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Smith and Minnesota an unlikely pairing

By Jeff Shelman
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS -- Two weeks before college basketball practice began, Tubby Smith stepped out of a golf cart at the private Windsong Farm Golf Club in suburban Minneapolis. As Smith walked onto the tee on this blustery morning, it was impossible to miss the gigantic "M" that seemed to take up every possible inch of real estate on the front of his maroon pullover. Even now, nearly eight months after he left Kentucky for the University of Minnesota, the sight of Smith in som ...

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