As crazy as it sounds, the 2021-2022 Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s basketball team has nearly completed 25% of its season and has yet to experience the sting of defeat. As of this typing, they stand as one of 12 undefeated teams remaining from the pool of 358 Division I squads across the country. It’s certainly a strange position to be in considering the Gophers returned 7.9% of minutes played from last year’s squad, good for 343th in the nation, and have a first-year head coach who hadn’t led a team at any level until the first game this season against UMKC.