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.

References

  1. ^ "Former Golden Gopher Men's Basketball Coaches". GophersSports.com.
  2. ^ http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=39209&SPID=3302&DB_OEM_ID=8400&ATCLID=1432293[dead link]
  3. ^ Hugunin, Marc; Thornley, Stew (2006-01-01). Minnesota Hoops: Basketball in the North Star State. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 9780873515740.
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