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per Marcus:
Nate Mason always knew when it was Border Battle week. Random students would walk up to him and his Gophers basketball teammates on campus to make sure they knew only one thing mattered: beating Wisconsin.
“As soon as I stepped on campus, it was always,” Mason said, “ ‘You got to beat Wisconsin.’ ”
Gophers coach Richard Pitino hasn’t beaten Wisconsin since his first season with the program in 2013-14. Not only does the U have six straight losses in the series, it hasn’t won in Madison since 2009.
But this might be the best opportunity in years for the Gophers to end that drought.
The improvement of Mason and Murphy has fueled Minnesota’s longest Big Ten win streak since the 1996-97 vacated Final Four season. The Gophers 20 years ago won 12 straight conference games before falling 66-65 in Madison. That was the last time they ended the regular season playing Wisconsin.
No matter how much success the Gophers are enjoying right now, players would hear about it around campus next week if they lost to the Badgers again.
“People are always saying, ‘Better dead than red’,” McBrayer said. “Some of my classmates have been telling me that we better beat Wisconsin.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-have-score-to-settle-vs-badgers-in-madison/415406854/
Go Gophers!!
Nate Mason always knew when it was Border Battle week. Random students would walk up to him and his Gophers basketball teammates on campus to make sure they knew only one thing mattered: beating Wisconsin.
“As soon as I stepped on campus, it was always,” Mason said, “ ‘You got to beat Wisconsin.’ ”
Gophers coach Richard Pitino hasn’t beaten Wisconsin since his first season with the program in 2013-14. Not only does the U have six straight losses in the series, it hasn’t won in Madison since 2009.
But this might be the best opportunity in years for the Gophers to end that drought.
The improvement of Mason and Murphy has fueled Minnesota’s longest Big Ten win streak since the 1996-97 vacated Final Four season. The Gophers 20 years ago won 12 straight conference games before falling 66-65 in Madison. That was the last time they ended the regular season playing Wisconsin.
No matter how much success the Gophers are enjoying right now, players would hear about it around campus next week if they lost to the Badgers again.
“People are always saying, ‘Better dead than red’,” McBrayer said. “Some of my classmates have been telling me that we better beat Wisconsin.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-have-score-to-settle-vs-badgers-in-madison/415406854/
Go Gophers!!
