Do you feel that icy chill of doubt creeping up your spine? That’s Gopher fandom, baby. Hello, old friend.
Just one week after thoroughly throttling a very good Michigan team, Minnesota promptly laid an egg at home — where they had been undefeated — to a fine/okay Maryland team. It was a pitiful performance, reminiscent of other beatdowns suffered so far at the hands of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, where Minnesota trailed from wire to wire, couldn’t make a shot and generally looked disinterested in playing basketball.
It was a stark reminder that, while the Gophers are still ranked in the AP Top 25, they are liable to play like the worst team in the conference on any given night.