Recent content by playhosea!

Unless the Spartans win the Big Ten tournament, they will end up with 14 losses. Their final record is likely to be something like 18-14. I don't follow this stuff nearly as closely as some others on here do. I see the latest Bracketology (from yesterday) has Michigan St. in as a 10 seed and...

Every year I name a team of guys who played high school basketball in Minnesota who I perceive to be having the most success in college to an All-Minnesota team. I doubt this exercise is any more than mildly interesting to anyone other than me. This year I thought I would name a "watch list"...

This time of year I typically try to figure out what the best team of Minnesota high school-product college basketball players would be. Some people find this interesting, others not. Such is life. This is just my list. Feel free to suggest additional/different players because there are...

I think somebody previously posted a schedule of the halftime acts during men's basketball games as part of a thread about how the Red Panda Acrobat (the asian girl on the unicycle who flips bowls off her foot onto her head) is not coming this year. This disappointed me greatly because I think...

At the state championship game last night Hopkins fans kept holding up a sign that said: "Minnesota We're Better Than You!" I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Hopkins is not actually better than the Gophers, although Royce White's transfer clearly was the X factor putting them over the...

Taking off from the "players who got away" thread, I often find it interesting to see what the all-Minnesotan college basketball lineup would be for a given season. Here is my pick for this year's: C -- Cole Aldrich, Kansas. 1st Team all-Big XII, Conference co-Defensive Player of the year...