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Former Maple Grove star Davison toughing out season with Badgers
The two-sport standout in high school is ignoring a shoulder injury to be a Badgers bright spot as they prepare to face the Gophers.
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Gophers-Wisconsin men's basketball game preview
The Gophers (14-14, 3-12 Big Ten) enter Monday's border battle against Wisconsin on an eight-game losing streak, the longest for fifth-year coach Richard Pitino since his team lost 14 in a row during the 2015-16 season.
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Minnesota Scene: Gophers lose softball finale in Florida
The Gophers softball team, ranked No. 14, closed out the Big Ten/ACC Challenge Sunday morning with a 3-0 loss to Notre Dame in Tallahassee, Fla.
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Gophers climb in the Big Ten women's basketball race
The Gophers climbed into a tie for third place in the Big Ten with their victory on Sunday and are now just a game out of first with two regular-season games to go.
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Highlights from the Gophers' victory over No. 10 Maryland
Some of what the Gophers women's basketball team accomplished on Sunday:
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Gophers women 93, No. 10 Maryland 74
The Gophers women's basketball team upset No. 10 Maryland 93-74 at Williams Arena on Sunday.
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Gophers fall to Ohio State 2-1 in eighth round of the shootout
Minnesota missed a chance to secure home ice.
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Gophers-Maryland women's basketball preview: U seeking first win vs. Terps
The No. 10 Terrapins (22-4, 11-2) are coming off a 75-65 loss to Purdue at home Thursday. The loss ended a seven-game winning streak for the Terrapins, who have won 20 of 22 since opening the season 2-2.
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Badgers sweep Gophers in women's hockey
The seventh-ranked Gophers women's hockey team lost 1-0 to No. 1 Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon at LaBahn Arena before a sellout crowd of 2,273.
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Gophers expect defense and rebounding to be the keys to upsetting Maryland
Gophers know they can score a lot of points.
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Coffey to miss rest of Gophers basketball season
The sophomore has missed 10 of the past 12 games because of an injured right shoulder.
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Gophers lose to Wisconsin in women's hockey
The Gophers' chances of getting an at-large bid to the NCAA women's hockey tournament took another blow on Friday night.
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Gophers hockey continues its roll with 2-1 win over Ohio State
The Gophers improved their chances of securing home ice for a best-of-three Big Ten quarterfinal series with a home victory, their sixth in the past seven games.
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Gophers baseball, softball teams lose
The Gophers baseball team lost its season opener 3-2 to Georgia Tech on Friday while the softball team, ranked No. 14, lost to eighth-ranked Florida State 3-2.
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Gophers hockey will be without Bristedt for opener against Ohio State
Senior forward Leon Bristedt will miss Friday's game because of an illness but could return for Saturday's series finale.
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Roger French, assistant football coach with Gophers, BYU and more, dies at 87
A longtime Maple Grove resident, French had a career that spanned six decades, capped by his key role on Brigham Young University's only national championship team.
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Could Gophers basketball get roster help for game vs. Wisconsin?
Gophers coach Richard Pitino hopes starting guards Amir Coffey and Dupree McBrayer can return soon after both missing the last two games with injuries
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Gophers baseball, picked as third-best in Big Ten, will lean on infield, veterans
Season starts Friday afternoon.
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Gophers hockey riding February heat wave into big series vs. Ohio State
Tyler Sheehy and Leon Bristedt are leading Minnesota's turnaround at just the right time.
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Gophers' Lynch to drop appeal but denies sexual misconduct
"I did not commit any of the acts I'm accused of," the U of M basketball player said at a news conference just before the hearing over his expulsion was to begin.
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- Georgia's Kirby Smart becomes the nation's highest-paid college football coach at $13m annually
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- Say hello (again) to EA Sports College Football. The beloved video-game behemoth is back
- New Big 12 out to prove bigger bank accounts don't always mean better football teams in 12-team CFP
- UConn, Kentucky among those with big changes through transfers in college basketball's portal window
- National 3-point shooting leader Koby Brea becomes the 5th transfer this week to land at Kentucky
- UNC's RJ Davis is returning to school for a 5th season. He was an AP 1st-team All-American last year
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