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Minnesota Basketball: Richard Pitino stepped up his Twitter game this offseason

Will the Minnesota Golden Gophers’ men’s basketball team take a step forward this year after a disastrous finish a season ago? I’m the wrong person to ask.

But off the court, head coach Richard Pitino is stepping up his game.

Allow me to explain.

Twitter accounts for head coaches at the college level are almost a necessity at this point, considering most, if not all, of their players and recruits have an account. The difference is in how these accounts are managed. For some head coaches, their account simply exists to push out the occasional obligatory Tweet.