BEFORE YOU READ ANYTHING ELSE: Here are five lists and rankings from Wednesday’s first day of the early signing period for college football.
20 players who committed to the U, via Gophersports com: Meet the class and what coach P.J. Fleck says. https://fluence-media.co/usigningday24
46 Minnesota high school stars committing to Division I schools, via Star Tribune: https://fluence-media.co/minnfb2024
22 players who committed to St. Thomas, via Tommiesports.com: https://fluence-media.co/tommies24
Big Ten recruiting class rankings. Via 247 sports. Gophers are ranked 15th of the 18 conference teams. LIST: https://fluence-media.co/bigtenfbranks
National recruiting class rankings. Via On3.com. Gophers are ranked 54th among FBS and FCS teams. LIST: https://fluence-media.co/nationalfbranking
CONTEXT: Coaches and media members default is to go the high praise route, which in contrast with the assortment of rankings on the strength of each school’s haul. MY HEADLINE: Fleck gushes over recruiting class ranked 15th in Big Ten. THE DEAL: You often don’t know whether the 17-year-old super prep is going to become a 21-year-old college standout, or whether it will even happen at the school where he first signed. That explains the annual disconnect between hype and data. What’s clear, however, is that schools like Minnesota are doing much of their shopping at Aldi while the football powers are checking out Kowalski’s and Coastal Seafoods.
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BEST FOOTBALL YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T SEEN: Yes, the Vikings are 10-2 and the Gophers will be headed to a better-than-obscure bowl game after bringing back The Axe from Wisconsin last week. But there’s also a pretty good story brewing in the lower levels of Minnesota college football. MIAC and Northern Sun conference teams are 7-0 so far in the NCAA Division II and III playoffs. The only bad news is that the unblemished record won’t last beyond Saturday.
WHY’S THAT? In Division II, which somehow doesn’t get as much attention as Division III, Bemidji State will play at Minnesota State on Saturday in Mankato (2 p.m., ESPN+). Both scored thrilling upset victories on the road last weekend: Mankato trailed Colorado State-Pueblo 16-6 going into the fourth quarter and rallied for a 26-23 victory when Matt Jaeger kicked a 32-yard field goal with one second left. In the first round, Jaeger’s 34-yard field goal as time expired boosted Mankato to a 20-19 win over Augustana. Bemidji won at Western Colorado (elevation 7,700 feet, temperature 7 degrees) when Gabe Ward returned a fumble 75 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter, a 20-19 win that saw the Beavers trailing 19-6 before their rally.
UPSETS? There are 28 teams in the D-II tournament divided into four seven-team brackets with four seeded teams in each. Minnesota State has knocked out the No. 1 and No. 4 seeds; Bemidji the Nos. 2 and 3 seeds. Mankato beat Bemidji 31-29 in the Northern Sun opener in September. REMATCH TICKETS: https://fluence-media.co/d2tickets1205.
IN THE MIAC: No. 1 overall seed St. John’s knocked out UW-LaCrosse 24-13 after getting a first-round bye and Bethel broke open a close game in the second half to beat Lake Forest 48-21. St. John’s hosts Susquehanna of Pennsylvania and Bethel goes to Iowa to play Wartburg on Saturday. Kickoffs are at noon on ESPN+. If the Johnnies and Royals win, they’ll play for the third time this season — St. John’s won the first two — a week from Saturday at Collegeville. JOHNNIES TICKETS: https://fluence-media.co/sjutickets1205
PLAYOFF CLINCHER? Via Naila-Jean Meyers at Star Tribune. The Vikings can clinch a playoff berth if they beat the Falcons on Sunday and some other things happen: If Arizona loses to Seattle and the Rams lose or tie against Buffalo, the Vikings are in. Other scenarios require a game to end in a tie. IF YOU CAN STAND IT: Can you root for the Packers tonight against Detroit? If Green Bay wins, the Vikings have a reasonable path to the NFC North title and maybe even the No. 1 seed. ALL THE VARIABLES: https://fluence-media.co/playoffs1205
COUSINS IN TROUBLE? Via Charles McDonald at Yahoo! Kirk Cousins is returning to Minnesota on Sunday with his Falcons on a three-game losing streak following a wretched performance in Atlanta’s 17- 13 loss to the Chargers. SOME NUMBERS: Four interceptions, a season-low QB rating of 40 and his third week in a row without a touchdown pass. All of this is happening with rookie Michael Penix Jr., who was the eighth overall draft pick earlier this year, waiting for his opportunity to take over. VERBATIM: Incumbent starter Kirk Cousins will always be sitting on the hot seat. That heat cranked the hell up after an abysmal showing against the Chargers where Cousins' play directly led to the Falcons losing 17-13. Cousins was brought in to stabilize this offense after a couple years of horrid quarterback play, but it appears his limitations are becoming too much for the Falcons to overcome, putting them at a crossroads with their QB situation.
