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per Shooter:
It looks like the Gophers men’s basketball team, with a 24-9 record entering Sunday’s NCAA tournament pairings announcement, will end up with a seed in the Nos. 5 to 7 range, McKinley Boston said.
Boston, who spent nine years as Gophers athletics director and as a university vice president, also spent five years on the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee. He has retired as athletics director at New Mexico State but follows Minnesota, his alma mater, closely.
“The challenge (the Gophers) will have is that the Big Ten as a conference isn’t rated as strong as it has been historically,” Boston said.
“The five-seed against the 12-seed historically has been the game for most upsets,” Boston said. “So if they can avoid the five, they should consider themselves lucky.”
Meanwhile, Boston, 71, has been doing some consulting and playing lots of golf, he said, as a 14-handicapper. A defensive tackle for the Gophers’ last Big Ten championship football team, he plans to attend the team’s 50-year reunion in Minneapolis this fall. He is one of 10 Gophers from that 1967 team who received an opportunity to play in the NFL.
Boston resides in Las Cruces, N.M., but will move to his native North Carolina within a year.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/1...-says-gophers-ncaa-seed-will-be-in-5-7-range/
Go Gophers!!
It looks like the Gophers men’s basketball team, with a 24-9 record entering Sunday’s NCAA tournament pairings announcement, will end up with a seed in the Nos. 5 to 7 range, McKinley Boston said.
Boston, who spent nine years as Gophers athletics director and as a university vice president, also spent five years on the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee. He has retired as athletics director at New Mexico State but follows Minnesota, his alma mater, closely.
“The challenge (the Gophers) will have is that the Big Ten as a conference isn’t rated as strong as it has been historically,” Boston said.
“The five-seed against the 12-seed historically has been the game for most upsets,” Boston said. “So if they can avoid the five, they should consider themselves lucky.”
Meanwhile, Boston, 71, has been doing some consulting and playing lots of golf, he said, as a 14-handicapper. A defensive tackle for the Gophers’ last Big Ten championship football team, he plans to attend the team’s 50-year reunion in Minneapolis this fall. He is one of 10 Gophers from that 1967 team who received an opportunity to play in the NFL.
Boston resides in Las Cruces, N.M., but will move to his native North Carolina within a year.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/1...-says-gophers-ncaa-seed-will-be-in-5-7-range/
Go Gophers!!
