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Minnesota Basketball: Gopher losing streak hits 8 after 68-56 loss to Iowa

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Kris Murray earned his 6th double-double of the season and he led Iowa to a 68-56 win over the Gophers.

The result was not shocking, the Hawkeyes are cruising toward an NCAA tournament bid, likely in the 6 or 7 seed range. And the Gophers are scuffling through one of the worst Gopher seasons in a generation (or two).

And it was a number of the same issues this Minnesota team has had all season that contributed to the loss on Sunday.

Rebounding was brutally bad. Minnesota had just 2 offensive rebounds (7% of all missed shots) and defensively they only secured about 65% of Iowa’s misses.