Gopher Basketball announces 2010-11 non-conference schedule
by GopherNation on Aug 5, 2010 2:11 PM CDT
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PrintOn the eve of Gopher Football-2010 officially gets going, the basketball team has announced their non-conference schedule. The Golden Gophers will be taking on the likes of Hilltoppers, Saints, Terriers, Zips and maybe the Flying Dutchman.
The schedule...
| Date | Opponent |
| 2-Nov | Northeastern State (Exh) |
| 8-Nov | Winona St (Exh |
| 1-Nov | Wofford |
| 15-Nov | Sienna |
| 18-21 Nov | Puerto Rico Tip-off |
| 18-Nov | Western Kentucky |
| 19-Nov | Hoffstra / North Carolina |
| 21-Nov | TBD |
| 24-Nov | North Dakota State |
| 29-Nov | Virginia |
| 4-Dec | Cornell |
| 8-Dec | @ St. Joseph's |
| 11-Dec | Eastern Kentucky |
| 15-Dec | Akron |
My thoughts...
This is a very weak schedule, weaker than the previous two years. The only chance at facing a quality opponent that will boost our tournament resume is facing North Carolina in the second round of the Puerto Rico Classic. Virginia will be a decent opponent as they return some talent but they were just 5-11 last year. We'll have to go 12-1 or we'll need to get 12 Big Ten wins if we want to make the Tournament this year.
Virginia is the toughest opponent that we are guaranteed to face. North Carolina jumps to the top of that list assuming they can beat Hoffstra and we get by Western Kentucky.
Wofford is coming off a 26 win season and they are returning at least six of their top seven leading scorers. Their top three returning scorers are all Minnesota kids. Noah Dahlman (16.6), Jamar Diggs (9.5) and Cameron Rundles (6.6) are all local products who ended up with the Terriers. They nearly knocked off Wisconsin in the NCAA Tournament and are very capable of beating the Gophers this November. They are fairly scary.
Eastern Kentucky returns their leading scorer who also happens to be a Minnesota native. Justin Stommes is a forward out of Cold Spring and returns his 14.2 ppg average. The other double-digit scorers from last year are gone so this should be a W.
Cornell was a great team last year but they lost a lot and should be very vulnerable.
I'm not going to go team by team but outside of Virginia, possibly North Carolina and possibly Wofford this schedule is very winable and as I said above needs to be at least a 12-1 non-conference record.
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it is
a very Penn State-esque schedule. The good news is that we’ll do better than 8-4 with our cream puff schedule.
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This is not a weak schedule
Other than Akron, there are no cupcakes. Both of the directional Kentuckys are good. Siena is good. Cornell is good. St. Joseph’s is good. They will be extremely fortunate to get out of this schedule with just one loss.
It is decent...
but not a tough schedule. I think that they have to place NC to make this schedule a good non-conference schedule. It will end up being better if Sienna has a good season and if Wofford’s season last year wasn’t a fluke.
Question: When are the Gophers going to get the better ACC teams. Isn’t this our 8th time playing VIrginia and we have yet to play Duke or NC.
also
if they get by NC in the tip off, and play WVU or Vandy this schedule will look alot better. That would mean they will play 3 teams in the non conference from either the ACC or the Big East. Much better schedule. Remember the Butler game pretty much sealed our NCAA tournament bid last year. They need another one of those games.
there is not one BCS team
outside of ACC Challenge and tournament. Wofford was a good team last year and returns nearly everyone, they’ll be good.
Both Kentucky’s are usually decent but they don’t return much. If you are facing a low-mid-major, and they aren’t an NCAA Tournament team, it is a weak opponent.
Wofford and UNC are the only teams who will make the NCAA Tournament.
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Agreed On 11-1 Minimum
There are 12 OOC games.
Must W 11 of them.
Pathetic
One step closer to not renewing my season tickets next year. I don’t know what’s worse, the total lack of an enticing home opponent, or that in two months this supposedly well run program only manages to schedule two weekend games, and they are on consecutive weekends!
I count 4
if you include Friday games. To me if you don’t have to get up early the next morning, it’s the weekend.
"they're calling insane hogs???"
Guess I'm just looking for a little tradition
College hoops is made for Saturday afternoon. I know TV controls the Big Ten season, but you’d think the Little Sisters of the Poor could be forced to play here on Saturday afternoons.
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