"Beyond grateful""You got a good one, @GopherWBB! Congrats @Lindsay_13!""Lindsay Whalen is the closest thing to Daenares Targaryen we will ever see IRL.""HUGE get for the Gophers WBB team! It'll be VERY interesting to see how Lindsay Whalen handles being a professional athlete, full-time, as well as a full-time D1 Power 5 coach.""Officially the greatest Gopher in my lifetime! Excited for the Whalen era #SkiUMah.""Welcome home, Coach Whalen! @Lindsay_13 @GopherWBB""LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!! This is amazing!!! Can I be the water girl?? 路♀️ Congrats @Lindsay_13 !!!!""Lindsay Whalen is, in fact, a superhero."
The Gophers' hiring of Lindsay Whalen sparked all kinds of excitement on Twitter. The tweet from @GopherSports that announced the hiring had over 5,000 likes and 1,500 retweets in four hours. A sampling of some other tweets:
Gophers point guard Kenisha Bell (@HazelEyed_h00pa)
@Vikings
@Libraryben
@dukeanyanwu
@Mr_Logelin
U president: @PrezKaler
Former Gophers star: @rachelbanham_1
@ExtraPaleMalew
With an investigation ongoing and the girls team's season over, Kurt Weber steps in to try to lead the boys team back to the state tournament.
