Back in September, the Gophers women’s cross country team ran an intrasquad meet that matched the entire team against itself. The winner of the meet was Laura Docherty, and in a sense she hasn’t...

Minnesota State-Mankato showed the Gophers just how hard conference games are going to be this year. The Gophers defeated the Mavericks 3-2 at Mariucci Arena in the first stanza of a home-and-home series....

The Gophers men’s cross country team will travel to St. John’s this weekend for the Fall Finale, where its second group of runners will end the season against lesser competition. “The...

Laura Docherty never finished in the top 10 in the state of Minnesota during her high school career. As a junior in college, she hadn’t finished in the top 10 at the Big Ten championships —...

The Gophers’ performance this weekend was gritty — but not pretty. Minnesota hung on to beat Canisius 1-0 Sunday  after tying the U.S. Under-18 team 2-2 in an exhibition game Friday night.  Sophomore...

Minnesota sat in an uncomfortable spot after one period Friday night — trailing the U.S. Under-18 team 2-0 in an exhibition game. The Gophers came back to salvage a 2-2 tie at Mariucci Arena. In...

Minnesota’s competition this weekend will feature a program it’s never played before and a team that features one of its own recruits. Minnesota (3-1-0, 1-1-0 WCHA) will play the USA Under-18...

Both the men’s and women’s Gophers cross country teams will roll into East Lansing, Mich., for the Big Ten championships this weekend with a familiar strategy: start strong. Both teams will...

The Gophers were flying high following an opening-weekend sweep of Michigan State. This weekend, Michigan Tech brought them back to earth. The Huskies and Gophers split their Western Collegiate Hockey...

The Gophers learned Friday that they won’t all be easy. Michigan Tech handed Minnesota its first loss of the season Friday, riding a fast start to its 5-3 victory. The Gophers came into the game...

The level of competition at Saturday’s Jack’s Run will be low — but that doesn’t mean that the stakes aren’t high. The race, which will take place at 5 p.m. on Saturday at...

Nick Bjugstad scored both game-winning goals last weekend in the Gophers' season-opening sweep of Michigan State. On Tuesday, the WCHA rewarded his efforts by naming him its offensive player of the...

The Gophers men's hockey team's sweep of Michigan State last weekend impressed a lot of people, including the voters in the USCHO.com poll. Minnesota jumped ahead of Boston College to take the...

The Gophers women’s cross country team left room for improvement, but it managed a respectable 16th-place finish in the 48-team Wisconsin Adidas Invitational over the weekend in Madison, Wis. The...

Through one game, the Gophers look like they’ve figured out a way to win with an inexperienced goaltender: Score a lot of goals and don’t give up a lot of shots. Minnesota came out of the gates...

This is the last year for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association — or at least as it’s known now. Minnesota and Wisconsin will join Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State in...

The game won’t count, but Gophers fans will get their first look at this year’s men’s hockey squad Saturday night. Minnesota will entertain Lethbridge, a Canadian university, at Mariucci...

Former Gophers hockey player and current Buffalo Sabres member Thomas Vanek will play in his native Austria during the NHL lockout. Vanek will play for the Graz 99ers of the Erste Bank Hockey League, and...

The USCHO.com preseason poll for college men's hockey came out Monday, and it gave the Gophers less respect than the USA Today/USA Hockey poll, which was released in late September. Minnesota sits...

Thanks to some funky scheduling, this year’s Roy Griak Invitational won’t have as strong of a field as in the past. “It’s a screwed-up calendar this year, and there’s seven...

The Gophers men’s hockey team will open the 2012-13 season with the No. 1 ranking, according to the USA Today/USA Hockey preseason poll, but it will share the honors with the team that ended its...

Competing without its top runners, the Gophers women’s cross country team dominated inferior competition over the weekend to win its third straight event. Minnesota finished with 34 team points,...

The Gophers men’s hockey strong corps of incoming freshmen got a little thinner Thursday when it was announced that freshman forward Connor Reilly had suffered a season-ending injury. According to...

It might seem safe to assume that when the Gophers women’s cross country team travels to an event hosted by a Division II school, the weekend will be low-key. That’s far from this case. For...

Gophers head men’s golf coach John Carlson has made it known that he wants his team to finish strong. He got his wish this week, as Minnesota had a solid first and third round but a poor second round...

The Gophers men’s cross country team ran well — but not well enough — to beat a strong Brigham Young University team in its first full-squad competition Friday in Provo, Utah. BYU won...

The Gophers women’s golf team kicked off the fall portion of its season with a seventh-place showing at the Mary Fossum Invitational in East Lansing, Mich. Junior Banchalee Theinthong (74-74-77—225)...

The women’s cross country season is only two events in, but junior Laura Docherty has established herself as the Gophers’ top runner after winning both of them. Granted, one race was an intrasquad...

The Gophers men’s hockey team made it to the Frozen Four last year, but it will not make an appearance on any of the 24 college hockey games broadcast nationally by NBC Sports Network this season. This...

Plagued by slow starts throughout much of last spring, the Gophers men’s golf team began the same way this fall. This time, however, a strong field was partly to blame. Minnesota finished 13th out...

Out of the top 20 finishers in the women’s cross country race at the Oz Memorial last Friday, only three did not don maroon and gold. The Gophers produced the top 11 finishers and 17 of the top 20...

Despite accumulating more shots, corner kicks and scoring opportunities, the Gophers soccer team fell 1-0 to 20th-ranked San Diego State on Friday at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium. SDSU’s Megan Jurado...

  Junior Erik Van Rooyen of the Gophers men’s golf team and sophomore Banchalee Theinthong of the women’s team were both named to the All-Big Ten team on the second team Tuesday. Van Rooyen...