There are Gophers and Cardinals in the Garden

From the Repository:

For other teams, however, the NIT is perceived as a step up in a program climbing from mediocrity or obscurity, and the response is more enthusiastic.

Heh, yeah - that's us.

Wasn't sure if anyone wanted a game log for this momentous occasion but hey, the last 2 times the Gophers won the NIT (1993, 1998*) , they followed it up with a visit to March Madness the following season.**  I'll be late to the party but here's to a good turnout for the boys in Maroon and Gold.

7 Eastern, 6 Central Standard Time on the FourLetter.

*vacated!

**and those seasons (or at least the records of those seasons) don't count either!

Happy Birthday–March 29

Cy Young (1867)
Duff Cooley (1873)
Bill Dietrich (1910)
Tommy Holmes (1917)
Ferris Fain (1921)
Denny McLain (1944)
Bill Castro (1952)
Tom Hume (1953)
Domingo Ramos (1958)
Mike Kingery (1961)
Billy Beane (1962)
Laz Diaz (1963)
Eric Gunderson (1966)
Brian Jordan (1967)
Alex Ochoa (1972)
Danny Kolb (1975)

Danny Kolb was drafted by Minnesota in the seventeenth round in 1993, but did not sign.

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