The Gophers’ season-low shooting performance didn’t give them a chance on Sunday, but this team has often lost games even when they are the better shooting team. READ MORE
Gophers Are Falling Even When Their Shots Do
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Road to Selection Sunday: Big South Kicks Off Conference Tournament Season
The Big South Conference kicks off the conference tournament season Monday when #10 seed Radford (4-25) travels to #7 VMI (11-15) and #9 Gardner-Webb (10-19) visits #8 High Point (10-17), the alma mater of embattled Gophers head coach Tubby Smith. High Point and the Gophers have one other thing in common. … the only way […] READ MORE
Freshman Big Man Alex Illikainen Already Hearing From Gophers and Badgers
Alex Illikainen, a 6-foot-8, 192-pound freshman from Grand Rapids, is considered the top player in the state in the Class of 2015. He made an unofficial visit to Minnesota last May and attended a Gopher football game this past fall. He has started to attract interest from several schools, including Minnesota, Creighton and Wisconsin. Minnesota […] READ MORE
Game Preview: Indiana 2/26/12
#23/24 Indiana (21-7, 8-7) faces Minnesota (17-11, 5-10) Sunday afternoon on ESPN. The Gophers upset the Hoosiers in Bloomington and desperately need to complete the sweep. READ MORE
Road to Selection Sunday: Leaders, Locks, Bubblers & Longshots (27 teams, 10 available bids)
BRACKET QUEST, U.S.A. — With conference tournaments now on the immediate horizon — the Big South kicks things off on Monday — here’s a thumbnail glance at our conference leaders, NCAA tournament locks, the “strong” bubble, the “true” bubblers, and finally, the “hanging on a thread” longshots. The Gophers remain in the last group because they have two major “scalp” opportunities (Indiana and @ […] READ MORE
Game Preview: Michigan State 2/22/12
#6 Michigan State (22-5, 11-3) is in Minneapolis to take on Minnesota (17-10, 5-9) tonight at 7:30pm CT (TV: BTN). READ MORE
President Eric Kaler Announces Search Plan for New AD
President Kaler hopes to have the new AD in place by July 1. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler has named a search committee and selected Parker Executive Search to lead the search for the next director of athletics. A 21-member search advisory committee and a four-person search committee will work with the leading national […] READ MORE
Game Preview: at Northwestern 2/18/12
Minnesota needs to get a win in Evanston, but so does Northwestern. The Gophers (17-9, 5-8) take on the Wildcats (15-10, 5-8) at 6pm CT tonight (TV: BTN). READ MORE
Rashad Vaughn Adds Big Time Offers as His Big Time Game Continues to Excel
Rashad Vaughn is piling up scholarship offers as quickly as he is piling up stats. Rashad Vaughn, a 6-foot-4 sophomore from Robbinsdale Cooper, shined this week as he scored 94 points in three games, including 35 points against three-time Class AAAA champion Hopkins Saturday. GopherHole.com caught up with Vaughn to learn the latest on his […] READ MORE
Road to Selection Sunday: For the First Time, Gophers on the Outside Looking In
IT’s GO TIME, U.S.A. — It took until mid-February to do it, but much like last season the Gophers have played their way onto the wrong side of the bubble. Now the question is, unlike last season, can the Gophers play their way back to the right side of the bubble? The answer starts becoming clearer […] READ MORE