2025-26 Gopher Mens Basketball Roster

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ShushPush said:
Six more spots to fill. Who will play the role of Hosea? I need names.
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We don't get a lot of advance information from this administration. I guess there's a certain logic to that. Whenever Ben announced recruits coming to campus but failed to get the commitments, the result was a certain amount of jeering at his failures. Niko won't get much of that right now but playing it close to the vest probably isn't a bad strategy.
 

TwistingMyMelon said:
We don't get a lot of advance information from this administration. I guess there's a certain logic to that. Whenever Ben announced recruits coming to campus but failed to get the commitments, the result was a certain amount of jeering at his failures. Niko won't get much of that right now but playing it close to the vest probably isn't a bad strategy.
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Class! Who can help this poor soul?
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
Morris is a lot more desolate than Lubbock. Lubbock is 50 times larger than Morris. It has an international airport. It's not nice, by any means, but the place has every chain restaurant, sushi, dozens of college bars in the same area, etc.

I would hate to live there after I was 22 but it's twice the size of Fargo, it isn't like going to school in Bemidji or Crookston (which might also be fun, i have no idea).
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Went to a 1978 mid-November Morris-St. Olaf Division 3 football playoff game. The field was a sheet of ice, and I don’t think I’ve ever been colder in my life. The Oles lost, 23-10.

That was and is the last time I will find myself in Morris, MN. Pure definition of “The Sticks.”

Fun fact: St. Olaf hasn’t made the D3 football playoffs since. … Um Yah Yah.
 

Related to this roster - I can't find it anywhere and I feel like I've kept up with a lot of these threads, but at some point I've lost track. What happened to Reader? Is he in the portal? Quit basketball? Still on the squad but not as a scholarship guy so we've forgotten/lost track?
 

WadeHokenson said:
Related to this roster - I can't find it anywhere and I feel like I've kept up with a lot of these threads, but at some point I've lost track. What happened to Reader? Is he in the portal? Quit basketball? Still on the squad but not as a scholarship guy so we've forgotten/lost track?
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From my understanding he hasn't said anything official yet and neither has the U so just unknown.
 


studentgopher94 said:
From my understanding he hasn't said anything official yet and neither has the U so just unknown.
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I thought somebody said that Reader and Asuma were good friends from AAU days. Reader may just want to play for the hometown team without concerns for NIL.
 


I’m a Morris alum. I had a fantastic experience in their chemistry department. And yes, we certainly had to make our own fun, there was little to nothing going on in that town.

Now that I have spent most of the last 15 years out West, I kinda wish I had gone to college in the middle of nowhere surrounded by mountains for all the recreation opportunities instead of cornfields.
 
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Bob_Loblaw said:
Yeah, I'm not ripping on Morris. I always think it's odd when people argue that going to college in a smaller town wouldn't be fun.
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Sorry for going so off topic here... I found Morris strange and backward. I grew up in Detroit Lakes, which was my understanding of small-town normal. DL is a little rowdy at times, but it's mostly a wholesome place to grow up and live, and it certainly has a personality and some spice. In Morris, we kept hearing these rumors about a group of wealthy people--farmers, maybe--that were powerful enough to keep the town in the dark ages and keep things like fast food restaurants from setting up shop there. Meanwhile, there's a progressive, relatively artsy college right in town.

The mysterious group in/near Morris is the Switzers. Here's someone writing about them:
I'm sure a person could go down a deep rabbit hole on this.
 



Bad Gopher said:
Sorry for going so off topic here... I found Morris strange and backward. I grew up in Detroit Lakes, which was my understanding of small-town normal. DL is a little rowdy at times, but it's mostly a wholesome place to grow up and live, and it certainly has a personality and some spice. In Morris, we kept hearing these rumors about a group of wealthy people--farmers, maybe--that were powerful enough to keep the town in the dark ages and keep things like fast food restaurants from setting up shop there. Meanwhile, there's a progressive, relatively artsy college right in town.

