basketball

The #18 Minnesota Golden Gopher men's basketball team lost 60-51 to #8 Michigan State Wednesday night in East Lansing, Michigan.

The Gophers (17-6, 5-5) led the Spartans (19-4, 8-2)  by two at the half but couldn't hang with the Spartans in the second half

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St. Ben’s won their ninth straight basketball game with an 88-55 blowout over Augsburg at Claire Lynch Hall.

Sixteen Blazers scored in the game, with Whitney Canton leading the way with ten points

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The #23-ranked Minnesota Gopher men's basketball team won their second game in a row Sunday by defeating Iowa 62-59 at Williams Arena.

The game was a nail-biter from beginning to end, with the Gophers holding the lead 29-28 at the half

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The St. Ben's Blazers won their eighth straight game Saturday night with a 66-45 rout of St. Kate's. Brianna Barrett scored 20 points to lead St. Ben's.

The Blazers (16-4, 14-3) never trailed in the game

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Boys Basketball
Duluth East 66 @ Rocori 78

Jonah Eisenschenk led the Spartans (9-7, 5-4) with 20 points and Mac Mueller added 17 in Rocori's fourth straight win.

Two Greyhounds (9-8), Shaq Co

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The Minnesota Gopher men's basketball team cruised past Nebraska 84-65 Tuesday night at Williams Arena. The win snapped a four game conference losing streak for Minnesota.

Rodney Williams led the Gophers with 23 points on 8-13 shooting, including a few thunderous dunks

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GIRLS
Willmar 70, Rocori 56
Willmar: Courtney Magnuson- 15 pts
Rocori: Shaina Schmitz- 15 pts

Long Prairie-GE 54, St. John's Prep 49
LPGE: Jenna Langer- 17 pts
Leah Schellinger- 19 pts

Fergus Falls 50, St. Cloud Tech 42
Fergus: Hannah Swenson- 2

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NBA teams around the league, as well as fans around the country, had to notice the impressive win Sunday by the Lakers, over the Thunder. Aside from the antics of Metta World Peace, the Lakers were able to come up with a huge win in come-from-behind fashion, and clearly sent a message to the rest of the league

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The T' Wolves season took a bit of a nosedive when Ricky Rubio became injured, and out for the year.

The fact still remains, though, that the future is very bright assuming Rubio comes back healthy

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I have learned in the past few months, that this group of ROCORI athletes can never be counted out.

Tomorrow morning (AM 1390, pregame at 9:50am, 10am tip-off) the ROCORI Spartans boys basketball team (18-11) takes on top seeded Minneapolis Washburn (27-2), in the state 3A quarter finals

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