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Ready or not, freshmen are getting playing time for Gophers football
Graduations, injuries and COVID absences, especially on defense, have forced coach P.J. Fleck and defensive coordinator Joe Rossi to use young players who are still learning the ropes.
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Indiana football coach leads Hoosiers back into national spotlight
Indiana football is 4-0 and the No. 9 team in the nation, the first time the Hoosiers have cracked the Top 10 since 1969. They're set to encounter 21-point favorite Ohio State on Saturday
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Four newcomers ready to make their Gophers men's hockey debuts
Compared with the class of 11 freshmen who joined the Gophers in 2019-20, this season's incoming group is small
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Series preview: Gophers hockey vs. Penn State
Minnesota (16-14-7 last season) opens as the favorite to win the Big Ten, according to the preseason coaches poll.
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Megan Ryan's Big Ten football rankings
Wisconsin came back from a two-game layoff because of a COVID-19 outbreak on its team and kept rolling. But there are two teams ahead of the Badgers.
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Gophers men's basketball 2020-21 season schedule
The season opens No. 25.
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Big Ten football review and preview
A look back at last week's games, and ahead to this week's action.
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What will Wolves do with the No. 1 pick? We're close to knowing
The biggest decision of Gersson Rosas' tenure as Timberwolves president is arriving on Wednesday night. What will he do?
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Drought-breaker: Oturu should be first U men's player drafted since 2004
Daniel Oturu hadn't turned five years old when Gophers forward Kris Humphries was chosen by the Jazz with the 14th pick of the 2004 NBA draft.
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After deciding to stay, Howard getting chance to play for Gophers
Robbinsdale native Phil Howard is starting at cornerback in place of a teammate out with COVID-19.
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Mock draft: From Wolves top pick to where Minnesotans Oturu, Nnaji go
A surprise selection can change everything. With that in mind, here's a look at how college basketball writer Marcus Fuller sees the first round of Wednesday's NBA draft.
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Gophers athletes graduate at record 94% success rate for second year in a row
Gophers athletics now has recorded its three highest GSR statistics in school history over the past three years with 94% in both 2019 and 2020 and a 93% in 2018.
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After years of improving records, Fleck copes with Gophers' 1-3 start
The only career trajectory P.J. Fleck has ever known has been up. So this season is providing a test beyond the Gophers 1-3 record in their first four games.
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Pitino won't say much other than Gophers opener is next Wednesday
Coach Richard Pitino wouldn't even say the opener was against Wisconsin-Green Bay, which has already been announced by that school.
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Often-injured Curry cleared to play in season opener for Gophers
The Gophers lost their top big man Daniel Oturu to the NBA Draft this year, but they are expecting to get back their most experienced frontcourt player this season.
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Gophers picked to finish 11th in Big Ten men's basketball
The poll consists of 28 journalists who cover Big Ten men's basketball, and is consistent with what others around the country are predicting for Minnesota.
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Minneapolis loses men's basketball regional in new NCAA tourney plan
Target Center will no longer host the 2021 NCAA men's basketball Midwest Regional after an announcement Monday the entire NCAA tournament will be held in Indianapolis.
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NCAA tournaments in Twin Cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrecked havoc on sporting events across the country and the Twin Cities have been hit by the loss of two major NCAA tournaments.
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WCHA women's coaches pick Wisconsin in tight race over Gophers
The Badgers got four votes in the preseason coaches poll, while Minnesota garnered the other three. Ohio State and Minnesota Duluth round out the top four.
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- 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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