The Athletic: Big Ten basketball media poll: Indiana, Illinois are favorites in official/unofficial vote (12. Minnesota)

[BleedGopher]

per The Athletic:

The official unofficial preseason Big Ten media poll​

(first-place votes in parenthesis)

1. Indiana, 43 (19)
2. Illinois, 81 (6)
3. Michigan, 92 (1)
4. Michigan State, 139
5. Purdue, 141 (1)
6. Ohio State, 167
7. Iowa, 185 (1)
8. Rutgers, 218
9. Wisconsin, 229
10. Maryland, 267
11. Penn State, 304
12. Minnesota, 334
13. Northwestern, 362
14. Nebraska, 378

12. Minnesota

Ben Johnson basically had to throw a team together last year after getting hired and losing his entire roster to the portal. He at least put something respectable together. In Year 2, he has Battle and Garcia to build a rotation around, but I’m more interested in seeing the eight freshmen and sophomores on the floor. Here’s hoping Johnson builds Minnesota as a program, not a transfer portal outpost.

The official/unofficial Big Ten basketball media poll: Indiana, Illinois are favorites

The Hoosiers bring back nearly everyone from last season's tournament team while the Illini dipped into the transfer portal to reload.

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Go Gophers!!

 

[60's Guy]

We are movin' right on up! Weren't we 14 in somebody else's?
Our top 7 must be available every game for us to surprise anyone. No doubt losing both Fox and Ihnen made things even more precarious than they already were starting in the spring.