Why the Gophers Got No Real Interest From Me This Season

When the Big Ten season started this year, I was kind of thinking this would be the year of the Gophers. But I quickly discovered that even though Minnesota was playing pretty well both inside and outside the conference, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the conference itself wasn't very good.

Michigan won the conference title last night and they are only ranked 12th in the country. It wasn't that long ago when the Big 10 had 4 or 5 of the top 12 teams in the country. This year the entire conference was mediocre. When the Gophers got their big "upsets" against some of the contenders early in the season, I mentioned then that those games weren't that big a deal because the teams they beat weren't very good.

Once more the Gophers finished below .500 in conference play for the season, against teams who are not so great themselves.

The finals standings and rankings don't impress anyone at this point because the Big 10 doesn't impress anybody at this point. It could be argued that this season the Gophers were actually worse than they've been in a while. I think the standings speak for themselves.