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Gopher Basketball When you’re the son of a former NBA great, as Gopher sophomore center Ralph Sampson III is, you won’t find many people within basketball circles that are unfamiliar with you, or at least your name. As a freshman last year, Sampson III found out that, regardless of what your last name may be, […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball When Damian Johnson first arrived at the University of Minnesota, a world away from his hometown of Thibodeaux, La., he was just Damian Johnson. After a redshirt season under then-coach Dan Monson and his staff, Johnson’s saw occasional minutes as a freshman, where he showed glimpses of fantastic athleticism. He was still a […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball * Wow. What more can be said about North Carolina’s championship run, capped by their pure domination against the Spartans tonight. The Tar Heels snuck up on me. All that early season talk of UNC going undefeated combined with their inexplicable 0-2 start in ACC play made me believe the Heels were fallible […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Gopher guard Kevin Payton was born to play basketball. The son of former pro, Charles Payton, he grew up around the game. But until his freshman year of high school, Payton didn’t even play basketball, instead devoting time to sports like soccer and track. His unique story goes way beyond his life in […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball The One and Done-Friend or Foe to a College Program? Do you pine for the days when college basketball was ruled by upperclassmen, the most talented young basketball players sticking around to their junior and senior seasons, developing teamwork and chemistry over several seasons to pit their well-oiled machine against other well-oiled machines […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball A Decade´s Look at the Best and the Busts of the Big Ten Taking a look at the Big Ten over the last ten years, you can see some prime examples of how recruiting can lead to great things and how it also doesn’t guarantee success. Here are the numbers of Top 100 […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball How do our recruits compare? Over the next two years, the Golden Gophers will be welcoming five players onto their roster who are consensus Top 100 recruits for their respective classes in Devoe Joseph, Trevor Mbawke, Ralph Sampson III, Royce White, and Rodney Williams. I thought it would be interesting to compare these […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Do you hear it yet? I don´t think we can call it a buzz just yet, but it´s definitely a murmur, primarily among the Gopher cognoscenti. The buzz should arrive sometime in December and pick up as the Gophers step into Big Ten play. And while Gopher fans are marveling at the talent […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball Gopher fans got their first peek at the 2008-09 Golden Gophers basketball team at Tubby’s Tipoff tonight at Williams Arena. The event included a 3-point shooting contest, dunk contest and an intra-squad scrimmage. Flip Saunders, Marc Madsen and Kevin Love were a few of the notable attendees. Overall it looks like this Gopher […] READ MORE
Gopher Basketball As the calendar turns to October, I´m experiencing a strange phenomenon here in the southern hemisphere, as spring is rapidly approaching. Next week in fact I will be on spring vacation and I´m not going to ask my wife if I can take some time out to write the weekly column, so this […] READ MORE