STrib: Gophers mull what went wrong this baseball season

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per the STrib:

Minnesota missed the conference tournament for just the third time in 18 seasons, though it’s the second time in four years. The trend argues that the Gophers are struggling to keep up with a much-improved Big Ten.

“You look at all the trends and evaluate your program and where you want to be and what may be contributing to those trends,” said Gophers longtime coach John Anderson by phone, away from Target Field. “If you don’t get in three out of 18 years, you should be proud of that. But you have to pay attention to what’s going on with trends. … We haven’t been able to maintain that same level of competitiveness we’re used to and that’s due to a lot of reasons.”

The players returning next season are already aware of these challenges, and eager to prove they are not second-tier talent in the Big Ten.

“It’s concerning, and a little eye-opening for us as a program,” junior second baseman Connor Schaefbauer said Wednesday from his home in Sioux Falls, S.D. “It tells us we need to get back to the drawing board and get back to business.”

http://www.startribune.com/gophers-mull-what-went-wrong-this-baseball-season/304509201/

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