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Big Ten baseball: Michigan defeats Maryland for title
Gallery: Michigan defeated Maryland to win the Big Ten baseball tournament at Target Field on Sunday.
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Michigan wins Big Ten baseball tournament championship
The Wolverines reached the NCAA tournament the only way they could: by winning the Big Ten.
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Big Ten making strides in improving its baseball programs
Up to six Big Ten teams could make the NCAA tournament field.
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Is Twitter's hype just as dangerous as rage?
Twitter's influence goes the other way, too, when it inflates the egos of young recruits
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Big Ten tournament Semi final game highlights
Maryland reaches Big Ten title game with 4-2 win vs Indiana Maryland scored four times in an error-prone seventh inning and beat Indiana 4-2 Saturday to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship game.
Cronenworth leads Michigan past Illinois 5-3
Jacob Cronenworth had three hits, drove in three runs and earned his seventh save to help Michigan beat Illinois 5-3 on Saturday to advance to the Big Ten championship game.
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Chart: Herauf and Wieland by the numbers
Career bests for Gophers standouts.
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Dominican trip helped mold Illini into baseball power
Big Ten regular-season champions traveled to play in Dominican Republic
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Reusse: Gophers' 'multis' part of achieving track cult
Gophers track program boasts two of Big Ten's rarest breed.
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Nebraska catching some of Minnesota's baseball talent
Two metro area standouts are expected to be a part of Darin Erstad's Huskers' incoming 2015 recruiting class.
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Gophers land commitment from 6-6 Michigan prep quarterback
Tony Poljan is a consensus three-star recruit who also had offers from Toledo, Buffalo, Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan.
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Big Ten: Freshman ineligibility idea just the start
Jim Delany's idea of making freshmen ineligible in football and men's basketball has drawn plenty of attention and scorn.
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Gallery: Big Ten baseball tournament
The Big Ten baseball tournament kicked off Wednesday at Target Field. The Gophers did not qualify.
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Gophers mull what went wrong this baseball season
The improved Big Ten kept host Minnesota out of the conference tourney
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Wisconsin's Alvarez open to letting Axe return to sidelines
Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez said the decision to limit the Paul Bunyan's Axe celebration to the end zone was made by former Badgers coach Gary Andersen.
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Big Ten baseball takes over Target Field without host
The Gophers, traditionally one of the conference's top teams, missed the Big Ten tournament for only the third time in the past 18 seasons.
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Michigan, Indiana open Big Ten baseball tournament
Eight Big Ten teams are playing Wednesday in the first round of the Big Ten baseball tournament at Target Field. Minnesota didn't qualify.
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U to break ground on athletic village in August
The school has raised $70 million of its $150 million goal, with more gains expected soon.
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U's Toledo faces tough challenge in NCAA tennis tournament
Senior Leandro Toledo meets a player he lost to twice this school year in his opening match in Waco, Texas.
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Around the Region
- Reggie Bush is reinstated as 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, with organizers citing NIL rule changes
- Former Green Bay player Kayla Karius leaves South Dakota to return to her alma mater as coach
- Longtime Hawkeyes football broadcaster Ed Podolak steps down from his radio analyst role
- Hailey Van Lith trying to make US Olympic 3x3 team; next college choice to come soon
- Sign of the times: NCAA approves coach-to-player helmet communication for 2024 football season
- UConn freshman Stephon Castle declares for NBA draft and becomes school's second one-and-done player
- FedEx pledges $25 million over 5 years in NIL program for University of Memphis athletes
- PWHL Minnesota allows late comeback to Montreal, fails to clinch playoff berth
- NHL team moving from Arizona to Salt Lake City will have a name starting with Utah
- Kansas adds AJ Storr after he led Wisconsin in scoring this past season
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