The National Wheelchair Intercollegiate Basketball Men’s Tournament will be played at Southwest Minnesota State beginning next Thursday in Marshall.
Arizona is the No. 1 seed for the 11-team tournament, which begins with seven games Thursday. Host Southwest Minnesota State, which finished fifth at last season’s tournament, will take on Missouri at noon. The winner will meet No. 2 Wisconsin-Whitewater later that day.
Seven more games will be played on March 15. The fifth-place, third-place and championship games are March 16.
JOEL RIPPEL
U baseball to play Oles
The Gophers baseball team has added a home game to its schedule. If played, the game — against St. Olaf on Wednesday at Siebert Field — would be the earliest home game played outdoors in Minnesota in the 136 seasons of Gophers baseball.
The earliest home Gophers outdoor game was played on March 29, 2003, when the Gophers swept a doubleheader from Michigan State at Siebert Field. The high in Minneapolis was 44 that day.
The Gophers;’ first home game was scheduled for April 2 against South Dakota State.
• Tommy Eisenstat had a two-run double and two-run homer as host Gonzaga defeated the Gophers 7-3. Charlie Sutherland, a freshman from Duluth, hit a two-run homer for the Gophers (5-6), whose three-game winning streak ended.
