The Minnesota Gophers women’s basketball team will try to defeat the old adage that it tough to defeat a team three times in one season. The Gophers open up play in the Big ten Tournament as the #12 overall seed against #13 Penn State at 1PM on Wednesday afternoon at the Target Center. Minnesota is 2-0 this season against Penn State defeating the Nittany Lions 98-96 in double OT to open Big Ten play at the Barn back in December, and 75-67 in Happy Valley back in January.
Minnesota has not had the season that they had hoped for in Lindsay Whalen’s fifth season with the Gophers completing the regular season with a 11-18 overall record and just a 4-14 record in Big Ten play.