Minnesota: A Team of Runs

I'm as angry as anybody about these last four games. They were painful, especially since I knew we were going to find a way to blow it against an inferior team in Madison. We're in a funk right now. But this team under Tubby, has been characterized by their reliance on momentum. We are, both in games, and from game-to-game, a team of runs. I'm not willing to give up on this team yet. Win at Nebraska, and this team starts feeling a bit better against themselves. Hopefully, we just destroy Iowa, and all of a sudden, a bit of the mojo is back. I'll be there for both, and I hope the crowd isn't back to nonconference levels just because of a few bad games (and let's be honest, the only bad loss on paper was the Northwestern game, and we all knew that with our staff's inability to solve the 1-3-1, that was always a potential trap game). This season ain't over. There's a lot of good things that can still happen.

I do agree with one thing you said; I'm not willing to give up on this team. I would never give up on the gophers. I might be highly critical of them (and tubby sometimes) but never give up on them. I'm too invested (emotionally) with the gophers haha.

As of late, we've been playing like a team with the runs.

Technically the Northwestern game isn't considered a "bad" loss because they are in the top 100 RPI. I know that on paper the Gophers are such a better team that it seems like such a brutal loss, but I don't think we will be severely punished for it come selection sunday.

bleedsmaroonandgold said:

As of late, we've been playing like a team with the runs.

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I had the runs pretty bad this past weekend. I felt like Harry from Dumb and Dumber.

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GophersInIowa said:

I had the runs pretty bad this past weekend. I felt like Harry from Dumb and Dumber.

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Not too much info. The exact same facial expression I made when Rodney's second free throw backrimmed.