Cade Tyson scored career-high 38 points and tied a Gophers single-game record with eight three-pointers to lead the Gophers men’s basketball team to a 89-53 victory over Texas Southern on Sunday at Williams Arena.
But Tyson’s offensive outburst isn’t what Gophers coach Niko Medved will remember from the game.
“I’ll remember the 11 rebounds,” Medved told KFAN radio after the game. “He was in there battling, his lip was bloody.”
Tyson’s point total is the eighth-most in program history and was the most by a Gophers player since Jamison Battle scored 39 in an 84-73 home loss to Maryland on March 2, 2022. Tyson, the 6-foot-7 transfer from North Carolina who was 8-of-12 from three-point range, is one of six Gophers with eight three-pointers. The previous one was Payton Willis in a 68-65 home victory over Rutgers on Jan. 22, 2022.
Medved also liked another area of the Gophers’ offensive production — the Gophers had assists on 27 of their 28 field goals.
“From Day 1, we’ve preached ball movement. We’re not a team built to play one-on-one,” Medved told KFAN. “They came out in a zone and we kept moving and cutting and getting in the lane and finding open teammates.”
The Gophers shot 49% (28-of-57) from the floor and 44% from three-point range (15-of-34) as they improved to 6-0 at Williams Arena.
“We’re an unselfish team,” Tyson told KFAN. “We love to see others score. We keep the ball moving and we play better when we play like this.”
