In 1950, Lawler was named the greatest player in Gopher basketball history, but the subsequent decades of Gopher basketball have largely forgotten his legacy. "[87], In the modern era of the program, as is the case with most Big Ten sports, Minnesota's primary rivals are the Iowa Hawkeyes and Wisconsin Badgers. The team advanced to one Final 4, one Elite 8, one Sweet 16, one second round appearance, and suffered two first round losses. The lone bright spot came during a late season upset against ranked Maryland to give the Gophers their first conference win on the season. University of Minnesota baseball star Dave Winfield also joined the team in 1971. Ultimately, it revealed that Minnesota was guilty of massive violations under Haskins' watch.

They advanced to the Elite 8 in 1990, the Sweet 16 in 1989, and were NIT champions in 1993. [23] His squads were led by two-time All-American Jim McIntyre and three-time NBA Champion Whitey Skoog for the early years of his career and Big Ten MVP Chuck Mencel for the middle ones. Currently Amir Coffey (LA Clippers) and Daniel Oturu (2020 draft pick), former Gophers, play in the NBA. Prominent players coached by Dutcher at Minnesota included Ray Williams, who later played for the New York Knicks; Mychal Thompson, who played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers; Kevin McHale, who played for the Boston Celtics; Trent Tucker, who played for the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls; Randy Breuer, who played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks and Sacramento Kings; Flip Saunders, who became an NBA coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, and Washington Wizards; Osborne Lockhart, who played for the Harlem Globetrotters; Jim Petersen, who played for the Houston Rockets; Darrell Mitchell, who was named first-team All-Big Ten, and Tommy Davis, also a first-team All-Big Ten player. ALL-DECADE PLAYER Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin See []. [30] The starters on the 197172 squad after the Ohio State game became known as the "Iron Five." [84] The greatest rival of the early years of the program was the Minnesota Aggies, representing the Minnesota School of Agriculture and Mining, which has since been incorporated into the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as the St. Paul campus. [19] The team opted, however, to hire Dave MacMillan, who had been coaching the University of Idaho for the previous seven seasons and had previously played for the Original Celtics during the 1910s. Cooke was put on the University payroll on a part-time basis in early 1897 and full-time by the fall; this made him one of the earliest professional coaches. [46], In addition to Haskins, Athletic Director Mark Dienhart, Vice President for Athletics, Student Development McKinley Boston, Associate Athletics Director Jeff Schemmel and academic counselor Alonzo Newby also resigned. [81] The team continues to play there to this day, making it one of the longest used arenas of any college basketball team and the oldest arena in the Big ten. [31][32] In 1975, Musselman resigned and was named the head coach of the San Diego Sails of the ABA. Musselman was a defensive minded coach and designed his team around Brewer, recruiting several junior college players. College basketball research organizations have retroactively awarded Minnesota national championships in 1902, 1903, and 1919. [65] Before the season, things started to unravel for Pitino's team. L. J. Cooke took over the team in 1897. B. Cowles. [60] Despite the lack of success on the court, the Gophers were able to get Amir Coffey, a highly ranked player from Hopkins to commit to the men's basketball program. Mychal Thompson was a Gophers star and was the first overall pick in the 1978 NBA Draft. [9] Hall of Fame coach John Kundla was also a Gophers star and helped lead the team to its 1937 Big Ten Championship. Big men John Thomas, Joel Przybilla, and Trevor Winter (the latter two both Minnesota natives), also flourished under Haskins and went on to have careers in the NBA. Source:[75][91], Helms and Premo-Porretta national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearance in italics, Success, and scandal, under Haskins (19861999), University of Minnesota 20062007 Men's Basketball Media Guide, University of Minnesota 200607 Men's Basketball Media Guide, pp. Five players from the 1997 Final Four team played in the NBA: Bobby Jackson, Sam Jacobson, Quincy Lewis, John Thomas, and Trevor Winter.

[20] MacMillan would dominate the program for the next 30 years, coaching the team from 1927 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1948.

From the 189900 to 190304 seasons, the Gophers had a 596 record. His Gopher teams only made the NCAA tournament once, in 200405. Williams Arena was remodeled in 1993 again, to create a new facility for the women's team to use. Following Haskins' departure, the University hired Gonzaga's Dan Monson to be their next head coach, who coincidentally had just beaten the Gophers in the NCAA Tournament the previous March. Kundla remained head coach until 1968. Besides lying about the $3,000 payment, he had also told several of his players to lie to the NCAA. Wisconsin coach Walter Meanwell used the motion offense and "stress[ed] finesse. When the Gophers first organized, they played games in the on campus YMCA. Registration is now open at www.btnbig10k.com and for $20, runners will receive a school-specific [].

