2024-2025: B1G Basketball Thread

We fully expect to suck.

 

Half our team is hurt or suspended to start the year, but we should be improved.

 

thread is already off to a terrible start

 

Poundin’ nails. Here we come.

 

The excitement surrounding this Gopher basketball season is palpable.

 

should be pretty good this year

 

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If this is the BIG women’s basketball thread I’m in.

 

You could always copy the idea and produce a much less successful version.

 

Reporting in, unlike our football team we will be elite on offense, but we will also be terrible on defense. Looking forward to another .500 year and first round loss in all end of season tournaments.

 

Don't think it's ever occurred to me what polar opposites your programs are.

 

I’m with you

Lady Bucks gonna be really good

Holtmann’s social media is all him working out and getting fit, I don’t like it in regards to our season

 

Both have a good amount of nepotism too.

 

Proud to be mentioned last on this list.

 

We needed an extra ticket for tonight’s game because my youngest turned 3 and can no longer get in free. I bought it off Seat Geek for $1. It wasn’t even upper deck. Seriously, $1 for lower deck season opener.

 

buddy you don't even know what suck is

I assume we'll limp our way through the season at 13 or 14 concluding with the inevitable firing of the HC, fun

 

What is Minnesota’s problem when it comes to building a program? You guys have a large metropolitan area to recruit from, lack of facilities, just bad coaching hires?

 

boy I sure hope so

 

- can't get top recruits to stay home, especially if they're from the Twin Cities
- NIL seems very weak on the basketball side, that's just a guess though. We did lose a 5-star to Louisville due to NIL.
- Pitino wasn't great but he wasn't complete shit like Ben Johnson has been

 

I would say Tubby and Pitino had us as mostly a bubble team and sometimes better. They both had issues building depth and multiple really promising seasons fell apart when adversity hit (injuries, ineligibility for grades, sexual assault allegations against Mbakwe (eventually not guilty) and Reggie Lynch (expelled), Royce Lewis suspended for a whole season while being investigated for stealing a computer (never charged…transferred to ISU), etc). Tubby was a very lazy recruiter that didn’t have back up options if he missed on plan A. Pitino relied almost entirely on his assistants to recruit and that was up and down with a great class followed by a terrible one when assistant’s left or there was a cloud around the program with Lynch’s sexual assault and 2-3 injured starters.

Ben Johnson was Pitino’s top recruiter (Coffey, Oturo, etc) before he left for a promotion at Xavier. When he came back as head coach he seemed to want to clean house on culture so as I recall we only retained Isaiah Ihnen (who missed each of the last 2 years with ACL tears).l ans everybody else transferred. He tried to build primarily through HS recruiting (and mostly stop gap transfers) which is a slow process.

 

There is so much excitement they shut down one of the entry gates to consolidate to fewer workers.

 

Suck our dicks, #Lindenwood Lions!

 

At least he’s crushing it for the Twins now.

 

What was happening across the conference tonight?

#Rutgers Scarlet Knights losing to Princeton

And then #Ohio State Buckeyes and #Northwestern Wildcats embarrasingly close.

#Michigan State Spartans headed to OT at home against James Madison.

 

Chris Holtman was one of Connor Stallions henchmen and should be investigated accordingly

 

Not that anyone cares but the 2 guys supposed to lead us(Thornton and Gayle) were a disaster for first 30 minutes

I don’t have much optimism, maybe a 9-11 seed but Holtmann is fit!

 

lol...It's clearly been too long. Royce White.

 

Thread logo should be changed to James Madison IYAM

 

It was just an exhibition game right?

 

God willing

 

We will know more after we play Mizzou on Thursday but I’m cautiously optimistic that we may have progressed to being a top 100 RPI team. It’s only 2 games against KenPom 250+ teams but we’ve scored 80 and 102 so far. The offense is clearly better than last year when we were scoring high 50s to 75 against comparable teams.

 

fat lie

 

fat lie

 

We whooped up on Stony Brook last night to become the first 4-0 B1G team this season.

 

We’re gonna take this year off and wait for the number 2 prospect in the country, who just signed with us, to show up. Thanks for understanding.

 

He’s from Georgia? Wtf?

 

Dawson Garcia with a very dumb 10 second call

 

That was horrendous basketball down the stretch by Minnesota

Ben Johnson kept putting the ball in Christie's hands and it was a disaster

 

But also