Hello  and  welcome  back  to the  weekly  rundown  presented  by  the  Minnesota  Daily. I'm  your  host,  Paul  Done. And  this  week  we're  going  to  do something  a  little  bit  different. Normally  I'd  bring  on a  reporter  to  talk  about  a  specific  sport, but  with  so  many  winter  sports  in  the  headlines  heading into  conference  tournaments  and several  spring  sports  starting  to  get  going, I  don't  want  to  focus  on  just  one  sport. I  kind  of  want  to  do,  I  want  to  get  to  all  of  them. And  so  I'm  just  going  to  go  solo  here  by  myself. And  we're  going  to  get  a  little bit  deeper  into  each  team. Take  the  temperature  of  where  they're  at  right  now and  kind  of  see  where  they're  going  to  be  moving  forward. So  this  will  be  a  new  one, and  I  hope  you  guys  like  it. So  the  first  sport  I  want  to start  with  is  men's  basketball. We're  recording  this  Thursday afternoon  at  about  03:00  P.M. So  it's  very  recent  off their  most  latest  loss  to  Indiana  at  home. I  was  at  that  game. It's  their  second  bad  loss  in  a  row. I  would  say  they  lost  to  Iowa  on  Sunday. They're  now  12.13  6.9  in  the  conference, and  after  being  around  the  8.9  seat  in  the  Big  Ten, they've  already  now  dropped  to  12th, which  is  big  in  the  conference  tournament  implications. Because  that  means  they  don't  even  get  a  single  buy. There's  14  teams, the  ten  through  14  teams  play  in  the  first  round. Everyone  else  gets  a  by. Then  the  top  four  teams  get  another  by. So  they  were  in  line  for  that  middle by  getting  some  rest  time  right  now, they're  not,  these  next  few  weeks as  we  come  down  are  going  to  be  pivotal  for  them. But  I  want  to  discuss  a  little  bit about  what  I  saw  in  that  game  yesterday  and just  just  how  they've looked  the  past  couple  games  and  it  hasn't  been  great. We  knew  coming  into  the  season  that  they were  this  was  going to  be  a  rebuilding  year,  so  we  thought, and  they  rattled  off  some  nice  wins against  Ohio  State  and Michigan  in  the  middle  of  the  year, and  had  a  couple  other  nice  wins,  no  bad  losses. And  Iowa  obviously  isn't  a  bad  loss. Indiana  was  kind  of  right  in  the  thick of  it,  so  it's  not  a  bad  loss. But  both  of  those  should  have  been  games  that  they  won. They  completely  broke  down in  the  last  few  minutes  against  Iowa, to  really  give  that  game  away. That  would  have  been  a  really  nice  win going  to  these  last  couple  of  games, giving  them  a  lot  of  good  momentum. And  then  Indiana,  they  started  out  really  well. I  believe  they  made their  first  eight  of  nine  shots  and  then  went  cold. And  I  think  everyone  in  the  arena  was  expecting them  to  kind  of  get  back  to  the  way  they  started. And  it  turned  out that  start  was  the  anomaly,  not  the  rest  of  the  game. Because  they  went  21  for  61  from  the  field. It  really  felt  like  the  team kind  of  rolled  over  at  the  end. Indiana  wasn't  playing  particularly well  towards  the  finish. It  was  just  they  were  out hustling  the  gophers  out,  working  the  gophers. And  it's  not  a  great  sign  now  for them  in  Joe  Lnardi's  latest  bracketology, which  was  updated  yesterday  or  Wednesday, I  believe  for  the  people  listening, they  weren't  in  the  tournament. They  weren't  in  the  first  four  out, they  weren't  in  the  next  four  out. That's  the  first  time  that's  happened  recently. They  only  have  five  games  left. Northwestern  should  be  a  win, but  who  knows  at  this  point  Maryland,  Wisconsin,  Indiana. Nebraska.  