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Indiana’s Paul George scored 32 points, helping halt a three-game winning streak.

By JERRY ZGODA [email protected]

Timberwolves young star Karl-Anthony Towns called Thursday’s 109-103 loss to Indiana at Target Cen-ter a “hard night” during which his team seemingly played from behind right from the start.

Towns only knew the half of it.He knew the part in which his

Wolves trailed by seven before first quarter’s end and by 11 points with just 3:41 left before they battled within three points with 16 seconds left but didn’t get any closer.

He didn’t know the part about the team’s mascot putting his father on the injured list during a timeout stunt gone wrong until he saw his dad hobbling down an arena corri-dor toward him on crutches after-ward.

“What did Crunch do to you?” Towns asked his father incredu-lously.

Turns out Karl Sr. got clipped on the aisle by Crunch’s sled as the furry one came barreling down arena steps on his sled as part of a regular bit featured during timeouts

Sluggish Wolves’ run ends

J I M S O U H A N

Tom Thibodeau sits at a long table to con-duct his postgame interviews. The table holds two sports drinks. Thibodeau would probably pre-fer lozenges.

Watch Thibodeau gyrate and cuss on the sideline for a game and you wonder what is more at risk: fans’ eardrums or Thibodeau’s heart.

The Timberwolves coach returned from a trip to Phoenix looking like he had avoided any exposure to the sun. He spent the Timberwolves’ game against Indiana on Thursday night at Target Center waving his hands like a conductor with an out-of-tune orchestra.

He screamed at officials, earn-ing a technical foul he probably regrets. He screamed at his own players. He screamed on virtually every possession , just as he has all season. Mere proximity to him can give you secondhand angst.

When the Timberwolves were at their worst this season it would have been reasonable

Signs say coach’s style is working

The Loons acquired scorer Kevin Molino and goalkeeper Patrick McLain for $650,000.

By MEGAN RYAN [email protected]

CASA GRANDE, ARIZ. – Adrian Heath still remembers the day he discovered Kevin Molino down in Trinidad and Tobago.

The coach was there to scout a cen-ter forward, but this other player on the wing just kept catching his eye.

Heath ended up signing the mid-fielder in 2011 for his Orlando City SC in the United Soccer League, and he became the league MVP in 2012 and 2014 before the club made Molino its first signing as a Major League Soccer team in 2015.

Now, Molino will reunite with Heath as Minnesota United FC’s mar-quee signing ahead of its inaugural MLS season.

United announced Thursday it had acquired Molino as well as

goalkeeper Patrick McLain from Orlando in exchange for $650,000. That includes $450,000 in general allocation money and $200,000 in tar-geted allocation money. Orlando will also retain a percentage of any future transfer fee for Molino if United were to transfer him outside the league.

Both Molino and McLain will join the Loons in Arizona for preseason camp.

Molino, 26, was Orlando’s all-time leading scorer (42) and assists leader (31) and also tallied the sec-ond-most appearances (140) and minutes (10,751). He has also played for Trinidad and Tobago’s national team since 2010, amassing 35 caps, or appearances, and 16 goals, includ-ing two hat tricks, at the international level. The amount of money involved in the 5-8, 155-pounder’s acquisition is considerable for an MLS transaction.

United Sporting Director Manny Lagos said it has been a “long” and “very layered” process over several months to strike a deal with Orlando,

United swings big deal with Orlando City

JOHN RAOUX • Associated PressOrlando City’s Kevin Molino, center, celebrated after scoring last season. He is also happy now about rejoining his former coach, United’s Adrian Heath.

WILD 5, ST. LOUIS 1 Tuesday: 8 p.m. at Edmonton (FSN)

By MICHAEL RUSSO [email protected]

The Wild avoided the temptation of taking off on an early holiday Thursday night by rolling into the All-Star break with a 5-1 trouncing of the slip-sliding St. Louis Blues at Xcel Energy Center.

After watching hockey leaguewide on his Center Ice package Wednesday night, coach Bruce Boudreau warned his team not to men-tally vacate the Twin Cities early.

The Wild listened to its coach, played a com-plete game and entered the All-Star break with a 32-11-5 record.

With 69 points in 48 games, the Wild has the second-most points in the NHL and sits atop of Chicago in the Western Conference

and Central Division standings by four points with three games in hand.

“We knew we wanted to go into the break with a good feeling. We sure did that,” said Nino Nie-derreiter, who scored a goal and had two assists for his second three-point game in the past five.

Mikael Granlund extended his point streak to a career-high nine games with a goal and assist. Niederreiter and Granlund scored 42 seconds apart by the 2:11 mark of the third period to drop-kick the Blues after captain Mikko Koivu’s power-play goal gave the Wild a 3-1 lead with 12 seconds left in the second.

Erik Haula also scored, as did Tyler Graovac, whose second career game-winning goal rico-cheted off his left skate and into the net for an

Just business as usualWild rolls into the All-Star break with commanding victory over the Blues

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32-11-5, 69 points, through 48 games

I N T H E C E N T R A LFirst place, four points ahead of Chicago

I N T H E W E S TFirst place, four points ahead of Chicago

O V E R A L LThree points behind Washington

for league’s best record

Home: 17-6 Away: 15-5-5

JIM MONE • Associated PressThe Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns had tough going against Thaddeus Young of the Pacers.

