By: David Nelson
Richard Pitino has done almost everything to get the Minnesota men’s basketball team back on track.
He’s banned Twitter, flip-flopped point guards and shuffled frontcourt rotations, all to no avail.
Fans and pundits even pointed fingers at the head coach himself as Pitino tried to fix a hole in Minnesota’s ship using duct tape.
The fact is, this season came down to not what the Gophers had on their bench, but what they didn’t have: depth.