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Gohlke scored 32 points off the bench in Oakland’s shocking upset of No.
3 seed Kentucky in 2024. | Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images
What we remember: Gohlke’s star shined bright in March
2024. During No. 14 seed Oakland’s upset of No. 3 seed Kentucky in the first
round—a contest that ended up being coach John Calipari’s final game
coaching the Wildcats—Gohlke scored 32 points off the bench on 10-of-20
shooting from beyond the arc. He also drained six three-pointers in the
second round, but it wasn’t enough as Oakland’s Cinderella story ended with
a 79–73 overtime loss to No. 11 seed NC State.
Where is he now?: Gohlke has spent the past two
seasons bouncing around from league to league. He played 26 games in the G
League in 2024–25, and has appeared in eight games for the G League’s Texas
Legends this year. In addition, Gohlke has also played in Montenegro, Mexico
and Brazil.
7. Ryan Prather Jr., 6-foot-5 junior guard, Robert Morris
Another big portal entry out of the Horizon League, Prather posted 15.9
points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game this past season. All-Horizon
Second Team honors followed that impressive stat line, and the 6-foot-5
junior joins DeSean Goode —
featured in our last ranking
— as another top Colonial on the market.
The junior guard led RMU in scoring last year at 15.7 points per game. He
was the lone holdover from a 2025 squad that went to the NCAA Tournament
after winning the Horizon League.
Prather transferred to RMU after starting his career in Akron. He ended up
playing 70 games for the Colonials, starting 45.
Also departing from this year’s team are Horizon League Player of the Year
DeSean Goode and 6-foot-9 forward Nikolaos Chitikoudis.
Green
Bay led for well over 50% of the game and had aspirations of being the
first No. 13 seed since Wright State in 2021 of upsetting a No. 4. And
then everything went wrong all at once.
The Golden
Gophers opened up the fourth quarter on a 12–0 run and the barrage
didn’t stop there. By the time the damage was done, Minnesota would
outscore Green Bay 30–9 in the final frame and erase any notion of this
tournament’s first upset.
A much closer game than the final score will indicate, but what a deflating loss for the Phoenix.
