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Gophers hockey lands in No. 1 seed range for NCAA tournament
Conference finals shook out just so around the country Saturday night, and gave the Gophers the fourth Pairwise spot.
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Gophers women's hockey team takes aim at 2018 NCAA title game
Gophers coach Brad Frost has a strong incoming class, including Amy Potomak.
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Sunday Q&A: Lawrence McKenzie, former Gophers guard
Lawrence McKenzie is now a hip-hop musician under the stage name Mac Irv — an homage to his nickname (Mac) and a shortened version of the Minneapolis street on which he grew up (Irving).
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Who's coming, going on Gophers women's hockey team
The Gophers women's hockey team will have a different look next season, with key departures but also a talented freshman class.
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Penn State beats Gophers in second OT of Big Ten tournament semifinal
Eric Schierhorn made 59 saves for the Gophers in the Big Ten semifinal.
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Clarkson edges Gophers women's hockey in Frozen Four semifinals
A third-period goal with 91 seconds left in regulation put the Golden Knights into Sunday's final against Wisconsin.
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Two Gophers wrestlers advance to NCAA finals
Brett Pfarr and Ethan Lizak of the Gophers each won two matches Friday to advance to Saturday's title matches.
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Gophers-Clarkson game recap
A look back at Friday night's national semifinal.
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Gophers getting over gloomy NCAA loss by focusing on sunny forecast
The Gophers are confident they will be one of the top teams in the Big Ten and have a chance to make a March Madness run in 2018. "We're going to be fine," sophomore Jordan Murphy said.
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Meet next season's Gophers now: Marcus Fuller's projected lineup
A look ahead to next fall, when the Gophers should be bigger - and better.
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Banged-up roster will test depth of U men's hockey team
The Gophers are without two of their top underclassmen entering the postseason eyeing a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
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Reusse: No. 5 seed more scarlet number than accomplishment for Gophers
The Gophers took advantage of a softer-than-usual Big Ten to put together an eight-game winning streak and peak at 11-6 in the conference, and then came the unimpressive finish.
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One and done: Gophers' turnaround season ends with struggle-filled loss
Reggie Lynch was in foul trouble, Nate Mason was scoreless in the first half and 12th-seeded Middle Tennessee lived up to its reputation to knock out the Gophers in the first-round of the NCAA tournament.
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Hartman: Gophers' loss shouldn't detract from accomplishments
The Gophers, who led the Big Ten in offensive rebounding during conference play, gave up 11 offensive boards to MTSU and grabbed only four themselves.
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Gophers' reunited top line could be key to another women's hockey title
The top line of Kelly Pannek, Dani Cameranesi and Sarah Potomak was overwhelming opponents before Cameranesi first got hurt in early December.
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Lettieri makes statement for Gophers hockey as workhorse, clothes horse
Vinni Lettieri has had his best year as a Gopher, and he's looked good doing it.
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A mixed bag: Gophers fans vent, reflect on Twitter after NCAA tournament loss
Some Gophers fans applauded this season's turnaround after Thursday's loss to Middle Tennessee in the NCAA tournament. Others, well, expected a bit more than a one-and-done.
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Scoggins: Committee got Gophers, Middle Tennessee seeds backward
Middle Tennessee, the 12 seed Thursday, looked like a veteran team on both ends of the floor. The fifth-seed Gophers looked like a young team that has zero depth and was hanging by a thread.
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Mason, injured and off his game, ends strong season with a dud
The Gophers' Nate Mason averaged 17.2 points per game in the Big Ten but on Thursday struggled shooting from the field and also suffered an injured hip.
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Four Gophers reach quarterfinals in NCAA wrestling meet
Four Gophers won two matches Thursday at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in St. Louis to advance.
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- NHL team moving from Arizona to Salt Lake City will have a name starting with Utah
- Virginia law allows the state's colleges and universities to directly pay athletes through NIL deals
- Scoring sensation Lucy Olsen transfers to Iowa. Ex-Villanova player helps fill void of Caitlin Clark
- Hanna and Haley Cavinder say they're returning for 1 last season at Miami
- NCAA allows transfers to be immediately eligible, no matter how many times they've switched schools
- South Carolina coach Dawn Staley gushes over congratulations from Queen B
- Marquette hires Cara Consuegra away from Charlotte to replace Megan Duffy
- UCLA scoops up 3 players from transfer portal
- Michigan gets 3 years of probation for football recruiting violations; case vs. Jim Harbaugh pending
- BYU hires Suns assistant Kevin Young to replace Mark Pope, who left to coach Kentucky
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- Former Hopkins basketball star transferring from Michigan to U
- Gophers men's basketball lands big-man transfer Mitchell from Canisius
- Penn State's starting goalie transfers to Gophers men's hockey
- U football adds No. 6 in-state recruit to 2025 class, loses 3 to portal
- Gophers women's basketball gets Nebraska transfer Annika Stewart of Wayzata
