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It is a staggering story based on numbers. Hamline University's hockey team won two games last season. If they win Saturday against Wisconsin-Stevens Point, they will advance to the NCAA Division III Frozen Four with a new coach and a new culture.
The recruiting standard has been set high by new coach Marlene Stollings and her staff at Minnesota. The one-player class of senior forward Shae Kelley has flourished.
Time is running out to fill out those March Madness brackets. The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament starts Thursday with a full slate of games. Some pick by mascots, jersey colors or even vacation spots, but it's possible to have a respectable bracket without following college basketball.
Matt Wieters returned to catching exactly six months after Tommy John surgery and played six innings in the Baltimore Orioles' 10-9 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday.
Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations and coach Flip Saunders will not be with the team in Toronto on Wednesday night because he is headed to Cleveland to be with his ailing father.
Free agent cornerback Terence Newman has visited Minnesota, considering the possibility of reuniting with Vikings coach Mike Zimmer. The Vikings confirmed Tuesday that Newman met with team officials.
The University of Minnesota men's hockey team got all three individual awards from the Big Ten Conference on Tuesday after sweeping Penn State over the weekend to win the league's regular season title.
An effort to save Minnesota's only outdoor bicycle race track has worked. The National Sports Center in Blaine says it will re-open the Veldrome sometime in May.
Joe Johnson scored 22 points, rookie Bojan Bogdanovic had 21 and the Brooklyn Nets beat the short-handed Minnesota Timberwolves 122-106 on Monday night.
The Minnesota women's basketball team has secured a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in six seasons. The Gophers got an eighth seed and will open the tournament Friday at 4 p.m. CDT against ninth seed DePaul in South Bend, Indiana.
The Girls State High School Basketball Tournament starts Tuesday at Target Center and the University of Minnesota. And in the biggest class, the top two seeds have set themselves apart. Which has their coaches preaching a very similar message today, saying all the things coaches are supposed to say.
University of Minnesota junior Mike Reilly was named the Big Ten's Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight year on Monday. Reilly was also selected First Team All-Big Ten as the league handed out its end-of-season awards.
DeLaSalle senior Sacar Anim is the Minnesota Associated Press Player of the Year award winner for high school boys basketball. The AP's all-state team was announced Monday, with Champlin Park's J.T. Gibson, Hill-Murray's Marshawn Wilson, Bjorn Broman of Lakeview Christian Academy in Duluth and Gary Trent Jr. of Apple Valley joining Anim.
Major League Soccer confirmed on Monday that it is in "advanced discussions" to bring the Minnesota United FC team into the league as an expansion club.
The Minnesota Twins have optioned third baseman Miguel Sano, one of baseball's top prospects, to Double-A Chattanooga.