CARLOS GONZALEZ • [email protected] Haula celebrated with Jason Pominville after scoring a goal in the second period that led to a victory Thursday.

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By MICHAEL RAND [email protected]

It’s January in Minnesota, which naturally means ... baseball?

The Twins’ Winter Caravan kicked off the cold-weather activities, and they continued Thursday with the Diamond Awards gala at Target Field — with proceeds benefiting the University of Minnesota’s neurological research. The event has raised $3 million for that research over the past 12 years.

Several Twins players were on hand to collect awards from the 2016 season, which were announced in October (as voted on by the Twin Cities Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America).

In a surprise to nobody, second baseman Brian Dozier was named the team’s Most Valuable Player after smashing 42 home runs in 2016.

Ervin Santana earned pitcher of the year honors after posting a 3.38 ERA.

Max Kepler was named the top rookie after hitting 17 home runs in his debut season, while fellow youngster Byron Buxton earned the award for top defensive player.

Brad Hand, a native of Chaska, was

named Upper Midwest Player of the Year after compiling a 2.92 ERA as a reliever for the Padres.

Lefthander Stephen Gonsalves, who was named minor league pitcher of

the year, had an impressive award pre-senter: new Twins boss Derek Falvey.

Meanwhile, new GM Thad Levine presented Zack Granite with his award for minor league player of the year.

In off-field awards, Eduardo Escobar won the Carl R. Pohlad Community Service Award; former Twins General Manager Terry Ryan won the “Media Good Guy” Award; and Rod Carew was given the Herb Carneal Lifetime Achievement Award.

A silent auction and a other fundrais-ing games highlighted the event. Some of my favorite items:

• A private tour of Surly Brewing for up to 20 people.

• A James “Mudcat” Grant auto-graphed jersey.

• Use of the Target Field food truck at a private event.

• Spend a day with Star Tribune base-ball writer La Velle E. Neal III.

• A crockpot (just because when have you ever had the chance to get one at a silent action?).

Adjacent to the silent auction was a $20 ball toss, where winners got auto-graphs. Back-to-back participants won Rod Carew- and Brian Dozier-auto-graphed baseballs.

Carew, Dozier top honorees

TALKER TWINS DIAMOND AWARDS

AARON LAVINSKY • [email protected] autograph from former Twins pitcher Jim “Mudcat” Grant came with a high five for Quinn Brooks, 11, of Sioux Falls, S.D.

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Through the Wolves’ first 20 games this season, Karl-Anthony Towns hoisted 79 three-pointers — nearly four per game — after attempting 1.1 per game as a rookie. He had made 30 of those 79 (38 per-cent), justifying the attempts at least in terms of efficiency.

Games 21-37, though, brought a clear cooling off. Towns still tried 3.5 threes per game in that 15-game span, but he made just 21.7 percent of them. The Wolves’ record sat at 11-26 overall at that point, and Towns’ efficiency was plummeting along with it.

But NBA players who aspire to be great learn to adjust. Consciously or not, Towns has found a much better balance in his offensive game .

He attempted 16 three-pointers (two per game) in that span, mak-ing six (for a 37.5 percent average). Meanwhile, he shot 63.6 percent from the field while averaging 27.3 points per game — coinciding with a 6-2 stretch by the Wolves that put them on the fringe of the Western Conference playoff race.

Read Michael Rand’s blog at startribune.com/randball. [email protected].

Towns steps back from long shots

Blaise Andries, Marshall’s 6-6, 310-pound lineman, heads our 2017 class of Super Preps — the best football recruits from Min-nesota. Andries is committed to the Gophers and is the top-ranked player in their incoming recruiting class.

After almost two decades of our Super Preps tradition, we looked back at some of the past stars. Here are the top two, based on their on-field success after high school.

1. 2008: Michael Floyd, wide receiver, Cretin-Derham Hall to Notre Dame. Floyd starred at Notre Dame and was the No. 13 overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft by Arizona. He was released last month after a DWI arrest and claimed off waivers by New England .

2. 2014: Frank Ragnow, offensive lineman, Chanhassen to Arkansas. Ragnow was Arkansas’ most con-sistent offensive lineman and one of the top centers in college football this season. The junior was graded by Pro Football Focus as the best center in the SEC.

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K N O W T H I S

• ESPN.com has an excellent piece on mercu-rial Sacramento Kings standout DeMarcus Cousins and the dysfunctional franchise as a whole. It’s a really long read, but it’s worth your time.

• Speaking of NBA conflict, LeBron James and Cleveland’s ownership appear to be at odds over the Cavaliers’ potential roster upgrades.

WATCH THISThe North Star Cup won’t be around after this season, but for now you can still enjoy a good men’s college hockey rivalry when the Gophers and Minnesota Duluth meet at Xcel Energy Center at 7 p.m. (FSN).

R A N D O M FA N D O M“Frankly, I couldn’t care less about the Target Field experience. Sure the Metro-dome wasn’t charming, but the Twins had some great years there and that more than made up for any short-comings in the venue.”williteverend? commenting on startribune.com

T W E E T E D“Talked to a lot of folks at the Senior Bowl about this QB class. Early feel-ing: this is not the year to need one.”

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D E N N I S A N D E R S O N

Most people in this world want to be remembered for the good they do, and Denny Kumlin, who died Jan. 15, did a lot of good.

