MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -Former Minnesota basketball coach Clem Haskins made his first appearance at Williams Arena since resigning after a massive academic fraud scandal in 1999.
It appears all has been forgotten.
Haskins was in attendance Tuesday night for a celebration of the 1989-90 team he led to the NCAA tournament regional finals. The crowd gave him a thunderous standing ovation after his name was announced.
Haskins’ former players pulled him from the stands onto the court and surrounded him with a group hug as the ovation continued.
Haskins coached the Gophers for 13 seasons, leading them to the Final Four in 1997. That run was wiped from the record books after the Gophers were implicated in the academic fraud scandal that also caused the NCAA to banish Haskins from coaching.
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