The mysterious group in/near Morris is the Switzers. Here's someone writing about them:
I'm sure a person could go down a deep rabbit hole on this.
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That's super interesting. I've never heard of this. I think I found what rabbit hole I'll be going down between the Vikes' picks this weekend.
 

Bad Gopher said:
Sorry for going so off topic here... I found Morris strange and backward. I grew up in Detroit Lakes, which was my understanding of small-town normal. DL is a little rowdy at times, but it's mostly a wholesome place to grow up and live, and it certainly has a personality and some spice. In Morris, we kept hearing these rumors about a group of wealthy people--farmers, maybe--that were powerful enough to keep the town in the dark ages and keep things like fast food restaurants from setting up shop there. Meanwhile, there's a progressive, relatively artsy college right in town.

The mysterious group in/near Morris is the Switzers. Here's someone writing about them:
I'm sure a person could go down a deep rabbit hole on this.
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From an interview from Floyd Schmidgall. You couldn't possibly create a better character name than that! This is the beginning to a fantastic rabbit hole.
 




Purely hypothetical, looking at the current list of players I have to assume MN has spent about $3M thus far on Asuma, Crocker-Johnson, Omot, Durkin, Vaihola, Reynolds, and Willis, Jr. The needs remaining are C, PF, CG for rotations.
I am expecting MN to make a "splash" signing at Center rim protector around $1M and fill out the roster with remaining reserves.

Are these numbers waaaay off, or reasonable? If these guys are going to be making hundreds of thousands of dollars per season, my hope is that the contracts are iron-clad and players are held to them, including revocation or bonus based on conduct and performance. Hopefully the money helps them grow thick skins, because the years of cheering for the "college-try amateurs" are over. Sadly. The system is what it is, but having 20 yr-old men making that much money is a bad recipe. I would be more in favor of their income from college bb be put into a trust.
 

Bad Gopher said:
Sorry for going so off topic here... I found Morris strange and backward. I grew up in Detroit Lakes, which was my understanding of small-town normal. DL is a little rowdy at times, but it's mostly a wholesome place to grow up and live, and it certainly has a personality and some spice. In Morris, we kept hearing these rumors about a group of wealthy people--farmers, maybe--that were powerful enough to keep the town in the dark ages and keep things like fast food restaurants from setting up shop there. Meanwhile, there's a progressive, relatively artsy college right in town.

The mysterious group in/near Morris is the Switzers. Here's someone writing about them:
I'm sure a person could go down a deep rabbit hole on this.
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This is interesting and I have never heard of it despite having a ton of family in and around the Morris area. Morris definitely feels like stepping back in time a few decades. There are about as many fast food restaurants as you'd expect for a town that size, but I've always thought there should be more bars, especially with UMM there.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
This is interesting and I have never heard of it despite having a ton of family in and around the Morris area. Morris definitely feels like stepping back in time a few decades. There are about as many fast food restaurants as you'd expect for a town that size, but I've always thought there should be more bars, especially with UMM there.
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I should clarify that I was there in the mid 80s, when there was virtually no fast food. The chains have crept in since that time.
 



SelectionSunday said:
I think I watched that game in full, as it was one of the first conference tournament games of Championship Week. I remember thinking that he was overweight but could clearly see the skill level.
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Yep- hoping Niko can do with him what Pitino did with Mo Walker. Mo was quite a bit more hefty at 300#, but when he got to 250 he was a really nice player inside. This kid with the right coaching and conditioning might be a real find.
 

SelectionSunday said:
I think I watched that game in full, as it was one of the first conference tournament games of Championship Week. I remember thinking that he was overweight but could clearly see the skill level.
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That was Central Arkansas' first conference tournament game against Stetson. He had 37 points, 11 rebounds, four assists, three steals, two blocks, and only one turnover. He was 13 of 15 from the field (missed his only three pointer and one two point shot) and 11 of 12 from the line.

In the next game against Lipscomb, he came back down to earth but he still had 14 points in the loss.
 

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