re: College Basketball Post-Draft Withdrawal Preseason Top 20

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Lil' Pitino put his name out there last year with Minnesota's NCAA run. They return seven of their top eight scorers in a much-weaker Big Ten.

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I do think that Minnesota will win games, but I am a skeptic of this Top-15 ranking. They have not been a very good program for awhile (I am aware of 2016-17), so I am interested to see the following:

(1) How will they handle expectations? Saw this a couple years ago when Nebraska, another B1G team, made a surprising run to the NCAAT and flopped the very next season.

(2) Will outside shooting be their demise? Dupree McBrayer showed the ability to from the outside, but the Gophers were 0-2 without Akeem Springs. Those two contests were against quality opponents, but still noteworthy because they were dreadful from 3PT, combining to shoot 9/34 (26.4%).