All  those  are  going  to  be  hard  ones  to  win. The  best  chance  they  have  is  Nebraska. At  the  end,  it  means  most likely  they're  going  to  end  up  under  500. And  unless  they  make  some  sort  of  run, it  doesn't  feel  like  they  can  in  the  big  town  tournament. I'm  sort  of  run  in  the  big  town  tournament. It  doesn't  feel  like  this  has any  shot  of  getting  to  the  NCA  tournament  at  this  point. And  that  really  then  puts  into  question  Richard  Pitino. Patino  just  got  a  new  extension  before  this  year. So  I  think  there  was  a  vote  of  confidence  in  him. But  when  you  take  a  look  at  that, it's  only  a  $2,000,000  buyout  for Athletic  Director  Mark  Coyle to  stomach  if  he  wanted  to  move  on. I'm  not  sure  that  is the  right  move  or  the  wrong  move  at  this  point. I'll  leave  that  up  to  the  fans  and  the  analysts, But  it  remains  a  question  in a  story  line  that  we're  going  to have  to  look  at  going  forward. I  think  there's  more  animosity  growing  in the  fans  after  yesterday's  game. The  Star  Tribunes  Jim  Suhan, wrote  a  column  questioning whether  Patino  is  the  man  for  the  job. Just  laying  out  some  groundwork. I  thought  it  was  a  nice  column. It  felt  before  they  went  on  that  run  where  they beat  Purdue  a  couple  times  at  the  end  of  last  season. And  turned  it  on  and  made  it  to  the  tournament. And  then  had  that  Louisville game  before  that  Patino's  job  was  really  in  question. There  was  a  sense  that  it could  be  the  end  and  then  they  rattled  those  off. And  I  think  fans  are  returning  to where  they  felt  back then  and  it  didn't seem  like  they  were  going  to  make  the  tournament. Maybe  Patino  can  muster up  another  one  of  these  runs  and  then his  contract  and  his  status  will  more  be an  afterthought  like  it  was  after how  they  finished  last  year. But  I  don't  know  if  they  can  do  it  again. Their  first  round  match  up, as  it  stands  right  now,  would  be  Nebraska. We  haven't  seen  them  play  in  Nebraska  yet. They  play  them  in  the  last  game  of  the  season, so  hard  to  figure  out  where  that  one  would  go. If  they  did  win  that  right  now, then  they'd  play  Illinois. Currently,  there's  a  bunch  of  teams  stacked  at 9.6  Wisconsin,  Michigan  State,  Iowa. So  those  are  all  kind  of  the  teams they'd  play  in  those  next  two  rounds. And  I  don't  feel  great  about them  playing  any  of  those  teams. They  have  a  win  against  Wisconsin, but  they  most  recently  didn't  play  well  against  them. They  could  have  beaten  Iowa  at  home, but  they  got  blown  out  by  them  on  the  road. Michigan  State  is  going  to  be  tough. Illinois  is  going  to  be  tough. Illinois  beat  them  earlier  this  season. Michigan  State  beat  them  earlier  this  season, and  Michigan  State  beat  them  at  home. Just  a  one  of  the  couple teams  actually  beat  them  at  home. Actually,  that  is  starting  to  climb  up  now  that Indiana  won  and  Iowa  won. So  now  they  have  four  losses  at  home, and  there  are  only  1.8  on  the  road. So  my  confidence  level  on  them  going, even  though  it's  not  going  to  be  a  road  game, it's  going  to  be  a  neutral  site  game  in  Indiana. I  don't  feel  great  about  where  they  sit  there, and  I  think  the  main  reasons  why that's  happening  is  the  starters are  playing  a  lot  of  minutes. They  don't  have  those  bench  guys  that  they  trust. Isaiah  Anan  got  in  the  game  yesterday or  Wednesday  and  played  well, knocked  down  a  couple  of  threes, but  he's  not  an  impact  guy  off  the  bench. Trey  Williams  is  what  the  Gophers  hope  to  be, that  impact  guy  off  the  bench. He  can  and  stretches, but  not  consistently  in the  starting  line  up.  You  know,  Marcus  cars. Good.  