The pair was sidelined all of last season for the same reasons. Minnesota suffered two big blows early when big bodies Parker Fox and Isaiah Ihnen were lost for the season because of summer knee injuries. “I didn’t want him to feel like he had to put on the Superman cape, but Dawson is up for the challenge and is more than capable of being a guy that can help with our scoring.” “Dawson’s a very talented player,” Johnson said. In August, he received an NCAA hardship waiver that allows him to play this season. Garcia averaged a team-high 13 points and 6.6 rebounds for Marquette before moving to North Carolina, where he put up 9 points and 5.5 boards in 16 games before returning to Minnesota to help his family as it battled COVID. Someone will have to pick up that slack, maybe Garcia - just from a different spot. He’s likely to miss teammate Payton Willis, who averaged 15.5 points and a team-high 4.3 assists after transferring back to the U for his senior season. It’s just those little things that help you change your game, and changing your diet is something that helps immensely.” “I feel like I’m jumping at a high level. “This is the best I’ve felt defensively in my whole career,” he said. Since then, Battle has changed his diet and lost 17 pounds. “I’m not going to come out here and say that I knew I was going to do this,” he said, “but I think it’s just coming back to, I think, one thing that I really emphasize when I play basketball - trusting your work.” All the hard work and preparation he put in, he applied.”īattle said he always believed in his preparation.
“The competitor in him just kind of rose to the moment. His acclimation to the Big Ten was a pleasant surprise for Johnson, who had recruited Battle when he was an assistant to his predecessor Richard Pitino, and later as an assistant at Xavier. The trick will be adjusting to college basketball and/or the Big Ten quickly, just like Battle did last season after transferring from George Washington, where he averaged 13.5 points and 5.5 rebounds in 47 games. 7 against Western Michigan at Williams Arena.īattle, however, is excited about a team that adds big-time talent like 6-11 Garcia, a forward from Savage who played well at Marquette and North Carolina before joining Minnesota, and freshman Pharrel Payne of Cottage Grove. That was the only preseason recognition for the Gophers, who will open their regular season Nov. It kind of is what it is.”īattle, a 6-foot-7 wing from Robbinsdale who averaged 17.5 points and 6.3 rebounds last season after transferring back home, was named preseason all-Big Ten by a panel of coaches and media members. But I do think there will be, especially early, a little bit of a growth pattern. We’ve got some good pieces, and some players that are Big Ten players and Big Ten bodies. “This year, we’ll be incredibly young, so you’ve got that inexperience factor.
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