The obvious off the court story line for the Gopher’s opening round game against Louisville is the connection of Richard Pitino to Louisville where he once coached as an assistant for his father, who was let go in the offseason.
But how many of you remember that the Gophers faced Chris Mack’s Xavier team back in 2010? It was Mack’s first season as the Musketeer’s coach when he lead Xavier to the Sweet 16 as a 6-seed.
But leading up to that game it was the Star Tribune’s Jim Souhan who took offense that Tubby Smith had the audacity to state that Xavier was actually pretty good and there’s a reason that they were the favored seed.