Senior Goaner Deng has had a strong season in the 800-meter run, and it might continue into the summer.
Deng will attempt to make the United States track and field team for the 2016 Summer...
The Minnesota women’s track and field team earned four event titles over the weekend at the Rock Chalk Classic, with all titles coming from track events.
The Gophers finished first...
A string of injuries caused junior Luca Wieland to nearly walk away from track and field as a freshman, but now he’s working toward a spot on the 2016 German Olympic team.
“I...
The University of Minnesota men’s track and field team won three titles at the Virginia Challenge over the weekend, thanks to strong performances by its veterans.
Junior Luca Wieland,...
One event stands out above the rest for the Gophers men’s and women’s track and field teams.
The hammer throw group on each team ranks first in the nation in the event, thanks...
The Gophers women’s track and field team, competing in a 35-program field, won nine event titles at the Holst Invitational over the weekend.
Minnesota placed five athletes in the top...
Redshirt sophomore Derek Wiebke has garnered the attention of Gophers head coach Steve Plasencia since the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Wiebke came in third in the mile...
The Gophers men’s track and field team won two titles at the Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Ariz., over the weekend, with senior Sean Donnelly winning the hammer throw for the third meet in a row.
Minnesota’s...
The Gophers women’s track and field team sent a relay team to the NCAA Championships the last two seasons, and the relay events are once again strengths for the team this year.
Minnesota’s...
The Gophers men’s 4x400-meter relay team and senior Sean Donnelly won two event titles for the Gophers at the Stanford Invitational, which concluded on Saturday.
Donnelly,...
Sean Donnelly said his life changed with one throw.
The senior cleared 74.35 meters in the hammer throw at the Baldy Castillo Invitational on March 18, beating Minnesota’s record by...
The Gophers competed in the Raleigh Relays in North Carolina over the weekend and came away with two titles.
Minnesota won both the 4x800-meter and 4x1,500-meter relay in the team’s...
One of the Gophers’ most consistent athletes has led the team at the beginning of the outdoor season.
Redshirt sophomore high jumper Nick Bachinski won his first outdoor competition...
The Gophers men’s track and field team started their outdoor season over the weekend and won three event titles at the Baldy Castillo Invitational in Arizona.
“I felt good about...
Minnesota’s disappointing season came to an end with the team’s biggest loss of the year.
The Gophers lost 85-52 to Illinois in the first round of the Big Ten tournament, with...
The suspension of three guards for the season has allowed another player a great deal more playing time.
Freshman walk-on Stephon Sharp has started the Gophers last three games since Nate Mason,...
The Gophers disappointing regular season ended with a large thud.
Minnesota, short another key player, lost 75-52 on the road to Rutgers on Saturday. The victory was the Scarlet Knights’...
The Gophers dug themselves a large hole in their final game of the regular season and couldn’t dig out of it.
Minnesota lost 62-49 to Wisconsin on Wednesday night at Williams Arena...
Guards Nate Mason, Dupree McBrayer and Kevin Dorsey all ended their seasons early on Tuesday.Head coach Richard Pitino announced the three would be suspended the remainder of the year. All three were suspended...
The Gophers, with three players on the bench, fell apart in the second half Sunday to end their two-game winning streak.
Minnesota led by eight points at halftime but lost 84-71 to Illinois...
The Gophers men’s track and field team had a strong showing at the 2016 Big Ten Indoor Championships, taking third with 72 points.
The Gophers were in 11th place as a team after the...
The Gophers freshmen class earned its first Big Ten victory on Feb. 18 against Maryland, which also led to the first court rush of the group’s careers.
The rookies have been asked...
Goaner Deng is off to a good start to his senior year on Minnesota’s track and field team, and it’s all by design.
Deng, one of the team’s captains, runs the 800 meters...
For the first time since November, the Gophers have a winning streak.
Minnesota won its second consecutive game Tuesday night at Williams Arena, defeating Rutgers 83-61 with an...
The Gophers have a reason to remain positive late in the season.
The 68-63 upset victory over Maryland Thursday night at home snapped a 14-game losing streak and allowed the team’s...
The Minnesota men’s track and field team ended their indoor home schedule with five event titles on Friday at the Snowshoe Open.
Senior Goaner Deng won the 800-meter run with...
The Gophers’ younger guards have played a lot of minutes during a disappointing season, but their growth is one of the team’s only silver linings.
Sophomore Nate Mason and freshmen...
Senior guard Carlos Morris has been taken off the Gophers basketball team, head coach Richard Pitino announced Wednesday.
