South Dakota State can shoot well, and they have several players [...]
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Fairfield is a more than fair test for the Gophers
Posted on 16. Nov, 2011 by JF.
Last March the Fairfield stags were poised to roll through their conference tournament, use their solid defense to clamp down on some overrated big conference school, and pull off another upset to get to the Sweet 16. I had them basically penciled into the Sweet 16, except they never got that far. They didn’t even [...]
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A modest proposal for a “Best of the Midwest” tournament, and then a look at South Dakota State
Posted on 13. Nov, 2011 by JF.
The Golden Gophers play their second game of the season against their not exactly rivals from South Dakota State University. It has been several years since the Gophers started playing the state schools that hug the western border of Minnesota, and the novelty has worn off. Playing regional low-majors is a phenomenon that will never [...]
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Bucknell gives Gophers early chance for quality win
Posted on 10. Nov, 2011 by JF.
The Golden Gophers tip-off the fifth season of the Tubby Smith Era on Friday night. For the second season in a row, they’ll start their season against a mid-major team projected to win a conference championship and do some damage in the NCAA tournament. Last year the Gophers held off Wofford. This year, they’ll take [...]
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Exhibition #2 preview: A look at Augustana and the Big Two plus Who?
Posted on 06. Nov, 2011 by JF.
Falls Park, the birth place of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is located just a few blocks north of the modest downtown. Like the birth place of most cities, there is no shortage of commemorative plaques detailing the history of the place. If you read closely though, it soon becomes clear that these plaques don’t just [...]
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Game Preview: Golden Gophers vs. Bemidji State Beavers
Posted on 31. Oct, 2011 by JF.
A little after 7 pm on Tuesday night, last season’s could have and should haves can finally be relegated to the dust bin of Golden Gopher sports history, next to Kevin Burleson dribbling the ball out-of-bounds, Iker Iturbe dislocating Eric Harris’ shoulder, an ill-timed block punt, and the Tim Brewster era. When things go wrong [...]
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