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NCAA tournament predictions: Marcus Fuller offers up tips and a winner
Don't jump into your NCAA tourney pool before reading this page! Marcus Fuller has watched an unhealthy amount of basketball this season, so take a few tips before putting ink to your paper bracket:
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Scoggins: 'Weird' Gophers must be at their best to advance in NCAA
They have been a tough team to figure out because of those dips and rises. At times you think they are capable of more; other times, you wonder how they won 21 games.
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NCAA tournament predictions: 3 writers, 3 regions, 3 predictions
Gophers beat writer Marcus Fuller gets the honor of picking the whole tournament. Three other staff writers covering regional finals weekend next week were asked to predict the final they expect to see in person. The results:
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Gophers goalie Robson leaves school to sign deal with Wild
The move leaves the Gophers without a starting goaltender for next season. Mat Robson will report to the Wild, which is back in action Tuesday vs. Colorado.
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Best Gophers ever? Take a ride on the Dream Team Machine
Celebrate the Final Four coming to the Twin Cities by tapping here to create a team of your favorite Gophers men's basketball players of all time. As the games get closer, we'll be adding all-time Final Four teams and a team of the all-time best players from Minnesota.
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U.S. Bank Stadium is taking on a new look for the NCAA Final Four
The darkening curtains are nearly all installed, and scaffolding is underway for lower-level seating.
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Gophers advance to women's Frozen Four with 5-2 win over Princeton
Minnesota's second line of forwards - sisters Sarah Potomak and Amy Potomak, and Kelly Pannek — accounted for nine of the 11 total points scored by Gophers.
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Gophers hockey laments 'absolute travesty' of 'terrible' call in OT loss
The Gophers' Tyler Sheehy was called for hooking 31 seconds into overtime, and Notre Dame pounced for the goal and a berth in the Big Ten title game. The penalty drew the ire of Gophers players and coaches.
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Controversial ending to U season has hockey world buzzing
Gophers hockey coach Bob Motzko called it after his team's 2-1 overtime loss in the Big Ten semifinals. "It's going to blow up everywhere, how this thing ended."
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North Dakota State: Tops in football, but in basketball ... not by a long shot
You can make an argument that, under the circumstances, NDSU got the best possible outcome in the NCAA basketball tournament -- despite a potential date with Duke.
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Destination Des Moines: Gophers, Pitino draw Louisville
The 10th-seeded Gophers won't have to travel far for their first-round matchup with 7-seed Louisville on Thursday - a familiar opponent for coach Richard Pitino.
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Have Pitino's Gophers overachieved, underachieved or properly achieved?
The Gophers men's basketball team this season offers an interesting test case for that set of questions — and perhaps a case where perception doesn't quite match reality.
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Souhan: Final Four an impossible dream for Gophers? You never know
Qualifying for the tournament that will end a couple of miles from campus means we get to see the bracket through the eyes and optimism of the Gophers' hometown players.
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Three Minnesota teams in line for No. 1 NCAA hockey seeds
St. Cloud State is locked in as the No. 1 overall seed, while Minnesota State and Minnesota Duluth likely will be among the top four overall, too.
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The Final Four in Minneapolis: Before, during and after. Everything you need to know ...
Here's what you can expect for Final Four festivities in Minneapolis, April 4-8.
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Gophers in the NCAA tournament: 16 things to know about their East Region
From the Billikens to Zion - here's a look at the East
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Gophers women more likely in line for WNIT berth, not NCAAs
The team will learn its postseason fate on Monday night.
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Louisville succeeding again in a scandal's wake
Coach Chris Mack told the Louisville Courier-Journal that this season was like starting with a blank slate.
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Minnesota Scene: Gophers get 21 hits in baseball win over Long Beach State
The Gophers took two of three from the 49ers.
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Around the Region
- Settlement could cost NCAA nearly $3 billion; plan to pay athletes would need federal protection
- Georgia's Kirby Smart becomes the nation's highest-paid college football coach at $13m annually
- Paying college football players could reverse trend of bowl game opt-outs, boost non-CFP postseason
- Wisconsin tries to regain supremacy in the trenches under its 4th O-line coach in as many years
- Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols
- 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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- Gophers football: Seven transfers with big impact potential
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- Postseason push runs out for U women's basketball with WNIT championship loss
