U women’s basketball: Road talk
Posted on January 17th, 2008 – 12:19 AMBy Roman Augustoviz
The Gophers and Indiana, their opponent at 6 p.m. tonight at Assembly Hall in Bloomingon, Ind., are two of only three Big Ten teams with two road wins in the conference. League leader Ohio State is the third.
Home teams in the Big Ten are 20-10 this season. Four conference teams have yet to win a conference game on the road.
This is the first time since 1996-97 that no Big Ten team has started out 3-0. That season Illinois, Michigan State and Purdue tied for first at 12-4. Could be another season like that.
The Gophers lead the all-time series with Indiana 27-24 after splitting with the Hoosiers last season. Each team won on its home floor.
Hopefully the Gophers are not looking past Indiana to Ohio State. The Gophers need to do a better job of staying out of foul trouble and making their free throws. What do you expect tonight?
2 Responses to "U women’s basketball: Road talk"
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Are you blogging all of the non-revenue sports? I for one appreciate the effort, especially women’s basketball and wrestling. With the success both teams have the last six years and more I think they deserve more coverage, both on the Strib blog and in the Strib paper.
Thanks for the work.
As for tonight, I’m looking for big games from Emily and Leslie. They need to re-assert themselves after mediocre performances against Penn State. If this edition of Pam Borton’s team is going to succeed throughout the year, they need more consistent performances from those two.
With Ellis-Milan’s shoulder and McCoy’s apparent lack of confidence, we will not be able to rely on strong performances from those two to win many games.
