Gophers' Banham Named Big Ten Player Of The Year
University of Minnesota senior guard Rachel Banham was named the Big Ten's Player of the Year on Monday. Banham was also a unanimous All-Big Ten First Team selection.
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University of Minnesota senior guard Rachel Banham was named the Big Ten's Player of the Year on Monday. Banham was also a unanimous All-Big Ten First Team selection.
Three Gopher basketball players have been sidelined, and there are reports that two graphic sex tapes are to blame.
Minnesota was playing without leading scorer Nate Mason (13.8 points per game), as well as guards Kevin Dorsey and Dupree McBrayer, who all missed Sunday's game for a violation of team rules.
Sixth-ranked Maryland won the Big Ten regular season title Sunday, getting a career-high 29 points from Tierney Pfirman and 24 from Brionna Jones in a surprisingly lopsided 110-77 victory over Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota men's basketball team will be without three of its regular players Sunday night for a violation of team rules, coach Richard Pitino said.
Rachel Banham scored 35 points in her final game at Williams Arena and Carlie Wagner scored with 0.8 seconds left in overtime to lift Minnesota to a 90-88 victory over No. 5 Ohio State on Wednesday night.
University of Minnesota president Eric Kaler said he is hopeful the school can find a way to keep former football coach Jerry Kill in the fold even as Kill talked about moving on to other ventures. Kill was forced to retire seven games into last season because of epilepsy.
Linebacker De'Vondre Campbell and cornerbacks Briean Boddy-Calhoun and Eric Murray are among the more than 300 participants at the league's annual examination of prospects for the upcoming draft.
There's a big series in Big Ten hockey this week. Minnesota hosts Michigan for control of the conference race. The Gophers and Wolverines play a rare Thursday-Friday series, with both games at Mariucci Arena.
The Minnesota Golden Gophers had just picked up their second straight Big Ten win after a miserable 0-13 start to the conference season, but there was no wild celebration like their previous victory over Maryland last week.
University of Minnesota forward Jordan Murphy was honored by the Big Ten Conference on Monday after the Gophers got their first league win last Thursday.
Nate Mason had 18 points, six rebounds and six assists to help Minnesota get its first Big Ten win of the season with a stunning 68-63 upset of No. 6 Maryland on Thursday night.
Senior guard Carlos Morris was dismissed from the University of Minnesota basketball team on Wednesday for conduct detrimental to the team, coach Richard Pitino said in a statement.
The University of Minnesota men's hockey team got a pair of one-goal victories Friday and Saturday to earn a sweep of Ohio State. Justin Kloos and Hudson Fasching earned two of the Big Ten's three Stars of the Week on Tuesday as a result of the weekend.
The Gopher women's basketball team has been playing at its very best of late, in large part because of out of this world scoring by senior guard Rachel Banham. She did it again Monday, hitting a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to lift the Gophers over Iowa.
