Today they are known as “the team that never was” because all its games were later forfeited when Mychal Thompson and David Winey ... possibly the best team in the nation was Minnesota, not Marquette.

Compare that to former NFL runningback and Gophers alumni Laurence Maroney, who averaged 4.1 yards per attempt in his last 7 games ever at Minnesota. Not to be slighted, Leidner and Thompson are two ...

Few Big Ten men’s basketball programs have a deeper history of frontcourt talent than the Gophers, who were led in the 1970s and 1980s by legends such as Mychal Thompson, Kevin McHale and Randy ...