This morning's Strib contains an obit for former gopher hoopster and asst. coach Glen Reed. Glen was also an asst. baseball coach and asst. A.D. Those of us...
As assistant basketball coach and assistant AD Glen Reed was part of the braintrust that made the momentous decision for the Gopher basketball team to recruit...
Hey guys-- I'm out of town right now, so I don't have access to all my notes, but where was Jim Brewer from? Thanks. Stew (I'll be watching election results...
Chicago area. Mayfield? ... From: stewthornley [mailto:stew@...] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:46 PM To: mnbuckets@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
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Nov 2, 2004 8:52 pm
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Stew and Alan, Yes Brewer was from the Chicago area but I don't know any of the details. He was recruited by Bill Fitch, BTW, and was rumored to be unhappy and...
Winfield was recruited out of the intramural league, but because he was a good basketball player, not because they were shorthanded. He was on the team the...
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Nov 2, 2004 9:29 pm
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BasketballReference.com lists Jim Brewer as being from Proviso East HS, Maywood, Illinois...
PS. Alan is right, Winfield was on the team from the beginning of the 1971-72 season. This is why we do historical RESEARCH, right Stew, rather than rely on...
As I'm writing about the Gophers in the 1960s and 1970s, I'm using many of my notes from when I collaborated with Ray Christensen on his autobiography. I'm...
I sure can't think of any players from the 71 tournament (which I remember well, since it was the year I graduated from high school) receiving scholarships...
Como Pontliana went to Colorado State where, according to a HS friend of mine who attended CSU in 1973-74, Como set the school record for fouls in a season or...
... it's 1970, ... although I seem ... school and ... transferred out. ... enough to try ... brainstorming. ... It was 1970 that Hanson took over. Does...
I'm pretty sure Mulso and McCarron both started at the U. Did Stan Krebs too? Dunno. ... From: stewthornley [mailto:stew@...] Sent: Wednesday,...
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Nov 10, 2004 4:52 pm
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... thought the ... Saunders ... know why ... This was reported by the Minneapolis Tribune in the March 1976 story about the Minnesota basketball team being...
... Oops. Yeah, thanks for catching that. That was my typo, not the newspaper's, which was the Minnesota Daily (not the Tribune, as I had stated in my post)....
In a couple of the earlier posts on this forum, we talked of the NCAA violations of the 1970s that, among other things, caused the Gophers' tournament...
... To me, that's the bag the U is in--not one, not two, not three, but four major scandals in 30 years says so--but nobody talks about. ... Stew, Great work,...
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I don't know if the Gophers as a whole have been a problem child, but I agree that the basketball program has. Musselman and Haskins were slimy cheats, and it...
Holst, Alan R
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Nov 22, 2004 2:31 pm
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You left HOSEA CRITTENDON off the list. I just couldn't resist that one. Hosea played in high school at Rosemount where my kids went. We admired the kid for...
I would be happy to add him to the list if you tell me which guy he should replace as one of the 20 best black basketball players Minnesota has produced in the...
Holst, Alan R
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Nov 22, 2004 4:09 pm
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My comment was made in jest. He was an overachieving kid with the Gophers. Very good list you have. Brings back a lot of memories as I have been following MN...
Yes, Downing played four years at Nebraska. I was out of the country at the time, but I think you're right that George was not considered a D-1 recruit coming...
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Nov 22, 2004 5:37 pm
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Anyone know the evolution of how many fouls were needed to foul out in college? Regarding the Minnesota-Northwestern game of March 1, 1937, there are some...
In the early days I don't think there was any limit and I've seen a couple of references to players picking up 10-15 fouls. I don't know when they put in the...
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I agree, both with including the women and the interesting aspect of the rule changes. The old time rules sound good to me. Anything to cut down on the last...
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