Gophers win the NIT

[HB]

Good run by the Gophers in the NIT.  Elaison ends the year mostly riding the pine.  Minny should be pretty good next year.  I thought dad Pitino being so animated on the sidelines was strange.  I obviously think it's great he was there to support his son, but to be barking out instructions doesn't really help son's image and may undercut him a little. 

[hhcmatt]

 Elaison ends the year mostly riding the pine. 

 

The number of minutes he played tended to vary wildly but he started every game except for the last two because of injury http://www.twincities.com/gophers/ci_25458905/gophers-basketball-elliott-eliason-likely-will-miss-nit

[Huskerpapa]

Good for the Big Ten!

[AuroranHusker]

Good for Elliot Eliason & his Gopher teammates. Still recall the Nebrasketball NIT title in '96 as if it were yesterday... pretty cool to win a national tournament, no matter if it's no longer the pre-eminent tourney like it once was.

[jimmykc]

I suppose I am happy for the Gophers but I would still rather be us than them.

[49r]

I suppose I am happy for the Gophers but I would still rather be us than them.

 

True, but I'd rather be them than Iowa!

[Silverbacked1]

Good for them and for the B1G.

[Norm Peterson]

 

I suppose I am happy for the Gophers but I would still rather be us than them.

 

True, but I'd rather be them than Iowa!

 

True, but I'd rather be Iowa than a rusted out Chrysler K car sitting in some junkyard in Peoria.  Although I could understand why some would disagree.

[Handy Johnson]

I live here in the Twin Cities, and this was met with a collective YAWN, or treated as some kind of a joke. Reusse (Trib columnist) pointed out the Gophers now have the most wins in NIT history with 32, meant as a slap in the face, not a source of pride. They get Dre Hollins back next year & Mathieu at the point...... not sold on Elliot or Big Mo at all.

[AuroranHusker]

 

 

I suppose I am happy for the Gophers but I would still rather be us than them.

 

True, but I'd rather be them than Iowa!

 

True, but I'd rather be Iowa than a rusted out Chrysler K car sitting in some junkyard in Peoria.  Although I could understand why some would disagree.

 

 

Iowa will be a good team in 2014-15. A big reason, I'd imagine, is that they'll be free of the distractions they had toward the end of the season with the coach's son's health concerns/surgery.  Iowa has a bevy of good, solid players, and this upcoming year I suspect Aaron White will take a major step forward for them across the board. I think the year-end collapse they had in 2013-14 is the anomaly.