The Wild is winless in its past six games. More instructively, the Wild is 0-4 and is being outscored 18-6 since Mike Yeo played one of the classic cards of desperation at a coach's disposal: the tantrum.

The Gophers men's basketball team started 0-4 in the Big Ten, leading Richard Pitino to play another of the desperate cards at a coach's disposal: the lineup shuffle. Minnesota still lost to Iowa.

The question: Now what? Once a coach has played either one of those cards, and a team has failed to respond, there isn't much left to do except hit the reset button, wait and hope.

whoops Deadspin.com mistook a satirical article about 3-on-3 basketball being added to the 2016 Olympics for an actual breaking news item.

worth repeating The last two players to score 50 points in an NBA game did it as Wolves: Corey Brewer last year and Mo Williams on Tuesday.