Gopher Basketball Articles

Gopher Basketball Game Info Opponent: Michigan State Spartans When: 1:30 pm, February 11th, 2006 Where: Williams Arena ““ Minneapolis, MN Television: ESPNU/KSTC Ch. 45 The Gopher Men have now won two of their past three games, but they have another very tough task facing them when #11 Michigan State visits The Barn. The Spartans have […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Just days earlier the Penn State Nittany Lions shocked the college basketball world and upset Illinois at Assembly Hall. On Wednesday night they jumped out to a 10-0 lead over the Minnesota Gophers and all seemed normal. But the Gophers refused to roll over and received a much needed boost from their trio […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball It’s been a long and frustrating season for the Gophers and the team is only half way through its Big Ten schedule. At 1-7, the Gophers find themselves alone in the Big Ten cellar and remain a team without an identity, consistent scoring or any type of sustainable momentum following last months dominating […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball It was probably too much to hope for. No Gopher team has won back-to-back games against ranked opponents since the 1997 team did it in San Antonio to get to the Final Four (I’m still allowed to say that, right?), so it was highly unlikely that this year’s team would after getting off […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Game Info Opponent: Ohio State Buckeyes When: 2 pm, February 4th, 2006 Where: Value City Arena ““ Columbus, OH Television: KSTC Ch. 45 Fresh off their biggest (ok, only) victory in conference play, Minnesota’s heads to Columbus on Saturday looking to knock off their second ranked opponent of the week. The Buckeyes are […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Happy happy joy joy, happy happy joy joy. Minnesota’s first Big Ten victory has been a long time coming, but this one was worth the wait. Inspired by an unexpected starting lineup which included Jamal Abu-Shamala and Zach Puchtel, the Gophers got off to a quick start and never looked back. Not a […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Game Info Opponent: Indiana Hoosiers When: Noon, January 29th, 2006 Where: Williams Arena ““ Minneapolis, MN Television: CBS Usually a Sunday afternoon CBS game at The Barn against the #11 team in the country would be a cause for excitement and anticipation. But with Minnesota off to an 0-6 start in Big Ten […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball For a good portion of the game it looked like the Gophers could avoid an embarrassing final score. Minnesota hung tough during the first half and cut the second half lead to four points early on, but in the end, it got ugly”¦.again. The Fighting Illini of Illinois built a methodical lead in […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball Over the last few weeks the Minnesota Gopher basketball team has not made things easy for itself. From poor field shooting to game-costing free throw misses to a lack of energy. Now in an attempt to earn its first Big Ten win, the schedule makers take their turn in putting up obstacles. The […] READ MORE

Gopher Basketball It’s getting frustrating writing about games like this, so it really must be bad playing and coaching in them. The Gophers continued a familiar pattern of starting slowly Saturday night, and they wound up pretty much duplicating their collapse at Purdue a week ago. Minnesota fell behind by 10 points early, rallied to […] READ MORE