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Exhibition: Victoria Vikes to play NCAA's Minnesota Golden Gophers
VICTORIA - The tradition of NCAA
opponents playing north of the border will resume in 2010 as the
UVic Vikes men's basketball team welcomes the Minnesota Golden
Gophers for a September exhibition.
Minnesota will play the Vikes as part of a three-game swing through the Pacific Northwest. The Big Ten school will play at UVic's McKinnon Gym on Sunday, September 5 at 3 p.m.
The Gophers have made back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances under head coach Tubby Smith, who won a national title with Kentucky in 1998 and an Olympic gold medal in 2000. This past year, after a 21-14 regular season, Minnesota lost in the first round versus Xavier.
Minnesota's lineup features notable Canadian talent on the roster with Pickering's Devoe Joseph and Scarborough's Maurice Walker. Both alumni of Canada's junior national team, Joseph will enter his junior year with the Gophers, while Walker was one of Minnesota's prized off-season recruits.
Since NCAA teams began making their Canadian Labor Day pilgrimages in 2003-04, the Vikes have hosted exhibition games against the Creighton Blue Jays, Oral Roberts Golden Eagles, Marquette Golden Eagles, UC-Santa Barbara Gauchos, and Pacific Tigers.
Ticket information will be forthcoming at www.govikesgo.com.
Minnesota will play the Vikes as part of a three-game swing through the Pacific Northwest. The Big Ten school will play at UVic's McKinnon Gym on Sunday, September 5 at 3 p.m.
The Gophers have made back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances under head coach Tubby Smith, who won a national title with Kentucky in 1998 and an Olympic gold medal in 2000. This past year, after a 21-14 regular season, Minnesota lost in the first round versus Xavier.
Minnesota's lineup features notable Canadian talent on the roster with Pickering's Devoe Joseph and Scarborough's Maurice Walker. Both alumni of Canada's junior national team, Joseph will enter his junior year with the Gophers, while Walker was one of Minnesota's prized off-season recruits.
Since NCAA teams began making their Canadian Labor Day pilgrimages in 2003-04, the Vikes have hosted exhibition games against the Creighton Blue Jays, Oral Roberts Golden Eagles, Marquette Golden Eagles, UC-Santa Barbara Gauchos, and Pacific Tigers.
Ticket information will be forthcoming at www.govikesgo.com.
Source:
Victoria Sports Info
