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In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like the Wisconsin Badgers, who were up 25 with 6 minutes left, and went for two. It didn't please Minnesota, but it pleased some people with money on the game. More »
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Because neither video nor Luther Vandross was around in the 1940s, the NCAA Tournaments of those days concluded without the now-beloved "One Shining Moment" montage, which seems so very wrong. We've remedied the situation. Enjoy. [Footage via A Stern Warning] More »
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The Golden Gophers have a championship-winning coach and solid team play. Xavier's Jordan Crawford dunked on LeBron. This one should get the Bradley Center rocking. Order a thematically appropriate sandwich and comment — pretty sure that's what Sean Miller's doing. More »
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The troubled Gophers recruit announced he's leaving the team via a YouTube video. This would be news in itself. But the video itself is so cinematic, so convoluted, so generally bizarre...well, just watch. More »
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The Minnesota mascot mocked Penn State's Jerome Hayes as he prayed before last Saturday's homecoming game. What else would you expect? He is literally a golden idol. [YouTube] More »
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Minnesota's Simoni Lawrence crotches himself on a yard marker, and provides us with a contender for quote of the year. More »
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Your live blogger for this game will be Wes, a Big XII aficionado. He wrote a couple columns for CollegeHumor before it was cool. More »
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East Region: No. 7 Texas (22-11) vs. No. 10 Minnesota (22-10)
When: Thursday, 7:10 p.m., EDT
Where: Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina

TEXAS LONGHORNS

1) Foreign Point One thing Texas desperately lacked entering the season was a true point guard. Without a ball handler that could penetrate, smooth shooting guard A.J. Abrams couldn't get a clean look at the rim. Rick Barnes' solution was to bring in the Turks. A native of Turkey, Dogus (pronounced Douh-oosh) Balbay saw his playing time skyrocket as the season progressed. He's a great perimeter defender and can penetrate with ease. The only problem is that Dogus can't shoot. Literally, he couldn't hit beer if he were floating in a keg. In 668 minutes on the court this season, he has only attempted three 3-pointers. More »
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Well, this is pretty much every nightmare I had from ages 15 to 23 ... make of that what you will. But further one might ask, how does a giant, costumed rodent chasing students on a college campus with a syringe not make it on Nightline, or at least the local evening news? It's when the assailant is Goldy Gopher, and the occasion is a Guinness Book of World Records attempt for the most flu shots administered in one day. The record is 3,271, by the way. God have mercy on the state of Minnesota tomorrow. The shocking video is after the jump. More »
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When they were handing out natural disasters in the NCAA conference tournaments, the SEC came up with tornadoes. The Big Ten ended up with lightning striking twice. (The MAC? Perpetual darkness.) Minnesota's Blake Hoffarber's last-second desperation jumper to beat Indiana 59-58 was brain-exploding unto itself, but this isn't Hoffarber's first circus shot, or even his best. More »
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This just in: We'll try not to go all Politico / John Edwards on you here — for the record, we love that site, occasional big error aside — but we've received word from a TV station in Louisville and from another source that Kentucky fans desperate to rid themselves of Tubby Smith have had their wish granted. More »
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In case you had forgotten that the kids picked up in the NFL Draft are, in fact, kids, you can always count on crazy college pictures — which may or may not have come from Facebook — to remind you. More »
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• #13 Indiana 42, Minnesota 61. Man, it seems like the home team always wins in the Big 10. Even when they were previously winless in the conference. Only six guys scored for Indiana. More »
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