Gophers’ Big Ten Center Battle

Minnesota Golden Gophers Basketball News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jun 26, 2026 · 1m

Minnesota’s Big Ten center gamble just got serious: seven-foot-two Malick Kordel and six-foot-eleven Chadrack Mpoyi are here to battle the league’s towering “Monsters” — teams like Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana packing paint-pushing giants. But it’s not just about size — USC and UCLA bring length, while Northwestern and Oregon offer openings for Minnesota’s traditional forwards. Coach Medved’s move turns the center spot into a strategic chessboard, where Minnesota can either match brute force or exploit matchups with versatility — and in a conference obsessed with physicality, this could be…