Born in Minneapolis in 1935, the son of a duck hunter who likely himself was the son of a duck hunter, Denny knew a bit about waterfowl, also about marshes and retrieving dogs and, not inci-dentally, his Browning A5. But he knew more still about giving back and about volun-teering, and for these he will be long remembered fondly by his many friends.

Denny’s father, Gus, first took his boys, including Denny and Dick, duck hunt-ing not long after World War II. Birds were plentiful in Minnesota and good places to hunt easier to find than they are today.

Then in 1953 or there-abouts, the three of them stumbled upon 40 acres of land alongside a west-central Minnesota lake that in Octo-ber and November held vast gatherings of dabblers and divers, and in exchange for

the privilege of pitching a tent alongside the lake and hunting the migrant fowl that traded atop its bulrushes , Kumlin ponied up $1 per day per gun to the landowner.

The hunting was so good that in 1957 the elder Kumlin bought the property and con-tinued camping there duck sea-son, father and sons together.

Denny, at about 6 feet 4 , and Dick, about 6-9, had

other interests as well, and both played bas-ketball at Gus-tavus. Dick was better on the hardwood. But Denny was the more passion-

ate waterfowler, an interest that ultimately would define a large part of his life and, in time, those of his two sons.

“I was 5 years old when Dad first took me duck hunting,’’ said Denny’s son, Jon Kum-lin, 47, of Somerset, Wis. “My brother, Chris, and I would go with him every weekend, and oftentimes for long weekends: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We’d hunt the same property my grandfather bought in 1957. In fact, I own that property today.’’

In many ways, hunting, and also fishing, attract tak-ers as well as givers. The for-mer participate for what they can get out of the activities, counting coup by the number of birds or animals they kill, or, in the case of big game, the size of their trophies.

Other participants — including Denny, who was inducted into the Minnesota Waterfowling Hall of Fame in 2013 — are as concerned, or more concerned, about giv-ing back to the sport as they are about taking from it. Such altruism can be accomplished many ways, including by con-tributing hard-earned cash, donating time, taking a kid hunting or fishing, or all three.

“No one was more commit-ted to waterfowl and to Ducks Unlimited [DU] than Denny,’’ said wildlife artist Dave Maass of Orono. “He organized the West Metro DU banquet for many years … and in every other way that he could he helped the organization.’’

These and other good deeds notwithstanding, the cold truth is most people do nothing to improve the nation’s lands and waters. This is particularly true for wildlife, game as well as

non-game, both of which exist in the numbers they do today thanks largely to fund-ing provided by hunters and anglers through license fees, self-imposed taxes and other means — not least of which is volunteering, without which Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and other habitat-providing organiza-tions would collapse.

Yet a fair question in this postmodern age of increased urbanization, too-busy par-ents and gadget-crazy kids is whether future generations will be populated with suffi-cient numbers of individuals passionate about wild critters and wild places to sustain these resources forever — people like Denny Kumlin.

“Denny was one of the best volunteers I ever had in Ducks Unlimited,’’ said Bill Allen, a retired DU regional director. “You could always count on him.’’

When Denny died a couple of weeks back at 81, he achieved what most people aspire to achieve: to be remembered for the good they did.

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The good news keeps coming for Cleveland base-ball fans.

The city will host the All-Star Game in 2019, a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press on Thursday. The team will hold a news conference Friday to formally announce the event, last held in Cleveland in 1997.

Funny, that’s the last year the Indians won the American League pennant before they pulled that off last season in reaching the World Series.

Cleveland will be the first AL host since the Twins and Minneapolis in 2014.

• Backup infielder Ste-phen Drew agreed to a $3.5 million, one-year contract to return to the Washington Nationals.

• Cincinnati signed vet-eran righthanded pitcher Scott Feldman to a one-year contract. He will compete for a spot in the starting rotation.

• The Chicago Cubs added pitching depth, mak-ing a one-year deal with lefthander Brett Anderson. He is expected to compete with Mike Montgomery for the fifth spot in the rotation.

C O L L E G E AT H L E T I C S

UND making movesNorth Dakota is moving its

basketball teams to the Sum-mit League and its football team to the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

The programs now com-pete in the Big Sky Confer-ence. The move to the Sum-mit League will come in 2018 and the Missouri Valley Foot-ball Conference move in 2020 .

A R O U N D T H E H O R N Golf: Brittany Lincicome

shot a 9-under 64 to take the lead in the LPGA Tour’s sea-son-opening Pure Silk Baha-mas Classic on Paradise Island.

College hockey: Wild draftee Luke Kunin scored shorthanded 3 minutes, 24 seconds into the game, start-ing Wisconsin (12-8-1, 5-2-0-0 Big Ten) toward a 3-1 victory at Ohio State (12-5-6, 3-3-1-1). The Badgers and Buckeyes will play again Saturday in New York’s Madison Square Garden as part of Big Ten Super Saturday. Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team will play Rutgers in the event.

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TWINSFEST 2017What: A three-day gathering of Twins players and officials for autograph sessions, activities and memorabilia displays to raise money for the Twins Community Fund.Where: Target FieldWhen: Friday 4-9:30 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.Friday’s focus: The 30th anniversary of the 1987 World Series championship.Saturday’s focus: Great moments in Twins history.Sunday’s focus: Kids’ Day.Tickets: Adults $20, children 14 and under $10.Website: twinsbaseball.com/twinsfest


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but United’s “expansion mech-anism was a great opportunity for [United] to put in the type of offer that is within these his-toric numbers of transfer deals for MLS.”

