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John Cunningham, deputy athletics director for the University of Minnesota, provided “a little bit of a state of the union” on Golden Gophers sports at Monday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Owatonna and told fans, supporters, and alumni the program needs their “advocacy, leadership, and investment.”
Mark Coyle, Minnesota’s AD, was actually scheduled to address the Rotary Club, and he “wanted to be here,” but he was in Connecticut Sunday night to watch the Gopher’s women’s hockey team fall in the national championship to the Wisconsin Badgers, so Cunningham appeared in his stead, Cunningham explained. Owatonna “is a staple of our Gopher road trips,” and it “means a lot to us to be in this area.”
Cunningham also just finished a busy travel season, as he’s the sport administrator for Minnesota’s men’s basketball team, which concluded its season Saturday in Des Moines with a second-round loss in the NCAA Tournament to Michigan State after beating Louisville in the opening round Thursday, when the Gophers “probably played their best game of the year,” Cunningham said. This season was “definitely a step forward” for Gophers men’s basketball.
Of the 350-plus teams playing Division I men’s basketball, only 68 reach the zenith of “March Madness,” and only 32 make it past the first round. Richard Pitino, Minnesota’s 36-year-old head coach, is “still young and growing,” but “we know he can recruit,” and “guys love playing for him.”
Though the Big Ten schedule is a grind — the conference placed eight of its 14 teams in the NCAA Tournament this month — the Gophers will continue to challenge themselves in non-conference games, as well. Pitino “wants to play a tough non-conference schedule, because that’s how you get into the NCAA Tournament,” Cunningham said
http://www.southernminn.com/owatonn...cle_40117c66-749a-5fd9-aee1-56244dc55f56.html
Go Gophers!!
John Cunningham, deputy athletics director for the University of Minnesota, provided “a little bit of a state of the union” on Golden Gophers sports at Monday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Owatonna and told fans, supporters, and alumni the program needs their “advocacy, leadership, and investment.”
Mark Coyle, Minnesota’s AD, was actually scheduled to address the Rotary Club, and he “wanted to be here,” but he was in Connecticut Sunday night to watch the Gopher’s women’s hockey team fall in the national championship to the Wisconsin Badgers, so Cunningham appeared in his stead, Cunningham explained. Owatonna “is a staple of our Gopher road trips,” and it “means a lot to us to be in this area.”
Cunningham also just finished a busy travel season, as he’s the sport administrator for Minnesota’s men’s basketball team, which concluded its season Saturday in Des Moines with a second-round loss in the NCAA Tournament to Michigan State after beating Louisville in the opening round Thursday, when the Gophers “probably played their best game of the year,” Cunningham said. This season was “definitely a step forward” for Gophers men’s basketball.
Of the 350-plus teams playing Division I men’s basketball, only 68 reach the zenith of “March Madness,” and only 32 make it past the first round. Richard Pitino, Minnesota’s 36-year-old head coach, is “still young and growing,” but “we know he can recruit,” and “guys love playing for him.”
Though the Big Ten schedule is a grind — the conference placed eight of its 14 teams in the NCAA Tournament this month — the Gophers will continue to challenge themselves in non-conference games, as well. Pitino “wants to play a tough non-conference schedule, because that’s how you get into the NCAA Tournament,” Cunningham said
http://www.southernminn.com/owatonn...cle_40117c66-749a-5fd9-aee1-56244dc55f56.html
Go Gophers!!
