Dear Gophers,
Please take your hands off your throats. It's a little easier to play that way. Another 12-point lead has all but evaporated already. 47-45 right now. This doesn't look good.
March 12, 2009
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you got to believe MCA.. you got to believe (of course there is no way you should believe if you have been a MN sports fan over the last 30+ years (with the exception of October 1987 and 1991)), but still.. you got to believe.
Take that BG
Go gophers
March 12, 2009 at 1:03 PM
I listened to the 2nd half on the radio as I took my dog for a walk, why do they all have to be roller coasters?
Crazy what happened from the 7:00 minute mark with the Gophers actually clamping down and dictating the win. Granted this isn't a "program defining win" but maybe they just learned how to close out teams they should be able to close out (Sampson was a beast at the end.)
March 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Yeah, it appears that when the Gophers actually remove their hands from said throat and play with intensity at both ends of the floor, they can be a good team. Their problem is these 6-7 minute scoring droughts that seem to plague them every game. If they could have closed the deal last Saturday, they wouldn't even be sweating it right now.
NU belongs in the NIT, so I am actually relieved at the outcome. Next year, though...watch out. Okay...need to get back to reality. Let's just hope the Gophers give Sparty a game tomorrow.
MCA - great rant about memory and high school. I kind of feel the same way. I remember tiny little vignettes from various social and sporting events, but I simply do not remember the day-to-day. I mean, we were juniors 18 years ago! EIGHTEEN! That is ridiculous. I am starting to get cloudy about what actually happened in college as well.
Jan, MCA and RTS - it's been 9-10 years since our heydey in Chicago, playing football on the lakeshore and watching Vikes games at the TMT. That really blows my mind.
March 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Memorieeeeesssss...of the way we weeeeeerrrrrrre. Good way to put it, BG. Vignettes.
I'm reading things elsewhere on the 'nets that say that, given this win and a couple other events out there today (Miami, Providence, Arizona all losing, mostly), the Gophs can probably rest easy regardless of tomorrow.
These guys are some of the most respected out there (certainly more credible than Lunardi), and they think we're off the bubble now: http://bracketology101.blogspot.com/
That said, we're still subject to someone (Baylor, someone other than Xavier in the A-10) making a run and stealing one of the last autobids. And I still fear for tomorrow - MSU has owned this team, and it wouldn't exactly leave a good impression to get dumped by 30 tomorrow.
BG, on the issue from last week of weakness among the mid-majors this year, that bracketology 101 blog I linked is predicting at best 5 non-BCS at-large bids. With the SEC so atrocious, and the Big 12 and Pac 10 with virtually no bubble teams between them, it's the perfect recipe for a conference loaded with decent but not all that great teams to legitimately think about getting 8 teams in. That's amazing. But if Penn State and Ohio State both win tomorrow (quite plausible), that might be what happens.
March 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM
BG am I reading between the lines correctly, are you saying that next year NW will make the NCAA tournament for the first time ever?
Good for the Gophs. I look forward to putting some names with the face durning tournament time.
I do not know what it says about me but I remember a ton about HS. I think I could be the old guy changing out cleats talking about the CDH football teams from 1988-1992 some day.
College is more of a blur. It feels like I was there for a much shorter period of time than the last couple of years of high school.
Now time just seems to be slipping by. The days are long, but the weeks and months are short.
March 13, 2009 at 10:27 AM
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