Minnesota Basketball: Previewing Oklahoma State

Rob Ferguson-USA TODAY SportsWow, talk about whiplash. In the span of just one game the Gophers went from getting spanked on the road by the Iowa Hawkeyes to dominating the presumptive (at the time) #1 team in the nation at home in the Ohio State Buckeyes. I mean, that was the Gophers. At home. Beating down one of the best teams in the nation. Sometimes you just gotta laugh and accept, right?

With the win the Gophers jumped an impressive 11 spots in KenPom, from 74 to 63, and notched a win that makes you wonder just who this team is. On one hand they’ve shown that they can actually beat a top team in the nation and have hung with others in tough games. On the other, they’ve had some…