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...former walk-on to catch the eye of some of the biggest names in one of the top conferences in Division I basketball is something. But for that same walk-on to have started out as a football recruit at Harvard borders upon unbelievable...
...Puchtel had initially wanted to be a Golden Gopher, since his father Scott had been a two-time football letterwinner at Minnesota, but he was reportedly informed that there would be no spots for him on the school’s basketball team and that he would have to walk-on to the football team...
...back and asking the football coach for another chance, but my pride wouldn’t let me do that,” Puchtel said. “Then I just started looking elsewhere, so I contacted [a connection at Minnesota], and he said that they had one open walk-on spot [on the basketball team] and that they’d love to have...
After appearing only sparingly through his junior year and the first half of this season, Puchtel got his big break against then-No.11 Indiana on Jan. 29, when Monson inserted the 6’6 walk-on into the lineup to guard Hoosiers star Marco Killingsworth. Puchtel held Killingsworth to 6-of-14 shooting from the field, as Minnesota scored a huge 61-42 win. After Puchtel poured in 13 points as the Golden Gophers knocked off then-No. 11 Michigan State on Feb. 11, the legend of the former Harvard football recruit began to grow...
Puchtel’s meteoric rise from walk-on to starter caught the eye of one group in particular—the Harvard junior varsity men’s basketball team...