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per Chad:
Twenty-four victories this season only set a bench mark for the next, with nearly all of Pitino’s team returning and two talented recruits, plus a skilled transfer who sat out the season with an injury, expected to join them.
“They raised the expectations so quickly,” Pitino said of his players. “And next year it’s going to be even more, obviously, when you have almost everybody back and you got some exciting recruits coming in.”
Central to enthusiasm for next season is the arrival of four-star recruit Isaiah Washington, a point guard from the Bronx who should add immediate depth behind Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer. ESPN graded Washington as Pitino’s second-best recruit only behind Amir Coffey, an all-Big Ten freshman this season.
Joining Washington in the freshmen class is slick-shooting guard Jamir Harris, whom Pitino called “one of the top three-point shooters in the country.”
“We’ll have a lot of talent,” Mason said. “We know we’re going to be a good team next year. We’re going to use (Thursday’s loss) as motivation in every drill and every practice to try to get back here.”
During the Gophers’ practice before the NCAA tournament, Pitino looked down his bench and saw Springs sitting next to Davonte Fitzgerald, a transfer from Texas A&M who suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in October, and thought to himself, “Wow, it would be nice to go in there with that depth.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/17/expectations-soaring-for-gophers-basketball/
Go Gophers!!
Twenty-four victories this season only set a bench mark for the next, with nearly all of Pitino’s team returning and two talented recruits, plus a skilled transfer who sat out the season with an injury, expected to join them.
“They raised the expectations so quickly,” Pitino said of his players. “And next year it’s going to be even more, obviously, when you have almost everybody back and you got some exciting recruits coming in.”
Central to enthusiasm for next season is the arrival of four-star recruit Isaiah Washington, a point guard from the Bronx who should add immediate depth behind Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer. ESPN graded Washington as Pitino’s second-best recruit only behind Amir Coffey, an all-Big Ten freshman this season.
Joining Washington in the freshmen class is slick-shooting guard Jamir Harris, whom Pitino called “one of the top three-point shooters in the country.”
“We’ll have a lot of talent,” Mason said. “We know we’re going to be a good team next year. We’re going to use (Thursday’s loss) as motivation in every drill and every practice to try to get back here.”
During the Gophers’ practice before the NCAA tournament, Pitino looked down his bench and saw Springs sitting next to Davonte Fitzgerald, a transfer from Texas A&M who suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in October, and thought to himself, “Wow, it would be nice to go in there with that depth.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/17/expectations-soaring-for-gophers-basketball/
Go Gophers!!