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Gopher Basketball Jeff Hagen InfoYear: Redshirt SeniorPosition: CenterHeight: 7’0″Weight: 262School: Hopkins High SchoolHometown: Minnetonka, MinnesotaMajor: Psychology/Coaching 2002-2003 NumbersPoints per Game: 4.3Rebounds per Game: 3.6Assists per Game: 1.3Minutes per Game: 16.0Field Goal Percentage: 47.4%Three-point Percentage: NAFree Throw Percentage: 68.3% 2003-2004: A Look Back Best Game: vs. Michigan on February 11th. For the second year in a […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball While the Minnesota summer isn’t over yet, the summer scrimmages at Williams Arena have come to an end. The players will now get several weeks off in between the end of summer school and the start of fall semester. The most positive sign from the final day was the noticeable improvement several of […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Adam Boone InfoYear: SeniorPosition: GuardHeight: 6’3″Weight: 197School: Minnetonka High SchoolHometown: Minneapolis, MinnesotaMajor: Economics 2003-2004 NumbersPoints per Game: 8.4Rebounds per Game: 3.3Assists per Game: 4.1Minutes per Game: 32.0Field Goal Percentage: 36.3%Three-point Percentage: 28.9%Free Throw Percentage: 76.7% 2003-2004: A Look Back Best Game: vs. Furman on November 30th. People might tend to scoff at referring […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball This week’s scrimmage at The Barn had a different feel than weeks past and that is in large part due to a few unfamiliar non-Gophers in attendance. In addition to the majority of 2004-05 Gophers, Oklahoma’s Johnnie Gilbert and Lawrence McKenzie as well as Wisconsin’s Kammron Taylor scrimmaged, and with it, brought intensity […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball It’s a pretty common opinion that outside shooting will not be Minnesota’s strength this season, and that’s a fair assessment. But the Gophers have added several players who are at least good enough shooters to keep defenses honest, and their shots were falling at a pretty good clip in the latest session of […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball While the games don’t count and the intensity doesn’t match that of a Big Ten game in front of 15,000 fans, one thing is clear from watching another recent session of pick-up games at Williams Arena: the Gopher Basketball team is adding a significant amount of talent this season. The two most impressive […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball While the 2004-05 Gopher Basketball roster is likely still evolving, I have now finally gotten an in-person look at each player who can currently call himself a Golden Gopher. That became the case after I was able to watch incoming junior college forward J’son Stamper participate in some pickup games at Williams Arena […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball At 7:50 pm Thursday night in the crowded bar of Market Bar-B-Que in Minneapolis with about 100 friends, family, and media in attendance, Kris Humphries‘ many years of hard work paid off in a big way. The Hopkins grad was announced as the 14th pick in the 2004 NBA Draft and can now […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball The start of the season is still 5 months away, and practice doesn’t even begin for another 3, but the 2004-05 Gopher Basketball team was on display in a hot and steamy Williams Arena this weekend. While pickup games certainly don’t simulate Big 10 conditions, it was still nice to get a look […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball March Madness is here once again with the start of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday. For Minnesota (due to their self-imposed sanctions), this is the only part of March Madness they’ll get to experience this year. Here’s how the conference tournament shapes up. The Gophers (seeded 10th) open up against 7th-seeded Iowa […] READ MORE