(Minneapolis, MN) — New University of Minnesota men’s basketball assistant coach Jeff Mailhot says returning to his hometown to be a college basketball coach is a dream come true and a great opportunity. Golden Gopher head coach Richard Pitino officially hired the Minneapolis native last week to take over for the departed Rob Jeter, who […]

(Minneapolis, MN) — University of Minnesota women’s basketball player Sara Scalia of Stillwater is trying to improve her game this off-season the best she can. The Golden Gopher guard just completed the spring semester and is looking ahead to her sophomore season this coming fall. Scalia says since gyms are still closed, she has been […]

(Minneapolis, MN) — Minnesota athletic director Mark Coyle and the school’s five highest-paid head coaches have agreed to take a 10% pay cut for the first six months of the upcoming fiscal year to help offset revenue losses from the COVID-19 pandemic. Coyle announced the pay cuts on Thursday for him, football coach P.J. Fleck, […]

(Minneapolis, MN) — University of Minnesota men’s hockey coach Bob Motzko has been named Big Ten Coach of the Year after leading the Golden Gophers to a 16-14-and-7 record. In his second season with the Gophers, the team played well after the holiday break, finishing second in the Big Ten. The season was cut short […]

(Minneapolis, MN) — Golden Gopher athletic director Mark Coyle says the coronavirus pandemic will likely mean the University of Minnesota athletic department will sustain a budget loss as this fiscal year wraps up and will likely create a revenue shortfall for next budget year, as well. Coyle says the department was projected to turn a […]

Less than four months before the scheduled kickoff of the college football season, not one of the 14 schools in the Big Ten Conference can say for sure it will have students back on campus this fall – a crucial step for sports. Uncertainty about how the coronavirus pandemic will unfold through the summer has […]

University of Minnesota Athletics Director Mark Coyle announced Sunday that Piper Ritter has been named head softball coach at the University of Minnesota. Ritter has been an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota since the 2008 season churning out the top hurlers in program history. She has been a mainstay in the Minnesota softball […]

(Minneapolis, MN) — Golden Gopher football defensive coordinator Joe Rossi is working from home like everyone else these days. He is mixing a heavy workload of virtual team meetings, recruiting calls, and game film breakdown with time with his two wife, two young children and brand new dog. Minnesota had quite a successful recruiting month […]

(Huxley, IA) — University of Minnesota junior cross country and track and field runner Abby Kohut-Jackson is at her home in Huxley, Iowa, finishing the semester with on-line classes and staying in touch with her Golden Gopher teammates. The neuroscience and Spanish double major is hoping to eventually go to med school, but says this […]