Gophers Aiming To Pull Upset Of Unbeaten Wisconsin
The Gophers football team hosts Wisconsin Saturday, needing a victory over the No. 5-ranked Badgers to earn bow eligibility.
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The Gophers football team hosts Wisconsin Saturday, needing a victory over the No. 5-ranked Badgers to earn bow eligibility.
Fleck's contract extension needs approval from the Board of Regents, which meets in December.
Minnesota's regular season finale will be at home against undefeated Wisconsin, the annual opportunity to send off the departing seniors.
Watch the video monitors around the Wisconsin football facility long enough and a clip showing the last time that the Badgers lost to Minnesota eventually plays on the screen.
The Gophers women's basketball team is off to a 4-0 start, and Kenisha Bell and Destiny Pitts earned Big Ten weekly awards on Monday.
Jordan Murphy made history Monday as he became the first Gopher basketball player to repeat as Big Ten Player of the Week.
Jordan Murphy had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 14 Minnesota cruised past Western Carolina 92-64 on Sunday.
Clayton Thorson had three touchdown passes, Justin Jackson added 166 yards rushing on 31 carries and Northwestern won its sixth straight with a 39-0 rout of Minnesota on Saturday.
All those years later, Minnesota's P.J. Fleck recalls the advice about running a program he got from Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald over lunch.
In a game of runs, No. 14 Minnesota used the biggest and the last to pull away from a pesky Niagara team.
Jordan Murphy had 23 points and 14 rebounds, and No 15 Minnesota outlasted Providence 86-74 on Monday night.
Former NBA player Sam Jacobson has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge stemming from the sale of a Minnesota home.
Demry Croft and Rodney Smith earned Big Teen weekly awards on Monday after the Gophers beat Nebraska 54-21 on Saturday.
Jordan Murphy scored 35 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as the Gophers beat USC Upstate 92-77 Friday night.
The game started with the Gophers returning an opening kickoff for a touchdown -- which last happened in 1998.