GOPHERS: Can Minnesota Gophers surprise in Big Ten Hoops? Koi Perich done with Gophers?
Mackey & Judd -- a Minnesota Sports Podcast
SKOR North | Hubbard Radio
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What a nice win for the Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball team this past Saturday night in Evanston against Northwestern! Is the Minnesota Gophers early season Big Ten success sustainable? Just how good of a player is Cade Tyson and can the Gophers increase their depth during the season? For the football team, Koi Perich has entered the transfer portal. If he’s not back in 2026, is it all doom and gloom?
0:45 – Minnesota Gophers are above .500 in conference play!
4:45 – Minnesota Gophers will need more depth to compete in the long run.
7:58 – How can Gophers build the program?
12:35 – How good is Cade Tyson?
19:15 – Koi Perich has entered the transfer portal. Will he be back in 2026?
24:56 – Who is coming back to the Minnesota Gophers football team?
28:45 – Let’s fix college athletics.
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| 0:00.0 | Take your seat. |
| 0:01.9 | Settle in and listen up. |
| 0:04.1 | Gophers 101 is underway and in session. |
| 0:07.5 | It's time to go to class and talk all things, gophers. |
| 0:14.9 | Gophers 101. |
| 0:18.6 | Class is in session. |
| 0:19.9 | I would be Ross Brendel. |
| 0:21.4 | Manny Hill joins me if you're watching on YouTube. |
| 0:24.6 | He's sporting what I think to be a very sick NBA jam t-shirt. |
| 0:29.9 | Who do we got in there? |
| 0:31.7 | Sean Kemp and Gary Payton. |
| 0:33.0 | Gary Payton. |
| 0:33.8 | Yeah, nice, |
| 0:34.2 | nice job. |
| 0:35.3 | Well, we'll start with basketball, Manny. |
| 0:37.3 | Why not? We'll use that as the |
| 0:38.6 | transition. Your go for men's basketball team. I'm going to be positive here. Well, |
| 0:44.8 | maybe not positive. Will this be the last time they are above 500 in conference play? I don't |
| 0:53.8 | quite know what to make of this team, Manny. I've been, |
| 0:56.5 | critical is not the right word. I just don't think the ceiling's very high. They're two and one in |
| 1:01.6 | conference play. They beat Northwestern on Saturday, 84 to 78. We'll talk about that. Really good |
| 1:08.2 | win. We'll start with that, maybe even before any of the negativity. |
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