The last time many of you were paying attention to Gopher basketball they were in the midst of possibly the worst season of our collective lifetimes, looking utterly lost against Big Ten competition and enjoying a PR nightmare with the Twitter video scandal. It was ugly. There was promise of additional talent and hope that the team would be better in 2016-17. Personally, I was skeptical and I don’t think I was alone.
Well, we are 5 games into the 2016-17 season, one is a mid-major projected to win their conference and we’ve faced two teams from a power-5 conference including one that is supposedly going to be talented enough to sneak into the NCAA Tournament.