He  showed  at the  end  of  yesterday's  game  that he  can  be  turnover  prone. He  had  a  couple  big  ones. Daniel  Tuer  is  great. Nothing  bad  to  say  about  him. I  think  he  had  a  nice  game  yesterday, but  Indiana  showed  that  with  some  good  defensive  play, they  can  kind  of  take  him  out  a  little  bit, doubling  right  when  he  gets  the  ball  down  low, and  just  making  life  difficult  for  him. And  that's  when  shooters got  to  make  shots  and  they  did  not. Yesterday,  Peyton  Willis  had  a  couple  but  was  off  and  on. Gabe  Wher  was  just  flat  out  not  good. He  was  one  for  nine  from  three  point, which  is  not  something  anyone expected  coming  into  the  season. You  would  have  thought  he  would  have  been  maybe one  of  their  better  players  and  he  just  hasn't  been. So  it's  really  the  shooting  has taken  a  fall  after  it  being a  bright  spot  earlier  in  the  season  or just  at  least  average, which  is  what  the  team  needed. And  it's  really  Oturu  can't  do  it  alone. And  it's  a  shame  because  this  could  be the  last  couple  games  of  Oturu's  career and  you  want  to  let  him  go  out. I  know  he's  only  been  here  two  years, but  the  way  he's  played this  year  has  just  been  so  phenomenal. So  there's  a  lot  of  unrest  with  this  team, There's  a  lot  we  don't  know  about  the  future, whether  Richard  Patino  will  be  back. I'm  not  sure  where  they  go  if  they  get  rid  of  him. But  I  think  it  seems  from  the  fans, or  at  least  from  Twitter,  which  is a  dangerous  place  to  try  to  make  judgment. People  aren't  a  big  fan of  Patino  and  what  he's  been  doing. And  we'll  see  because  in  Sue  Hands  column  he  mentioned, it's  not  great  that  they  have  PJ. Fleck  who  just  retooled  a  program  and  turned  him  around. And  it's  not  great  for  Patino  that  he  has  to  get  compared to  that  and  see  what can  possibly  happen  with  a  good  head  coach. We're  seeing  Bob  Motzko  start  to  turn around  the  hockey  team  right  now,  they're  in  first  place. That  one's  a  little  bit  different. But  yeah,  we  wonder  if  Patino  will  get  the  boot. Like  coaches  in  the  past  couple  of  years  have. It'll  be  interesting  to  see. So  now  I'm  going  to  transition  women's  basketball. Much  like  the  men's  basketball  team,  very  topsy  turvy. Especially  recently,  they  had a  three  game  winning  streak. And  then  now  most  recently  they've had  a  three  game  losing  streak. They're  15.11  5.10  in  conference. They're  the  11  seed  right  now. So  again,  they  would  not  get  any  sort  of  buy, they  would  be  forced  to  play in  the  tournament  right  away. They  basically  they  need  Jasmine  Brunson  back. The  senior  point  guard  is  the  floor  general  on both  sides  of  the  ball  she's  been  in  and out  she  got  in the  most  recent  game  and  she's  still struggling  with  a  little  bit  of  an  injury. A  bright  spot  that's  kind  of  emerged  with  her  out, and  even  before  she  was  there  was Jasmine  Powell,  Freshman  Guard. She's  led  the  team  in  scoring  all  these  Pascuble  games, and  she  really  seems  like  she's  going  to  be  a  player, the  Gophers  can  count  on  going  forward. Along  with  Sarah  Scalia, who's  been  consistent  all  season  long, has  tailed  off  a  little  bit  towards  the  end. It  doesn't  look  promising for  them  in  the  tournament  either. They  aren't  in  bracketology, they're  not  in  first  four  in  first  four  out, last  or  second  four  out,  or  even. I  think  whoever  does  it  for  ESPN, the  bracketology,  they  have another  watch  list  below that  and  the  Gophers  aren't  there. And  I  think  two  stats  that I'll  leave  you  with  with  this  team  that  really, really  point  out  the  struggles  they've  had is  everyone  points  to  Destiny  Pitts  and  her  scoring. And  although  they  could  use  Destiny  Pitts  in  her  scoring, obviously  she's  not  with  the  team  anymore. But  defensively,  they're  tied  for  211  in  scoring  defense, points  allowed  per  game, they're  261st  in  field  goal  percentage  allowed  per  game. Those  stats  just  aren't  going  to  do  it. You  can't  be  in  the  200, let  alone  probably  the  100  in  defense, and  expect  to  do  really well  and  expect  to  make  the  tournament. I  think  that's  all  you  need  to  see. It's  hard  because  they  started  out so  well  with  Lindsay  Willens, this  coach,  in  her  second  season. It's  the  second  year  that  they've fell  apart  in  big  ten  play. It'll  be  interesting  going  into her  third  year  with  that  Unrest.  