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Elijah Hawkins scored 17 of his career-high 24 points in the second half, Dawson Garcia had 22 points and nine rebounds and Minnesota defeated Ohio State 88-79 on Thursday night. Hawkins hit three of his four 3-pointers in the second half and finished with seven assists. Pharrel Payne added 15 points for the Golden Gophers (17-9, 8-7), who shot 50%, including 8 of 19 from the arc and outrebounded the Buckeyes 32-26 in gaining a split of the season series.

The Big Ten men's basketball coaching matchup Thursday night between the Gophers' Ben Johnson and Ohio State's interim Jake Diebler was a sign of how the programs have gone in different directions since their last meeting. In early December, the Gophers opened up Big Ten play with an 84-74 road loss to the Buckeyes, who were just outside of the Top 25. Johnson's team was far from a finished ...

Isaac Fruechte, the former Vikings and Gophers receiver, doesn't always take a direct route. But he often seems to get to where he's going. Fruechte climbed the coaching ranks last month when he was hired as the University of North Dakota's offensive coordinator. He became the third person in January to hold that title after longtime coach Danny Freund left for South Dakota State. Then the ...

Out for a sixth consecutive game, Mara Braun — the Gophers women's basketball team's top scorer — watched Tuesday night's game against Wisconsin at Williams Arena from the bench, a boot on her surgically repaired right foot. Also on the bench, starting center Sophie Hart, on crutches because of a sore left hip. On the arena's elevated floor: a team working to find ways to score — and defend — ...

Mara Braun stood on the Williams Arena court 90 minutes before tipoff Tuesday night, firing up shot after shot, swish after swish. She barely missed. If you only watched her shooting form, you would have guessed that the Wisconsin Badgers were in for a long night defending the Gophers dynamic sophomore. If you happened to notice the large protective boot on Braun's right foot, reality provided ...