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Photo: Minnesota To Wear White Helmets For Bowl Game This Year
With the regular season of college football coming to an end last night, it’s time to look ahead to bowl season. While most of the matchups are still yet to be determined, we are starting to get some news on the uniform side of things. This morning, Minnesota announced that it would be breaking out the white helmets for its postseason game:
We will be wearing White helmets in...
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Hollinses helps Minnesota top Florida State 71-61
Andre Hollins scored 21 points and Austin Hollins added 16 to lift Minnesota to a 71-61 victory over Florida State on Tuesday night.
The Golden Gophers (7-2) grabbed 13 offensive rebounds against the bigger Seminoles to help them bounce back from a disappointing showing at the Maui Invitational. The Gophers only turned the ball over six times and hit seven 3-pointers to overcome...
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Minnesota uses scrappiness to score Richard Pitino's first big win at Williams Arena
MINNEAPOLIS -- If Richard Pitino was looking for a big win early in his career at Minnesota, he got one Tuesday.
The Gophers overcame a size disadvantage against Florida State in a 71-61 win over the visiting Seminoles in the Big TenACC Challenge. Pitino said Monday that this game would be the toughest for Minnesota so far this year, and his squad passed the test with its most impressive...
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Minnesota eyeing statement win over Florida State
MINNEAPOLIS -- First-year Gophers coach Rich Pitino said Tuesday's game against Florida State will be the toughest test his team has had so far this year. Considering the wringer they just went through in the Maui Invitational, that's a bold statement.
Minnesota played three games in three days in Hawaii, beginning with a Top 10 team in Syracuse. While the Gophers hung close...
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Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Michigan State Spartans: Betting Odds, Point Spread, Over/Under and tv info
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On Saturday the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Michigan State Spartans will tangle in a match-up of two schools from the Big Ten.
Minnesota (8-3) will be looking to hand No. 11 Michigan State (10-1) their first Big Ten loss of the season.
Coverage of the game between Minnesota and Michigan State will air on the Big Ten Netowrk beginning at 12:00 pm ET from Spartan Stadium...
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Men's Hockey: Gophers Top Badgers in B1G Opener
The Minnesota men’s hockey team proved to be too much for Wisconsin to handle as the Gophers downed the Badgers 4-1 Friday night at Mariucci Arena.
Joseph LaBate gave Wisconsin the early edge when he stuffed one home at the 6:31 mark of the opening stanza. But the Badgers’ joy was short-lived as the Gophers went on to score four unanswered goals en route to a decisive victory...
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Minnesota wins rivalry hockey matchup with Wisconsin
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Wisconsin Badgers were picked to win the Big Ten in the conference's first year of Big Ten hockey. Wisconsin returned a veteran team that earned a spot in last year's NCAA tournament.
On Friday night, the Minnesota Golden Gophers looked the part of the conference's best team.
Top-ranked Minnesota outplayed No. 1213 Wisconsin for nearly the entire...
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Minnesota Using “Dramatic Gopher” Video To Distract Opposing Kickers
The Minnesota Golden Gophers have dug to the bottom of their bag of tricks and found a pretty clever way to distract field goal kickers. The “Dramatic Gopher” YouTube video was quite the asset to the team this past Saturday. Yep, this one.
The school put the gopher video on the big screen when Wisconsin was kicking field goal attempts, and it actually worked. Jack Russell, the...
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Gophers Suffer 6-2 Setback Against Bulldogs
MINNEAPOLIS -- The top-ranked Minnesota men's hockey team had its 10-game home unbeaten streak snapped by in-state foe Minnesota Duluth Sunday afternoon at Mariucci Arena, dropping a 6-2 decision. The loss dropped the Gophers to 9-2-1 on the season and improved the No. 19 Bulldogs' record to 6-5-1.
The last loss Minnesota suffered on home ice was a 2-0 defeat against then...
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Gophers make slight gains even in loss to Badgers
MINNEAPOLIS -- For nine straight years, the Minnesota football team watched its rival parade around with Paul Bunyan's Axe after the Badgers beat the Gophers each year. With Minnesota much improved this year, though, it felt that things would be different this time around.
The Gophers hung with No. 16 Wisconsin for part of the game, but the Badgers once again walked away hoisting...
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Gophers stay undefeated against state rivals with 6-1 win against Bulldogs
MINNEAPOLIS -- Making the move to the Big Ten this season, the University of Minnesota men's hockey team has a new set of teams with which to build rivalries.
The Gophers are still holding on to the old ones too, particularly within the state.
"Oh yeah, the Minnesota rivalries are huge for us," said senior Tom Serratore after Minnesota's 6-1 win on Friday night...
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Video: Minnesota Fan Recreates ‘Miracle’ Speech With LEGO, Except With Gophers Beating Badgers
There isn’t a lot of love lost between Wisconsin and Minnesota. The two programs don’t like each other one bit, and this week, the Badgers and Golden Gophers square off in a big matchup of ranked teams at TCF Bank Stadium.
One die-hard Minnesota supporter, Arik Hanson, is absolutely pumped about the game. He decided to get his fellow fans hyped up LEGO-style and recreated the...
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Short-handed Gophers receive boost from frontcourt duo
MINNEAPOLIS -- No Joey King, no Mo Walker, no problem forthe short-handed Gophers mens basketball team.Playing with a small lineup for most of the night, Minnesotaeasily dispensed of visiting Wofford. Thanks to big contributions from big menOto Osenieks and Elliott Eliason, the Gophers handed the Terriers a 79-57 lossto improve to 5-0 in the Richard Pitino Era.King, a 6-foot-9 sophomore...
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Gophers play as group in win over Coastal Carolina
MINNEAPOLIS -- Whenever the Gophers needed an answer in the first half of Tuesday's game against Coastal Carolina, Andre Hollins was there.
But when Hollins went quiet in the second, other players stepped up. Minnesota found a balance offensively that helped the Gophers pull away from the Chanticleers for an 82-72 win at Williams Arena. It likely will never be a one-man show...
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Richard Pitino suspends Minnesota center for six games
University of Minnesota Coach Richard Pitino announced today that junior center Maurice Walker has been suspended for the team’s first 6 contests. No reason was given, but per The Gopher Hole, citing ESPN 15000 Twin Cities: Mo Walker and Richard Pitino “had heated conversation” and are trying to “work through it.” Walker and Richard Pitino have been at odds with each other...
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29 days ago
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