Their combined record is 1513. The 190102 squad has been retroactively named the national champions by both the Helms Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll; the Premo-Porretta poll also names the 190203 Gophers as national champions. In addition, the NCAA docked the Gophers an additional five scholarships over the following three seasons, and also imposed recruiting limitations and department-wide probation lasting four years. [2], Initially, the Gophers team formed without any organized coach. 12 Michigan, No.

The program has had a fair degree of stability with their coaching staff. It was named after Henry L. Williams, the former Minnesota Golden Gophers football coach in 1950, and was named after him when it was remodeled and expanded in 1950, bringing the arena to a capacity of 18,025, which was the largest in the country for 20 years and significantly larger than the capacity of Williams Arena today. ND favored to B1G at +190 The team went from 822 in 200607 to 2013 in 200708. Their combined record is 3313. Minnesota broke up a stretch of Ivy League dominance from 1901 to 1906 with their successful 1902 season. [31] It was also revealed that Olson had sold complimentary season tickets to a booster named Harvey Mackay, which prompted NCAA investigations. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, Shyamala Rajender v. University of Minnesota, Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_men%27s_basketball&oldid=1099454670, Articles with dead external links from April 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Records unofficial due to NCAA sanctions (027, 018), Team barred from appearing in post-season, Coach Jim Dutcher resigned midseason; replaced by Jimmy Williams, Coach Dan Monson resigned midseason; replaced by Jim Molinari, First appearance at the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament under, Remaining Big Ten Tournament games cancelled due to the. The University's student newspaper at the time, the Ariel, reported on basketball throughout 1895 as the sport was introduced to the campus from a rival school, Minnesota A&M in St. Paul, later incorporated into the larger University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Trent Tucker led the 1982 squad to the Big Ten Championship. [33] Though wins did not come easily in the first couple years of Haskins regime, by the 198889 season he had the Gophers in the 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament as a #11 seed, and directed a Cinderella run into the Sweet 16. [39][40][41], After the details of Haskins' ever-growing involvement became more clear, the University initiated legal action to recover the buyout money. Still, after strong wins over No. George Hanson was assistant coach under both Kundla and Fitch and was head coach for the 197071 season.