See  how  she Bounces  back  from  that  and  see  if the  team  can  once again  start  really  hot  and  non  conference, but  then  finally  do  something  in  the  Big  Ten,  All  right? The  wrestling  team,  they  are  9.7  Currently, if  you're  just  looking  at the  stats  in  the  schedule  recently, it's  looked  bad  for  them. They  have  lost  their  last two  matches  to  Penn  State  and  Iowa, but  don't  read  too  much  into  that. Penn  State  and  Iowa,  the  number  1.2  ranked teams  in  the  country,  The  Gophers. Although  they're  a  top  25  perennial  team, maybe  top  15,  they're not  on  the  level  of  Penn  State  and  Iowa  at  this  point. Those  guys  are  juggernauts. It's  unfair  to  compare  them  to  those  guys. Don't  be  discouraged  just  based off  how  they've  done  these  past  two  games. Because  it's  just  kind  of  coming  into  the  season, just  looking  at  that  part  of  the  schedule. This  is  kind  of  what  you  would  have  expected  there. I  don't  think  they've  underperformed  too  greatly. They,  they  had  a  couple  chances  in  both  matches  to  flip some  specific  weight  class  duels  to  the  point where  it  would  have  looked  a little  bit  more  respectable than  the  bad  scores  that  they  have. But  again,  those  teams  are  really  good, so  don't  worry  about  it  too  much. As  we  look  forward,  have the  national  championships  at  US  Bank  Stadium  in  March. So  everyone  kind  of  wants  to  know who  are  the  guys  that  we  can  count  on  when we  go  that  we're  going  to  root  on  and  that are  going  to  be  there  and  perform  well. I  think  obviously,  Gable  Stevenson  is the  number  one  guy  you  have  to  look  for. He  has  championship  expectations. And  for  him,  he's pretty  much  said  it's  championship  or  bust, Those  aren't  his  exact  words, but  that's  pretty  much  what  he  has  said. He's  the  number  one  seed  in  the  heavyweight  rankings, especially  with  the  Penn  State. The  Penn  State  Heavyweight  was  the  former  number  one. He's  out  for  the  year.  Gable  just beat  the  Iowa  guy  who  was  number  three  in  the  country. And  even  though  it  was  only  a  75  decision, he  won  that  pretty  handedly. So  you  can  expect  him  to  be  there  to  go  far. There  aren't  anyone  that  I  would  say it's  a  championship  or  bust  at  that  point. There's  three  guys  that  I  would say  can  threaten  into  the  quarter  finals, the  semifinals,  if  they  got  hot.  Who  knows? That's  Mitch  Mckee,  Brighton  Lee,  and  Devin  Skatzka. Those  are  all  people  you  need  to  look  at. And  finally,  I  would  just  say  they finished  eighth  last  year. I  think  the  natural  comparison is  you  want  to  see  them  improve, You  see  that  Gable  comes  back, and  I  think  everyone's  like, well,  they  can  improve  on  that. They  lost  a  lot  of  talent, there's  a  lot  of  young  guys, they're  relying  on  the  year  before, they  finished  eighth,  they  finished  17th, I  would  say  somewhere  in  between  17th  and  eighth. This  season  is  where  you  can  expect  them. The  young  team  is  starting  to  get  a  little  bit  better. But  again,  I  think you  need  to  temper  expectations  a  little  bit  if you're  expecting  them  to  repeat  where  they  were last  year  or  go  a  little  bit  farther. This  team  is  going  to  be  constructed  the  same  that  it has  been  this  year  for  a  while  going  forward. Obviously  there'll  be  some  losses, but  they've  built  for  the  future. So  if  they  