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#18 Badgers Top #2 Gophers In Outdoor Game Sunday

Dave Overlund — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:03:20 +0000

The #18 Wisconsin Badgers took advantage of sloppy conditions at Soldier Field in Chicago to top the #2 Minnesota Golden Gophers in a WCHA game Sunday.

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Gophers Slip By #20 Badgers Thursday Night

Dave Overlund — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:26:14 +0000

The Minnesota Gophers improved to 18-7 on the season with a 58-53 overtime victory over #20 Wisconsin at WIlliams Arena on Thursday. Andre Hollins led the Gophers with 21 points but shot just 5-16 from the floor

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Hanowski Leads Huskies Into Series With Schmidt, Minnesota (AUDIO)

Dave Overlund — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:00:35 +0000

Little Falls native Ben Hanowski is the all time leading scorer in Minnesota high school history with 405 points in just 117 games. He also smashed Dave Spehar's high school career goal record of 171, finishing with 196 in 2009

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Gophers Stymied By Spartans Wednesday

Dave Overlund — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:10:02 +0000

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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Gopher Men's Basketball Rises In Rankings

Dave Overlund — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:48:17 +0000

The Minnesota Golden Gopher men's basketball team moved up from 23rd in the country to 18th in the latest AP and Coaches Polls released Monday.

The Gophers beat Nebraska in convincing fashion On January 29th, then snuck past Iowa 62-59 on Sunday

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Kill, Gophers Sign Skyscraping Tight End

Dave Overlund — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:18:59 +0000

The Minnesota Golden Gophers have reportedly added 6'10" tight end Nate Wozniak ahead of the national signing period. According to a report on 247sports.com, Wozniak chose the Gophers over Miami, FL. Last season while playing for Gr

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Gopher Basketball Ranked #23; Mbakwe's Wrist Won't Keep Him Out

Jay Caldwell — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:32:23 +0000

The Gopher men's basketball team is ranked #23 this week in the Associated Press top 25 poll and #24 in the ESPN/USA Today poll. The Gophers lost both games last week at Northwestern and Wisconsin.

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Gopher Basketball Drops 4th Straight

Jay Caldwell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:58:33 +0000

The 12th ranked Gopher basketball team lost 45-44 Saturday at Wisconsin. Minnesota was down 2 with 1.8 seconds left when Trevor Mbakwe was fouled after catching the in-bound pass.

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#9 Gophers Defeated By #5 Michigan

Dave Overlund — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:40:26 +0000

The #9-ranked Minnesota Golden Gopher Men's basketball team was defeated 83-75 by the #5-ranked Michigan Wolverines at Williams Arena Thursday.

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SCSU Men's Hockey Ranked #15

Jay Caldwell — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:24:53 +0000

The St. Cloud State men's hockey team is ranked #15 this week in the USCHO.com Division I poll. The Huskies split a weekend series at #3 Denver last weekend. The Huskies are 5-3-0 and will host #6 North Dakota at 7:37 Friday night and 7:07 Saturday night.

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10 Things MN Sports Fans Can Be Thankful For!

Ty James — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:46:21 +0000

It would be easy right now to be very upset with the current status of our local sports teams. The Vikings are a mess, the Twins are coming off their worst season in recent memory, and the Wolves aren't even playing due to the strike

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Gophers' Smith Had Prostate Cancer

Jay Caldwell — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:28:14 +0000

Gopher head men's basketball coach Tubby Smith says he had prostate cancer but no longer has the disease. Through a statement from the University of Minnesota Smith says he had surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to remove the cancer last month.

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