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Earlier this month, head coach P.J. Fleck and co. turned their attention away from the tight end position and secured a verbal commitment from Edina defensive line recruit Gage Geyer. Get to know Gage Geyer Height: 6’5”Weight: 270 Power 4 Scholarship Offers: Boston College, Kansas, Kansas State, and West Virginia 247 Sports Composite Rating: .8611 […]
The Minnesota Golden Gophers have earned a verbal commitment from offensive line recruit Will Clausen, who hails from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Get to know Will Clausen Height: 6’5”Weight: 280 Power 4 Scholarship Offers: Baylor, Kansas, and Oklahoma State 247 Sports Composite Rating: N/A Scouting Report Clausen is a physical blocker who wants to move people […]
The Minnesota Golden Gophers gymnastics team’s Cinderella run to the NCAA Final Four ended on Saturday afternoon with a fourth place finish with a final score of 197.3750. #1 seeded Oklahoma placed first with a score of 198.1625 while #2 LSU took second (198.0750) and #3 Florida was third (197.6875). The fourth place finish was […]
A year ago, Gopher fans were eagerly anticipating that Kyan Evans would follow Niko Medved from Colorado State to Minnesota. Instead, Evans was offered an NIL deal that he couldn’t refuse from North Carolina and he took it. But he is back in the portal and this year he is coming to play in Minnesota […]
Another young bench player from Michigan is transferring to Minnesota. Malick Kordel is a 7’2” center, originally from Germany and he is coming to the Gophers with three years to play. MALICK KORDELPos: CHt: 7’2”Wt: 275 Kordel has only been playing organized basketball for four years, so he is raw. But he has good athleticism […]
When the University of Minnesota gymnastics team scored a woeful 195.075 in a loss at Nebraska in January, there wasn’t one person who would think what had happened over the last month would come to fruition. The Gophers continued to claw their way back through the rest of the Big Ten not falling again to […]
Thursday night was a night of destiny for the Minnesota Golden Gophers gymnastics squad. Not only did the team upset #4 UCLA and #9 Arkansas to advance to their first ever Final Four, but Minnesota senior Brooklyn Rowray turned in the beam routine of her life and took home the NCAA Championship in the event. […]
Winters Grady is a freshman small forward who spent this past season as a part of the Michigan Wolverines. The former four-star and top-100 recruit decided to enter the transfer portal and has decided to continue his career with Minnesota. Winters GradyPos: SFHt: 6’6”Wt: 210 We know that Grady has a National Championship ring, as […]
The Minnesota Golden Gophers gymnastics team will be the large underdog once again as they compete in the NCAA National Gymnastics Semifinals Thursday night in Fort Worth, Texas. Minnesota enters the semifinals as the lowest seeded team of the eight teams in the competition. But the Gophers were the lowest seeded team left in the […]
Niko Medved and staff have secured a portal commitment from Nolan Groves who had entered the portal after playing his freshman season at Texas Tech. Nolan GrovesPos: SG/SFHt: 6’5”Wt: 205 Groves is from Long Lake and played his high school ball for Orono, where he led the Spartans to a third-place finish in state and […]
The 2026 NCAA Men’s Hockey transfer portal officially opened on Monday and it was a busy day across the nation as players from nearly every school in the country jumped in looking for a fresh start. As is expected with a coaching change, the Minnesota Golden Gophers saw many players moving in both directions. In […]
It’s a big day for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and tight ends from the Dakotas, as head coach P.J. Fleck and co. have reeled in another tight end from their neighbors to the west. Tight end prospect Brooks Nakko, the No. 1-ranked recruit in the state of North Dakota this cycle, has committed to the […]
That’s right y’all. I am an elite Women’s basketball knower. Congrats to ModoTNT and espn07619014 (love the personalization of the name) for finishing second and third. To brag on the internet, I finished 1,391st of ~3.4 million. Not bad for 30 seconds of work. Far more importantly, I defeated our fearless leader GopherNation and our […]
Congratulations to jdworshak for winning the 2026 TDG Bracket Challenge with a total score of 1400. We have no prize but the best prize of all: bragging rights that you are smarter than the TDG writing staff. Kudos. In a result that has sent me into a deep depression, our fearless leader GopherNation finished second, […]
Head coach P.J. Fleck and co. have reeled in the No. 2-ranked recruit in the state of South Dakota, with four-star tight end prospect Drake Mikkelsen committing to the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Get to know Drake Mikkelsen Height: 6’5”Weight: 205 Power 4 Scholarship Offers: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Michigan State, and Wisconsin 247 Sports […]
The first season under Niko Medved is in the books. Year Zero was better than expected in many ways and the several days are going to be a whirlwind of roster moves and portal additions. Stay tuned for more on that. But before we move on to the next season, let’s take one look back […]
March has come to a close and April is springing into the Upper Midwest this weekend with very springlike weather. While that may shift some games times of the Gophers outdoor sports like baseball and softball later this weekend, it gives others a great chance to get comfortable on the coach and take in some […]
The Baylor Bears cruised to a 19-point win over Minnesota, winning 67-48 in the first round of the College Basketball Crown in Las Vegas. The Bears were led by Tounde Yessoufou who had 19 points and seven rebounds. THE STAT: Is shooting 13% from three bad? Cause the Gophers were just 3/23 from behind the […]
The Gophers are one of 16 teams remaining in all of college basketball.
Today’s college basketball requires you to not only recruit high school players into your program, but you are also re-recruiting them every offseason. Continuity is correlated to success, especially for programs that are not able to write blank checks for the best available talent in the transfer portal. The transfer portal officially opens on April […]
The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s basketball season came to a close in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen Friday night in Sacramento, California. Number #1 seeded UCLA was just too strong and while the Gophers kept the game close only trailing by five points at halftime, the Bruins used a dominant third and fourth quarter […]
Former Minnesota Golden Gophers wrestling coach J Robinson died on Sunday at the age of 79 according to the University of Minnesota. Robinson led the Gopher wrestling program from 30 seasons from 1986 through 2016 and led the Gophers to the only three NCAA Team Championships in school history in 2001, 2002 and 2007. In […]
The Gopher women are up against the 1-seeded Bruins.
The Minnesota Golden Gophers will try and keep their NCAA Tournament run going against a familiar foe on Friday night in Sacramento, California. The #4 seeded Gophers will face off against the #1 seeded UCLA Bruins who they lost two back in January at Williams Arena. But much can change in over tow months of […]
Within a span of 48 hours earlier this week the Minnesota Golden Gophers announced a pair of new hockey coaches for their women’s and men’s programs. On Sunday Minnesota athletic director Mark Coyle announced that Gopher assistant coach Greg “Boom” May would be promised and would take over the Gopher women’s program, and then on […]