Pitino's Gophers have played their way back onto NCAA tourney bubble

A month ago, I sat down with Gophers men's basketball beat writer Marcus Fuller and we hashed out things that were going wrong for the 4-5 Gophers — and whether they could turn things around from a disappointing follow-up to last year's second-round NCAA tournament appearance. One of the numbers I dug up was particularly glaring: Teamrankings.com, in assessing the Gophers' resume to that point, gave them just a 9.6% chance of making the Big Dance this year. Ouch. But that back-and-forth came out on a Sunday, the same day the Gophers upset Ohio State in their Big Ten home opener.

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