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per Marcus:
A frosty Richard Pitino was walking to his car outside an Edina grocery store on New Year’s Eve when he was approached by a Gophers fan who had a pretty snarky remark about the coach’s 12-3 men’s basketball team.
“Can’t believe you only won by 10 vs. Harvard,” Pitino said, recalling the comment about the Gophers’ 65-55 victory in front of a sellout crowd the previous day at Williams Arena.
The easy response would have been to mention the Gophers were playing without their All-Big Ten point guard and senior captain Nate Mason, who is still day-to-day because of an ankle injury.
Pitino also could have said Harvard was better than its 5-7 record indicated.
He knows nobody wants to hear excuses, especially not when the season started with such high expectations.
“Everybody’s down on our team right now,” Pitino said. “Not ‘sky is falling’ down, but I think there’s a ‘maybe they’re not as good …’ ”
“I’ve got to get our team to understand: Let’s control what we can control,” Pitino said. “Let’s get better and really, really excited about the next 16 games.”
http://m.startribune.com/gophers-try-finding-their-way-in-big-ten-play/467778663/?section=sports
Go Gophers!!
A frosty Richard Pitino was walking to his car outside an Edina grocery store on New Year’s Eve when he was approached by a Gophers fan who had a pretty snarky remark about the coach’s 12-3 men’s basketball team.
“Can’t believe you only won by 10 vs. Harvard,” Pitino said, recalling the comment about the Gophers’ 65-55 victory in front of a sellout crowd the previous day at Williams Arena.
The easy response would have been to mention the Gophers were playing without their All-Big Ten point guard and senior captain Nate Mason, who is still day-to-day because of an ankle injury.
Pitino also could have said Harvard was better than its 5-7 record indicated.
He knows nobody wants to hear excuses, especially not when the season started with such high expectations.
“Everybody’s down on our team right now,” Pitino said. “Not ‘sky is falling’ down, but I think there’s a ‘maybe they’re not as good …’ ”
“I’ve got to get our team to understand: Let’s control what we can control,” Pitino said. “Let’s get better and really, really excited about the next 16 games.”
http://m.startribune.com/gophers-try-finding-their-way-in-big-ten-play/467778663/?section=sports
Go Gophers!!