Events lead to record setting, record breaking week for downtown Minneapolis
Adam Duxter shows us how businesses are cashing in as college basketball fans invade downtown Minneapolis.
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Adam Duxter shows us how businesses are cashing in as college basketball fans invade downtown Minneapolis.
Just three days after Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes took home the Big Ten Women's Basketball Championship in front of a record crowd, Minneapolis is ready to play host once more.
Long before Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark began her march to greatness, girls basketball players in her home state were blazing the trail.
Iowa comes out victorious over Michigan in the semi-finals of the Women's Big 10 tournament.
The Iowa Hawkeyes secured their spot in the semi-finals in the Women's Big 10 Tournament on Friday night in a 95-62 win over Penn State.
Amaya Batte scored a career-high 32 points and Minnesota avenged a previous defeat against Rutgers beating the Scarlet Knights 77-69 in an opening-round game of the Big Ten Conference Tournament.
Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark fueled an advance sellout of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament.
Caitlin Clark broke three major college basketball scoring records in less than three weeks.
Cam Christie scored 19 points, Elijah Hawkins added 18 and Minnesota rallied from a 12-point deficit in the second half and beat Penn State 75-70 on Saturday to sweep the season series.
Iowa's Caitlin Clark says she will will leave the Hawkeyes after this season and enter the WNBA Draft.
Caitlin Clark became the all-time leading women's scorer in major college basketball by scoring 33 points to pass Lynette Woodard and post her 17th career triple-double for sixth-ranked Iowa in a 108-60 victory over Minnesota.
On the same night that Iowa star Caitlin Clark was adding to her NCAA women's basketball scoring record before a packed house on national television, she was losing ground to the highest-scoring player in her sport.
Juwan Gary scored 22 points, including four 3-pointers, and grabbed eight rebounds, Brice Williams added 15 points and Nebraska beat Minnesota 73-55.
Elijah Hawkins scored 17 of his career-high 24 points in the second half, Dawson Garcia had 22 points and nine rebounds and Minnesota defeated Ohio State 88-79 on Thursday night.
Two weeks out, and the Target Center is on pace to sell out the women's tournament for the first time ever, with less than 2,000 tickets left available.
Caitlin Clark of Iowa broke the NCAA career scoring record in women's basketball with a school-record 49 points against Michigan on Thursday night.
Pharrel Payne had 21 points and 11 rebounds, Elijah Hawkins added 16 points and Minnesota defeated Rutgers 81-70.
UConn star Paige Bueckers and coach Geno Auriemma both say they will be back at the school next season.
Patrick McCaffrey and Payton Sandfort each scored 21 points and combined for 26 in the second half to help Iowa beat Minnesota 90-85.
Cotie McMahon had 13 points and nine rebounds, Jacy Sheldon shrugged off a tough shooting night with 12 points and six assists, and fifth-ranked Ohio State beat Minnesota 71-47 for its 10th consecutive victory.
Freshman Cam Christie recorded 19 points on 5-for-7 shooting from 3-point range and Dawson Garcia scored 10 points and Minnesota beat Michigan State for the first time since 2021 sinking the Spartans 59-56.
Dawson Garcia drilled his first 3-pointer of the game with 2:31 left in overtime and followed it with five free throws as Minnesota came from nine-points down with under six minutes left in regulation to beat Northwestern 75-66.
Minnesota guard Mara Braun has been sidelined indefinitely with a foot injury that requires surgery.
Dawson Garcia scored 20 points, Cam Christie added 17 and Minnesota rallied from a 14-point halftime deficit and beat Penn State 83-74 to snap a four-game losing streak.
Parker Bjorklund scored a career-high 32 points and the St. Thomas Tommies defeated the North Dakota State Bison 79-66.