When Heath was named United’s coach in late Novem-ber after Orlando fired him this past July, he said from his “very first day” that if United c o u l d s i g n Molino, it would be an “incredible pickup.”

“For me, it’s the best signing we could have made,” Heath said. “It’s funny, I saw a tweet, somebody said, ‘[United’s] giving an awful lot up.’ But you have to if you want to get the best player in the league in his position, and I think that’s what we’ve got.

“At some stages, we didn’t think it was going to get done; for obvious reasons, they don’t want to lose a really top player,” Heath said. “But the league being what it is, it’s a

good amount of money.”Heath said he knows “every-

thing” about Molino, having worked with him every day for five years and sharing a close relationship as an off-the-field mentor as well as coach. The coach said Molino has a great feel for the game, can score as well as create opportuni-ties and does a little bit of everything. He also said he’s never met someone who loves playing the sport as much as Molino does.

Assistant coach Ian Fuller, who also worked with Molino for years in Orlando, called Molino “the most talented individual” he’s ever been around, someone who needs to be seen “up close and per-sonal” to be truly appreciated.

But Molino’s former coaches did have one area of criticism for the new signing.

“I think his dress sense takes a little bit to be desired,” Heath

said, while Fuller termed Moli-no’s fashion as “flamboyant.”

Where it counts, though, Heath said he knows Molino can fit into his 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 formation by playing any of the attacking forward roles. Molino has played on the wings or as the No. 10 — the playmaker or attacking mid-fielder. Orlando General Manager Niki Budalic said in a statement that Molino had “expressed his desire to leave the club,” and the team made the difficult decision to trade him, which was the best for Orlando.

“I know what Adrian expects from me,” Molino said in a statement, “and I am really excited to join the club and build a relationship with my new teammates, coaches and the fans. I want to help this team reach the limit.”

McLain, 28, is 6-3, 205 pounds and a native of Eau

Claire, Wis. He played minimal time for Chivas USA in 2012 and 2013 before spending the next two seasons in the USL with the Orange County Blues and Sacramento Republic FC, where he became the full-time starter. He then played one match for Chicago Fire in 2016 before Orlando took him in the re-entry draft this past December. The Loons have their primary goalkeeper plans centered on John Alvbage, who is expected to arrive in camp later this week.

He is on loan from IFK Goteborg with Minnesota United FC through July 15 with an 18-month extension option after that, according to statements from IFK Goteborg Sporting Director Mats Gren. Draftee Alec Ferrell, who is injured, would bring United’s goalkeeper tally up to three.

“We’re going to make sure that we’ve got three healthy goalies on the roster,” Lagos said. “And right now, Patrick adds to us making sure we’ll have three healthy goalies to start the season.”

The Buckeyes shot 50 percent to end a four-game skid at the Barn.

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Gophers junior guard Carlie Wagner had 34 points, outscoring Ohio State All-America Kelsey Mitchel l by nine, on Thurs-day night at Wil-liams Arena. But Wagner’s performance wasn’t nearly enough.

No. 15 Ohio State shot 50 percent from the field for an 88-76 victory over the

Gophers, who couldn’t get stops whenever they got close in the second half.

“You wanna win, you wanna win,” Gophers coach Marlene Stollings said in a postgame interview when complimented on how well her team played. “We take care of the one-on-one drive in the fourth quarter and we win the game.

“They kept on going by individuals, and they picked on certain people.”

The Buckeyes had beaten Minnesota 87-62 on Dec. 28 in a conference opener in Columbus. But at the Barn, OSU had lost four in a row .

Not this time.The Buckeyes (18-5, 8-1 Big

Ten) won their fourth consec-utive game, paced by Mitch-ell’s 24 points. She came in averaging a conference high 22.7 points. Teammate Shayla Cooper added 18 points and Stephanie Mavunga 13 points and 16 rebounds.

Wagner, who was 13-for-25 from the field, and Kenisha Bell, with 12 points, were the only players for the Gophers (11-10, 2-6) in double figures. Minnesota shot 40.3 per-cent from the field, making just five of 24 three-point attempts.

One of Wagner’s four three-pointers got the Gophers within 64-61 early in the fourth but OSU got the next two baskets.

Along with a new coach, Chuck Fletcher says team has returned to former 100-point season form.

S I D H A R T M A N

There’s no doubt Wild General Man-ager Chuck Fletcher has to be thrilled with the per-formance of his biggest off-season signee in new head coach Bruce Boudreau, who has the team in first place in the Western Conference and playing some of the best hockey in franchise history.

Still, Fletcher said he believes that while Bou-dreau’s personality and coaching, along with his staff, have made a big differ-ence this season, he thinks the Wild is simply playing the way it did two and three years ago.

He was asked if he has been surprised by anything in particular this season.

“I wouldn’t say surprised. I would say we’ve had a lot of guys play the way they did two years ago,” Fletcher said. “We had back-to-back, 98- and 100-point seasons, we had a couple real strong regular seasons two and three years ago, and some of our young players looked like they were starting to come, and last year we just struggled individually and collectively.

