Gophers Stay on the Road, Looking for Back-to-Back Big Ten Wins - OPEN THREAD
by GopherNation on Jan 15, 2012 12:00 PM CST
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PrintMinnesota Golden Gophers at Penn St. Nittany Lions, Jan 15, 2012 3:00 PM CST
The Gophers travel to Penn State hoping to ride the wave of confidence after a huge win at Indiana.
Game Time: 3:00
TV: BTN
| Pos | Minnesota (13-5) |
Pnt/Gm | |
Pnt/Gm | Penn State (9-9) |
Pos |
| PG | Julian Welch | 10.2 |
18.1 | Tim Frazier |
G | |
| G | Joe Coleman |
4.5 |
9.9 |
Jermaine Marshall |
G | |
| F | Austin Hollins | 8.6 | 3.4 |
Matt Glover |
F | |
| F | Rodney Williams | 10.4 | 7.7 | Billy Oliver |
F | |
| C | Ralph Sampson III | 8.5 | 3.6 | Jonathan Graham |
F | |
| Bench | Maverick Ahanmisi |
4.8 | 4.6 | Ross Travis |
Bench | |
| Bench |
Andre Hollins | 5.6 |
5.4 | Sasa Borovnjak |
Bench | |
| Bench |
Eliott Eliason |
2.4 | 7.5 | Cammeron Woodyard |
Bench |
Tim Frazier scares me and after watching Michigan's Trey Burke destroy us off the dribble, I fear that Frazier may beat us single-highhandedly. The other noteworthy guy on the roster for Minnesota fans is Ross Travis. A freshman from Chaska who is averaging 17 min off the bench and about 4.5 points and rebounds per game. Taking on local kids who didn't get a scholarship offer from Tubby is always dangerous. I don't expect he will go off for 16 points and a dozen rebounds or anything crazy but he may make a handful of backbreaking plays that inspire the Nittany Lions.
| KenPom Efficiency Stats | Minnesota (53) |
Penn State (133) |
| Record | 13-5 | 9-9 |
| Pnt / Poss | 1.093 (45) | 1.000 |
| Def Pnt / Poss | 0.955 | 0.960 |
| Off eFG% | 51.8% |
45.4% (280) |
| Def eFG% | 48.3% | 50.7% |
| Off Reb % | 37.5% (32) | 36.7% (46) |
| Def Reb % | 66.9% | 74.7% (11) |
| TO % | 21.4% | 20.3% |
So Penn State is a great rebounding team. They crash the offensive glass and they box out defensively. The rest of their numbers are not very pretty. By more traditional statistics they rank at or near the bottom of the Big Ten in scoring offense, FG%, 3-pnt FG%, defensive 3-pnt FG%, blocked shots and assists. Their efficiency stats echo the same story. But they do rebound quite well. So today I'm going to give you 2 keys to the game?
1 - BOX OUT - We are pretty good at crashing the offensive glass but we also give up our share of offensive boards. Box out and do not give them very many second chance points.
2 - Contain Frazier - He is the one guy who can take over the game and beat us. I am fearing a lot of pick-n-rolls, we better be ready for it.
Those are two things that we can do. Assuming we can handle those simple tasks I think our offense will be fine against a farily weak defensive team. Is a winning streak too much to ask? We are looking for not just back-to-back wins but back-to-back ROAD wins. Get this done and then we can really start gaining some confidence this year again.
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Gophers are playing good defense
if it wasn’t for Frazier shooting 3s wayyyyy above his ability, they’d be winning
33-31 at the half
Gophers defense looked good. Ralph was really helping them break the zone before he had to sit down. Gotta feel this favors us.
Coleman is so good a beating his man and getting to the glass
that he makes freethrows is just a bonus
Joe is really stepping it up isn't he?
kid is becoming our go-to player
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16:43 was the three from Hollins
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wow
3 yeras since back to back wins
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I'm getting greedy
I want a 12+ point win
If this team were to get some confidence they just might start winning some more games
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65 points might be enough to win it
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Agreed
Penn State doesn’t have the late burst ability that Indiana does. They just flat out don’t shoot well enough.
by Sportsavenue on Jan 15, 2012 4:57 PM CST up reply actions
80 - 66 For W
65 points not quite enough.
by FortyYearCatFan on Jan 15, 2012 7:00 PM CST up reply actions
We're fouling far too often
yeah you want to fight for everything. But be realistic about which ones you choose.
Eliot is working hard on the defensive end
he’s gonna be good. Colton never had that; he could rebound but everybody just went around him.
excellent finish
PSU got it down to 5 and then we opened it back up to 15 before that last Woodyard three.
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Yep
Nice W for Gophers OTR.
NWU will be tough.
by FortyYearCatFan on Jan 15, 2012 6:59 PM CST up reply actions
Crowds
Regardless of W or not, home crowds should be supportive.
Gopher fans, maybe not.
by FortyYearCatFan on Jan 16, 2012 7:37 AM CST up reply actions
Coleman
emerges as Ralph slips away to the background. But nobody noticed a 7 footer slink out of the room….but then again if you saw his game you could understand how easy it was for a senior 7 footer to disappear, he didnt have far to go.
Sampson
5 blocks, some nice assists and steals.
by FortyYearCatFan on Jan 16, 2012 7:36 AM CST up reply actions
Played pretty well when he was on the floor
Had to sit over some silly fouls, but he was aggressive in the post and had some nice feeds to Coleman. Ths was one of his up games.
he gets silly fouls
because he is too concerned with blocked shots.
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by GopherNation on Jan 18, 2012 2:33 PM CST up reply actions
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