MORE McDONALD: How bad was it? VERBATIM: This was the best performance of the season by the Falcons’ defense, and Atlanta still squandered this opportunity. If the Falcons are going to lose games in which they performed like this defensively, something has gone horrendously wrong on the other side of the ball — this time, blame falling squarely on the quarterback. Cousins threw four equally terrible interceptions throughout the course of the game. There was a pick 6, a weak lofted ball when the Falcons were in position to score and an inaccurate throw to end the game. Just miserable, awful football that crushed any attempt to win. FULL STORY: https://fluence-media.co/cousins1205
MEANWHILE, DARNOLD KEEPS AMAZING: Via Brian Murphy at Purple Insider. The question needs to be asked at this point in Minnesota’s 10-2 season: Is Sam Darnold more than a gap-year stand-in for J.J. McCarthy? That would have been a preposterous question a few weeks ago. But no more. VERBATIM: Twelve games into the Sam Darnold Experiment, the only thing more shocking than this forsaken gunslinger resuscitating his toe-tagged career in Minnesota is watching him mature into the franchise quarterback the Vikings never knew they had. We have rocketed past Darnold’s qualified tenure as a lame-duck placeholder for J.J. McCarthy into the rarified air of how this 27-year-old has masterfully emerged as a more viable long-term solution.
MORE MURPHY: VERBATIM: Everything depends on Darnold’s postseason performance, free-agent economics and the thorny politics of indefinitely shelving the 10th overall pick in a bridesmaid dress. However, after fronting a shadow campaign, Darnold’s cold-blooded play and quiet confidence have galvanized the locker room and yanked into the open a debate about which quarterback should lead the Vikings in 2025 and beyond. FULL STORY: https://fluence-media.co/sam1205
MY TAKE: Darnold has a talented team surrounding him, a defense that covers for the offense when it struggles and respect in the locker room. Do the Vikings kick that away in favor of a untested alternative? This is a hot story still needs to play out.
WEIRD TURNABOUT: Via Dane Mizutani at Pioneer Press. Normally, the sportswriters are the ones finding holes in a talented team that will be exploited and lead to its eventual demise. But with the Vikings, fans carry that narrative. VERBATIM: Those that follow the Vikings religiously have guarded their hearts by operating with a cynicism that all but guarantees nothing good is ever going to happen to them. They can’t be let down if they never believed in the first place, right? The most recent example of this self-fulfilling prophecy came during the 2022 season when the Vikings carried a 13-4 record into the playoffs and promptly got upset by the New York Giants in the first round. The scars from that disappointment seem to have shaped the way the fan base has digested everything that has happened to this point in the 2024 season. The problem with that way of thinking is that this version of the Vikings is so much better. To conflate the 2022 season and the 2024 season is misguided because they are not even close to being the same. MORE: https://fluence-media.co/fans1205.
