We must be careful with Minnesota!

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Bill in Sinton

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We must stay focused and play like we are capable. We can win this game if we do. Remember Minnesota won several National Championships in football in the 1930s, 1940 and 1960 plus they have won several in college hockey. We must be cautious. Scary times indeed!
 
Go Horns! Beat Minnesota!
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Focused and willing to play for 40 strong minutes...the team has shown that when they play like they are capable of doing, they can run circles around damned near anyone out there. They need two complete halves of the game...they absolutely CANNOT afford to give away the first half or to go to sleep in the second half...
 
40 minutes of basketball Horns! 40 minutes. Not 20, not 15 not a sporadic 5 here and there. But 40 solid minutes of basketball.

We believe in you! Let's go to work and take care of business.
 
Bill-

Your posts crack me up! I think if Janeel McCarville had played football instead of basketball Minnesota would have some football championships in this century.
 
We need to scrimmage for 20 minutes before tipoff so we'll think it's the 2nd half once the game begins.
 
a great article from ESPN site:

It has been a long time since Gail Goestenkors found herself in a fight just to make the NCAA tournament. Having been in the field all but the first two of her 15 seasons at Duke, Goestenkors hadn't had to give the "Do you want to watch the tournament on TV?" pep talk to a team in awhile.

But she did on Feb. 27, when the Longhorns were trailing Kansas late in a game in Lawrence. To that point, Texas had some good nonconference wins and Big 12 victories over the likes of Baylor and Oklahoma State … but had lost three games in a row and six of seven.

A defeat at Kansas would have all but sunk any shot Texas had of earning an NCAA at-large bid. And that's what Goestenkors said during a timeout: It's now or never.

Well, it clicked. Texas won that game -- its first Big 12 road win of the season -- and then started Oklahoma's decline by upsetting the Sooners in Norman, Okla.

Then the Longhorns got back-to-back victories over Texas Tech, in the regular-season finale and the Big 12 tournament first round. With that, Texas seemed a very solid bet to get into the NCAA field.

But Texas wasn't done yet. Trailing Baylor by 16 at halftime of the quarterfinals, Goestenkors told her players that they were about to be part of the biggest comeback in Big 12 tournament history. In only her first season in the league, she didn't actually know it really would be the biggest halftime deficit overcome … but, hey, it sounded good.

And her players believed it -- then went out and did it. In fact, the Longhorns totally turned around the game, winning by 15. Then their semifinal with Oklahoma State went down to the wire before they fell 75-72.

The Longhorns had to get in better shape and be more disciplined when Goestenkors took over the program, but they've responded to that. Especially Brittainey Raven, a sophomore guard who voluntarily came in to work on her shooting daily with Goestenkors. That practice paid off, as she has become Texas' go-to player.

In the Big 12 tournament, though, another Longhorn took a definite step forward: sophomore guard Carla Cortijo. Goestenkors gave her more responsibility with play-calling, and she responded well to it.

Texas has decent size -- if not bulk -- inside, and the defense has come together pretty well. Now having won five of their last six, the Longhorns could very well be a scary matchup in the NCAA tournament
-- Mechelle Voepel
 
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