Minnesota has hired Colorado State’s Niko Medved as its next coach. The native of the Twin Cities area and former student manager for the Gophers had the Rams within one basket of the Sweet 16.

Colorado State Rams men's basketball fell to the Maryland Terrapins in the second round of the NCAA Tournament Sunday. Maryland claimed victory in the dying seconds of the second half 72-71.

The Gophers’ effort to bring in Medved has been a bit complicated by geography. While Colorado State was playing in Seattle, Gophers athletic director Mark Coyle was in Milwaukee on Sunday, sitting courtside at Fiserv Forum preoccupied with his role on the NCAA selection committee and the Illinois-Kentucky, Iowa State-Mississippi games.