Put on the Dance Shoes!

After making Purdue look like a team that should be playing in the MIAC (no offense to the MIAC) there is no question in my mind that the Gophers have punched their ticket to the dance where anything can happen. The win last night against Mich St was impressive, but being a last second basket away from the worst beatdown in conference tournament history proved that we deserve a bid. The Gophers finally seem seem to have found their stride. Iverson is a beast underneath is getting better by the game. Devoe Joseph is proving that he will be a guy to reckon with the next two years, but he still would be better suited as a SG, which is why we NEED his little brother to chose us over Texas and UCONN. He would change the team dramatically and make us a legit top 25 team, regardless of Royce and Mbakwe's fates.

The biggest thing we saw today is how good Ralph Sampson III can be. He is a player who, when is confident, can take over on offense and alter shots on defense. His problem though is he can disappear at times.

Now we have OSU tomorrow, a team we split with, although an asterisk could have been put on the first game. Evan Turner is clearly the best player in America, and with him healthy tomorrow it will be tough. The biggest thing the gophers have going for them is depth. OSU is a 5 deep team, well PJ hill got a minute today so they went 8 deep, but playing 3 games in 3 days with 5-7 guys is a lot harder than 4 games in 4 days with 10 guys. Turner is great, but the rest of team can disappear at times, and the gopher should be able to match up well on D.

Prediction: Gophers 63 OSU 57