“We didn’t play as well as we wanted to last year, so I think we’re seeing players playing back to their poten-tial, whether it’s [Jonas] Brodin, [Mikael] Granlund, [Nino] Niederreiter, [Char-lie] Coyle, [Jason] Zucker, a lot of these players are emerging as quality NHL players, and that has really helped the depth of our team.”

Fletcher said he has been very pleased with the Wild’s play.

“So far, it has obviously been a great season. We’re finding ways to win games,” he said. “There’s a lot of confidence with the group. It’s a good hockey team, a lot of good players, a great coaching staff, probably most importantly, and just right now a lot of confi-dence and belief that no matter the situation we can come back and win a game. A long way to go, but we put a lot of points on the board so far, and that should help us down the stretch.”

When it comes to the Western Conference, there’s really no other team playing at the Wild’s level. Its plus-51 goal differential is by far the best in the conference, and it leads the conference in goals scored with 160 and in fewest goals against with 109.

Is this a Stanley Cup team in the general man-ager’s eyes?

“Oh definitely, definitely. We have a long way to go, but we’re right up there,” Fletcher said. “We played most of the top teams in the league and it will be tough, but I think we’re a very competitive team. We have depth. Injuries are the one thing you can never predict, and you have to hope you’re healthy, but I like the talent and the spirit of this group. I think we’re definitely a competitive, contending team.”

Boudreau motivatesWhile Fletcher thinks

that his team is back to play-ing at the level it showed in some previous seasons, he said Boudreau has exceeded his expectations.

“He has been outstand-ing,” Fletcher said. “He has a way of motivating play-ers, of teaching players; he holds them accountable, but they all respect him and he’s just a great communi-cator so you always know where you stand with him. I think he has had a tremen-dous impact on a lot of the players. We’ve had a lot of players have bounce-back seasons and play the way they did a couple years ago.

He and his staff have done a great job.”

What are his strong points?

“Just communicating, meets with players on a regular basis,” he said. “Every week he is reaching out and meeting with the players. He gets to know them personally and he tries to give them a chance to be successful. He listens to what their concerns are and works with them, and then he tries to put them in a position to succeed. He’s a no-nonsense, just straight-forward, honest guy. I think players and people like being around him and play-ing for him.”

If there was one thing that could be viewed as a bit of disrespect, it was that the Wild has only two All-Stars, along with Boudreau as the coach, in defenseman Ryan Suter and Devan Dub-nyk, who has been the best goalie in the NHL.

But Fletcher said that, while some may see that as disrespectful to the best team in the conference, he thinks it shows how great the team is as a whole.

“That’s the strength of our team,” he said. “Suter and Dubnyk definitely deserve to be there, I think [Eric] Staal or Granlund, Coyle, [Mikko] Koivu, any of those guys could go and you have to have players from every team and there’s a lot of great players around the league. I think we’re happy with our All-Star haul, but I think you hit it on the head, we have better depth this year and it truly is a team.

“Over 82 games, you’re going to have nights where players don’t feel great, and it’s such a compressed, crazy schedule this year, a lot of fatigue mentally and physically, and we’re for-tunate we’ve had enough players going every night that we’ve found ways to win games. But it really is a good team right now and good depth and good strength throughout the lineup.”

Jottings• Vikings coach Mike

Zimmer was asked if he expects left tackle Matt Kalil, who was sidelined with a hip injury, to come back next season. “I don’t know. He’s a free agent and we’d like to have him back, he seems like he’d want to come back, he’s doing good in his rehab right now and he seems pretty healthy,” he said. “You know the crazy thing about it is, I really felt like he was on track to have a really good season. He had a very good preseason and he gets hurt in the first ball-game. That was disappoint-ing I’m sure to him and to us, as well. Just when you’re starting to get a guy and he’s using the techniques and using the things you want to do and he’s not able to do it the rest of the year, that’s disappointing.”

• Gophers men’s basket-ball coach Richard Pitino was talking about the great environment in Williams Arena during last week-end’s Wisconsin game. “I wouldn’t trade this envi-ronment for anything in the world,” he said. “We don’t only need it versus Wisconsin, though, we need it every night. I get it if you don’t want to come in November, fine, but we need you versus Maryland [on Saturday].”

• Mark Hall, the former Apple Valley six-time state wrestling champion, is ranked No. 7 in the country at 174 pounds for Penn State. Hall is 18-2 as a freshman.

• Matthew Hurt, sopho-more basketball player at Rochester John Marshall whose brother Michael plays for the Gophers, has 18 scholarship offers, from such schools as Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky as well as the Gophers and Wis-consin.

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GM: On a roll, Wild a contender for Cup

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

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Wagner scores 34 but U falls to hot-shooting OSU

#15 OHIO STATE 88, GOPHERS 76Ohio State 13 26 23 26 — 88Gophers 14 17 25 20 — 76

OHIO STATE FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTCalhoun 17 2-8 0-0 2-3 1 1 5Cooper 28 8-10 2-2 1-2 1 2 18Lewis 17 2-4 2-2 0-1 3 2 6Mavunga 25 6-13 1-3 10-16 1 4 13Mitchell 39 7-16 7-8 0-5 2 3 25Doss 25 1-2 0-2 0-1 4 1 2Harper 22 3-7 1-2 3-4 2 2 7Hart 11 2-3 0-0 2-4 2 0 4McCoy 12 3-5 2-4 1-4 0 1 8Waterman 4 0-0 0-2 0-0 0 0 0Totals 200 34-68 15-25 20-43 16 16 88Percentages: FG .500, FT .600. Three-point-ers: 5-15, .333 (Mitchell 4-7, Calhoun 1-5, Lew-is 0-2, Harper 0-1). Blocks: 6 (Mavunga 3, Cal-houn 1, Cooper 1, McCoy 1). Turnovers: 10 (Harper 5, Mavunga 2, Mitchell 2, Lewis 1). Steals: 5 (Mavunga 2, Harper 2, Mitchell 1). Technicals: None.

