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per Amelia:
In the underbelly of Williams Arena, life went on. Players showered, and changed out of their sweaty jerseys. They chatted, stared up at the basketball game playing on the giant TV, and fiddled with the boxes of Buffalo Wild Wings placed at their lockers.
No. 6 Wisconsin had just upended the dreaming Gophers 76-63, halting any momentum from the previous upset over No. 25 Michigan State and any far-fetched hopes of the NCAA tournament. But Thursday’s loss was only the latest in a long parade of heartbreaks that capsized a once-promising Year 2 in coach Richard Pitino’s short tenure — one billed as a celebration of four critical seniors playing at their peak.
Now, as much as anything, the Gophers seemed exhausted.
“I didn’t expect this at all,” Hollins said of the Gophers’ 6-11 conference record heading into Sunday’s regular-season finale at home against Penn State. “But it happened. You have to learn from it — it has to make you stronger and I think we learned from it as a team. But we’re not done yet. We’ve got to keep working hard, we’ve got to work hard until the final buzzer sounds.”
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/295511881.html
Go Gophers!!
In the underbelly of Williams Arena, life went on. Players showered, and changed out of their sweaty jerseys. They chatted, stared up at the basketball game playing on the giant TV, and fiddled with the boxes of Buffalo Wild Wings placed at their lockers.
No. 6 Wisconsin had just upended the dreaming Gophers 76-63, halting any momentum from the previous upset over No. 25 Michigan State and any far-fetched hopes of the NCAA tournament. But Thursday’s loss was only the latest in a long parade of heartbreaks that capsized a once-promising Year 2 in coach Richard Pitino’s short tenure — one billed as a celebration of four critical seniors playing at their peak.
Now, as much as anything, the Gophers seemed exhausted.
“I didn’t expect this at all,” Hollins said of the Gophers’ 6-11 conference record heading into Sunday’s regular-season finale at home against Penn State. “But it happened. You have to learn from it — it has to make you stronger and I think we learned from it as a team. But we’re not done yet. We’ve got to keep working hard, we’ve got to work hard until the final buzzer sounds.”
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/295511881.html
Go Gophers!!