[77], Multiple problems plagued the Gophers during the 19761977 season, Jim Dutcher's 2nd as head coach. [79] Nevertheless, when the NCAA discovered Thompson's act, Minnesota's record for the season was forfeited and the accomplishments of that season are considered unofficial and not included in NCAA records.[79]. He was fired on March 15, 2021 after eight seasons, and replaced the following week by former assistant coach and seasoned recruiter, Ben Johnson. NOTE: Records used are official Gophers records; these records include the 197677 season, which Minnesota protests as ineligible, This page was last edited on 20 July 2022, at 21:36. The team only played at Kenwood for a few seasons, however, as the University of Minnesota Field House later known as Williams Arena opened partway through the 19271928 season. [42][43] A judge ultimately ruled that Haskins must return just over half of the original $1.5 million buyout.[44]. Bill Fitch and Bill Musselman both coached the team for a couple seasons before departing for the NBA and ABA respectively, where each had success and coached for many years.[6]. [4] Dave MacMillan, who coached the team from 1927 to 1942 and 1945 to 1948, had the second longest tenure as coach at 18 seasons. He began his coaching career at the University of Dayton, with stops at the University of Texas-Pan American then four years as assistant coach at Northern Iowa in a pivotal program that won at least 20 games in all four years. In the 1970s, the Gophers were in a violent brawl with the Ohio State Buckeyes and were barred from post-season appearances for two seasons after an incident involving the illegal resale of tickets. The Gophers under Athletics Director Marsh Ryman hired Cal Luther away from Murray State to coach the team in 1971, but he changed his mind and turned the team down after accepting the position. The Big Ten Network today announced its 2020 non-conference television schedule for Big Ten men?s basketball, featuring over 40 games throughout the next three weeks. His successor, Harold Taylor, was Cooke's assistant coach in his final season and had previously a successful high school coach; however, he had little success with the Gophers and was fired after never finishing higher than sixth in the conference in three forgettable seasons.[18]. [29] Instead, Bill Musselman took over the program. He was an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska for a year, then worked for the Gopher program as an assistant coach and recruiter from 2013-2018. Consequently, the student section is known as The Barnyard. 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Even so, this turned out to be one of the best teams in Gopher history, with the team finishing at 243. He retired after the 19231924 season. He was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year in 1982. [71] In the Round of 32, the Gophers lost to the Michigan State Spartans 7050,[72] who would end up the champions of the East Region. Not agreeing with the University's decision to forfeit the game, Dutcher resigned as head coach, Jimmy Williams served as the interim coach the rest of the season. Hamline had one of the earliest college basketball programs in the country and it was several years before Minnesota competed on equal footing with them; they played as late as 1935. His tenure as a player began after a standout career at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis, where he led the private Catholic school to two state championships. However, the team struggled and finished with only six wins in the conference and did not qualify for any major tournament. B. Cowles, Jim Dutcher, and Clem Haskins. In total, the Gophers have won nine Big Ten championships, but only four since 1919. MacMillan's squad also competed in a tournament in 1936 to represent the United States in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; the team advanced several rounds before being ousted by DePaul. [7] Frank Lawler was another early star: he led the Big Ten in scoring in 1911 and was also named to the All-America team, and helped the Gophers to a contested conference title.[8]. One of these first three players was Lou Hudson, who played in the NBA and was the first Gopher to have his number retired by the school. [37] In the summer of 2000, Haskins came forward and admitted that he had paid Gangelhoff $3,000 for her services; this revelation came to light after Haskins turned his financial records over to the NCAA. [55][56] Smith returned Minnesota to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005 in the 200809 season. Tubby Smith became the 16th head coach in Gopher basketball history when hired in 2007; this total includes interim coaches Jim Molinari and Jimmy Williams. [73], Henry Iba Award (National Coach of the Year). In 1963, he broke the color barrier in the Minnesota program and recruited three African-American players to come to the school. In 1959, John Kundla stayed behind in Minneapolis as the Lakers prepared to leave town and succeeded O. Jamal Abu-Shamala, a Palestinian-American, played internationally for the Jordan national basketball team in 2008[11] and the Palestine national basketball team since 2011. Find the First, Second, and Third teams below. Among Thompson's teammates were former Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons and Washington Wizards head coach Flip Saunders, as well as basketball hall of fame forward Kevin McHale.

5 seed in NCAA tournament, will play Middle Tennessee in Milwaukee", "2016-17 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results", "Gophers ranked No. Haskins was also slapped with a seven-year "show-cause" order, which effectively banned him from coaching at any level in the NCAA until 2007. [69] The 20182019 season went much better for the Gophers.

In February 1897, L. J. Cooke, a director of the Minneapolis YMCA, was hired on a part-time basis to coach the basketball program, and became the full-time coach and director of physical education by the fall of that year. [57], On March 25, 2013, Smith was relieved of his coaching duties at Minnesota.[58]. [4] On March 25, 2013, Tubby Smith was fired after failing to reach the Sweet Sixteen again. [50] These trends did not reverse after he remained at the program. After his resignation, Musselman admitted to giving money to players for rent and transportation. [3], Cooke remained the coach of the Gophers for 28 seasons, and his .649 winning percentage is the second highest in school history. [10] Other former Gophers with long NBA careers include Randy Breuer, Mark Olberding, Archie Clark, Jim Petersen, and Ray Williams. The Golden Gophers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) 15 times. "[86] W.C. Hyatt, who played for Yale, claimed that "The Minnesota and Wisconsin men played in the style prevalent among most of the girl colleges in the East, that is, the 'no contact' game. All three players were ultimately acquitted of all charges. BTN announces the BTN All-Decade Team in football from 2010 to 2019. A full two-hour All-Decade Team Show will air on Saturday, June 27 (full TV schedule here). Prominent players coached by Haskins at Minnesota included Minnesota native Sam Jacobson, who went on to play for the Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, and hometown Minnesota Timberwolves, Sharp-shooter Voshon Lenard, who spent 5 seasons with the Miami Heat and won the 2004 Three-Point Contest, Quincy Lewis, who was a 3rd Team All American and played for the Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves, and Bobby Jackson who under Haskins was a Consensus All American and Big Ten Player Of The Year, before going on to play 12 seasons in the NBA, most prominently for the Sacramento Kings, where he won the 2003 Sixth Man of the Year Award, and now serves as an assistant coach. [27] George Hanson, a longtime assistant coach at the school, was hired as his replacement, but resigned after only one season.[28]. [70] In the tournament, the Gophers beat the 7 seed Louisville Cardinals in the first round 8676. During this time an NCAA investigation was also underway. Heading into the season the team knew they would not be eligible for the post season because of sanctions from the Bill Musselman era. [15] This rivalry expired especially early, and the two teams did not meet after 1901. [27] Fitch did recruit Jim Brewer before he left, laying the first seed for the 1972 Big Ten title. Full schedule here , Division I Board of Directors releases guidelines clarifying existing bylaws prohibiting boosters from recruiting, Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren highlight the 2022 NBA Draft Combine participants . That trio helped the Gophers to a third place Big Ten finish in 196364 and a second-place finish in 196465, but those were the high points for Kundla's collegiate career.

