We were home over the holidays -- if you read our posts from around that time, you could likely sense the palpable excitement in Minneapolis about the Gophers. Whalen is a hero. McCarville is awesome. And they have a roster full of future stars too.

Today Minnesota announced that they've sold out for the Iowa game on Sunday. This is a milestone -- the first in the history of the women's hoops program.

Probably our dear readers are tired of our nonstop Gopher gushing. But there is a broader lesson: if you have a good team with exciting players, the fans will come.

Real sports fans don't care if it's men or women. They care about school pride, they care about personalities, they care about good basketball, and they care about winning. Whalen and the Gophers have provided all of this, and the Minnesota fans are coming out in droves.