Gophers employ Medved as guys’s basketball coach

• Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Author Basketball recruiting expert. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware.Mar 24, 2025, 12:00 PM ET Minnesota has revealed the hiring of Colorado

• State’s Niko Medved as its next males’s head basketball coach.Medved’s season

ended Sunday night with Colorado State losing 72-71 at the buzzer to 4-seed Maryland in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Rams had actually won 11 straight games, including a Mountain West conference competition champion and a success over 5-seed Memphis in the first round of the NCAA tournament.This will mark a return home for Medved, a Minneapolis local who participated in the University of Minnesota and spent a year with the Gophers as an assistant coach in 2006-07

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1 Associated In 3 of the previous four seasons, Medved has led Colorado State to the NCAA competition, winning a game in each of the previous two. The Rams went 25-6 in 2021-22, making a 6-seed

in the NCAA tournament but losing to Michigan in the first round.Last season, Colorado State earned a First 4 berth, where it blew out Virginia 67-42 before losing to Texas.In 7 seasons with the Rams, Medved went 143-85. Before taking control of in Fort Collins, he

invested one season at Drake and 4 seasons at Furman. He won a share of the Southern Conference regular-season title

in 2017 with the Paladins.At Minnesota, Medved changes Ben Johnson, who was release previously this month after 4 seasons with the Gophers. Johnson went 56-71 during his time at the helm.The Gophers haven’t been to the NCAA tournament considering that 2019 under Richard Pitino and

haven’t advanced past the first weekend of the competition because Clem Haskins led them to a Final Four in 1997.