The reason for the senior guard’s dismissal was “conduct...
The Gophers two month losing streak ended with a court storming.Minnesota upset No. 6 Maryland 68-63 in front of a crowd of 10,768 Thursday night at Williams Arena, picking up the team’s first Big Ten...
Titania Markland broke the program record in the 400-meter run to pace the Gophers at the Iowa State Classic.
The junior ran the event in 54.34 seconds, beating the previous record by only...
Once again, the Gophers came close to their first Big Ten victory but stumbled in the game’s final minutes.
Minnesota used a second-half surge to pull within two points of Michigan...
The Gophers struggle to get stops on the floor, and that’s one reason why the team’s losing streak hasn’t ended.
Minnesota is now up to 12 consecutive losses, thanks in...
The women’s track and field team kept setting records over the weekend in South Bend, Ind.
Minnesota set 19 season-best and 11 career-best marks in the two-day meet and won two event...
The Gophers started playing competitively in recent games despite a long losing streak, but they fell with a loud thud Thursday night.
Minnesota lost to Northwestern 82-58 in Evanston, Ill.,...
Gophers redshirt seniors Alex and Amanda Beckman grew up together, attended class together and appeared on Minnesota’s record books together.
The twin sisters both compete in the pentathlon...
In the midst of the Gophers’ long losing streak, some of the team’s younger players are providing glimmers of hope.
One of those bright spots has been freshman guard Dupree McBrayer,...
Players fumbling in the final minutes of the game once again kept the Gophers from picking up their first conference victory this season.
Minnesota’s guards scored a combined 50 points...
Senior Gemechu Godi won the first event of the Jack Johnson Classic over the weekend, and the rest of his team didn’t slow down after that.
Godi took first place in the 200-meter dash on...
The Gophers losing streak climbed to 10 on Wednesday night, after a 68-64 loss to No. 21 Purdue at Williams Arena.
Sophomore guard Nate Mason had a double-double in the loss, with 15 points...
Titania Markland wants to eventually make the Jamaican Olympic track and field team, and she’s moved more than 2,000 miles to keep working toward that goal.
“In the beginning,...
The Gophers are in the middle of one of the worst stretches in team history, and head coach Richard Pitino is bringing in outside help to re-inspire the team.
In the midst of a nine-game...
For the second year in a row, the women’s track team defeated Wisconsin in a dual meet.
The Gophers won 10 events in the second annual meet on Saturday at the University of...
It took a late collapse, but the Gophers managed to keep their long losing streak alive.
An overtime 76-71 loss to Illinois at Williams Arena on Saturday extended the team’s...
The Gophers played with effort again but couldn’t prevent another loss.
Minnesota pushed its losing streak to eight games Wednesday night with a 74-67 loss to Michigan on...
The season is young, but the Gophers are already looking at a familiar foe.
Minnesota and Wisconsin are set for a dual meet on Saturday, only the second annual meet between the two...
The Gophers futile start to Big Ten play continued on Saturday, as the team extended its losing streak to seven.
Minnesota lost 70-63 to Indiana at home, giving the Gophers a 0-6 start...
The Gophers have struggled this season to find a groove because of a lack of talking.
During Minnesota’s three-game losing streak, the team wasn’t conversing much on either end of the...
The venue changed, but the Gophers still couldn’t exorcise their South Dakota demons.
Minnesota fell to 5-5 on the year after a 62-60 loss to Oklahoma State in Sioux Falls, S.D., on...
The Gophers have found themselves in a rut in the nonconference schedule, but Jordan Murphy has been one bright spot for the team so far.
The rookie was Minnesota’s best offensive threat...
The Gophers lost their second straight game at home Tuesday night to another team from South Dakota.
South Dakota State blew out Minnesota 84-70, in a game the Jackrabbits never trailed.
“It’s...
The Gophers have toed the line between winning and losing many games this season, often by staying behind another.
The Gophers’ three-point shooting and defense has defined much of their season...
The emotions of the crowd at Williams Arena went from one extreme to another Saturday afternoon in an up-and-down game, where Minnesota and South Dakota battled into double overtime.
The...
Senior guard Carlos Morris had an up-and-down first season with the Gophers after transferring from Chipola College, but so far his play has evened out.
It started with taking better shots.
“He’s...
The Williams Arena crowd was loud as it watched a freshman grow right before its eyes.
Dunks, three-pointers and blocks highlighted a performance from freshman forward Jordan Murphy that gave fans...
For the 12th year in a row, the Gophers watched the Badgers grab Paul Bunyan’s Axe after defeating Minnesota 31-21 on Saturday.
