University of Minnesota Athletics
University of Minnesota Clinches TDS Border Battle Over Wisconsin
5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
In the initial year of the battle, each of the 11 sports originally included in the competition had 40 points at stake. If the teams met just once annually (football as an example), then the winner received 40 points and the loser received zero. If the teams met twice (women's basketball, for example), the winner of each game received 20 points and the losers received zero. If the teams met four times (men's hockey for example), then the winner of each game received 10 points. If a game ended in a tie, the points were split (20 to each school). The new scoring configuration maintains the original scoring structure and adds 40 points to the higher finishing school at the Big Ten championship in the sports of men's and women's cross country, golf, indoor track and outdoor track, swimming and diving and women's rowing. Minnesota swept Wisconsin in eight sports during the season: soccer, women's cross country, wrestling, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's indoor track and field and men's and women's tennis.
