A study finds that roots grow deeper than typical into southeastern pocket gophers tunnel networks, raising the possibility that the rodents cultivate their food. The pocket gopher, immortalized as ...

MINNEAPOLIS - The Golden Gopher women's hockey team received the fourth overall seed in the 2025 NCAA Tournament. No. 4 Minnesota will face No. 5 Colgate after the NCAA unveiled the 11-team bracket ...

Gophers captain Ella Huber races down the ice in her team's WCHA semifinal victory over Ohio State on Friday in Duluth. (Grant Jones/For the Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Of all the other endemic creatures, we picked this one because we just love the mental image we get from hearing “pocket ...

The Gophers traveled to New Jersey to face Rutgers in their final game of a roller-coaster regular season, and it followed the same trend with a 75-67 overtime loss. Dawson Garcia came out fast in ...

Hunter Strand and Henry Nelson each scored and Owen Say made 31 saves for the Irish, who may have finished last in the Big Ten but have made the Gophers work hard on every shift this weekend.

Recently, the Gophers' Annie Nabwe threw a weight farther than any women's college athlete has this year. "Starting weight throw I didn't think I was gonna be one of the top in the country," said ...

After losing nearly everyone to graduation or the NCAA transfer portal last spring, Gophers men’s basketball coach Ben Johnson built a team, in fairly quick order, around his ace in the hole ...

The Golden Gophers are the No. 2 seed for the tournament and face the seventh-seeded Fighting Irish starting Friday night at 7 p.m. with game two set for 7 p.m. Saturday. If necessary, a ...

In his four years as a forward with the Gophers, Riddle scored 82 goals and ... Another two bottles of Pink Whitney were recovered from his jacket pocket. He denied having been drinking and ...

After looking at the five suspects, Compton said it is not unusual to conclude the rodent bearing the least resemblance to the mascot is the pocket gopher – the only gopher in the lineup. The general ...

Luc’Eye Patterson made 4 of 4 free throws down the stretch as the Gophers (13-12 overall, 5-9 Big Ten) finished the game on an 8-0 run to win for the fifth time in nine games and inched closer ...