college basketball

The St. Cloud State University men's basketball team came up short in their first game of the season against Ouachita Baptist University on Friday.

The Gophers will host Oklahoma Saturday night at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

The St. Cloud State men's basketball team has been practicing for the past few weeks. I talked with the head coach Matt Reimer on WJON this week. The Huskies have players from 7 different countries and 4 different states.

Former St. Cloud State assistant men's basketball coach Mahmoud Abdelfattah has been promoted to head coach of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the G-League affiliate of the NBA's Houston Rockets.

The Gopher men's basketball team has added a 6'3 3-star point guard to the 2019 recruiting class. Bryan Greenlee from The Rock School in Gainsville, Florida has joined Richard Pitino's class.

The Gopher basketball team defeated Penn State in overtime in the 2nd round of the Big Ten Tournament last night. The win may have cemented their place as an at-large team in the NCAA Tournament. The Star Tribune's Lavelle E Neal III joined me on WJON today.

Theisen is currently sporting a 3.95 GPA as an accounting major at St. Cloud State. On the court, the senior is averaging 15.8 points per game and recently set records for career games played (125) and three-pointers made in a season (112).

The St. Cloud State University men's basketball team has earned a bid in the NCAA Division II basketball tournament for a second straight season. The selection show was late Sunday night.

The Gophers will wrap up the regular season at Maryland Friday night. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. The game can be heard on AM 1390, Granite City Sports.

The senior is averaging 15.4 points per game this season for SCSU while also connecting on 51% of his three-point attempts. Perhaps more impressively, Thiesen boasts a 3.95 GPA and is just a half-semester away from graduating.