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Minnesota State's Marc Michaelis named WCHA player of the year
The senior led the Mavericks to their third consecutive MacNaughton Cup as league regular-season champions.
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Fleck knows Gophers are in uncharted waters
Most Gophers football players are at their homes and could stay there through the end of the semester, since the university has moved all classes to online instruction.
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'Can't wait to get there.' Jamal Mashburn Jr. on his U basketball future
Brewster Academy (N.H.) four-star guard Jamal Mashburn Jr. talks about Richard Pitino, his senior year and playing for the Gophers next season in a Q&A recently with the Star Tribune.
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Former U cornerback Murray gets $20.25 million deal in free agency
The Wisconsin native was only a two-star recruit when Jerry Kill recruited hi in 2012. He's reached a three-year deal with Houston.
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Missing in action: The tournament? The pool? Your tournament pool?
NCAA basketball pools are part of the office fabric at this time of year. Right now many of us are missing three things: The office, the tournament and the office tournament pool.
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No live sports on TV? Watch Gophers vs. Clemson, 1997 NCAA tournament
With live sports crashing to a halt, Michael Rand will offer up a daily suggestion to watch from the past to fill the void: First on his list is a sweeter time for Gophers basketball.
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Souhan: A virus knocks us all from our NCAA pools at the same time
The bracket is what makes March Madness a societal phenomenon. The bracket is the greatest driver of sports conversations in America. The bracket is what we will miss the most.
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A life without Madness: Selection Sunday silent for ESPN's 'Joey Brackets'
Joe Lunardi was at a hotel Thursday near the ESPN studios sipping coffee and fiddling with his final NCAA tournament projections when word came that the NCAA was canceling the men's basketball tournament.
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Pitino will return as Gophers coach, sources say
Richard Pitino, 37, is 127-108 in seven seasons at Minnesota, including 48-82 in the Big Ten, and took the program to the NCAA tournament in two of the last four seasons.
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Reusse: U baseball players got reality check with quick end to season, Anderson says
A "do-over" season being offered by the NCAA can be viewed as an optimistic scenario given this week's shutdown events. But for some, another year means spending more money to stay in school.
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Minnesota fans suddenly have nothing to watch, tickets they can't use
A mixture of disappointment and understanding seems to be theme for many — along with a side of "what happens now to my tickets?"
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NCAA plans to restore a year of eligibility for athletes impacted by cancellations
Prominent basketball coaches across the country, including Michigan State's Tom Izzo and Kentucky's John Calipari are in favor of wanting the NCAA to give seniors an extra year.
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Hartman: The sports world has stopped before, but it always returns
Sports have many times taken a back seat to much larger concerns in the country, but they have also been a key part of holding Minnesota and the country together during difficult times.
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Big Ten suspends all organized team activities through April 6
With no competitions, practices or on-campus and off-campus recruiting right now, this is a completely dead period Big Ten athletics.
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Gophers hockey cancellation: 'What are we even supposed to do?'
The coronavirus pandemic forced the Big Ten to cancel all remaining sporting events and the NCAA to cancel the rest of its championships. So the Gophers hockey season abruptly ended at 16-14-7.
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Hope snuffed out: Pitino's Gophers wanted one last shot at strong finish
Before the Gophers could board the bus to the arena on Thursday, Big Ten officials were shooing Michigan and Rutgers players off the court. End of tournament. End of hope.
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Game off: NCAA cancels Final Four, wrestling and other winter, spring championships
A day after announcing that its championship events would be played in front of no spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic, the NCAA on Thursday pulled the plug entirely.
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College hockey contenders are left disappointed
When the NCAA announced Thursday that it was canceling the remainder of winter sports championships and all spring sports because of the coronavirus pandemic, it hit Minnesota and neighboring North Dakota hard.
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NCAA bars fans from March Madness events, wrestling championships
The wrestling event is still scheduled for March 19-21 at U.S. Bank Stadium. Organizers had hoped to shatter its attendance records, but the big stadium will be mostly empty.
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Around the Region
- Michigan beginning alcohol sales at football games following successful rollouts at its other venues
- UNC interim chancellor backs AD Bubba Cunningham after trustee criticism, audit push
- EA Sports College Football 25 comes out on July 19. Edwards, Ewers, Hunter are on standard cover
- St. Thomas hockey to follow Arizona State into NCHC, as league expands to 10 teams
- Like a Caitlin Clark 3-pointer, betting on women's sports is soaring
- Green Bay's Doug Gottlieb believes he can balance his new coaching job with his national radio show
- With CFP snub still stinging, Atlantic Coast Conference ponders how to boost football perceptions
- Basketball broadcaster Doug Gottlieb moves into coaching ranks as he takes over Green Bay's program
- Texas A&M-Notre Dame matchup will be in prime time on ABC on Aug. 31
- Severe storms blitz the US South again after one of the most active tornado periods in history
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