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Minnesota Hoping To Dance
With the Golden Gophers regular season all in the books, we take a look at their current resume and what they still need to do to go dancing
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Men’s Division I National Polls: March 10, 2014
The Minnesota Golden Gophers remains in the top spot in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls this week. Boston College sits at No. 2 overall.
UMass Lowell remains at No. 8 overall in both national polls after sitting out this past weekend due to a first-round bye in the Hockey East quarterfinals. The River Hawks are back in action against the Vermont Catamounts...
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Hollins, Ahanmisi provide lift for Gophers on Senior Night
MINNEAPOLIS -- Austin Hollins hopes Sunday was his last game at Williams Arena.
If it's not, that means the Gophers senior guard and his teammates fell short of their goal of playing in the NCAA tournament and instead settled for a trip to the NIT. Thanks in part 14 points from Hollins on Senior Night, Minnesota thumped Penn State by a 81-63 final and inched ever closer to a...
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Senior Day 2014
The home careers of Austin Hollins, Maverick Ahanmisi, Oto Osenieks, and Malik Smith will (hopefully) come to an end on Sunday afternoon, as the Golden Gophers celebrate senior day, and hopefully inch one step closer to a return to the NCAA tournament. The basketball game is self-evidently big, and if the Gophers do want to return to the tournament, they need to win. After thirty...
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Time to take a bow for Austin Hollins, Gophers seniors
MINNEAPOLIS -- Sunday's regular-season finale will likely have a different meaning for the three seniors on the Gophers men's basketball team.
Malik Smith's senior year was his one and only season at Minnesota after transferring from Florida International. While he's had plenty of good moments during the season as a sharpshooter, his Gophers career was a brief one...
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Mike Sherels named Gophers new linebackers coach
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Gophers' new linebackers coach is a familiar face.
The University of Minnesota announced Friday that Mike Sherels has been promoted to take over for Bill Miller as the coach of the team's linebackers. Sherels, who played for the Gophers from 2003-07, has been on head coach Jerry Kill's staff since 2011. His most recent position before Friday's promotion...
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Osenieks calls it quits early for Minnesota
Minnesota junior Oto Osenieks will end his playing career a year early.
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Oto Osenieks is retiring.
The University of Minnesota announced today that Oto Osenieks will be honored as part of senior day festivities on Sunday afternoon, and that his playing career with the Golden Gophers. The red-shirt junior forward hasn't played in the last two games due to a knee injury that sounds degenerative in nature. There is a silver lining though. According to the announcement from the...
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Minnesota sweeps Penn State; Nittany Lions host the Badgers this weekend
Sam Warning handles the puck against Penn State on Friday. (Photo c/o Holly Peterson Minnesota Daily)
Game 1 versus the Golden Gophers last Saturday wasn’t an ideal outcome for the Nittany Lions. Minnesota, who went 1-for-3 on the power play, and out shot PSU by a 36-31 margin in the contest. Kenny Brooks’ power-play goal gave Penn State the early lead, but Minnesota was too...
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Annual Minnesota Golden Gophers NCAA Tournament Bubble Watch
That time of year again:
Minnesota Golden Gophers NCAA Tournament bubble article/column/blog/post/analysis/meta-analysis. The Golden Gophers “will they or won’t they?” bit always comes up during the Big Ten Tournament lately. And we’ll update again when in Indy. The Golden Gophers, with an RPI of 44 are one of two bubble teams in the Big Ten. Nebraska is the other, and we’ll...
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8 days ago
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Kill 'blessed' to be given raise, extension at Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS -- Jerry Kill seemed almost embarrassed to be getting a pay raise.
The Gophers' head football coach is a simple and modest man who years ago lived in a trailer and made $250 a month before he eventually ascended to coach a Big Ten program. So when a restructuring of his contract, announced this weekend, boosted his salary from $1.2 million to $2.1 million in 2014...
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Gophers give Kill raise and extra year on contract
Minnesota has given football coach Jerry Kill a raise and another year on his contract.
The university announced Saturday that Kill's deal was extended through the 2018 season and that he'll make $2.1 million in 2014, a big spike from the previous figure of $1.2 million that was put his salary last among Big Ten coaches. This will push him closer to the middle of the conference...
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16 days ago
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Moses leads No. 21 Purdue over Minnesota 63-42
Courtney Moses scored 27 points as No. 21 Purdue defeated Minnesota 63-42 on Thursday night.
Moses, a senior guard, is now at 1,591 career points. She passed Purdue head coach Sharon Versyp and Camille Cooper for No. 11 on the Boilermakers' career scoring list.
Versyp reached 180 victories in her eighth season as Purdue's coach, No. 2 behind Lin Dunn (1988-96), who won...
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18 days ago
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Gophers fan finds unique way to avoid the Kiss Cam
An old sports axiom has it that tying your opponent is like kissing your sister.
Well, one Minnesota Gophers hockey fan didn't want to find out about the latter.
At Friday's Gophers game against Michigan, one Minnesota fan had a plan in case he was subject to the well-known Kiss Cam, seen in arenas and stadiums across the country.
He came prepared with a note, which he slowly...
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20 days ago
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WATCH: Gophers fan pulls out sign during Kiss-Cam appearance
Minnesota Gophers 'Kiss Cam' dude uses the sign to his advantage, YouTube views.**Follow us on Twitter, Subscribe by Email, View via Our Mobile Site, or Return Home
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21 days ago
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