Minnesota basketball begins shortly and the prognosticators (including this blog) are not bullish on their chances.
Sports Illustrated (which somehow still exists) has the Gophers checking in at the 141 and the worst Big Ten team in the country.
KenPom’s early rankings put the Gophers at 120, with a projected conference record of 4-16. However, if you dig into those rankings, the Gophers are actually underdogs in every single conference game, and only projected to win 2⁄3 of their non-conference games. Those games include such titans of the basketball world as Purdue-the other one, and Texas A&M-also the other one.