GOPHERS FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTBell 39 1-10 10-12 2-3 5 4 12Fernstrom 15 2-7 0-0 2-4 1 3 4Hedstrom 34 0-4 0-0 2-5 3 3 0Hubbard 37 4-9 0-0 1-3 3 4 9Wagner 40 13-25 4-4 2-6 1 1 34Bello 16 4-7 1-2 4-7 0 1 9Brunson 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0Edwards 14 3-4 2-2 2-5 0 3 8Lamke 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0Starr 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0Tinjum 1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 2 0Totals 200 27-67 17-20 19-38 13 21 76Percentages: FG .403, FT .850. Three-point-ers: 5-24, .208 (Wagner 4-14, Hubbard 1-5, Bell 0-1, Hedstrom 0-3, Tinjum 0-1). Blocks: 2 (Bell 1, Fernstrom 1 ). Turnovers: 12 (Edwards 3, Bell 2, Brunson 2, Fernstrom 1, Hedstrom 1, Wagner 1, Bello 1). Steals: 7 (Hubbard 4, Bell 2, Wagner 1). Technicals: None. A: 2,896 (19,980). Offi cials: Mark Zentz, Cameron In-ouye, Amy Bonner.

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Derrick Walton Jr. scored 21 points on 7-for-8 shooting as Michigan routed Indiana 90-60 on Thursday night in Ann Arbor, Mich.

It was the Wolverines’ second-largest victory over the Hoosiers in program his-tory. They beat Indiana 112-64 in 1998.

Michigan (14-7, 4-4 Big Ten) shot 63 per-cent from the field, and six of its players scored in double figures. The Wolverines went 11-for-20 from three-point range.

Indiana (14-7, 4-4) finished with 16 turn-overs to Michigan’s six.Northwestern 73, Nebraska 61: Dererk Pardon had 19 points and a career-high 22 rebounds as the host Wildcats (17-4, 6-2) won their fifth straight to match their lon-gest streak in Big Ten play since the 1965-66 season. Pardon, a sophomore, had the first 20-rebound game for Northwestern since Evan Eschmeyer grabbed 21 against Penn State on Jan. 20, 1999. The Cornhusk-ers (9-11, 3-5) dropped their fifth in a row. No. 3 Gonzaga 79, San Diego 43: Nigel Wil-liams-Goss scored 25 points for the host Bulldogs (21-0, 9-0 West Coast).No. 9 North Carolina 91, Virginia Tech 72: Justin Jackson scored 26 points and the host Tar Heels (19-3, 7-1) hit a season-high 14 threes in their victory over the Hokies (15-5, 4-4). North Carolina climbed into sole possession of first place in the ACC.

No. 10 Oregon 73, Utah 67: Dillon Brooks returned from an ankle injury to score 17 points for the visiting Ducks. Oregon (19-2) has won 17 straight and is 8-0 in the Pac-12 for the first time since 1926.No. 19 Cincinnati 86, No. 24 Xavier 78: The visiting Bearcats (18-2) won their 11th in a row and ended the Musketeers’ three-game winning streak in the annual cross-town rivalry game. Trevon Bluiett scored a career-high 40 points for Xavier (14-6).

North Dakota 91, Southern Utah 89: Geno Crandall scored a career-high 31 points and Quinton Hooker hit a game-winning jumper with 1.1 seconds left for the visit-ing Fighting Hawks (12-7, 7-2 Big Sky), who have won three straight and seven of eight.

WomenVirginia 76, No. 19 Virginia Tech 27: The host Cavaliers’ 49-point victory matched the largest win in school history.

Michigan trounces Indiana by 30 at homeROUNDUP

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CARLOS OSORIO • Associated PressMichigan starters D.J. Wilson, right, and Moe Wagner, center, provided encourage-ment from the bench during the Wolverines’ lopsided victory.

U N I T E D O N T H E W E B Follow pro soccer writer Megan Ryan on Twitter @theothermegryan and read her United Beat soccer blog at startribune.com/soccer.

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Kansas coach Bill Self said Thursday that he has not been presented any informa-tion about an alleged rape in McCarthy Hall that would lead to him to suspend any players from participation at this time.

“If there was an issue, they wouldn’t be playing. There hasn’t been anything that has been brought to my atten-tion that would keep anybody from playing,” Self said on the weekly Big 12 coaches telecon-

ference.The hall houses the KU’s

men’s basketball team and other male students.

Coach K fumingESPN reported that Duke

coach Mike Krzyzewski called a meeting Tuesday at his house to discipline his players.

Krzyzewski banned them from the locker room and from wearing team gear after being fed up following a home loss to

North Carolina State. Krzyze-wski is on leave while recover-ing from back surgery.