don't  do  super  great this  year  in  these  next  couple  years, they  should  really  be  ramping  it  up. Now  we're  going  to  focus  on  the  men's  hockey  team. They're  1,411.5  right  now, 965.4  in  the  Big  Ten  conference. Just  a  side  note,  I  hope they  change  those  overtime  rules. It's  really  confusing  that there's  four  standing  measures, and  I  think  they're  on  their  way  to  it. With  that  said,  I  don't  think  anyone expected  them  to  be  where  they  are  currently  right  now. They  are  tied  for  first  place in  the  conference  with  Penn  State. Two  months  ago,  they  were  pretty  much  dead  last. After  their  most  recent  wins, they're  ranked  for  the  first  time this  season,  they're  currently  18th. Penn  State  is  11th. So  big  match  up  coming  up this  weekend  when  they  play  Penn  State  on  the  road. And  then  the  only  other  big  team, big  ten  team  in  the  rankings  is  Ohio  State.  They're  12th. And  important  to  note,  the  Gophers. It  was  one  of  the  things  that  started off  their  hot  stretch. They  swept  Ohio  State  at  home  in  January. Like  I  said,  they  have  that  Penn  State  match coming  up.  It's  on  the  road. So  that  you  think  would be  advantage  for  Penn  State,  and  it  probably  is, but  the  gophers  have  been  slightly  better, at  least  win  percentage  wise,  on  the  road. At  least  it  hasn't  dropped  off considerably  from  the  home  splits. You  always  want  to  be  home,  but the  road  win  percentage  is  a  little  bit better  so  that  at  least shows  that  they  can  compete  there. I  think  everyone  wonders why  this  run  has  just  started  to  happen. One,  the  defense  has  just  improved. They've  got  a  lot  of  young  guys  in that  area  that  have  just  really  stepped  up. We've  gotten  a  little  bit  more consistent  from  the  goal  scores, Scott  Redis  leading  the  team  there. But  their  second  line  that has  kind  of  been  put together  in  the  middle  of  the  season, once  ready  went  down,  that  line has  really,  really  stepped  up. Sample,  Ranta,  Ben  Meyers,  Brandon  Mcmanus. They've  all  played  really  well. And  there's  not  one  area  that  you  can  point  to  that  say, this  is  the  Gophers  reason  they're  winning. They're  kind  of  just  really  solid  in  a  lot  of  areas. They're  top.  They're  in the  high  '20s  in  both  the  scoring  defense  and  offense. So  the  rankings  a  little  bit  better  than  those  would show  the  one  thing  that  you  want  to  be  better, their  44th  in  power  play  percentage. So  you'd  hope  that  they  can  get  that  up. Capitalize  a  little  bit  more  on those  power  play  opportunities, but  just  really,  they're  just  solid  in a  lot  of  aspects  and  it's  going  to  be  really  exciting. They  have  two  series  left  this  season. Away  at  Penn  State,  then  home  at  Michigan. And  then  they've  got  the  Big  Ten  tournament  where they  could  conceivably  host  for  a  while, considering  where  they  are  in  the  standings. And  it  would  really  be  a  really, really  good  end  to  the  season  and  not  one  that  I don't  think  many  people  expected  to  begin  this  season. And  you  got  to  tip  your  hat  at that  point  to  Bob  Motzko  in  the  way  he's  been  able  to coach  this  team  full  with young  guys  to  the  point  that  you  can  say,  hey, they  might  make  the  NCA  tournament, hey  they  have  a  chance  at  the  Big  Ten  championship, where  a  couple  months  ago, I  don't  think  that  was  the  case  their  women  counterparts. We,  it  feels  like  a  weirdly  quiet  season  for  them. Even  though  they're  2,035.3, tied  for  third  in  the  rankings. They  kind  of  fluctuated  1-2 most  of  the  season,  dropped  down  to  fourth. A  couple  of  weeks  ago,  after  they  had  lost  three out  of  four  when  they  went  up  against  Wisconsin, who's  currently  the  number  two  team, and  another  