The Gophers offense turned the ball over five times in...
Tension filled Williams Arena in the closing seconds of Friday’s game against the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
Head coach Richard Pitino, who had already thrown both his suit...
The Gophers are looking to break one streak and keep another going on Saturday.
The Gophers would become bowl eligible for the third straight season with a victory over rival Wisconsin on Saturday and...
Illinois pulled within one of Minnesota late in the fourth quarter, and the stagnant Gophers offense needed a drive to close out the game.
Cue freshman running back Shannon Brooks. Brooks cutback...
Members of the Gophers men’s basketball team saw a familiar face as they looked at the other sideline on Sunday afternoon.
Minnesota lost to its former head coach Tubby Smith 81-68...
Minnesota has been conducting plenty of experiments on the court so far this season.
Head coach Richard Pitino has been trying out different lineups on the court in the team’s first games...
Iowa fans chanted loudly in the fourth quarter on Saturday, but the Gophers offense was unaffected and drove for a six-play, 75-yard drive that only took 45 seconds.
The drive included pass...
The Gophers started their season by winning their first two games with two big scoring nights for senior forward Joey King.
King scored a combined 42 points over the weekend, including a career-high...
The crowd was silent; the Gophers had given up a 13-point lead in the second half.
But Minnesota raised the volume of Williams Arena with a 17-5 run to secure its second win of the season, beating Louisiana-Monroe...
Minnesota lost its third trophy of the year and fourth game in a row, falling to No. 8 Iowa 40-35 on Saturday night.
The Hawkeyes remain undefeated and reclaimed Floyd of Rosedale, crossing...
One player stayed behind after the Gophers loss on Saturday to Ohio State.
Junior cornerback Jalen Myrick was hospitalized with rib and lung injuries after the game. He didn’t make...
The Gophers are in their first full week under slightly new management.
Interim head coach Tracy Claeys — promoted following Jerry Kill’s retirement on Oct. 28 — was in charge...
The crowd’s chants of “Jerry” were deafening as the Gophers lined up for a game-winning touchdown on the half-yard line with two seconds remaining in Saturday’s game against...
The Gophers will try to break a 50-year-old trend when they face the University of Michigan Saturday evening.
The Gophers will try to keep the Little Brown Jug, the trophy given to the...
The expectations for the Gophers men’s basketball team are lower than they were a season ago, but they’ve only been raised for sophomore Nate Mason.
Head coach Richard Pitino expressed...
Men’s basketball head coach Richard Pitino will finally bring out a roster almost entirely his own this season.
All but one player on the team’s roster has come in under Pitino and...
The Gophers have sent their medical staff out on the field a lot this season.
Minnesota has dealt with the most injuries head coach Jerry Kill said he has seen in 32 years, and the banged-up Gophers...
The Gophers defense helped out a struggling offense for the first half of the season but turned in an awful performance on Saturday.
The Gophers gave up 48 points, the most points they’ve...
The image of tight end Maxx Williams leaping defenders on his way to the end zone is still fresh in the minds of the Gophers, but Minnesota has another tight end who’s drawn a lot of comparisons...
Watching the Gophers offense this season hasn’t been easy, and their struggles have been obvious.
Until last week against Purdue, the offense looked lost. This has begged the question: Why...
After getting shut out against Northwestern University, the Gophers offense went in the opposite direction on Saturday.
The Gophers offense looked re-energized in their 41-13 victory at Purdue...
At most colleges, punters are seen and not heard, but Minnesota’s has a cult following.
Gophers redshirt senior punter Peter Mortell’s face is a common sight on Saturdays at TCF Bank...
The Gophers offense has struggled this season, and the team is taking unique measures to right the ship.
After Minnesota gained only 173 yards against Northwestern University, the team did something...
The Gophers have often struggled on offense under head coach Jerry Kill, and at no position is this more apparent than at quarterback.
Redshirt junior Mitch Leidner struggled again in the...
The Gophers basketball team needed a change, coming off a season where they went 6-12 in Big Ten play and missed the NCAA and NIT tournament.
Change has arrived in the form of new faces, with five...
The Gopher’s secondary will look different heading into the game at Northwestern University this weekend, as last Saturday’s game against Ohio University took its toll on the team.
Redshirt...
University of Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill offered plenty of praise to freshman Shannon Brooks coming into the season, and the running back showed why on Saturday against Ohio University.
Brooks...
The Gophers tried to rely on senior leadership early this season, but in the midst of a seven-game losing streak Minnesota has turned to its talented young players to try to find a victory.
In...
