I think Medved is a better coach as well. I know Minnesota didn't set the world on fire, but he did pretty darn well with the resources he had.And imagine that , he did it in year one. Go figure. At Iowa of all places
Imo, IU got the runt of the Drake litter.
I have been saying all year Medved is a great coach. He literally played most of the year with six or seven healthy players and they do not have good NIL either. Yet he only finished one game worse than DD in conference. If we had that many guys out the excuse train would be off the charts. If medved has a healthy roster next year I would not at all be surprised to see him make the tourney.
As of early March 2026, the Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball team has been ravaged by injuries, leaving them with a six to seven-player rotation.
Key Players Injured (Season-Ending or Out Indefinitely):
- Jaylen Crocker-Johnson: Forward/Center out indefinitely and expected to miss the remainder of the season following a foot injury.
- Robert Vaihola: Starting center suffered a season-ending knee injury in November 2025.
- Chansey Willis Jr.: Starting point guard suffered a season-ending foot injury in November 2025.
- B.J. Omot: Backup forward/wing unavailable all season due to a leg injury/surgery.
- Chance Stephens: Reserve wing away from the team all season with a medical issue.
- Nehemiah Turner: Out since January 2026
I think Medved has proven to be a good coach at Colorado State. Minnesota will be very difficult to play against while he is there. But I'm not sure that there's anything in his resume that suggests he's going to perform wildly well at Minnesota. He's never won a regular season championship. He's usually had a really good records though. They won't be a team to take lightly.
That said, getting blown out by 30 by us and then losing to Rutgers were kind of head scratchers.
Takes two to tango. I've been told he didn't have any interest in the job and was set on taking over Iowa.
I wanted him above everyone else, but we've got a coach for the next couple years at least.
Exactly, that is what I heard also.
Count me as one from the last forum who was skeptical about BM being able to transition to the big stage. I argued that even tho CDD only had one year at D1, he was a better prospect than BM bc he had that one year. They also were making waves at WV before the injuries. For whatever reason, CDD wasn't able to duplicate that here. Jury still out on BM but early returns are favoring him over CDD.
I think Medved is a better coach as well. I know Minnesota didn't set the world on fire, but he did pretty darn well with the resources he had.And imagine that , he did it in year one. Go figure. At Iowa of all places
Imo, IU got the runt of the Drake litter.
I have been saying all year Medved is a great coach. He literally played most of the year with six or seven healthy players and they do not have good NIL either. Yet he only finished one game worse than DD in conference. If we had that many guys out the excuse train would be off the charts. If medved has a healthy roster next year I would not at all be surprised to see him make the tourney.
As of early March 2026, the Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball team has been ravaged by injuries, leaving them with a six to seven-player rotation.
Key Players Injured (Season-Ending or Out Indefinitely):
- Jaylen Crocker-Johnson: Forward/Center out indefinitely and expected to miss the remainder of the season following a foot injury.
- Robert Vaihola: Starting center suffered a season-ending knee injury in November 2025.
- Chansey Willis Jr.: Starting point guard suffered a season-ending foot injury in November 2025.
- B.J. Omot: Backup forward/wing unavailable all season due to a leg injury/surgery.
- Chance Stephens: Reserve wing away from the team all season with a medical issue.
- Nehemiah Turner: Out since January 2026
I think Medved has proven to be a good coach at Colorado State. Minnesota will be very difficult to play against while he is there. But I'm not sure that there's anything in his resume that suggests he's going to perform wildly well at Minnesota. He's never won a regular season championship. He's usually had a really good records though. They won't be a team to take lightly.
That said, getting blown out by 30 by us and then losing to Rutgers were kind of head scratchers.
I believe he was down to six of seven bodies so it is not super surprising. Looks like three of his starters were hurt all season. I am not saying he will win the league but if he is healthy my guess is they got a good shot at making the tourney next year.
Dolson fell in like with DD during Drake's 2023 5/12 matchup with Miami (IU's 2nd Round opponent), then fell in love with him in the Bahamas. The Herald-Times article I quoted a few days ago essentially said as much.
