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Matthew Hurt, a 6-foot-9 freshman forward from Rochester (MN) John Marshall, is considered Minnesota’s top player in the Class of 2019 and is a big recruiting target of the Gophers. Hurt comes from a basketball family. His older brother, Michael, is a Minnesota Gopher signee and is ranked as the number two senior in […] READ MORE
Michael Hurt, a 6-foot-6 senior forward from Rochester (MN) John Marshall, signed with Minnesota in the early signing period. Hurt is ranked as Minnesota’s number two player in the Class of 2016 behind Hopkins’ Amir Coffey, who also signed with the Gophers. Hurt scored 21 points in the Rockets’ 82-30 win over Rochester Century, […] READ MORE
Myles Hanson, a 6-foot-4 junior forward from Chaska (MN) High, is one of the top players in the Minnesota Class of 2017 and who was a guest of the Gophers on Saturday versus Indiana. Hanson is averaging a team-best 22.6 points per game this year for the Hawks, who are off to a 12-4 […] READ MORE
LESS THAN 2 MONTHS UNTIL THE MADNESS, U.S.A. — Gopher basketball fans still have about two months to endure the remainder of this forgettable season, but there is good news on the horizon. We’re less than two months until Selection Sunday (March 13), when 68 other schools not named Minnesota will hear their names called by Jim Nantz. There is no […] READ MORE
Photo Credit: Alex Conover Gabe Kalscheur, a 6-foot-3 sophomore guard from Minneapolis (MN) DeLaSalle, is one of the top players in the Minnesota Class of 2018. Kalscheur is averaging a team-best 25.6 points per game this year for the Islanders. Kalscheur averaged 6.3 points per game as a freshman with five double figure games, […] READ MORE
McKinley Wright, a 6-foot, 164-pound junior guard from Champlin Park (MN) High, helped lead the Rebels to a 31-1 record as they finished runner-up to Apple Valley in the Class AAAA finals, losing 64-61 at the Target Center last March. Wright is averaging a team-best 19.3 points, 9.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game this […] READ MORE
Nate Mason will probably be the de facto team leader next season. Well, we’re halfway there. How’s everyone feeling? I was talking to a friend of mine at a holiday party last week and Gopher basketball came up. He told me that he doesn’t really start paying attention to the season until conference play […] READ MORE
Theo John, a 6-foot-9 junior center from Champlin Park (MN) High, helped lead the Rebels to a 31-1 record as they finished runner-up to Apple Valley in the Class AAAA title game, losing 64-61. He received a scholarship offer from Minnesota this past spring. John is averaging 17.2 points and 8.7 rebounds per game […] READ MORE
B1G DISAPPOINTMENT, U.S.A. — The following is Road to Selection Sunday‘s final 2015 look at the projected NCAA Tournament field, before the field really starts to take shape with the start of conference play across the country. For the Big Ten, which currently has only five teams projected into the bracket, that conference season begins Dec. 29 when Purdue @ Wisconsin (6 p.m.) and Michigan State @ […] READ MORE
Nathan Reuvers, a 6-foot-9 junior from Lakeville (MN) North, has emerged the past nine months as one of the state’s top prospects in the Class of 2017. Reuvers only averaged 6.5 points per game as a sophomore, but stepped up his play in the Class AAAA state tournament when senior Connor Flack was sidelined with […] READ MORE