![The University of Minnesota men's basketball team was selected for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Sunday afternoon. After learning they would face sixth seeded UCLA in their first tournament appearance since 2010, Head Coach Tubby Smith and players Austin Hollins and Rodney Williams, Jr. attended a news conference at Williams Arena Sunday evening, March 17, 2013. Head Coach Tubby Smith answered a question during the news conference. ] JEFF WHEELER • jef](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/QVZCJA55SYC7UMXSWDQOZVVJAY.jpg?&w=1080)
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A decade ago, nobody would have predicted Gophers basketball fans would be debating over which coach — Flip or Shaka — they would want to replace Tubby.
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"The Gophers got this one right. Tubby Smith no longer has the intensity to coach a Division I program. You can only use the same old excuses for so long before they become tiresome."
— E-mail from reader Pat.
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