Gopher Athletics: Golden Nugz, all the Gopher links for Tuesday

Time for a quick Nugz. No time to waste, no opening paragraph, just links to help you waste time on your Tuesday.

Gopher Stuff

• Lets kick this off with Coach Linsay Whalen’s first recruit commitment. Sara Scalia is a dynamic scorer (26.5 ppg as a junior) and was very excited to be Whalen’s first recruit.
• Gopher baseball is rolling and it is in part to the adjustments John Anderson has made over his 37 year career as the Gopher head coach.
• Recap of Day 1 of the Gopher Road Trip.

Around the Big Ten West

• SBN’s recruiting guru, Bud Elliott was at the Chicago Under Armour All-American camp and recaps the state of recruiting for a couple teams pertinent to us.
• Former Hawkeye basketball player, and a kid that the Gophers were strongly pursuing, has decided to transfer to Kentucky to play...FOOTBALL? Ahmad Wagner is actually doing that.
• I’m sorry if this makes you lose your breakfast but Wisconsin has erected a Bucky Alvarez statue.
• The Champaign Room is running down their favorite Illini moments of the 2017-18 school year. Hey TDG Staff...we should think about doing this.
• Nebraska has the 2nd toughest schedule in the country, I guess.
• Here’s an awesome film study of what Bryant McIntosh meant to Northwestern basketball. Sadly the highlights come at the expense of poor Gopher defense.
• Purdue basketball still needs some additions for their 2018 class and Travis looks ahead to the 2019 class as well.

We’re Kind of a Big Deal

If you had any doubts before, well not only does my mom’s best friend think that we are the best blog in Minnesota. But we have officially been recognized as the 6th best blog in Minnesota. That’s not just sports blogs, ALL THE BLOGS! Ha ha Living Smart Girl, good luck getting any further up the list after being a distant 7th! (I’m just kidding LSG)