team,  I  believe  Duluth. But  they  swept  in  Mgy  state two  weeks  ago  and  then  they  had  last  weekend  off. At  least  right  now,  it  feels  kind  of  quiet  for  them, but  they've  just  consistently  been  good. They're  fourth  in  goals  per  game, six  in  goals  allowed. So  right  up  there,  and  for  them, it's  really  just  going  to  come  down  to  the  WCHA  playoffs. Wisconsin's  in  that  conference  with  them, it's  most  likely  going  to  be  Minnesota, Wisconsin  in  that  championship  game. Right  now,  with  how  the  standings  look, the  Gophers  would  have  to  get  past  Duluth  as  well. And  obviously,  Duluth  gave them  a  run  for  their  money  earlier  in  the  season, so  they  will  have  to  get  past  that. But  if  they  can  kind  of  get  into  that  final  game, it's  a  really  good  chance  that Minnesota  will  get  another  at  large  bid. And  if  they  beat  Wisconsin, they  get  an  automatic  bid  into  the  frozen  four. If  they  lose  that  game, there's  still  a  good  chance  that they're  in  the  NCA  tournament. So  even  though  there's  kind of  it's  weird  right  now,  it's  up  and  down. I  wouldn't  look  too  much  into  maybe  their  struggles, because  it  really  is  going  to  come  down  to  who  has the  momentum  at  the  end  of  the  season, when  we  get  into  the  WCHA  playoffs and  into  the  NCA  tournament, they  have  their  last  regular  season  series this  weekend  against  Minnesota  State. Before  they  get  ready  with  that  tournament  play, the  conference  tournament  play. Shifting  to  gymnastics, this  is  the  last  of  our  winter  sports. They've  been  really  solid. I  don't  think  many  people  give gymnastics  much  of  a  look  in  general, but  I  think  you  really  should. These  Gopher  teams,  both  the  men  and women  have  been  really,  really  solid. And  they  both  have  different  reasons  for  that. They're  only  2.0  in  the  standings, but  they've  had  a  lot  of  meets. The  only  reason  you  see  that  is  be  cause they  have  had  try  meets  and  tournaments where  you  don't  really see  the  results  reflected  in  the  standings. But  I  think  for  the  men's  team,  it's, you're  always  going  to  look  at  Shane  Whisks  as that  number  one  guy  for  the  men's  team. But  also  watch  out  for  a  couple. Freshman  crew,  Bold,  Dante  Mckinney, both  seem  in  recent  weeks, they  both  broken  career  highs  in  a  lot  of  events, both  of  them  seem  to  kind  of  be  rounding  into  form. And  that  was  one  thing  head  Coach  Mike  Burns said  in  the  summer  and  at  the  end  of  last  year, they  had  those  prospects, those  recruits  coming  in  and  Crew  Bold  and Dante  Mckinney  were  kind of  the  ones  he  was  talking  about, and  they've  made  a  really  solid  impact. And  then  Mike  Moran,  who  was  a  sophomore, who  competed  a  decent  amount  last  season  as  a  freshman, has  been  a  really,  really  nice  surprise. He's  11th  in  the  nation  in  all  around. Score  ninth  best  in  the  floor  exercise. He's  a  big  part  of  their  team, considering  Whiskus,  who  has a  real  solid  chance at  potentially  getting  into  the  Olympics. And  they've  been  on a  load  management  type  of situation  with  Whisk  this  season. He's  not  competing  in  all  around  in  every  event  like  he did  last  season  when  he  took  off. He's  competing  in  a  couple  of  events. Rarely  is  he  doing  all. So  they  have  needed  some  other  guys  to  step  up. And  it's  come  from  the  freshman,  from  Mike  Moran. From  a  lot  of  those  underclassmen who  have  really  been  producing, just  kind  of  taking  a  look  at  the  team  as  a  whole. Their  tenth  in  all around  rankings  based  on  how  they've  scored  so  far, the  men's  team  is  their  best  events  are  the  high  bar, their  third  in  the  country,  and  parallel  bars, their  fourth  in  the  country,  and then  worst  event  is  the  