STrib: Gophers' Reggie Lynch chasing history and shot-blocking records

[BleedGopher]

per Marcus:

Reggie Lynch probably should already be considered the best shot blocker in Gophers history.

The 6-foot-10, 260-pound senior center has 320 career blocks to lead all Division I active players and is nearly 100 ahead of Kevin McHale’s Minnesota program career record. Lynch played his first two college seasons at Illinois State, so he'll have to wait a little longer to pass McHale.

But the Edina native is chasing the U career mark and other block records this season, including the Big Ten single-season mark of 161 set by Ohio State’s Ken Johnson in 2000 and the NCAA Division I single-season mark of 207 set Hall of Famer David Robinson at Navy in 1986.

Lynch currently leads the Big Ten and the nation in blocks per game (5.67) and total blocks (17) after three games. It's early, but he's on pace to finish the season with 187 blocks if he plays 30 more games, which includes the rest of the regular season and at least two postseason games. If the Gophers make runs in both the Big Ten tournament and NCAA tournament it might be possible for Lynch to catch Robinson’s NCAA record. But again, it’s still early.

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[macgopher]

It will be fun watching how this plays out. So he’s only been in foul trouble once in three games and looks as aggressive as ever. So can we speculate fouls or lack there of don’t affect the blocking results much? It did seem last year that he a good mix of foul problems, either fouls from lazy or tired reach in plays, player frustration or blocking itself. So far so good this year. Big Ten play will certainly be more difficult but he is also better this year.