Gopher Basketball Articles

Gopher Basketball People often fantasize about how they would spend their lottery winnings if that lucky day would ever arrive-mansions, parties, women, cars, buying an island may top the list for many, but one of my more modest lottery goals would be having the ability to travel across the nation for the best college basketball […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Here is a revelation for you-the days where talented freshman sit behind the upperclassmen, working hard in practice so that they can begin contributing as sophomores has long past. With the NBA’s rule that high school seniors basically have to play a year of college basketball before entering the draft that was instituted […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball One of the rejuvenating things about college basketball is that each year a different cast of characters rises to the occasion to seize the attention of the sports public. In college basketball some faces become very familiar (Tyler Hansbrough and Roy Hibbert) while others we realize will only be present for a season, […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Alright, time to get down to brass tacks (never quite understood that saying) and take a look at some questions that have been popping through my mind during this off-season. Without further ado: How will last year’s national championship teams fare this season? Between the two teams that faced off last April in […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball The 2007-08 college basketball kicks off at 3 p.m. Central Time today with a tangle between Richmond and Maine in Memphis. Looking to get the upcoming season off to a bigger bang than this inaugural game, I’ve decided to do a week-long preview of the national scene, for each day of the working […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Can you feel the crispness in the air? Autumn has settled upon us and with winter coming soon, we can be heartened by at least one thing-the Gopher basketball season is. In fact, we are now less than one month away from the official start to the season. With the season imminent, I […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball What do to in the middle of July when the familiar Minnesota refrain of “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” is frequently heard, when the Minnesota Twins’ season is fading into oblivion, and the college basketball season is still four months away? I decided to come up with an utterly subjective, fairly […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball I was curious. It is often bandied about that the University of Minnesota is one of few institution that can stake the claim of existing in a state where they are the only university with Division 1 athletics in football and basketball. But I wasn’t interested if we were on par with the […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Official confirmation from the University of Minnesota won’t come until Friday, but numerous local and national sources are reporting that Orlando “œTubby” Smith is set to resign as the head coach at Kentucky and become the new Gopher Basketball head coach. ESPN.com reports that Smith has already informed the Kentucky athletic department and […] READ MORE