Teams brawlA benches-clearing brawl

at Alabama-Birmingham resulted in Louisiana Tech fin-ishing the game with just four players on Thursday night.

UAB’s Hakeem Baxter and Louisiana Tech’s Jacobi Boykins both were given fla-grant technical fouls and were

ejected for fighting. UAB’s William Lee was assessed a Class A technical foul but was not ejected. The entire Loui-siana Tech bench was ejected for entering the playing area, as were four players from the UAB bench.

Despite being a player short, Louisiana Tech out-scored UAB 20-16 over the final six minutes.

UAB won the game 79-70.NEWS SERVICES

Self: Suspensions not warranted with info he has

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NBA

ALL-STAR GAME ROSTERSFeb. 19 • New Orleans

W E S T E R N C O N F E R E N C E

StartersKevin Durant, Golden StateKawhi Leonard, San AntonioAnthony Davis, New OrleansStephen Curry, Golden StateJames Harden, Houston

ReservesDeMarcus Cousins, SacramentoMarc Gasol, MemphisDraymond Green, Golden StateGordon Hayward, UtahDeAndre Jordan, L.A. ClippersKlay Thompson, Golden StateRussell Westbrook, Okla. City

E A S T E R N C O N F E R E N C E

StartersLeBron James, ClevelandGiannis Antetokounmpo, MilwaukeeJimmy Butler, ChicagoKyrie Irving, ClevelandDeMar DeRozan, Toronto

ReservesPaul George, IndianaKevin Love, ClevelandKyle Lowry, TorontoPaul Millsap, AtlantaIsaiah Thomas, BostonKemba Walker, CharlotteJohn Wall, Washington

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Just when it looked as if the Oklahoma City Thun-der might squander a big lead, Russell Westbrook unleashed his full fury on the Dallas Mavericks.

He scored 17 of his 45 points in the final 8:23 to help the Thunder beat the visiting Mavericks 109-98 on Thursday night.

Oklahoma City led by 16 late in the third quarter, but the advantage was down to six when Westbrook checked in after a Dallas timeout. The NBA scor-ing leader made seven of 10 shots in the fourth quar-ter, including three three-pointers.

“I could tell in the time-out that he felt like he was getting ready to kind of explode, to be honest with you,” Thunder coach Billy Donovan said.

Westbrook, named an All-Star reserve ear-lier in the night, had eight rebounds and three assists, ending his triple-double streak at three games.

The Thunder’s excite-ment was dimmed when they learned that forward Enes Kanter fractured his right forearm punching a chair in the second quarter.Denver 127, Phoenix 120: Nikola Jokic had 27 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists before leaving with an undisclosed injury late in the game as the Nuggets beat the Suns in Denver.Utah 96, L.A. Lakers 88: Gordon Hayward scored 24 points to help the Jazz beat the Lakers in Salt Lake City.

OKC wins on sizzling finish by Westbrook

ROUNDUP

By JERRY ZGODA [email protected]

Champion of the past two NBA All-Star slam-dunk con-tests, Timberwolves guard Zach LaVine won’t defend his title and try for a third next month in New Orleans.

Been there, done that.“I feel like

I have accom-plished every-thing I could in the dunk contest ,” he said Thursday. “There’s no rea-son to go back and outdo myself. I won’t say I won’t ever do it again, but I’m focused on this year.

“We’re getting close to being able to make the playoffs . Getting rest and just focusing more on the games is the big thing.”

He knows fans want to see

another duel with Orlando’s Aaron Gordon from last sea-son’s contest.

“They’re a little mad, but fans are going to be with you or against you sometimes,” LaVine said. “I’m all good with that. I think they’ll still like me at the end of the day.”

Teammate Karl-Anthony Towns on Wednesday was named to play again in the Rising Stars Challenge that features rookies and second-year players, but Towns did not make the Western Con-ference reserves announced Thursday evening for the All-Star Game itself.

LaVine said he’d consider participating in the three-point-shooting contest in New Orleans, were he invited.

“Maybe, but I got to get back on track shooting the ball,” said LaVine, who was 10-for-30 from the field before Thurs-day’s home game against Indi-

ana. “That’s the only thing I’ve been worrying about. I don’t know if anybody has won both of them. That’s a little bit less wear and tear on your legs.”

All season, Wolves coach Tom Thibodeau has preached about winning rather than put-ting on a “show.”

“There are things that are good for the game, and he has done that and been recog-nized,” Thibodeau said. “But I think he’s a lot more than that…He’s done a lot more than just being a dunker.

“That stuff is great if it fits in, but if it doesn’t fit in, priori-tizing our team and winning is the most important thing, and I think he’ll do that.”

Wait ’til next yearOklahoma City’s Russell

Westbrook, the NBA scoring leader, tops the list of seven All-Star Game reserves voted by coaches. Sacramento’s

DeMarcus Cousins, Memphis’ Marc Gasol, Golden State’s Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, Utah’s Gordon Hayward and L.A. Clipper DeAndre Jordan complete the West team.

“It doesn’t matter if I get to play on that Sunday,” Towns said of being passed over. “It’s what happens after that Sun-day: Can we make the play-offs? Can we win games? Can we keep this momentum rid-ing? That’s the most important thing.”

