Winning 10-0 ( Groenwedgen with the no-hitter) 11-1 and 9-0. Finish the conference off against Iowa next week. In the B1GTourney will be in the opposite bracket of #2 Michigan

I frequently read there is bias in the star system. I agree. I thought it would be useful to report number of players drafted by each BIG school:

Ohio State - 12
Michigan State - 5
Penn State - 5
Nebraska - 4
Illinois - 3
Indiana - 3
Maryland - 3
Michigan - 3
Minnesota - 2
Northwestern - 2
Wisconsin - 2
Iowa - 1
Purdue - 1
Rudgers - 1

What does the data mean? I have a few thoughts:

1. Ohio State is at a different place, talent wise, than anyone else in the conference
2. The draft does not 'explain' the 2015 record for Iowa, Northwestern and Wisconsin.
3. Success in the Big 10 is about stringing together consecutive good recruiting classes; perhaps stability in coaches
4. Penn State and perhaps Nebraska had some good players but that individual talent did not translate to team wins
5. Aside from tOSU and Mich State, there isn't much difference between the rest of the conference

Besides the 13 current Gopher underclassmen that will be in Las Vegas this weekend, there are several incoming Freshmen and future recruiting targets that are also competing. These are:

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Rising Junior Patrick McKee (MN Storm)(St. Michael-Albertville). #8 at 106 last year, younger brother of 2016-17 commit Mitch McKee. Competing in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman.

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Mitch McKee (MN Storm) (St. M-A) #20 ranked Senior and #4 ranked at 138. 2016-17 incoming Freshman commit. Competing in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman.

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Rising Senior Jake Allar (MN Storm) (St. M-A) #34 ranked Junior and #8 at 152. FloWrestling has him in their preview, but I don't see him in the brackets.

Best chances to compete for a win (from the wrestlers above): both McKee brothers.
From below: Stroker, Steveson & Streifel.

Gopher Underclassmen Head to Junior Nationals

A collection of 13 Gophers will compete in Las Vegas this weekend to secure spots at the U.S. Junior World Team Trials

Gophersports.com
April 28, 2016

More than a dozen Gopher wrestlers are heading to Las Vegas this weekend for the United World Wrestling Junior Greco-Roman and Freestyle National Championships. In all, 13 current Gophers will be competing in the tournament, with the entire baker's dozen competing in freestyle. They'll get started on Friday, with opening matches at 6 p.m. Central, and wrap up on Saturday night.

The group of Gopher competing in the tournament includes nine rookie wrestlers who just finished their freshman seasons, as well as four second-year grapplers who recently completed their redshirt freshman seasons.

The full list of competing Gophers includes: Gresh Jones (63kg), Ben Brancale and Fredy Stroker (66kg), Carson Brolsma and James Berg (70kg), Larry Early III and Dalton Clark (74kg), Darius Wright, Colin Carr and Tijani Karaborni (79kg); Bobby Steveson and Faris Karaborni (84kg); and, Rylee Streifel (120kg).

That spread means Minnesota will be represented in seven of the tournament's 11 weight classes, with multiple participants at five of those weights.

Last season, six Gophers competed in the event, four of whom placed. Tommy Thorn led the way, claiming the tournament title at 63kg. The lone returning placewinnner will be Colin Carr, who took seventh at 79kg last year. The other two placewinners were Ethan Lizak (sixth at 55kg) and Chris Pfarr (eighth at 84kg).

The opening session for freestyle will run for approximately four hours, wrapping up at 10 p.m. Central. Action resumes on Saturday with the second session beginning at 11 a.m. Central. The third and final session starts at 5 p.m. Central Saturday evening and will include semifinals, consolation quarters and semis, as well as all placer matches.

Matches from the tournament can be watched live on Flowrestling.org (requires a FloPRO subscription) and live stats are available on TrackWrestling.com.

signed with GB...I do wish him well, and may he get to punt a lot.