floor, but  their  12th  in  the  country. So  nothing  has  really, really  kept  them  down. And  it'll  be  interesting  to  see  what they  can  kind  of  do  as  we  get into  more  big  ten  play  and  into  the  Big  Ten  championship. Because  they  are  always  a  threat  to  win the  Big  Ten  championship  and  then  do  really  well, the  NCA  tournament,  and  then  moving  out  to  the  women, they're  5.1  in  the  last  in  their  season  so  far. And  they've  won  five  straight, so  they've  been  really  hot  recently. They've  set  program  records  across  the  board. They're  putting  up  197  consistently, which  you  can  score  out  of  201. 97  and  up  is  a  really,  really  good  score. They've  gotten  197  twice  in  the  past  three  weeks. They've  been  right  up  there  in  really  killing  it. Then  they're  ranked  seventh  nationally  in  terms  of their  scoring  second  in  the  beam  floor  exercise. Is  there  one  weak  point  that  you'd think  as  a  team  they  really  need  to improve  on  if  they  want  to  be considered  in  that  top  five. In  that  top  three  with  those  UCLA's  with  the  Oklahoma, Oklahoma's  of  the  world  there, 20th  in  floor  exercise. So  that's  one  that  they're really  going  to  need  to  improve on  as  we  head  into  this  later  part  of  the  season. But  individually  the  story is  always  going  to  be  Lexie  Ramler. She  continues  to  win. Nca  gymnast  of  the  year. Nca  gymnast  of  the  week, big  ten  gymnast  of  the  week. Consistently  she's  had  several  ten  scores  on  the  beam. She's  ranked  sixth  in  the  uneven  bars. So  she's  always  going  to  be  the  catalyst. But  tales  and  a  loper  who  can't  go  unnoticed, they're  right  up  there  nationally  as  well. And  I  think  the  thing  that  you  need  to be  aware  of  is  this  team  has  a  chance  to  surprise. I  think  they've  competed at  a  high  level  these  past  couple  of  weeks. They  have  a  lot  of  confidence. Jenny  Hanson  is  a  really  nice  coach  who's  going  to continue  to  keep  this  team  grounded. She's  going  to  continue  to  just  have  them  fight. And  it's  a  fun  group. It's  a  fun  bunch,  and they  could  really  surprise  some  people where  Minnesota  and  both  Men's  and Women's  has  a  good  gymnastics  program and  people  are  aware  of  them. With  women's,  there's  always the  UCLA  and  Oklahoma,  like  I  mentioned. And  some  of  the  teams  that  really, really  get  a  lot  of  the  shine, get  a  lot  of  the  attention. And  I  think  the  Gophers  kind  of  like  it  like  that. If  they  can  keep  the  national  spotlight on  some  of  those  other  teams, when  it  comes  around  to  the  Big  Ten  championship, to  the  NCA  tournament, I  think  they  can  be  a  dark  horse to  go  far  and  to  do  really  well. That  was  kind  of  my  recap  on  all  the  winter  teams. I  hope  you  enjoyed  it.  Didn't  get  tired  of  my  voice. We'll  have  guests  back  next  week. But  I  enjoyed  giving  a  little  bit  of  a  preview or  a  little  bit  of  a  review  on  all  the  winter  sports. So  far,  we  didn't  have time  to  touch  on  some  of  the  spring  sports. We  will  do  that  in  later  podcast, but  they  are  just  kind  of  starting. Softball's  only  5.4  on  the  season. Baseball  just  had  one  weekend. Tennis  has  been  going  for  a  really  good  while, the  girls  team  is  really  good. The  boys  team  is  just  getting started.  Same  thing  with  golf. Women's  team  is  just  starting. Men's  team  really  gets  going  in  March. So  as  we  progress and  get  into  some  of  these  tournament  teams, we'll  definitely  start  to  look at  some  of  those  spring  sports  a  little  bit  more. But  that's  all  I  got  for  you  this  week. We'll  be  back  again  next  week  to give  you  the  weekly  rundown  on  all  things. Go  for  sports.  Don't  forget to  share,  subscribe  and  review. We  see  your  room  next  week.  Thanks  guys.