Minnesota defeated Texas A&M 69-64 to win their first game of the Vancouver Invitational. With the win the Gophers improve to 3-0 on the season. Texas A&M falls to 1-3.
Let’s get this out of the way since this wrap up had a bit of a different flavor with about two minutes left to play. Richard Pitino has talked ad nauseum about the 95% plays, and the Gophers scored a miserable grade in that department tonight. Minnesota’s bigs allowed thirteen offensive rebounds, most of them in the second half. The guards were careless in rotations and contesting A&M’s shooters, who should have made more threes than they did.