Welcome to our 2017 season recaps for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Unfortunately, Minnesota’s first round exit means that this series has been moved up ahead of its expected plan to be run in mid April. We are going to look at each position group starting at point guard.
Point guard depth was nonexistent, a result of the off-season transfer of Kevin Dorsey and Jarvis Johnson not being cleared to play. Dupree McBrayer saw minutes to spell Mason, but calling him a point guard would be a stretch.
At the beginning of the season there were expectations that Nate Mason would make a jump from his sophomore to junior season, but they were tempered by his end of year suspension.