Gopher Women

[Dotch]

Well, they did it! Knocked off #5 Ohio State in OT at the Barn.Whether or not that's enough to get them into the NCAA's remains to be seen. Certainly can't hurt. Winning a game in the Big 10 tournament would put them at 20 wins. Live streamed the contest and it was exciting to watch. 

http://www.gophersports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/022416aab.html

 

[DrJ]

Great game against Ohio State. Our big( Edwards is starting to come around) will really help open it up for Banham and Wagner. A win today against Maryland would be huge and give them a 2 game bye for the Big 10 tourney.Great fun to watch this team and Banham put up 80-100 points per game. Go Girls  DrJ....

[rundrave]

Both Gopher b-ball teams go 0-3 vs teams from South Dakota AT Williams arena during 15-16 season

Which is unfortunate for, Banham she had about one of the best careers that you can have as player

[Dotch]

We have a men's BB team at the U? Coulda fooled me. Looks like IM ball. I played that and I was a wrestler! Thanks Norwood, ya tool! 

Ah what might've been. First lose your inside game to the pro's, then play a 4 guard offense against taller, sometimes more athletic teams along with having an off game shooting and the other team getting hot and suddenly you become very average some nights, even with Rachel Banham. South Dakota was no slouch either. Looking at their record and who they played last week with a season ticket holder, we were both convinced that MN would need to play their best to win. Was not a surprise to us anyway and congrats to SD.

The Gopher women overachieved much of the season. No one would've guessed they'd perform as well as they did. That they were in the top half of the Big 10 with Zahui gone and the unknown of Rachel Banham's recovery is pretty amazing. With the addition of Fernstrom, the IA St. transfer, Barne's knee recovering more fully from ACL surgery, Carlie Wagner quietly scoring her 1000th point, along with what promises to be more team speed and balance, should be interesting to see what Stollings' team is made of for the '16 - '17 season.

[rundrave]

22 minutes ago, Dotch said:

South Dakota was no slouch either. Looking at their record and who they played last week with a season ticket holder, we were both convinced that MN would need to play their best to win. Was not a surprise to us anyway and congrats to SD.

You could easily argue that USD should have got an at large bid to the NCAA tournament despite not winning the Summit tourney to get the automatic bid like SDSU did. USD beat SDSU twice this year and I would say they deserved a bid.

SDSU  as a #12 seed beat #5 seeded Miami in their first round game on Saturday and plays Standford tonight. Lots of girls from Minnesota on that SDSU roster

[Dotch]

We saw that they had beat SDSU twice and figured the automatic bid was the only reason SDSU was in the tournament. A couple Big 10 teams got in with lesser records and probably weaker schedules. Good luck to both SD teams!