Gophers To Take On Princeton In NCAA Women's Hockey Tourney
Minnesota's bid to repeat as NCAA women's hockey champions will begin as the No. 3 seed with a quarterfinal game against Princeton this Saturday.
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Minnesota's bid to repeat as NCAA women's hockey champions will begin as the No. 3 seed with a quarterfinal game against Princeton this Saturday.
Rutgers ended a 32-game losing streak in the Big Ten Conference and a 17-game overall skid with a 75-52 victory over undermanned Minnesota.
Nia Coffey had 25 points and 12 rebounds and 12th-seeded Northwestern turned back five-seed Minnesota 84-74 on Thursday in a second-round game of the Big Ten Tournament.
Police are investigating a reported theft of suspended Minnesota freshman Kevin Dorsey's cellphone at the Mall of America last week.
Bronson Koenig had 14 points and six assists, Ethan Happ added 12 points and 10 rebounds and Wisconsin breezed by undermanned Minnesota 62-49 on Wednesday night, the 11th win by the Badgers in their last 12 games.
University of Minnesota basketball coach Richard Pitino announced Tuesday that Kevin Dorsey, Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer have been suspended for the rest of the season.
The University of Minnesota football team will host its pro day for outgoing Gophers players on Monday, March 7. The event will be held at 8 a.m. at the Gibson-Nagurski Football Complex, but is not open to the general public.
The takeover at Minnesota by new head coach Tracy Claeys has begun in earnest. Time for spring practice. Time to get the Gophers going again, after an unsatisfying 6-7 season.
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.
