Big Ten teams with back to back 5 or fewer win seasons

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Since the 1999 Mason breakthrough, the gophers have only gone back to back seasons with 5 or fewer wins once (2010-2011)

No coach we have had since Mason has posted back to back 5 or fewer win seasons.

For perspective, when each big ten school last did this compared to MN 2010-2011

Ohio state last did this in 1946-1947
Wisconsin last did this in 1991-1992
Iowa did this in 1999-2000
Penn state did this in 2003-2004
Michigan state did this in 2006-2007
Michigan did this in 2008-2009
Minnesota 2010-2011
Northwestern did this in 2013-2014
Indiana did this in 2017-2018
Maryland did this in 2019-2020
Purdue did this in 2019-2020
Rutgers did this in 2020-2021
Nebraska did this in 2020-2021
Illinois did this in 2020-2021
 

That’s not too bad!

Would love to see Gophers pass Iowa and Whisky!
 



It seems like a team needs to lose their coach to accomplish the <=5 feat back to back. Unless you're Nebraska....or Northwestern cuz they're weird.
 


Here's how how the record looks on Winsipedia since 1999 for a visual-
Record1999.jpg
 

To be fair, five of those included the 2020 season, which was a mess for everyone due to covid. It feels like there should be an asterisk about that.
 

To be fair, five of those included the 2020 season, which was a mess for everyone due to covid. It feels like there should be an asterisk about that.
They all included Covid season.

If we exclude the Covid season

Ohio state last did this in 1946-1947
Wisconsin last did this in 1991-1992
Iowa did this in 1999-2000
Penn state did this in 2003-2004
Michigan state did this in 2006-2007
Michigan did this in 2008-2009
Minnesota 2010-2011
Northwestern did this in 2013-2014
Purdue did this in 2015-2016
Indiana did this in 2017-2018
Illinois did this in 2017-2018
Maryland did this in 2018-2019
Rutgers did this in 2019 and 2021
Nebraska did this in 2019 and 2021
 







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