...when Minnesota hosted Northwestern. He became one of only six Gophers to have their jerseys retired (Jim Brewer, Mychal Thompson, Kevin McHale, Lou Hudson and Trent Tucker are the others). Whitey Skoog (inset), one of the pioneers of the...

...team went 11-0 en route to a 24-3 season. The Gophers starters that season included three future NBA players -- Mychal Thompson, Kevin McHale and Ray Williams -- plus Osborne Lockhart (who played with the Harlem Globetrotters) and Flip Saunders...

...Stacey Augmon, Jermaine O'Neal, Gary Grant, Joe Kleine and Antonio Harvey -- spoke at the service. Former Blazer Mychal Thompson, who played one season for Musselman at the University of Minnesota in 1974-75, said Musselman was hard-nosed...

...buzz saw of younger legs and greater power. But Sampras got all the way to the final before seeing that. (Although Mychal Thompson, the NBA's No. 1 pick in 1978, was quoted in Sunday's New York Times saying: "Michael has to realize it's...