I’ve been watching college basketball for a long, long time, and today was by far the craziest, most ridiculous, unimaginable game I’ve ever witnessed or even heard about. Nonsensical things cascaded down in waves until we were left with something that slightly resembled basketball but could hardly be explained. In short, what happened today stretched the rulebook and the imagination. And I want to talk about it, because there are about to be some terrible takes across the country that involve Minnesota.
If you haven’t already heard, the game transformed from a regular 5-on-5 contest that the Gophers were dominating into a literal 5-on-3 contest that left Minnesota running down the shot clock and taking midrange jumpers in hopes of just ending the game in whatever fashion possible.