MOCK DRAFT GIVES BIG CLUE. Via Dane Brugler at The Athletic. There are still five games left in the regular season, not to mention a month of playoffs and the Super Bowl. I don’t care about the names — beyond the first few — in this mock draft. More interesting is the draft order. It has the Vikings drafting 28th. WHAT THAT MEANS: The 28th pick in the first round goes to the team that loses in the divisional (second round) of the playoffs and has the best record of the four teams knocked out that weekend. The other NFC team KO’d that weekend, based on the draft order? The Packers. The teams advancing to the NFC and AFC title game and the Super Bowl? Philadelphia, Buffalo, Kansas City and Detroit. The Super Bowl champ? Detroit. And with the 28th pick in the first round, the Vikings select . . . Marcus Mbow, a 6-foot-5, 300-pound offensive lineman from Purdue. MORE: https://fluence-media.co/mockdraft1205
HOW ARE DRAFT PICKS DETERMINED? Via NFL Football Operations. I’m pretty sure this guide tells you more than you already know. TAP HERE: https://fluence-media.co/draftrules1205
JUST FACTS: KICKOFF: Noon Sunday vs. Atlanta. TV: FOX. RADIO: KFAN 100.3 FM, Vikings Radio Network and stream. BETTING: Vikings by 5.5, Over/Under: 45. STATS AND STUFF: https://fluence-media.co/vikingsfalconsweek14
LINEMAN OF THE YEAR. Via Randy Johnson at Star Tribune. VERBATIM: Aireontae Ersery, a mainstay at offensive tackle for the Gophers over the past three seasons, was named the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year on Tuesday. He’s the first Gopher to earn the honor since Greg Eslinger in 2005 and was one of 17 Minnesota players honored as the Big Ten announced its awards and all-conference teams. . . . True freshman safety Koi Perich also was a consensus first-team selection, while linebacker Cody Lindenberg earned first-team honors from the coaches and second-team recognition from the media. Cornerback Justin Walley received second-team honors from the coaches. Perich also received second-team honors from the media as a return specialist. MORE: https://fluence-media.co/ersery
THE BIGGEST NAME: Via Andy Greder at Pioneer Press. Emmanuel Karmo, rated the top high school player in the state, is the big name in the recruiting class. In his four varsity seasons at Cooper High, he played several positions on both offense and defense and also punted. Karmo was known mostly for his play at linebacker. He also was said to have offers from USC, Penn State and Oregon, but was interested in staying close to home. VERBATIM: “When coaches come in, they just see his build and his film speaks for itself,” said Cooper head coach Tony Patterson. “The recruiting process was a little bit stressful for him. He wanted to make sure that he was making the right decision and not really basing it on when the big-time schools come in. Some kids can get glamor and glitz in their eyes, but I think he did it his way. He spoke with his family. He made the best decision for him and his family to stay home in Minnesota.” MORE: https://fluence-media.co/goodkarmo
WHERE WILL THEY BOWL? Bowl matchups will be announced Sunday. The 12 teams qualifying for the expanded college football playoffs will go first followed by the rest of the lineup. Bowl games begin a week from Saturday and the first round of the playoffs, with teams seeded fifth through 12th, will begin on December 20. The first round of the playoffs will be hosted by seeds five through 12 and all games after that will be at neutral sites, with the title game set for Jan. 20 in Atlanta. BOWL SCHEDULE: https://fluence-media.co/bowlsked2425.
AND THE GOPHERS ARE GOING WHERE? ESPN has Minnesota playing Georgia Tech in the Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 28 at Yankee Stadium. The Athletic and Action Network have the Gophers vs. Virginia Tech in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte on Jan. 3; CBS Sports and USA Today have them playing in that gave against Duke — the school not the brand. Sporting News has Minnesota vs. LSU in the Music City Bowl in Nashville on Dec. 30. College Football Network has Minnesota vs. Louisville in the ReliaQuest Bowl, which used to be the Outback Bowl, in Tampa on Dec. 31.
NATION’S BEST FRESHMAN? Via Alicia Tipcke at WDIO-TV. Koi Perich is one of five finalists for the Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year award. VERBATIM: As a true-freshman, Perich has 42 total tackles and five interceptions. He also has an electric return game, with 19 punt returns for 173 yards, and 15 kickoff returns for 298 yards. Perich is up against star freshmen from Texas (Collin Simmons), Ohio State (Jeremiah Smith), South Carolina (Dylan Stewart), and Alabama (Ryan Williams). The winner will be announced at the end of December at the Maxwell Football Club Awards. MORE: https://fluence-media.co/perich1205
GONE AND QUICKLY FORGOTTEN: Two Gophers have announced their intentions to leave the team via the transfer portal. Defensive lineman Luther McCoy and Hayden Schwartz, scholarship players from Florida, are planning to go. Who? Both departees were on the field for fewer than 15 plays in their time at the U. Defensive back Craig McDonald, who starred at Minnehaha Academy, will continue his college football journey by looking for a fourth school after going from Iowa State to Auburn to the U. He left the team during the season.
