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		<title>Royce is back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[College Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gophers Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden Gopher Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodney Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royce White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Barn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trevor Mbakew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tubby Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Golden Gophers basketball team has been on a roller coaster to say the least.  They landed two of Minnesota&#8217;s biggest studs in the last ten years this past summer in Royce White &#38; Rodney Williams.  Add in that Trevor Mbakwe was also transferring back to Minnesota and Tubby Smith was going to have a pretty good club this season.  Then late summer-early fall the wheels started to fall off.  White and Mbakwe had legal troubles and were both suspended from the team indefinitely.  The Gophers aren&#8217;t strong on the low-blocks they have more lean athletic players then big bruisers so losing White and Mbakwe took away that physical presence. Early in the season the Gophers struggled to find themselves and to create a true identity.  As of late they have struggled with playing down to their competition.  Against Indiana we mucked it up and didn&#8217;t play the clean defensive game that has become a Tubby Smith staple no matter where he is coaching.  That loss to Indiana means the Gophers have to knock off a team remaining on their schedule that they aren&#8217;t supposed to beat because Indiana should have been an easy win, that is if they want to make the [...]]]></description>
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