It has been a rough stretch for Gopher basketball over their last 8 games where they have gone 2-6 and in the process have lost a couple starters to injury. Gabe Kalscheur, the team’s best perimeter defender, is out for a few more weeks and Liam Robins, the team’s best interior defender, is hobbled by an ankle injury that hasn’t kept him out of any games, but he’s not nearly the same.
But it could be worse, we could be Northwestern. The Wildcats started the Big Ten season 3-0 beating Michigan State, Indiana and Ohio State.