SDSU Jackrabbits going to the Big Dance!

[rundrave]

I normally wouldn't post this here, but being the star for SDSU is Nate Wolters who is from ST Cloud I had to. They played terrible last night but were fortunate to come away with a win.

Isn't it ironic to think that Wolters is playing at SDSU and now going to the NCAA tournament? Who would have thought he had a better chance doing that at SDSU rather than the Gophers? This is not a shot at the Gophers as I root for them too, but it just another example of recruiting mistakes made by Tubby Smith IMO.

Yes the Summit is nothing compared to the Big 10 I understand that, but its mind boggling to me that the Tubby cant recruit local kids with talent let alone get them into the NCAA tournament.

Was a big day for SDSU yesterday as both men and women won the Summit League tourney.

[Storm]

Good to see Wolters make it to the tourney. Seems weird that I played against him growing up in camps and such, but you could tell even back 8 years ago that he was really a special player. He makes everyone around him play better which is exactly what the Gophers could have used.

[Scott M]

Not knocking the guy as I will be the first to admit he is a great player and more than worthy of playing Big Ten ball...but he has a very high usage rate and that offense has basically run through him for 3 years. Would he have been used the same way at Minnesota? No chance. I still think he would have been a fine piece of the puzzle in maroon and gold but I think he did well for himself by going to SDSU, why be a bit when you can be BMOC.

In fairness, if he went to Minnesota he would have been part of a NCAA tournament team and chances are he could have played point last year when Nolen was hurt and pushed the Gophers into the tournament and likely would have been a huge scoring piece for the Gophers to push them into the tournament this year.

There have been a number of snippets written about Wolters the last couple years as the Jacks and Gophs have squared off and he's been a lightning rod at GopherHole. No matter what, you can't say he's not a great player. I will be cheering for (but not picking) SDSU next week.

[PierBridge]

Congrats to Da J-Rabbits had a lot fun times back in the day at Brookings! No chicks to speak of but we made use of the cards that were dealt to us!

I'm am little disappointed on placing a bet on the over 108 1/2 points and having the game go into overtime and still not go over....DOH! Looked like a Gopher vs Badger game..

I wouldn't blame Tubby on this as I don't believe he would have seen the day of lite at the U.

[eyeguy 54]

Saw Nate at church today and said howdy. I see he is on the cover of Sports Illustrated with a ton of other samll pics. pretty neat.