I know many of you don't care because you're not interested in sports other than football, men's basketball and men's hockey, but the Gophers have clinched the Border Battle against the Badgers. Minnesota has 450 points and Wisconsin has 310 points with three events left. Even if the Badgers win all three events, the best they can do is 430 points against the Gopher's 450.
Assuming we win this year, we will have won 8 of 12 Border Battles and swept the last four. If we can add football and men's basketball, the Badgers won't have a chance because they have dominated in those sports and still lost the last four Border Battles.

According to Sid. Goetz would retain her former position and Mason would approach Kaler about Kill being an associate AD. We just got back from a Minnesota Club function here in Green Valley.and several members were talking about this. Former Viking Nate Wright is a member out here and he said he heard that the wheels are turning from some very influential alumni pushing for Mason.

Has little to no chance of getting playing time as Tennessee just drafted Derrick Henry and already have demarco Murray, too bad for him hopefully he can get on a team that he can get some playing time

I know I shouldn't expect more out of a network that brings us Bill Maher but I was bored and was watching Real Sports with Gumbel and they had a segment on college sports in colleges where they weren't turning a profit and it blew me away. Professor after professor talking about how they would have no problem with athletics if it could carry it's own weight, but since they aren't at many places they were taking exception(E. Michigan was their big example).

I almost thought it might be an Onion piece. College professors who all of a sudden had concerns about whether their was equal value for expenditures for something higher education related?

Now I would love an open conversation of actual value of everything that goes on throughout a college campus, but oddly that wasn't what they were advocating for, instead it was a self serving classic BS liberal piece that assumed value in East African Transgender Global Warming Studies, but not in anything in the athletic realm. Are we so far away from any level of intellectual honesty, that this is what can pass as journalism?

I just noticed something interesting...2/3 rds into the third round, the following B1G schools have not had any players selected so far.

1. Rutgers
2. Northwestern
3. Purdue
4. Minnesota
5. Wisconsin
6. Michigan


who woulda thunk it...

• Proven success
• Could no doubt raise money
• MN Roots
• Winner

Why haven't they offered the job yet?

Looks like Theiren Cockran signed with the Vikings....

The Gophers are finding a lot of talent in Alabama and Mississippi on their recruiting trail.

Today, they offered 4-star 2017 strong safety Kam'ron White from Mississippi.

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4th round! Congratulations to Eric...he has made us proud! May all go well for him as he enters the pro game!

On Friday the Gophers offered Alabama DB AJ Harris, a three-star prospect. Harris has roughly a dozen offers, which include Florida State, Michigan, Mississippi, Duke, Louisville and Nebraska.

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Congrats to the big man! Love seeing multiple gophers drafted!

http://ow.ly/4naCrj

If this is the kind of leadership they are getting in the locker room, it all makes sense to me now. I'm just about done with this donkey, need to find a trading partner...

Phillip Nelson still battling for the starting QB spot. Will GI be sending anyone?

Wow, we gotta start paying kids rent and parent's bills.

Don't know why I still get it, but get emails from Bleacher Report on a daily basis. For the most part it has become a police blotter of criminal charges and dismissal for bad actions. Every day there is a new criminal investigation or arrest, a dismissal for back conduct etc. And this is just what we see reported (reference Baylor nightmare).

Transparency is good, and don't like it when violent stuff gets swept under the rug. But it is depressing how many gifted young men keep forfeiting the blessed opportunities in their lives.

This is the year the tide FINALLY swings away from the drunks. Not paying head coaches & assistant coaches and not having a cream puff schedule...they fail this year, and continue to tailspin for years to come.

The a Gophers will win the axe this year!

Sconnie opens with LSU, and the big10, they play at Sparty, then the big house, then host Ohio St, then go to Kinnick.

It's a beautiful thing, but they are looking at a 5-7 or 6-6 season.

F Bucky

from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Too bad, but hope he catches on with another team. Was a good returner in the CFL too.