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05/12/11 Tubby Smith is free of prostate cancer: Minnesota coach Tubby Smith says he's 'feeling great' and free of prostate cancer after dealing with the disease for the past year.
05/11/11 Tubby Smith says he's "feeling great" after undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Former Georgia Bulldogs and current Minnesota basketball head coach Tubby Smith has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but after undergoing treatments says he is "cancer-free and feeling great." Smith's released statement: Amid speculation I want to make it aware that I did in fact undergo a procedure on ...
04/20/11 MINNEAPOLIS - Tubby Smith's fourth year at Minnesota was his most disappointing, stopping his streak of 17 straight 20-win seasons and leaving the stunned and depleted Gophers out of not only the NCAA tournament but the NIT.
04/20/11 Tubby Smith's fourth year at Minnesota was his most disappointing, stopping his streak of 17 straight 20-win seasons and leaving the stunned and depleted Gophers out of not only the NCAA tournament but the NIT, as well. The streak was the longest active run among major college coaches. This was also the first time Smith missed the postseason since 1993.
03/26/11 Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi is disappointed, he said, that another basketball player, Colton Iverson, has decided to transfer. Iverson is the fifth player to leave coach Tubby Smith's program in 2 1/2 years.
03/06/11 At the risk of being too coarse, Steven Pearl is a son of a ... coach. That can sound like a term of disparagement. Just ask former Kentucky guards Sean Sutton and Saul Smith , sons of UK coaches Eddie Sutton and Tubby Smith . They endured much criticism for being perceived to have gotten their starting positions through heredity.
03/04/11 It seems like an odd time for Tubby Smith to have two recruits visiting campus.
02/23/11 Tubby Smith showed how serious his interest was in Julian Welch a day after Minnesota's 66-63 loss at Penn State last Thursday when the Gophers coach flew to California to watch him play in a game at Yuba College in Marysville, about 40 miles north of Sacramento.
02/23/11 Tubby Smith got Minnesota off to a strong start, but the Gophers have faded onto the NCAA tournament bubble.
02/22/11 Minnesota's Tubby Smith and Michigan State's Tom Izzo were there for each other last month after experiencing similar off-court adversity with their respective programs.
02/15/11 Andre Hollins had to laugh when University of Minnesota basketball coach Tubby Smith told him recently, "We need you now," the Gophers' top recruit said.
02/15/11 After Sunday's 17-point win over Iowa snapped a four-game losing streak, Gophers coach Tubby Smith was asked what it felt like to have 17 wins a month before the NCAA tournament's Selection Sunday.
02/14/11 By dominating on the road at Iowa, Tubby Smith showed he still knows something about coaching.
02/12/11 Tubby Smith challenged his team with pointed comments following a fourth consecutive loss. Against the Hawkeyes, he will see if the motivation works.
02/12/11 Tubby Smith has seen enough. Mired in the first four-game losing streak of his four-year tenure as coach at Minnesota, Smith lashed out at his struggling team after a 71-62 home loss to Illinois on Thursday night. Few were spared in the postgame rant that criticized Blake Hoffarber, Rodney Williams, Colton Iverson, Chip Armelin individually and the overall mentality of his entire team.
02/08/11 MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota coach Tubby Smith says he expects point guard Blake Hoffarber's sore left knee to be fine for the Golden Gophers' game against Illinois on Thursday.
02/07/11 Jared Sullinger and still-unbeaten Ohio State didn't back down or let up. Another unflappable performance by the 6-9, 280-pound freshman left Minnesota coach Tubby Smith wondering what happened to his big men - and planning more time for his team in the weight room.
02/07/11 Another unflappable performance by Sullinger, a 6-foot-9, 280-pound freshman, left Minnesota coach Tubby Smith wondering what happened to his big men.
01/10/11 COLUMBUS -- Neither Minnesota coach Tubby Smith nor Ohio State's Thad Matta was happy with the officiating.
12/28/10 RECAP: Minnesota entered its Big Ten opener in Madison, Wis., with its highest ranking (No. 14 in the Associated Press poll) under coach Tubby Smith. The Badgers led for most of the game, but the Gophers used a 24-13 run to take a 54-53 lead on Trevor Mbakwe's dunk with 6:57 left. But the Badgers outscored Minnesota 15-6 to end the game, including eight points by Jordan Taylor.
12/22/10 Minnesota coach Tubby Smith expects to have point guard Al Nolen back for the 17th-ranked Gophers' next game. | 
