Tag Archives: Trevor Mbakwe
An exhausting season, but save room for optimism
Posted on 02. Apr, 2012 by zipsofakron.
Where do you even begin on a recap of a season like this? One that failed to follow any sort of blueprint, leaving us scratching our heads more often than not. I suppose I’ll start at the end. Be excited for next year. In a year where down was up, left was right, and things [...]
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Barn Blurbs 4/2/2012
Posted on 02. Apr, 2012 by JF.
We’ll get around to reviewing the Golden Gophers 2011-2012 season at some point. Until then, we’ll be resurrecting Barn Blurbs, our occasional round-up of stories around the series of tubes about Gopher Basketball and college basketball in general. Hiring a coach is a lottery It turns out that any coaching hire is a 50-50 proposition, [...]
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Joel Maturi’s reign of error finally ends
Posted on 02. Feb, 2012 by JF.
Months of breathless speculation and restrained hopefulness, Joel Maturi finally announced that he is stepping down as the University of Minnesota Athletic Director. Nearly ten years after he was hired in part to clean up the department after it was implicated in the academic fraud scandal that decimated the basketball program, he noted one of his greatest achievements was the lack of NCAA violations during his tenure. He did do that, but little else to benefit the university or the men’s basketball program.
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How to watch the Post-Mbakwe Gophers
Posted on 29. Nov, 2011 by JF.
Here we go again it seems. A promising season has been thrown into disarray. A promising career has come to an end. A team captain who had noticeably improved his game will spend the rest of the season on the bench. Again. It always has to be something. But we are a hearty people, the [...]
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Mbakwe lost for season in Dayton drubbing
Posted on 28. Nov, 2011 by zipsofakron.
By now it’s probably common knowledge, but the most horrific news that Gopher fans could hear this year was announced earlier today: Trevor Mbakwe will be lost for the season after tearing his ACL in Minnesota’s 86-70 drubbing at the hands of the Dayton Flyers in the Old Spice Classic championship. Not only is Mbakwe [...]
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Game ending burst helps Gophers beat Bucknell
Posted on 12. Nov, 2011 by JF.
NCAA Basketball After one game, the Golden Gophers already have what should prove to be a quality win when tournament time comes around. It won’t be a win that makes headlines around the country, and the Gophers won’t get any in the non-conference season. A series of good wins can ultimately equal some of the [...]
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Don’t panic! Gophers vs. Bemidji State reviewed
Posted on 02. Nov, 2011 by JF.
The first exhibition game is in the books, and Tubby Smith got exactly what he wanted: areas that need improvement. Minnesota’s 71-58 victory isn’t indicative of much, and isn’t a cause of concern, yet. The game featured unrealistic Gopher line-ups in unrealistic situations that kept the game close, and gave the players and coaches a chance [...]
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2011-2012 Returning Golden Gophers Preview
Posted on 25. Oct, 2011 by JF.
College basketball is a young man’s game. Every year a freshman superstar steals the hearts and minds of even the most casual of fans, and take his team on a whirl wind ride before dashing off to the NBA to pursue fame, fortune, and failed hip-hop careers. For a few very select programs, chasing the [...]
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A few questions and a few answers at UMHoops
Posted on 23. Oct, 2011 by JF.
Dylan over at UMHoops has once again assembled the best and the brightest of the college basketball blogging world (or in my case, someone who had nothing better to do) to preview the Big Ten teams that they cover. My answers to his questions are below. He’ll be posting previews for all Big Ten teams [...]
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Gopher All-Star Friday Night: The Youtube Edition
Posted on 15. Oct, 2011 by JF.
Tubby channeling his inner Manny. The BTN covered the entire dunk contest. Yes, Rodney dunked on a farm, and yes, Joe Coleman was better Tubby talks about the upcoming season.
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Previewing Friday’s Festivities
Posted on 12. Oct, 2011 by JF.
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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Ralph Sampson III declares for draft, Mbakwe does not
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by zipsofakron.
In borderline stunning news, Ralph Sampson III declared today that he will enter the upcoming NBA draft in hopes of getting a spot on a real, live NBA team. Anyone who has watched Sampson over the past couple seasons knows he’s far from NBA ready and would have a pretty tough time cracking a roster [...]
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Gophers avoid letdown, upend Iowa 69-59
Posted on 17. Jan, 2011 by zipsofakron.
Fresh off a thrilling home-court upset over the Purdue Boilermakers, many considered the Iowa Hawkeyes to be merely a speed bump in a string of games against lower-tier Big Ten opponents, looking past the bottom-dwelling Hawkeyes towards more intense games. Consider the Gophers part of that group. Fighting through disinterested, lackadaisical performances, Minnesota gave away [...]
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The First Five Games: Taking Stock
Posted on 22. Nov, 2010 by zipsofakron.
Time to exhale. After a whirlwind opening to the 2010-11 season, the Gophers (#15 in the AP Poll!) have a couple days off before resuming their non-conference schedule against North Dakota State, which provides us an opportunity to sit back and analyze exactly what we have in the current squad. While it wasn’t crazy to [...]
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Game 1 Review: The Kids are Alright
Posted on 12. Nov, 2010 by JF.
It is amazing how quickly that overwhelming feeling of dread can lift. Twenty-fours hours after we found out that Devoe Joseph would be suspended indefinitely, we found that Chip Armelin is more than ready to fill in the gap while he is gone, helping the Gophers beat Wofford 69-55. Coming off the bench, the lightly [...]
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