HOW’D THIS HAPPEN? Via Chip Scoggins at Star Tribune. The Wild’s thrilling overtime win on Tuesday gave them more points than any other team in the NHL. They have a 17-4-4 record through their first 25 games, including 10-1-3 on the road. No team has yielded fewer goals. Kirill Kaprizov ended a fantastically frantic overtime with the game-winner against Vancouver and leads the NHL in points. Goalie Filip Gustavsson, Kaprizov and coach John Hynes are three big reasons for the success but there are many, many parts moving well. VERBATIM: It’s probably unfair to single out only a few individuals when the sum is responsible for the success. Throw a dart at the roster and it likely will land on a veteran who has rebounded from a subpar season, a young player who is showing growth and improvement or an established player who continues to ascend. MORE: https://fluence-media.co/wild1205
WHAT’S NEXT? A road trip to face the Ducks, Kings and Utah starting Friday followed by a five game homestand. STANDINGS: https://fluence-media.co/nhlstandings1205
WOLVES BACK? Last week, Anthony Edwards called his team “soft as hell” after its losing streak reached four games. Coach Chris Finch and others were being appropriately salty in their self-analysis, too. All the truth bombing appears to have made an impact. The Wolves are on a three-game winning streak, including Wednesday’s 108-80 smoke-out of the Clippers, and have given up fewer than 100 points in all of those games. They’d done that only once in their first 18. The next challenge is a pair of games at Golden State on Friday and Sunday before a four-day break.
WHAT CHANGED? Via Chris Hine at Star Tribune. VERBATIM: What they’ve been is a great defensive team over the last three games, and a unit that was missing for the first quarter of the season has become resurgent. Wolves forward Jaden McDaniels limited future Hall of Famer James Harden to just 1-for-10 shooting, and five total points, on Wednesday. The Wolves have adopted more of a fly around, aggressive mentality as opposed to a more conservative drop coverage, and even if they are sometimes out of position, that style has suited them well. They forced 23 turnovers and held the Clippers to just 32 points in the first half, the fewest any Wolves team has allowed in a first half since 2015. They led by as many as 41 before coasting to the finish.
THE QUOTE: “It was a back against the wall moment for all of us. One where you look up and the season can go one way or the other,” said Mike Conley, who scored 11 points. “You can hit rock bottom really quickly. We had to put our foot in the ground and say what do we want out of this season? What do we want to be? Who are we going forward?” MORE: https://fluence-media.co/wolves1205
SECOND-BEST WOLF? Via Jace Frederick at Pioneer Press. Edwards is clearly the Alpha wolf. But who’s the Beta? Conventional wisdom would put Rudy Gobert or Julius Randle in that spot. The numbers suggest something else. VERBATIM: The numbers, and the eye test, suggest it’s Nickeil Alexander-Walker by a wide margin. The 26-year-old guard leads the team in effective field goal percentage (64 percent). Offensively, he’s shined every time he hasn’t been miscast as a point guard. On the other end, he’s in the 96th percentile in estimated defensive plus-minus, per dunksandthrees.com. The Timberwolves allow just 1.05 points per possession when he’s on the floor, far and away the team’s best mark. The Wolves are outscoring opponents by eight points per 100 possessions when Alexander-Walker is in the lineup this season. THE QUESTION: With those numbers on his side, why is Alexander-Walker only eighth on the team in minutes per game? MORE: https://fluence-media.co/naw1205
ADDED GAMES: Because they’re not among the eight teams playing for the NBA Cup, the Wolves had games added to their schedule a week from Friday at home against the Lakers and at San Antonio a week from Sunday.