[82] Williams Arena is also one of the few remaining arenas with a raised court, in which players have to go up stairs to reach the playing surface.[83].

In 1896, the team moved into the campus Armory, a large building with gymnasium space for the team to use, even if basketball was not its primary purpose. During his final full season the Gophers were 511 in Big Ten play, and after a 25 start to open the 200607 season, Monson and Athletics Director Joel Maturi announced Monson's resignation on November 30, 2006. [24] Cowles had a .612 winning percentage at the school. On January 25, 1986, three Gopher players were arrested on rape charges in Madison, Wisconsin. That incident still lingers in the hearts of many long-time Buckeye fans. George Tuck was a dominant center, and the first All-America for the Gophers in 1905. The Eastern teams Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth were early powers played with a more physical approach, while Midwestern teams used a different method. It also withdrew from postseason consideration in the 19992000 season and docked itself 11 scholarships over four years. [19], The Field House increased attendance capacity further, to 9,500. Smith also led the Golden Gophers to the Big Ten Tournament semi-finals after defeating 2nd seeded Indiana. 15 in preseason AP men's basketball poll", "Gophers basketball: Eric Curry out for season with torn ACL, MCL and meniscus", "Gophers basketball player Reggie Lynch is done at the U, drops his appeal", "Gophers' Amir Coffey has shoulder surgery, out four to six months", "2017-18 Minnesota Golden Gophers Roster and Stats", "Louisville vs. Minnesota score: Richard Pitino leads Gophers over the school that fired his father in NCAA Tournament", "Minnesota vs. Michigan State - Game Summary - March 23, 2019 - ESPN", "Morneau says he can get ready in a hurry", "Cameron Indoor Stadium is great, but the best in the land is", "Border battle carries extra significance for Minnesota", "Forgiveness helps Witte heal after 1972 brawl", College of Education and Human Development, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, William I. So officially, the Gophers made 2 NCAA Tournament and 2 NIT appearances in the 13 years Haskins was coach. On March 22, 2021, the University of Minnesota welcomed a former player and former assistant coach Ben Johnson to helm the Men's Basketball program for its next era. The diminished reputation has not, however, prevented some superior athletes from coming to the Minneapolis campus. A Madison woman claimed the players raped her at their team hotel hours after the Gophers played the Wisconsin Badgers. Smith's team struggled throughout the 200910 season with off-court issues, but advanced to the championship game in the Big Ten Tournament for the first time in school history (losing to regular season co-champion Ohio State) and made the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season. The Golden Gophers have had many successful players come through the program throughout its history. The Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represents the University of Minnesota in NCAA Division I college basketball competition. After the arrests, U of M officials canceled the Gophers' next scheduled game, against Northwestern, citing the arrests and a series of less serious incidents prior to the arrests. The Gophers saw some moderate success in the early 1980s, appearing in the 1980, 1981, and 1983 NITs and the 1982 NCAA Tournament, where they advanced to the Sweet 16.

MacMillan's teams in 1928 began to play in the University of Minnesota Field House, a new on-campus arena. The two teams have very little history together, outside of the 1972 brawl between the teams at Williams Arena. [32] The extent of the consequences would not be known until early in Jim Dutcher's eleven season tenure as Gophers head coach. When he resigned for the second time in 1948, he was replaced by O. This time as a No. [90], Overall Record: 15331128 (.576)*Conference Championships in GOLD. Tap in for your team's chances, From @BovadaOfficial -- odds for Big Ten and SEC invites https://t.co/F5u8xfqXlg. If not for the vacated games, Haskins would be the second-winningest coach in school history.

