Males’s Basketball | 1/29/2022 8:51:00 AM
BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV: BTN (Brandon Gaudin – Play-by-Play; Jess Settles- Analyst)
Tip Time: 12:01 p.m. CT
Radio: Learfield IMG: KFAN 100.3
Mike Grimm (Play-by-Play); Spencer Tollackson (Analyst)
Sirius: 381
SERIES INFORMATION
198th Assembly (98-99 all time)*
At Wisconsin: 34-61*
Minnesota vs. Massive Ten: 782-874*
* – excludes vacated video games
STARTING FIVE
• The College of Minnesota males’s basketball crew is again on the street Sunday for the primary time since Jan. 12 when it travels to No. 11 Wisconsin. The Golden Gophers are 98-99 all-time in opposition to the Badgers, together with a 34-61 mark at Wisconsin. The 2 groups battled simply as soon as final season, additionally in Madison, Wis., the place the Badgers gained, 71-59.
• Minnesota went via the primary 14 video games with the identical beginning 5. Because the final street journey (Michigan State, Jan. 12), Minnesota has skilled a pair totally different lineups on account of COVID-19 protocols, accidents and sickness. In reality, Minnesota needed to postpone the Penn State (Jan. 19) sport on account of falling below the Massive Ten rule of seven out there scholarship athletes to compete. Eric Curry has missed the previous two weeks with an damage, whereas the Gophers have been with out starters Jamison Battle and Eylijah Stephens in the course of the Rutgers sport. After lacking one sport, Battle and Stephens returned to the lineup for OSU.
• A veteran group, the Gophers flip over the ball only a few instances, 159, which ranks first within the league and second nationally. The Gophers have had six video games wherein they dedicated 5 or fewer turnovers a sport. Of the six video games, 4 have come in opposition to Massive Ten opponents in Michigan State, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio State.
• Payton Willis was named Co-Massive Ten Participant of the Week after his excellent efficiency in opposition to Rutgers. His 32 factors marked a brand new profession excessive for the senior. Willis hit eight three-pointers within the sport, which was a brand new profession finest and tied a program report. He completed the sport 11-of-17, 8-of-13 from three (4-4 within the second half), had three rebounds, seven assists and a steal.
• Minnesota had one in every of its finest capturing shows within the Rutgers win because the Gophers made 26-of-48 (.542) subject objectives, together with a season-best 13-of-24 (.542) from three. It marked the sixth time the Gophers have shot 50 % or higher this season and second time from long-range. The Gophers had 13 threes and shot 54.2 %, each season-highs. Final season, Minnesota didn’t shoot 50 % in any of its 29 video games. Saturday’s 54.2 % general and from three-point vary have been each season-bests in Massive Ten play. The Gophers have shot higher than 50 % 3 times in convention video games this season, together with the previous two.
UP NEXT
• Minnesota will face its third-straight ranked crew in a row when the No. 6 Purdue Boilermakers come to city, Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. The sport will likely be televised on Massive Ten Community, whereas Mike Grimm and Spencer Tollackson present the radio name on KTLK (AM-1130), FM 103.5.