I won't even pretend to know who was actually considered/interviewed, but I would guess it was DD all along.
https://twitter.com/rygi13/status/2035894359854358786?s=61&t=1KiTJ7EYgX-uQgf4Wkb9sg
Ouch
Let’s not forget the difficulty in getting a staff together. Just seems like maybe Dolson thinks a lot more of DD than people that really know him…
My buddy’s friend knows Brownell and told him he turned down the IU job last year. I think a lot more people don’t want to coach here than we think. Kind of like players. We just get the ones that are all about money.
@cavanagh Just to clarify, Brownell turned down the job or McCollum? If it’s Brownell, I can’t believe we even offered it to him…
Well, not my buddy, but why did the word supposedly from Brownell change? The word last spring was Brownell withdrew his name from consideration. Somebody quoted him as saying he felt he wasnt our first guy. But maybe that guys source was not close.
Others said the a similar thing about McCollum. Interviewed or talked but Dolson didnt want to wait until they were done playing. Which if true is amazing. Had to have that great extra week of off-season/portal so that this past year would be a great one...
The truth is, not doubting friends of Brownell, but Scott had laser sights on one coach, with two or three others as possibles.
Todd Golden may have cost his team a S16 by messing up the full court defense on that last play. But he won a National Title last year so Im sure he has plenty of room for error.
But winning out of the gate is not necessarily a predictor of long term success (says Steve Fisher of UM or Mike Davis of IU).
On the other hand, many of us on the old board couldn't manage to convince people that Dusty May was a good hire for Indiana. That ship has certainly sailed.
McCollum has done something few have at Iowa, but he hasn't done it convincingly. Iowa was about one loss away from being a bubble team.
DeVries gets his couple years. That's about all there is to say. If he can get things looking positive by this time next year, he may last a while.
I sure hope the story about IU (Dolson) being sold on DeVries from the results of a couple games played by WVU in the Bahamas are false. Not very smart to hire a head college basketball coach based on such a small sample of play. As we know you can't put it past Indiana as they have been making stupid decisions on the basketball program for many years.Im sure thats the story... From the Indiana side.
Dolson just didnt have the charisma to bring it home.
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The story from the Indiana side is that they knew they wanted CDD from the moment they saw WVU in the Bahamas.
McCollum is from Iowa. Wife is an Iowa grad. Grew up an Iowa fan. He wasn't going to come here from the moment the McCaffrey seat got hot in Iowa City.
The story was always he was first impressed by Drake losing to Miami in the tournament.
Then other meetings such as at the Bahamas later.
I get the Bahamas thing. He was comparing Mike Woodsons organization and detail to DeVries. Never been to a Woodson practice but dont doubt that helped DeVries look good.
@gros-louis I don't know that they didn't. I think a bigger part of it was they locked in on DeVries early enough, that McCollum probably never felt prioritized. The rest is probably more perception, than anything. DeVries didn't bring much of any staff with him, but Frazier was never coming, so that's a big part of that.
when you approach hiring that way ... you had better be right ... not canvassing all possible candidates with an open mind... life by the sword die by it
Count me as one from the last forum who was skeptical about BM being able to transition to the big stage. I argued that even tho CDD only had one year at D1, he was a better prospect than BM bc he had that one year. They also were making waves at WV before the injuries. For whatever reason, CDD wasn't able to duplicate that here. Jury still out on BM but early returns are favoring him over CDD.
I was ho-hum on him. He wasn't on the top of my list. But I would have spoken to him. And it definitely seems at this point he's the better of the two Drake coaches in question here
@hoosiers94 Yeah, IDK what happened with CDD this year. He had a much better year with WVU and maybe a better roster this year at IU, albeit still a flawed one. I wasn't all that fired up about the hire, but I don't think I would have been doing jumping jacks over a BM hire either. Neither would have been hires that really shook the sporting world, which we all think IU deserves.