Tag Archives: Indiana Hoosiers
Single-plays should benefit Gophers in Pitino’s first season
Posted on 14. May, 2013 by JF.
The Big Ten’s single-play match-ups for the 2013-2o14 season leaked today, and the Golden Gophers should benefit from their schedule. They didn’t quite win the lottery like Wisconsin did (really, playing Michigan State and Ohio State only once, and both games at home). However, they do play some very good teams only once and get [...]
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The 5 best wins and worst losses under Tubby Smith
Posted on 29. Mar, 2013 by zipsofakron.
We’re in the middle of perhaps the most exciting time in recent Gopher hoops memory, and nothing gets the blood pumping like a good, ol’ fashioned coaching search. And while rumors will swirl, flights will be tracked, and TMZ will seem tame, I think it’s important to take a minute to revisit the highs and [...]
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Day two Big Ten Tournament preview
Posted on 14. Mar, 2013 by JF.
Day one of the Big Ten tournament is in the books with one surprise but a few good finishes. Now the top teams in the conference take the floor for what should be a thrilling afternoon and night.
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Oh, it’s such a glorious evening!
Posted on 26. Feb, 2013 by zipsofakron.
What can you really say when your team knocks off the #1 team in the nation unexpectedly? It’s one of the greatest feelings a college basketball fan can experience. It’s pure euphoria. My words can’t do this victory justice, so I’m just going to let this one steep and have the below video do the [...]
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Etiquette for the Indiana game.
Posted on 25. Feb, 2013 by JF.
Normally in our game previews we break down the keys statistics, key match-ups, and the players most likely to decide the outcome of the game. None of that seems necessary when number one Indiana comes to The Barn on Tuesday night. Indiana is just better that the Gophers. The players are better. The coaching is better. The team is better. Indiana should win, and rather handily. The Hoosiers are only a six point favorite, which tells me that the folks in Las Vegas don’t have access to the Big Ten Network.
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The Gophers can’t quite beat the Hoosiers, but can’t quit either.
Posted on 12. Jan, 2013 by JF.
There is a reason why the Golden Gophers have never beaten a top five team on the road, and it isn’t just a lack of quality Gopher basketball teams. Top five teams, by definition are really, really good. It can take a perfect performance to beat an elite team on the road, and even a perfect performance is sometimes not enough. Instead of achieving their own perfection in the first half, the Gophers were steamrolled by the Indiana Hoosiers, who put together one of the better halves of college in the last decade.
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Gophers face the Hoosiers and the hype in Assembly Hall
Posted on 11. Jan, 2013 by JF.
It is the second weekend in January, and the Golden Gophers, yes, your Golden Gophers, are playing in what might be the game of the year in the Big Ten. Regardless of what happens against the Hoosier, they’ll play their second consecutive top ten opponent on Thursday. The Minnesota game against the Indiana Hoosiers will be the first top ten match-up in Assembly Hall in 13 years. The Big Ten Network is running an hour long, on location pregame show before the game. The Gophers have barged their way back into big time college basketball.
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2012-2013 schedule preview: the bonus wins.
Posted on 23. Oct, 2012 by JF.
The last set of games in our schedule preview hopefully will not determine if the Golden Gophers make the NCAA tournament, but will likely go a long way in determining how far they go in the NCAA tournament. If they win all the games in the must-win and should-win categories, they won’t be on the [...]
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Gophers need some confidence after close losses.
Posted on 25. Feb, 2012 by JF.
Another game against a better team, and the Gophers lost another close game. When there once would have been gasps of horror, there were instead grumbles of inevitability. Losing close games has been become something of the norm for Gopher basketball teams in recent years.
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Gophers win in Bloomington, and save their season in the process
Posted on 12. Jan, 2012 by JF.
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 11. Jan, 2012 by JF.
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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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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Big Ten Tournament Preview: The Bottom Six
Posted on 09. Mar, 2011 by JF.
With Gopher basketball mired in meaningless land with the late season collapse, it will take a miracle, the likes of which has never happened for any team in Minnesota, to make the NCAA tournament. Knowing that the season has spun hopelessly out of control shouldn’t take away from the great basketball that takes place during [...]
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Buried in Bloomington: Gophers fall to Indiana 70-67
Posted on 02. Feb, 2011 by zipsofakron.
Pathetic. Ordinarily in recaps I try to stay relatively calm and objective; to review the game without much emotion clouding what I saw and how I interpreted it. Â Unfortunately, this is one of those times where the only way to cope with the frustration that is spinning in my head is to let loose a [...]
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Game 22 Preview: On to IU
Posted on 01. Feb, 2011 by JF.
Golden Gophers vs. Indiana Hoosiers 5:30 pm (CST) at Assembly Hall (Bloomington, IN) TV: Big Ten Network Radio: WCCO Just over four weeks ago the Gophers beat Indiana to secure their first win of the Big Ten season. Perhaps, more importantly the karmic forces that have rattled the spirits of both teams’ fans were conspiring [...]
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