University of Minnesota Athletics
Minnesota Earns No. 3 Seed at Big Ten Tournament
5/7/2013 12:00:00 AM | Softball
May 7, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. - Minnesota will be seeded third at the 2013 Big Ten Softball Tournament, which begins on Thursday with first-round games at the University of Nebraska's Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln, Neb.
The Gophers finished the regular season with a record of 33-16 overall and 14-6 in the Big Ten for third place in the final regular season standings. Michigan (44-9, 20-2) will be the top seed in the four-day single-elimination tournament, while host Nebraska (39-12, 16-6) will be the No. 2 seed, and Wisconsin (39-11, 16-7) earned the fourth seed. Those four teams receive first-round byes and will begin play on Friday.
Minnesota will open the tournament on Friday at 4:30 p.m. (CT) against the winner of Thursday's game between sixth-seeded Illinois (22-26, 11-12) and No. 11 Penn State (15-33, 5-17). If the Gophers win, they would advance to Saturday's semifinals at 4:30 p.m., where they would face the winner of the game between Nebraska and No. 7 Michigan State (24-24, 9-10)/No. 10 Purdue (22-31, 8-15).
Sunday's championship game is set for 12:00 p.m. Both Saturday's semifinal games, as well as Sunday's championship game, will be televised live on the Big Ten Network.
Free video of Thursday and Friday's games is available at the following link: http://www.huskers.com/ liveEvents/liveEvents.dbml?& DB_OEM_ID=100&DB_OEM_ID=100& KEY=
