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Monday, June 9, 2025

June 09, 2025

Happy Monday! It’s the second week of me doing this whole newsletter thing. I am slowly figuring out this whole writing a blurb thing. But hopefully you all are realizing that I will always end with a request to read the articles we publish, even if I don’t say much else.

I’ll work on saying a bit more, if you keep reading our articles. Deal?

Stay golden,

Alexis Letang | Editor-in-Chief | [email protected]

Top Story

The Gophers finished last season 15-17. — Pooja Singh

Four assistant coaches added to the Gophers men’s basketball team for the 2025-2026 season

by Regan Guirguis | Published June 8, 2025

Gophers men’s basketball coach Niko Medved will have five assistant coaches going into the 2025-2026 season.

In early April, Medved announced three new assistant coaches. The first being Brian Cooley, who coached with Medved for four years at Colorado State from 2021 to 2025.

He helped the Rams get to three NCAA tournament berths.

Before coaching at Colorado, Cooley spent six years at Wright State, where he spent the last four years as an associate head coach. Cooley brought the program to an overall record of 109-49, three conference championships and an NCAA tournament in 2018.

He also spent nine seasons at South Dakota State University and went to the NCAA tournament three times.

Cooley was just the first added to Medved’s staff, Armon Gates will also be seen on the sidelines during the 2025-2026 season. Gates has coached for a total of 14 seasons in his career so far.

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