Ralph Sampson III has just one more regular season game as a Golden Gopher. Much has been said and written about his underwhelming senior season and Chip Scoggins is profiling Ralph in today's STrib.
Sampson scored his 1,000th career point Tuesday in a loss at Wisconsin. He is only the fifth player in program history to reach 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 150 blocks. He joined Kevin McHale, Randy Breuer, Mychal Thompson and Michael Bauer in that group.
Yet despite starting 113 games, Sampson's overall impact on the program has been minimal, to the point that he gradually was becoming mostly a bystander until his re-emergence against Michigan State last week.
His career numbers are not terrible but the book on Ralph is that when he has been needed most he disappeared and his career progression was more of a regression than anything else.
- Jon over at Corn Nation received a rebuttal from Purdue baseball coach, Doug Schreiber over his previous post about Big Ten baseball scheduling. Interesting read if you are at all interested in Big Ten baseball.
- The Star Trib points out that it is tough for women to become ADs. (reminder that you only get 15 STrib articles per month, I'm not suggesting this one is the best use of a click)
- VOTE FOR WALLY. Ellenson that is. You can vote for the incoming Gopher recruit as your favorite dunk of the year.
- Lastly, I'll leave you with this. Top 10 reasons to go watch Gopher baseball in the DQ Classic this weekend at the Dome. I know you all miss baseball under the Teflon.