The Golden Gophers can win on the road!

The Gopher’s basketball team won a road game last night against a real Division 1 opponent. I can’t remember the last time I wrote those words.

Tubby and his squad went into Ames, Iowa last night and took apart an Iowa State team that actually has a decent chance to play in the postseason.

Lawrence McKenzie led the way for the Gophers with 15 second half points and 20 for the game. He doesn’t seem to miss Dan Monson much at all.

One side note -- has anyone figured out the Big Ten Network yet? Now that the gal has sworn off the overpriced and shittastic customer service of Charter cable TV forever, we made the switch to DirectTV. So far so good –we get the NFL Network, Big Ten Network, and all systems are a go.

But, I can’t for the life of me figure out how/why the Big Ten Network schedules games the way they do. Shouldn’t they still have regional programming so we can watch the games in our market? Iowa State and Minnesota can’t get any more in my market and I still didn’t get to see the game. Not good times.

The only downside to DirectTV is no more Minneapolis/St Paul news at 5:00, 6:00 or 10:00 p.m. If you’ve seen local TV newscasts in any other Minnesota market, you know how miserable I am right now. But, having the NFL Network and at some point having the Gopher games on the BTN will be worth it.