ADDING TWO ‘HEAD COACHES’: Via Kent Youngblood at Star Tribune. Bringing basketball Hall of Famer Lindsay Whalen, the former Gophers/Lynx star and U coach, and Eric Thibault onto the Lynx coaching staff means that head coach Cheryl Reeve added two other people with head coaching experience to her bench. It was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up. VERBATIM: Some years ago Reeve, hoping to promote the ascent of women in the coaching ranks, made a move to have all-female coaching staffs. But Thibault’s credentials were undeniable. “I’m still committed to women and women of color being on staff,” Reeve said. “That’s a priority that hasn’t changed. This opportunity presented itself, and I thought that’s what was best for the players and that’s the route we chose.” MORE: https://fluence-media.co/lynx1205
TIES THAT BIND (FOLLOW THIS CLOSELY): There’s a complex web to the Lynx’s hires. Whalen played for Eric’s father, Mike, when she played for Connecticut to start her WNBA career. Mike Thibault was an assistant on Reeve’s 2024 Olympic gold medal Team USA. Thibault’s daughter (and Eric’s sister), Carly Thibault-DuDonis, was Whalen’s lead assistant at Minnesota before leaving to become head coach at Fairfield University in Connecticut. Her top assistant is her husband, Blake DuDonis, who had been the coach at Wisconsin-River Falls — and an advance scout for the Washington Mystics when Mike Thibault coached them. (Got all that? The quiz is next week.)
EXPANSION DRAFT FRIDAY: Via Sporting News The expansion draft to stock the Golden State Valkyries is at 5:30 p.m. Friday (ESPN). The Lynx and other teams each were allowed to protect six players, lists that have not been made public, and the Valkyries can take one player from each team. A Sporting News mock draft has Golden State ending the “Alissi Pili era” in Minnesota. VERBATIM: She was undoubtedly the best pick available but the Lynx could not find room for her in their talented rotation. This is the type of big swing that could accelerate Golden State's progress as an upstart. Despite questions about her game translating to the WNBA, Pili has star potential that she could live up to in the right situation. REMINDER: Pili was “the best player available” after the Lynx swapped draft picks with Chicago, which made the move to draft Angel Reese. MORE: https://fluence-media.co/expansiondraft
NCAA VOLLEYBALL QUEST STARTS TODAY: Getting a No. 6 seed in their bracket kept the Gophers from being able to host first- and second-round matchups in the tournament, so they’ll open today against Western Kentucky (3:30 p.m., ESPN+). Winning would put Minnesota back on the court at 6:30 p.m. Friday against the winner of No. 3 seed (and host) Kentucky and Cleveland State. Minnesota (20-10) has shown the ability to stay with the top teams in the nation, but is a step below the most elite teams when it comes to consistency. Their 13-7 conference record tied them for sixth in the Big Ten, which has eight teams in the field. South Dakota State, which has five Minnesotans on its roster, plays Miami at 3:30 p.m. Friday. BRACKET: https://fluence-media.co/vbbracket2024
GET BACK TO US WHEN YOU’RE 11-0: The U women’s basketball team stretched its winning streak to 10 on Tuesday. The latest was a 90-44 win over North Florida. Or, as the Pioneer Press put it: “With their Big Ten opener set for Sunday, the Gophers made quick work of an overmatched nonconference opponent.” FURTHERMORE: The Gophers wins have come against teams with a combined record of 26-55, a .321 winning percentage. One team is still winless, one is currently 1-9, two have two wins, two are over .500. The Gophers open the Big Ten season on Sunday at No. 25 Nebraska (1 p.m. Big Ten Network). Then games against Jackson State (1-6) and Prairie View A&M (2-4) before a return to conference play.
