Sophomore Reid Travis of Minneapolis DeLaSalle is one of the state’s top two-sport athletes. He had an outstanding season as the quarterback for the Islanders and is one of the state’s top basketball players in the loaded Class of 2014. Sophomore Reid Travis of Minneapolis DeLaSalle is one of the state’s top two-sport athletes. He […] READ MORE
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Freshman Big Man Alex Illikainen Already Hearing From Gophers and Badgers
Alex Illikainen, a 6-foot-8, 192-pound freshman from Grand Rapids, is considered the top player in the state in the Class of 2015. He made an unofficial visit to Minnesota last May and attended a Gopher football game this past fall. He has started to attract interest from several schools, including Minnesota, Creighton and Wisconsin. Minnesota […] READ MORE
Rashad Vaughn Adds Big Time Offers as His Big Time Game Continues to Excel
Rashad Vaughn is piling up scholarship offers as quickly as he is piling up stats. Rashad Vaughn, a 6-foot-4 sophomore from Robbinsdale Cooper, shined this week as he scored 94 points in three games, including 35 points against three-time Class AAAA champion Hopkins Saturday. GopherHole.com caught up with Vaughn to learn the latest on his […] READ MORE
Gophers Interest in Wisconsin’s Duane Wilson Heating Up
Duane Wilson, a 6-foot-3 junior guard from Whitefish Bay Dominican, is one of the top players in the Midwest in the Class of 2014. He has drawn early interest from many of the top programs in the area, including Minnesota. Minnesota assistant coach Vince Taylor has watched Wilson at practice and game earlier this season. […] READ MORE
Freshman Big Man Diamond Stone Already Hearing from Gophers, Badgers and Others
Diamond Stone, a 6-foot-9, 230-pound freshman from Whitefish Bay Dominican, is one of the top players in the Midwest in the Class of 2015. He has drawn early interest from many of the top programs in the area, including Minnesota. Minnesota assistant coach Vince Taylor has watched Stone at practice and game earlier this season. […] READ MORE
Milwaukee Forward D’Andre Downey Has Gophers Offer and Lots of Athleticism
Downey has an offer from the Gophers and UW-Green Bay, along with interest from Creighton, Georgia and DePaul. D’Andre Downey, a 6-foot-8 junior forward from Milwaukee Riverside, played in the Twin Cities recently in the East Metro Showcase. Downey, who has a Minnesota offer, recently became eligible for the Tigers, who are 13-3 and ranked […] READ MORE
Matt Thomas Talks About Badgers Offer, Tubby Smith and Fred Hoiberg
Thomas added a scholarship from Wisconsin to go along with offers from Boston College, Creighton, Green Bay, Iowa State, Marquette, Minnesota, Northwestern, Northern Iowa and Virginia. Matt Thomas, a 6-foot-4 junior guard from Onalaska who has a Minnesota scholarship offer, scored 30 points to lead the Hilltoppers to a 61-59 win over St. Paul Johnson […] READ MORE
Tyus Jones Talks Duke, Michigan State, Minnesota and Ohio State
Jones recently added to his growing list accolades as he broke Apple Valley’s school assist records when he recorded his 448th assist and he isn’t even halfway through his high school career! Only a sophomore, Tyus Jones is a household name throughout Minnesota and across the country. He recently added to his growing list accolades […] READ MORE
Phil Nolan Hearing from Marquette, Oklahoma and Minnesota as Recruitment Picks Back Up
Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith and assistants Saul Smith and Vince Taylor watched Nolan play against Hopkins Saturday. Philip Nolan, a 6-foot-10, 210-pound senior forward from Milwaukee Riverside, played in the Twin Cities in the East Metro Showcase this past weekend. Nolan became eligible this past week for the Tigers, who are 11-3 and ranked […] READ MORE
Duluth Big Man Akolda Manyang Emerging on Gophers’ Recruiting Radar
Woodard (left) and Manyang (right) have both been invited to the Gophers game on Sunday vs. Northwestern. Akolda Manyang, a 6-foot-11, 215-pound junior center from Duluth East, had 23 points, 16 rebounds and seven blocked shots in the Greyhounds’ 69-62 win over No. 8 ranked Tartan Saturday. He finished with 11 points, 15 rebounds and […] READ MORE