Minnesota tops MTSU to reach NIT semis
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- Rodney Williams and Andre Hollins each scored 24 points to help Minnesota advance to the semifinals of the NIT with a 78-72 win over Middle Tennessee on Wednesday night.
Elliott Eliason added 12 points and seven rebounds for Minnesota, while Hollins also chipped in six rebounds and four assists.
Marcos Knight led Middle Tennessee (27-7) with 19 points...
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March 21, 2012
Minnesota 78, Middle Tennessee 72
Rodney Williams and Andre Hollins each scored 24 points to help Minnesota advance to the semifinals of the NIT with a 78-72 win over Middle Tennessee on Wednesday night.
Elliott Eliason added 12 points and seven rebounds for Minnesota, while Hollins also had six rebounds and four assists.
Marcos Knight led Middle Tennessee (27-7) with 19 points and nine rebounds.
Minnesota (22...
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March 21, 2012
Minnesota 70, La Salle 61
Rodney Williams tied his career high with 21 points, Austin Hollins had 16 and Minnesota beat La Salle 70-61 Wednesday night in the opening round of the NIT.
Andre Hollins added 13 points for the Golden Gophers (20-14), who play the winner between Miami and Valparaiso in the second round.
The Gophers closed with a 15-6 run to give coach Tubby Smith his 100th win at the school....
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March 14, 2012
Gophers run away in OT, beat Northwestern
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Andre Hollins had a career-high 25 points and Austin Hollins finished with 12, leading 10th-seeded Minnesota to a 75-68 overtime win over Northwestern in the first round of the Big Ten tournament Thursday.
The loss may end the Wildcats' slim hopes of getting an NCAA bid for the first time in school history.
JerShon Cobb scored a career-high 24 points and...
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March 08, 2012
Minnesota 75, Northwestern 68
Andre Hollins had a career-high 25 points and Austin Hollins finished with 12, leading 10th-seeded Minnesota to a 75-68 overtime win over Northwestern in the first round of the Big Ten tournament Thursday.
The loss may end the Wildcats' slim hopes of getting an NCAA bid for the first time in school history.
JerShon Cobb scored a career-high 24 points and John Shurna had 21...
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March 08, 2012
GSTV: Austin Hollins, Chip Armelin
Austin Hollins and Chip Armelin led the way for Minnesota on Sunday but fell short of a tough Indiana team by a score of 69-50
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February 26, 2012
Badgers force Gophers to swallow bitter pill
MINNEAPOLIS It took everything Minnesota had just to get to overtime. Once the Gophers got there, they had nothing left.Minnesota reeled off a 10-0 run at the end of regulation Thursday to draw even with visiting Wisconsin. But it was the rival Badgers who pulled away in overtime, silencing the once-raucous Williams Arena crowd en route to a 68-61 win over the Gophers.Given the...
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February 09, 2012
Smith hopes his Gophers can finish strong
MINNEAPOLIS Halfway through the Big Ten season, the Minnesota men's basketball team sits at 16-6 overall and 4-5 in conference play. Coach Tubby Smith's Gophers squad earned a signature win against then-No. 7 Indiana and is currently riding the high of Saturday's overtime victory at home against Illinois.Still, it's hard to say what we know about this Gophers team...
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January 31, 2012
Minnesota upsets Indiana in Bloomington
Austin Hollins scored a career-high 18 points to help Minnesota upset No. 7 Indiana 77-74 in Assembly Hall on Thursday night.
Indiana's Christian Watford could have tied the score late in the game, but missed a three-pointer in the closing seconds.
Rodney Williams scored 14 points and Julian Welch added 10 for the Golden Gophers (13-5, 1-4 Big Ten), who had lost four straight...
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January 12, 2012
Hollins big shot helps Gophers beat Bucknell
MINNEAPOLIS Gophers sophomore Austin Hollins isn't the most talked-about member of the Minnesota men's basketball team. During the preseason, he hasn't even been the most talked-about player with the last name Hollins that title falls to freshman point guard Andre Hollins.But the sophomore guard had a momentum-changing 3-pointer in Friday's season opener against...
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November 11, 2011
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