GOOD ON YOUNGBLOOD: Star Tribune’s women’s basketball ace Kent Youngblood is a voter in the AP women’s college basketball poll where the Gophers are in the “also receiving votes” category with 3. The AP website shows the ballots for each voter and, in the latest poll, Youngblood didn’t rank the Gophers. KENT’S VIEW: "It's hard to say just how good the Gophers are, especially since they have had to deal with the loss of Mara Braun, who re-injured her right foot and had surgery. As of Tuesday, they'd played just two teams with winning records. But they have won all their games, have faced and dealt with several different styles of play, especially on defense. If they can go to Nebraska Sunday and beat the Cornhuskers . . . it might be time to considering the Gophers as a top 25 team.” AP POLL: https://fluence-media.co/appoll1205
YOUNGBLOOD’S VOTE? Unlike most of his peers, Kent’s not buying that UCLA is the best team in the nation. HIS BALLOT: https://fluence-media.co/youngblood1205
HARDLY SURPRISING: Via Andy Greder at Pioneer Press. After their underwhelming 6-3 nonconference start, the Gophers men opened their Big Ten season with low-key 18-point loss to Michigan State. The Spartans went deep into their bench, with 10 players getting at least 14 minutes on the court in the 90-72 win. VERBATIM: Michigan State went on a massive 21-3 run midway through the first half that put the game out of reach. The steady distance between the teams resembled a bigger, older kid extending his hand onto his little brother’s forehead. The elder’s wingspan alone keeps the feisty little one from making much contact, no matter how many swings he musters. “Our guys, they felt the force,” Gophers coach Ben Johnson said. MORE: https://fluence-media.co/gophersmsu1205
CAN THE PWHL BOOM CONTINUE? Via Hailey Salvian at The Athletic. In its first season, PWHL executives set a modest goal of drawing 1,000 per game — and ended up averaging about five times that many. They created a much higher baseline for the women’s pro league to eclipse in its second season. The league wants to expand from six to eight teams next season and is confident that it can do so without harming the quality of play. VERBATIM: In June, over a dozen international players — from Finland, Sweden, Russia, Czechia and more — were drafted, alongside dozens more players from the NCAA. That so many players have decided to make the jump to North America is an encouraging sign. Most top players elected to stay in Europe last season and track the new league’s progress from afar. “It became more clear what the league is going to look like and so now, I feel like everybody is trying to get a spot here,” said Team Germany forward Laura Kluge, who was invited to Toronto’s training camp after going undrafted in June. “The goal is to come here and play because (it’s) the most professional league out there.” FULL STORY: https://fluence-media.co/pwhl1205
HOT HOOPS SATURDAY: Lots of good boys’ basketball in the metro area on Saturday. The Hopkins Tip-Off Classic features nine games in two gyms starting at 10:30 a.m. Best of the game are Class 2A champ Breck School vs. Sauk Rapids-Rice at 11 a.m., 3A runner-up Mankato East vs. Hopkins at 3:45 p.m. and 4A runner-up Wayzata vs. 3A champ Totino Grace at 7 p.m. IN EDINA: Dawson-Boyd vs. 1A champ Cherry in one of six games in the Tip-Off Classic at the Edina Community Center, which is just off Hwy. 100 near 50th St. Edina plays Anoka in the final game at 8 p.m. AT MINNEHAHA ACADEMY: Six games are scheduled starting at noon in the Southside Showcase. Host Minnehaha plays St. Louis park at 6 p.m. FULL SCHEDULES: https://fluence-media.co/hoops1205.
BAD TURKEY CALL: My Turkey of the Year calling skills were way off last week. I’ve always tried to think along with Patrick Reusse when he makes his choice for Star Tribune. Joe Pohlad, the third-gen Twins owner, just seemed too obvious. Reusse did a fine job of poking and prodding all the turkeys at the table. Incoming president Derek Falvey and radio voice Kris Atteberry did pick up special honors, making it a big year for Twins turkeys. READ: https://fluence-media.co/reusse1205
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AND FINALLY: We started with five lists and we’ll end with five more, via Star Tribune’s David La Vaque (hockey) and Ron Haggstrom ()basketball)
Girls’ hockey Dream Team: https://fluence-media.co/ghockeydream
Boys’ hockey Dream Team: https://fluence-media.co/bhockeydream
Girls’ basketball Dream team: https://fluence-media.co/ghoopsdream
Boys’ hockey first Top 25 team rankings: https://fluence-media.co/bhockeyranking1205
Girls’ basketball first Top 25: https://fluence-media.co/ghoopsranking1205
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