Comments on: Is it 2010 all over again for Minnesota?

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:59:25 +0000

I am on the fence at the moment on what direction this team will go. I truly believe Mbakwe will become a distraction. Already guaranteeing NCAA bid or pay back of scholarship shows he is either very confident or quite naive. He needs to become a team leader by realizing this isn’t his team anymore and there are new leaders emerging. It’s time for Mbakwe to become a real team player and know his role. The Gophers could have thrown in the towel at the end of last year but didn’t. They stepped up to show they were better than everyone tagged them to be. My bias support for the Gophers has me believing the Gophers will be competitive this year and challenge for top 5 Big Ten honors and make some noise in the Big Ten tournament as well as the NCAA Tournament. They could be a single digit NCAA Tournament team. Go Gopher!

By: jASON

jASON — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:30:00 +0000

I have to give tremendous credit to the Gophers NIT run. It’s probably hard for a coach to get a team excited about and they beat a lot of bubble teams on their run and gained postseason experience. Mbakwe may take the Big Ten by storm. They also became a very exciting and jump happy team in the NIT tourney and young players emerged. I think they are a conference contender; of course I am biased since I am a gopher fan.

By: ClemtheGemfan

ClemtheGemfan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:36:29 +0000

Well, if I am correct Minnesota has been devistated by key injuries for the past couple of seasons, I really don’t think you can read too much into the results of those seasons and try to apply them to this season. With the exception Wally the Gophers are finally healthy, and on paper, with THIS seasons squad in place it looks to be a confrence contender. I don’t place a lot of value in defensive rebounding, (would be nice if the numbers were better though) when the team is one of the top shot blocking squads in the Big Ten and I do beleive the country. I think that this season will be very different than the last two because 1) they are no longer forcing the offense through RSIII, 2) Rodney, and Dre seems to have “turned on” and this may shock some people but 3) I really don’t think this years team will live or die with Trevor. We will see about the rebounding. On paper the gophers has the biggest, and deepest front court in the Big Ten, I think that will be a very good thing for the maroon and gold.