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After a strong and encouraging start to the season, Gopher hoops has floundered over the past couple of weeks. They needed overtime to beat Green Bay, they trailed Chicago State in the final 11 minutes before pulling away and on Saturday afternoon they were beat by San Francisco in a game that was controlled by […]
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It has been an unusual fall for head coach P.J. Fleck and co., at least as far as recruiting goes. There have been a flurry of commitments (and, in a few cases, decommitments) as the Minnesota Golden Gophers seek to put the finishing touches on this recruiting class ahead of Early National Signing Day. The […]
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Beat Wisconsin. The best word I can come up with to describe this season is “meh.” Beating Wisconsin won’t make this season magical, but it will at least keep it in the “meh” ballpark. The Gopher offense is not very good and kind of boring. The Gopher defense is bad, and seemingly getting worse week […]
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The Minnesota Golden Gopher women’s basketball team will have a gorgeous place to try and bounce back after their first loss of the season. Minnesota plays their first game of the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship in the Bahamas on Monday afternoon against South Florida at 3PM. Minnesota picked up their first loss of […]
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers (6-5) are at risk of losing four of their final five games after suffering a miserable 38-35 loss to the Northwestern Wildcats (6-5) on Saturday at Wrigley Field. The Ugly The Gopher defense. Northwestern came into the game ranked 52nd in rushing offense (169.4 rushing yards per game), 116th in passing […]
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A semi-home game for the Gophers against the Dons. Hopefully, this can erase some of the sting from the football game.
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Minnesota lost to Northwestern at Wrigley Field 38-35. The Gophers drop to 6-5 on the season and 4-4 in Big Ten play. The first quarter was a textbook Minnesota first quarter. The offense did nothing and the defense gave up two scores. There was a bit of life at the end of the first when […]
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The Highs and Lows After a three and out to start the quarter, the Gophers were given the gift of a muffed punt. Taking over at Northwestern’s 28, Minnesota immediately scored a touchdown on a play action pass from Drake Lindsey to Javon Tracy. It was Tracy’s third touchdown reception of the day. Northwestern responded […]
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A much better second quarter at Wrigley. Koi Perich flew through a perfect tunnel block for a 95 yard return to set up first and goal at the end of the first quarter. The Gophers punched it in on a nice counter pitch to Darius Taylor to start the second. The defense continued a maddening […]
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Sioux Falls 4:30 Peacock San Francisco Minnesota Golden GophersRecord: 4-1KenPom Rank: 94 San Francisco DonsRecord: 4-1KenPom Rank: 82 Now begins a portion of the schedule that is very interesting as the Gophers have three games in a row against similarly talented opponents. It starts with the Dons in Sioux Falls. KEYS TO A GOPHER WIN […]
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Is having more penalty yards than offense good?
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We’re in a baseball stadium. Can Minnesota put up more points than a baseball team? Will they be as disappointing as the Twins ownership? Come find out together.
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The Gophers get to play Northwestern at Wrigley Field. This should be a fun environment and hopefully a large number of Minnesota fans have made the trip. But can Minnesota get their first road win of the season? How to WatchTV: BTNTime: 11:00Stream: FoxSports.com Two teams that need this win. Northwestern needs one more win […]
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s hockey team will play their final two home games of 2025 this weekend when the #5 ranked Penn State Nittany Lions come to 3M Arena at Mariucci. It will be Gophers fans first look at highly touted freshman forward Gavin McKenna for Penn State—but there is more than just him […]
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The #2 ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s hockey team will face Minnesota State in a home and home series this weekend. The teams will face off Friday night at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis before heading down Highway 169 for a tilt Saturday afternoon at the Mayo Clinic HSEC in Mankato. Minnesota will look to build […]
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers (6-4) make their final road trip of the regular season, paying a visit to the Windy City to take on the Northwestern Wildcats (5-5) at 11 a.m. CST on Saturday, Nov. 22, at Wrigley Field. This Week’s Thoughts: GopherNation: I was going to go with a low-scoring, ugly game, but I’m […]
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The #19 ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers volleyball team closes out the road portion of their regular season schedule this weekend when they head to the East Coast for a pair of matches at Maryland and Rutgers. Both the Terrapins and Scarlet Knights have been overmatched in the Big Ten this season with Maryland entering Friday’s […]
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Week 11 saw even more injuries hit as Tyler Nubin and Rashod Bateman both missed time. Blake Cashman had an insane game but couldn’t help the Vikings to a win, and Danny Striggow had the best game of his young NFL career for Jacksonville. Here is a full recap of how all the former Gophers […]
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We had a lot of big spreads last week and got a lot of big results. The game of the week was USC hanging on to knock out Iowa from anything exciting postseason wise. Michigan also got a huge boost with their walk-off in Wrigley. Print the shirts now. This week USC and Oregon have […]
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One game after going to overtime with the lowly Green Bay Gottliebs the Gophers found themselves in an unexpected rock fight with the perennially lowly Chicago State Cougars on Tuesday night. After racing out to a 22-8 lead to begin the game, it looked like Minnesota would get back to cruising over 300+ KenPom teams […]
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Just get this win and let’s move on to more interesting opponents.
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s basketball team has looked invincible so far this season en route to starting with a 4-0 record. Minnesota has knocked off a trio of weak smaller conference opponents, and dominated a Marquette team that was predicted to finish second in the Big East. But all four of those games were […]
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The Barn 7:00 B1G+ Chicago State Minnesota Golden GophersRecord: 3-1KenPom Rank: 91 Chicago State CougarsRecord: 0-4KenPom Rank: 351 The Gophers started the season with five very strong halves of basketball and it has been kind of ugly for the last three. Can they put it back together to take down the Cougars? KEYS TO A […]
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers (6-4) make their final road trip of the regular season, paying a visit to the Windy City to take on the Northwestern Wildcats (5-5) at 11 a.m. CST on Saturday, Nov. 22, at Wrigley Field. Can Northwestern score on offense? There is nothing that the Wildcats do exceptionally well on the […]
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