After opening the season 6-0, they play Virginia, their toughest game of the season so far, tonight at Williams Arena.
After a few marquee wins in the past two years, there was a thought that North Dakota State could give the Gophers some trouble in their fourth-straight trip to Williams Arena.
They didn't.
Coach Tubby Smith was blunt about Minnesota’s near-loss to Colorado State on Saturday.
“It exposed us in a lot of ways,” Smith said.
The Gophers basketball schedule is setup in a straight-forward way: Win the first six games and create some momentum for the more challenging nonconference games and the Big Ten schedule.
It turns out Eric Decker might not be the solution to the Gophers problems.