Gopher Sports: News & Notes

Catch up on all the latest news from Gopher Athletics from the past week.

WEDNESDAY

Men's Golf at Puerto Rico Classic | Rio Grande, PR | Live Scoring
- GopherSports.com: Minnesota posted a 13-shot improvement in round two to move into 10th place

THURSDAY

Women's Basketball vs. Nebraska | 7PM | BTN

FRIDAY

#21 Track & Field at Tyson Invitational | Fayetteville, AR
Softball vs. Idaho State | El Paso, TX | Noon
Softball at UTEP | 3PM | ESPN+
#3 Women's Hockey at #2 Ohio State | 5PM | Fox 9+ | B1G+
Baseball at Stetson | 5:30PM | ESPN+
Men's Hockey at Notre Dame | 6PM | Peacock

SATURDAY

#21 Track & Field at Tyson Invitational | Fayetteville, AR
Baseball vs. St. John's | Deland, FL | 9AM
Softball vs. #3 Oklahoma | Las Cruces, NM | 10AM | ESPN+
Tennis vs. Alabama | 11AM
#15 Gymnastics at #16 Penn State | 1PM | B1G+
#3 Women's Hockey at #2 Ohio State | 2PM | Fox 9+ | B1G+
Softball at New Mexico State | 4PM | ESPN+
Men's Hockey at Notre Dame | 5PM | NBC Sports Network | Peacock
Men's Basketball at Washington | 8PM | NBC Sports Network | Peacock

SUNDAY

Baseball vs. Ball State | Deland, FL | 8:30AM
Tennis vs. Colorado | 9AM
Softball at New Mexico State | 10AM
#9 Wrestling vs. Michigan State | 1PM | B1G+
Tennis vs. Drake | 2PM
Women's Basketball at Wisconsin | 5PM | BTN

TUESDAY

Men's Basketball at Oregon | 9:30PM | FS1

LAST WEEK

Men's Basketball (11-13, 4-9)
W, 76-73 vs. #10 Michigan State | Highlights
L, 62-67 vs. Maryland | Highlights

@GopherMBB: Thursday's locker room celebration went viral

Women's Basketball (18-6, 9-4)
W, 91-85 at #10 Iowa | Highlights
W, 63-52 at Rutgers | Highlights

@GopherWBB: Minnesota celebrated after its first top 10 win since 2017-18

Gymnastics (4-3, 2-2)
L, 197.275-197.550 vs. #5 UCLA | Highlights

@GopherWGym: Gophers posted their best vault team score in four seasons
Saturday's meet had a school record attendance of 5,081

Men's Hockey (10-18-1, 6-12-0)
L, 2-6 vs. Ohio State | Highlights
L, 1-2 vs. Ohio State | Highlights

Women's Hockey (24-5-1, 18-5-1)
W, 4-1 at St. Thomas | Highlights
T, 1-1 vs. St. Thomas | Highlights

GopherSports.com: Hannah Clark earned her third WCHA Goaltender of the Week honor

Men's Swimming & Diving (6-5, 0-3)
Hosted First Chance Meet | Recap

Women's Swimming & Diving (10-2, 4-1)
Hosted First Chance Meet | Recap

Softball (1-4)
L, 3-5 vs. Miami (OH)
L, 2-3 at San Diego State | Recap
L, 1-6 vs. Miami (OH)
W, 8-0 vs. Loyola Chicago | Recap
L, 0-8 vs. Kentucky | Recap

Tennis (6-0)
W, 6-1 at Wyoming | Recap
W, 4-3 at Colorado State | Recap

@GopherWTennis: Yinong Ma clinched Minnesota's 6-0 start with a three-set win against the Rams

Track & Field
1 Title at Fairgrounds Invitational
11 Titles at Gopher Classic | Recap

Wrestling (10-5, 4-3)
L, 15-23 at #15 Rutgers | Recap
W, 37-6 at Maryland | Highlights

@GopherBaseball: Ahead of Friday's season opener in Florida, Coach McDevitt was a guest on Mike Grimm's Go Gopher Podcast.

Gophers in the Olympics:

USA handed Canada its first Olympic shutout on Tuesday to advance to Friday's quarterfinal against Italy (2:10PM | USA Network)
@NBCOlympics: Abbey Murphy had three assists against Canada including ESPN's No. 4 Top Play
@USAHockey: Murphy broke down her first Olympic goal
@USAHockey: Taylor Heise picked up her first Olympic goal from Murphy
ESPN.com: Murphy was featured in ESPN's 32 Olympians to Watch
@thepwhlofficial: Natálie Mlýnková had three goals for Czechia in the prelims

GopherSports.com: Members of the national champion Dance Team were featured in the latest Gopher Round Table.

GopherSports.com: Boye Mafe and Nick Kallerup became Super Bowl champions on Sunday as Seattle defeated New England, 29-13.

GopherSports.com: Rowing's Kimberly Klassen and Emilie Rish were named to the 3rd Annual For Stars Network Division I Watchlist.

GopherSports.com: Right-hander Brandon Jaenke was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Stopper of the Year award watchlist.

@MikeGrimm3: Coach Ritter previewed the 2026 Softball season on Mike Grimm's Go Gopher Podcast.

GopherSports.com: Volleyball unveiled its spring schedule which will begin in early April.

GopherSports.com: Abbey Murphy and Bella Fanale were named WCHA Player and Rookie of the Month, respectively. Murphy was also named the HCA Forward of the Month.

ESPN.com: Women's Basketball is a projected seven seed in ESPN.com's latest Bracketology.

GopherSports.com: Coach Hansen appeared in the latest Golden Gopher Podcast.

KFAN.com: Coach Medved spoke with Dan Barreiro on KFAN following last week's win against the Spartans.

GopherSports.com: Women's Basketball sophomore Tori McKinney was featured in the latest episode of Minnesota Made.

Gopher Shorts:

Men's Golf: Season Opener Hype
Gymnastics: Which Olympic Sport?
Gymnastics: Pre-Meet Hype Song?
Soccer: Winter Workouts
Men's Basketball: Another Court Storm at Williams
Football: Winter Workouts Week 2
Football: Who's Winning a Super Bowl Ring?

@GopherHockey: Men's Hockey visited Mahtomedi as part of its Rink Roots program.

@GopherBaseball: Baseball is introducing its newcomers in its series 'In The Cage':

@GopherWrestling: Freshman Charlie Millard was the latest guest on Wrestling's "The Hot Seat".

YouTube.com: Sophomore All-American Max McEnelly was profiled in BTN's "On the Mat" series.

@Buccaneers: Tampa Bay safety Antoine Winfield Jr. was mic'd up during last week's Pro Bowl Games.

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