The final piece to this all-time Minnesota basketball starting lineup is simple. Kevin McHale was able to step right into the frontcourt for the Gophers, as Thompson was on his way out.

Widely considered Minnesota basketball’s best ever, Kevin McHale in 1980 earned first team All-Big Ten honors as a forward and led the Golden Gophers to the NIT finals. MVP of the 1979 and 1980 ...

McHale was a hometown player for the Golden Gophers, growing up in Hibbing, MN. He won Minnesota Mr. Basketball in 1976 before attending the University of Minnesota. McHale played 112 games in ...

A pioneering sixth man, Kevin McHale won ... four-year career at Minnesota. As a senior in 1979-80 he averaged 17.4 points and shot .567 from the floor, leading the Gophers to the NIT Championship ...

Ultimately, Minnesota does not typically sign players of Blade's caliber, but it's fun to speculate whether or not he was named after Gophers basketball great Kevin McHale. If the Gophers staff is ...

Thompson, Kevin McHale, Phil “Flip” Saunders ... he acknowledged that possibly the best team in the nation was Minnesota, not Marquette. The Gophers beat Marquette 66-59 in Milwaukee early in the ...

Editor’s note: This article appeared shortly before Kevin McHale — now Minnesota Timberwolves Vice President — finished his four-year career with the Gophers. In 1995, he was voted Minnesota’s player ...

The former Gophers basketball great will be replaced by assistant coach Kelvin Sampson in the interim. McHale ... 2011. "Kevin is a devoted family man who is needed back home in Minnesota at ...

Kevin McHale first met Flip Saunders during his recruiting trip to the University of Minnesota in the spring ... players that included Saunders, then a Gophers junior. They fished near Owatonna ...

Throughout Kevin McHale's career, he has gone many places and met people ... He takes pride in his days as a Gopher and what Minnesota has given him throughout his life and he wants to give back. "I ...