Nugz, Nugz, Nugz on the morning of Gopher hoop's trip to #8 Indiana.

• GopherSports.com has a new Gopher Football blog with info from Andy Seely, the U's Athletic Comm Dept. That probably just bumped us from like the 7th or 8th best Gopher blog in the world of Gopher sports to 8th or 9th but oh well. This one has some interesting info and links.
• This link comes from the link above but the Wall Street Journal published the results of a study that tried to figure out the intrinsic value of every college football program. Minnesota ranks 32nd, 8th among Big Ten teams.
• Darwin Cook of West Virginia was unkind to the Orange, who represents the Orange Bowl. Kind of funny.
• Some Big Ten basketball power rankings. It isn't very pretty for the Gophers.
• Final Big Ten football power rankings. It isn't very pretty for the Gophers. I suppose had Illinois lost their bowl game to UCLA, maybe we would have crept up a spot.
• Former Gopher Football assistant coach, John Butler has been hired on the new Penn State staff.
• SB Nation Minnesota does a nice job covering Gopher Hockey and Nathan is calling for more scoring from the second line.
• I joined the Crimson Cast to talk about tonight's Indiana game. I was pretty pessimistic and down on the Gopher basketball team.