The new job at Minnesota is all-consuming for Niko Medved like any major college basketball coach, with his mission to lift a long-languishing program back into the upper level of the Big Ten at a time of unprecedented transformation in the sport leaving little time for reflection.

Every once in a while, though, he'll see a familiar face from the past, walk past a certain place on campus, or roam through the cramped subterranean corridors at Williams Arena and find himself flashing back to a brief time when the Gophers were the hottest ticket in town and The Barn, as the 97-year-old building has long been called, was as tough of a place to play for opponents as anywhere in the conference.

Medved would know, of course, because he was a part of it.

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