From the Repository:
For other teams, however, the NIT is perceived as a step up in a program climbing from mediocrity or obscurity, and the response is more enthusiastic.
Heh, yeah - that's us.
Wasn't sure if anyone wanted a game log for this momentous occasion but hey, the last 2 times the Gophers won the NIT (1993, 1998*) , they followed it up with a visit to March Madness the following season.** I'll be late to the party but here's to a good turnout for the boys in Maroon and Gold.
7 Eastern, 6 Central Standard Time on the FourLetter.
*vacated!
**and those seasons (or at least the records of those seasons) don't count either!
good pace to start this game.
Its Stanford Cardinal, no s, because the nickname refers to the color, not the bird.
Hmmm. If I'm a Cardinal and you are a Cardinal, together would we not be Cardinals?
It's like deer or moose i guess.
You are not a Cardinal, you are Cardinal. (It's a dumb nickname, but if we're going to play by their rules...)
Correct. Just like the baseball Cincinnati Red.
And the football Cleveland Brown.
the Browns were named after the coach Paul Brown
I didnt know about the singular Cardinal thing until last year. I thought they were the Cardinals. I guess back in the day, they were the Stanford Indian (singular). Maybe the singular Cardinal is them trying to be like the Harvard Crimson.
Rodney Williams is doing everything right now.
man, Stanford is blocking every shot taken in the paint.
This is getting ugly on the offensive end for the gophers.
I skip out for a half hour and the Gophers have score 8 points. ouch.
well, it was a nice run.