Still more severe was the mid-1990s academic scandal under then-coach Clem Haskins that resulted in the forfeit of a Final Four appearance. Lou Hudson played 13 years in the NBA and had his number retired. [38] In addition, more details were emerging in which Haskins was also accused of mail fraud in an incident regarding a recruit's transcript, giving players cash, dismissing sexual harassment concerns against his players, as well as his staff trying to persuade professors to give his players inflated grades they had not earned. 9 Penn State, No. [31] Musselman's coaching style also brought about significant transfers away from the Minnesota program to other schools.

[64] Expectations were high coming into the 20172018 season, as they only lost one rotational player, Akeem Springs, from the year before.

Coach Smith also signed a top 25 recruiting class, the best in years for the program. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. [47] The University also agreed to return 90% (approximately $350,000) of the profits earned by the basketball program during their appearances in the NCAA tournament, including the 1997 Final Four run.[42]. [51] Despite Monson's inability to field a consistent winner, he was lauded by University officials for bringing integrity and cleanliness back to the program.

[]. [61] Coffey, along with other recruits Eric Curry and Michael Hurt,[62] were able to help lift the Gophers to a 23-8 regular season record in the 20162017 season, and a birth to the 2017 NCAA Tournament, where they attained a 5 seed[63] and lost to 12-seed Middle Tennessee State to finish with a 2410 record. [12], This roster is current for the 202122 men's basketball season.[13]. [67] Later in the season, sophomore Amir Coffey suffered a shoulder injury and ended up missing the last 12 games of the season. [15] Cooke was one of the first full-time professional coaches in all of college basketball and would remain at the program for 28 seasons. The Gophers enjoyed fairly regular post season appearances under former coach Clem Haskins, making the post season in 10 of his 13 seasons as coach (6 NCAA tournament, 4 NIT), including all of his last 8 seasons. [68] The Gophers ended the season 1517, with a 414 record in conference play and a first round loss to Rutgers in the 2018 Big Ten Tournament. Unlike many other universities with later foundations, the team did not form as a conscious act of the campus administration. Five coaches led the team for more than 10 seasons: Cooke, McMillan, O. 10 Ohio State, No. 20 Wisconsin, and No. 6 seed, the Gophers went all the way to the Elite Eight, and came within a basket of reaching their first ever Final Four. The other Big Ten coaches did not approve of Musselman's recruiting posture as they all had gathered and agreed not to recruit Ron Behagen into the Big Ten because he was known as a troublemaker. In the early years of basketball, when the Gophers had success, they recruited some of the best players in the country. John Wooden almost succeeded McMillan as Gophers head coach; Wooden claims that a dispute over retaining McMillan as an assistant coach and a delayed phone call led him to accept the job at UCLA instead. [17], After 1907, Cooke's dominance of the national basketball scene was greatly reduced. [85] Minnesota A&M dominated the Gophers, winning ten consecutive games; Minnesota did not get its first win against the Aggies until 1899. [45] Later, the Big Ten forced the Gophers to vacate their 1997 conference title, as well as all regular season games dating to 199394. But if not being post-season eligible was not punishment enough, it was later found out that Mychal Thompson had sold two complimentary tickets to Gopher home games. The establishment of the Armory on-campus gave the team a new place to play. John Kundla joined the team for the 19361937 season and helped the team to the Big Ten Championship, which was ended up being its last until 1972. The team finished fourth or better in the conference seven times in Cowles's 11 seasons as Gopher head coach. [66] During the beginning of the season, sexual assault allegations came out against senior center Reggie Lynch, which resulted in Lynch's suspension and eventual expulsion from the University of Minnesota. Among them was a rivalry with Hamline University, now a Division III school in St. Paul. John Kundla took over as Gophers head coach after the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles. [19] This significantly increased the attendance; capacity at the University Armory was 2,000, and it was 6,500 at Kenwood. The team moved in on January 31, 1928. Musselman's strategy succeeded, and the team took the Big Ten title, the first since 1937. Cooke began to improve the team significantly and was responsible for shifts in the Gophers' scheduling that foreshadowed other changes to come. Now named to helm the Gophers for the 2021-22 season, Johnson is a seasoned leader and recruiter who brings a depth of local relationships and proven abilities to the role. As a result, Minnesota's official record from 199394 to 199899 is 00. Johnson, at 40 years of age, is the 18th head coach in program history.