Weston Mitchell

Weston “Wes” Mitchell (December 8, 1890 – July 1962) was the head basketball coach for the Minnesota Golden Gophers for one lone season in 1944-45. Mitchell replaced Carl Nordly as coach after Nordly had steered the Gophers to a 17-23 record over two seasons after replacing long-time coach Dave MacMillan. McMillan came back to coach the Gophers again for the 1945-46 season.^[1] The Gophers went 8-13 during Mitchell’s one-year tenure – with a 4-8 record in the Big Ten – which placed them in a tie for sixth place.^[2] Mitchell graduated from Wisconsin-Stout in 1913. Before becoming a coach for the Gophers, Mitchell had been the head coach at Minneapolis Central,^[3] where one of his players was John Kundla — the Hall of Fame coach, who had led the Minneapolis Lakers to five NBA titles and would later be the Minnesota Gophers head coach.

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Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1895–1897)
L. J. Cooke (1897–1924)
Harold Taylor (1924–1927)
Dave MacMillan (1927–1942)
Carl Nordly (1942–1944)
Weston Mitchell (1944–1945)
Dave MacMillan (1945–1948)
Osborne Cowles (1948–1959)
John Kundla (1959–1968)
Bill Fitch (1968–1970)
George Hanson (1970–1971)
Bill Musselman (1971–1975)
Jim Dutcher (1975–1986)
Jimmy Williams # (1986)
Clem Haskins (1986–1999)
Dan Monson (1999–2006)
Jim Molinari # (2006–2007)
Tubby Smith (2007–2013)
Richard Pitino (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

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