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per Marcus:
HANDLING HELL – You know the saying, if you play with fire, you get burned. The Gophers should take that to heart Saturday playing against Arkansas’ well-known 40 Minutes of Hell style that dates all the way back to the 1994 national championship Razorbacks team under former coach Nolan Richardson. Current Arkansas coach Mike Anderson, a former Richardson assistant, hopes to create havoc with his full court press and run Minnesota out of the building. How Gophers guards Nate Mason, Dupree McBrayer, Amir Coffey and Isaiah Washington handle the pressure will likely determine the outcome. The Gophers rank third in the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.5) and average just 11.7 turnovers a game. Mason and McBrayer are fourth (3.7) and fifth (3.4) in the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio, respectively. The Hogs rank fourth in the Southeastern Conference in turnovers forced per game (16.4). Minnesota and Arkansas both like to run, ranking 27th and 28th in the country in adjusted tempo, per advanced stats guru Ken Pomeroy. But slowing down the Hogs is the way to beat them. North Carolina (87-68) and Houston (91-65) blew out Arkansas winning the rebounding battle and limiting the Hogs to 11 fastbreak points combined in two games.
http://www.startribune.com/are-the-gophers-ready-for-arkansas-40-minutes-of-hell/463037763/
Go Gophers!!
HANDLING HELL – You know the saying, if you play with fire, you get burned. The Gophers should take that to heart Saturday playing against Arkansas’ well-known 40 Minutes of Hell style that dates all the way back to the 1994 national championship Razorbacks team under former coach Nolan Richardson. Current Arkansas coach Mike Anderson, a former Richardson assistant, hopes to create havoc with his full court press and run Minnesota out of the building. How Gophers guards Nate Mason, Dupree McBrayer, Amir Coffey and Isaiah Washington handle the pressure will likely determine the outcome. The Gophers rank third in the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.5) and average just 11.7 turnovers a game. Mason and McBrayer are fourth (3.7) and fifth (3.4) in the Big Ten in assist-to-turnover ratio, respectively. The Hogs rank fourth in the Southeastern Conference in turnovers forced per game (16.4). Minnesota and Arkansas both like to run, ranking 27th and 28th in the country in adjusted tempo, per advanced stats guru Ken Pomeroy. But slowing down the Hogs is the way to beat them. North Carolina (87-68) and Houston (91-65) blew out Arkansas winning the rebounding battle and limiting the Hogs to 11 fastbreak points combined in two games.
http://www.startribune.com/are-the-gophers-ready-for-arkansas-40-minutes-of-hell/463037763/
Go Gophers!!