Gophers basketball: Malik Smith getting it together at Minnesota

"Richard Pitino wasn't surprised by Malik Smith's fearlessness.

The first-year University of Minnesota basketball coach wasn't surprised his senior guard lit up Michigan State in the first half in front of 15,000 raving fans in East Lansing, Mich., on Jan. 15."

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_25031979/getting-it-together

Glad to see this story done; Pitino has been telling media often in the last two weeks that most people don't know Malik's story.

Here's LNH's article from September on Smith. Interesting to read the projections of his game prior to the start of practice...