From The Barn

Previewing Friday’s Festivities

Posted on 12. Oct, 2011 by JF.

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The 2011-2012 college basketball season unofficially kicks off on Friday night as teams across the country hold their first official practice. At The Barn, this will take the form of the first annual “Gopher All-Star Friday Night” which follows four annual events called “Tubby’s Tip-off”. Before that it was “Midnight Madness” for twenty or thirty [...]

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The Anatomy of a Coaching Rumor

Posted on 29. Mar, 2010 by JF.

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Summer is silly season in politics, and if the last few days are any indication, spring has to be the silly season in college basketball. Tubby Smith will be coaching at either Auburn (wrong), Georgia Tech (which never even had an opening), or Oregon (if Tom Izzo doesn’t accept the richest contract in college basketball [...]

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Barn Blurbs 2/3/09: Fabulous Prize Edition

Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by JF.

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Special predict the score contest for the Michigan State game During the first Michigan State game, due to my cat-like reflexes and not wanting to get smacked in the face, I caught an official student section “Tubby Town” t-shirt. Since I already have one, why not give it away? Whomever comes closest to prediction the score [...]

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Get ready to hear a lot about Tommy and Tubby, because this will be a blow out

Posted on 04. Jan, 2008 by JF.

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Saturday night’s game between Minnesota and Michigan State will inevitably be overshadowed by the coaching match-up between Tubby Smith, coaching his first game in the Big Ten, nd Tom Izzo, coach of the inevitable (but not Hillary Clinton “inevitable”) Big Ten Champions. At least the announcers and graphics guys will have plenty of statistics and [...]