Minnesota Golden Gophers NCAA Basketball News

Here is the latest Minnesota sports from The AP OAKLAND, Calif. The Minnesota Timberwolves have lost their seventh in a row, despite triple-digit scoring.

Al Nolen doesn't have to shoot to impact the game. But the Gophers would be a much more dangerous team if they had a scoring threat at point guard.

In just two days, the water cooler talk about Gophers men's basketball switched from promise to peril.

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News that 2 Gopher Basketball players have been suspended made its way through the U of M campus on Wednesday.

Minnesota coach Tubby Smith has suspended two players indefinitely for breaking team rules.

Trevor Mbakwe acknowledges the crowd after dunking again during scrimmage at Golden Gopher Basketball's 'Tubby's Tipoff' on Friday, October 16, 2009, at Williams Arena in Minneapolis, Minn.

It's easy for Cory Joseph to imagine playing with his brother in the Gophers' backcourt.

In his third season at Minnesota, Tubby Smith will truly be coaching his team. Only four players remain on the roster who were recruited by the previous staff.

The University of Minnesota men's basketball team will enter the season nationally ranked for the first time since 2002, at No.

Minnesota star wide receiver Eric Decker will miss the rest of the regular season because of a foot injury.

CROOKSTON, Minn., Oct. 16 -- University of Minnesota Crookston issued the following news release: University of Minnesota , Crookston head women's basketball coach Mike Roysland announced today the signing of Laurie Tyson to a National Letter of Intent to play for the Golden Eagles during the 2008-09 season.

Minnesota has the top nine scorers from last season's NCAA tournament team returning this fall, plus a nationally lauded recruiting class.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Minnesota 's expectations are heightened in large part due to its four new players.

Not so long ago, The Barn was a mausoleum. The Gophers couldn't win games and couldn't lure their hard-core fan base inside Williams Arena.

First came the ecstasy, then the agony. Guess which one is sticking with Minnesota 's women's basketball team? "It left a little sour taste in our mouths in how we ended the season," coach Pam Borton said of a blowout loss to Texas AM in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

University of Minnesota men's basketball coach Tubby Smith will unveil his most talented team in three seasons Friday night at Williams Arena.

The Gophers men's basketball team's 2009-10 recruiting class is widely regarded as the program's top incoming group in at least a decade, but that doesn't mean the class is without some concerns.

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Germantown High School standout, and son of Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins, said this week he is committed to play for the University of Minnesota next basketball season.