Etc.• Now that LaVine won’t

compete in the slam-dunk contest, will forward Andrew Wiggins carry the flag for his team? “Uhhh, no,” he said, smiling.

• Towns said he’s unde-cided whether he’ll defend his All-Star Skills Challenge won in Toronto last season. “I’ve

got some time to decide, but not too much,” he said.

• Thibodeau, Indiana coach Nate McMillan and their assistants wore bow ties Thursday to honor Michael H. Goldberg, longtime National Basketball Coaches Associa-tion executive director, who died last week. “We’re going to give it a shot,” said Thibodeau, who praised Goldberg’s nearly 40 years of work. “We prefer lapel pins.”

• A Dallas personnel scout has attended the past two Wolves games. The trading deadline is a month away.

• Former Wolves assistant coach Bill Bayno is now an assistant on McMillan’s staff.

• Wolves players taped New Year’s messages spo-ken in Chinese for minority owner John Jiang. He’s a Chi-nese sports marketing execu-tive who owns 5 percent of the team.

LaVine bowing out of slam-dunk contestWOLVES NOTES

LaVine

GAME RECAPI M PA C T P L AY E R

Paul George, IndianaOn the day he was named an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve, he scored 32 points, his seventh 30-point game this season.

B Y T H E N U M B E R S2012 Still the last year the Wolves had a four-game winning streak. 23 Zach LaVine points, his most since he scored 24 against Utah on Jan. 7. 12 Games this season in which the Wolves have made 10 or more three-pointers, but their first since Dec. 30 against Milwaukee.

JERRY ZGODA

INDIANA 109, WOLVES 103Indiana 25 27 24 33 — 109Timberwolves 20 26 24 33 — 103INDIANA FG FT REB Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTGeorge 36:36 12-22 5-6 1-4 5 4 32Miles 28:41 3-5 0-0 0-6 1 4 9Turner 35:34 10-14 2-2 2-6 0 2 23T.Young 31:10 4-10 1-2 2-5 1 3 9Teague 34:54 7-13 3-3 0-8 13 2 20Allen 17:29 0-1 2-2 0-5 0 2 2Robinson 16:43 2-2 2-2 0-0 0 2 6Ellis 14:00 0-6 0-0 0-1 0 2 0Brooks 13:06 0-2 0-0 0-3 0 1 0Jefferson 11:47 4-6 0-0 1-6 1 0 8J.Young 0:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0Totals 240 42-81 15-17 6-44 21 22 109Percentages: FG .519, FT .882. Three-pointers: 10-18, .556 (George 3-4, Miles 3-4, Teague 3-5, Turner 1-2, Brooks 0-1, Ellis 0-1, T.Young 0-1). Team rebounds: 5. Team turnovers: 18 (17 pts.). Blocks: 4 (Turner 2, Allen, Teague). Turnovers: 18 (Teague 6, George 3, Turner 3, Ellis 2, Jefferson 2, Allen, Robinson). Steals: 7 (T.Young 3, George, Miles, Teague, Turn-er). Technicals: Defensive three-second, 5:45 second; team, 5:45 second.TIMBERWOLVES FG FT REB Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTTowns 37:44 13-23 3-4 2-10 4 2 33Wiggins 38:38 7-17 6-7 1-5 2 3 21Dieng 33:33 3-6 2-3 1-9 1 2 8LaVine 41:44 7-17 6-7 0-3 5 3 23Rubio 32:35 2-6 0-0 1-2 12 3 4Muhmmd 19:58 2-5 4-4 1-2 0 1 8Bjelica 15:38 1-6 0-0 0-3 0 2 3Dunn 15:25 1-1 0-2 0-0 3 2 3Aldrich 4:45 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 0Totals 240 36-81 21-27 6-34 27 20 103Percentages: FG .444, FT .778. Three-pointers: 10-27, .370 (Towns 4-6, LaVine 3-9, Dunn 1-1, Wiggins 1-4, Bjelica 1-5, Ru-bio 0-2). Team rebounds: 9. Team turn-overs: 11 (17 pts.). Blocks: 5 (Dieng 2, Al-drich, Bjelica, LaVine). Turnovers: 11 (Ru-bio 3, Wiggins 3, LaVine 2, Towns 2, Dieng). Steals: 13 (Rubio 4, Dieng 2, Towns 2, Al-drich, Bjelica, LaVine, Muhammad, Wig-gins). Technical: Coach Tom Thibodeau, 6:58 fourth. A: 14,862 (19,356). T: 2:16. Officials: Ron Garretson, Mark Ayotte, Scott Foster.

to question whether players would tire of the histrionics, but even a lethargic 109-103 loss to the Pacers doesn’t alter the revised arc of Thibs’ first season in Minnesota.

Following a deflating beginning to what was sup-posed to be a different sea-son, the Wolves are getting better. Perhaps because of his yelling. More likely because of how he communicates when he’s not yelling.

His language on the side-line is salty. The way he talks about his players in public is not. Players can handle vol-ume. What they can’t stand is disingenuousness.

Behind the scenes, Thibodeau is said to be even-

tempered and fair. And there is something to be said for an NBA coach who demands attentiveness on every pos-session of every game. That’s what will be required if this team ever contends for a championship. And that behavior would look more proportional in a playoff series.

At his postgame news conference, Thibodeau said he was disappointed in the Wolves’ slow start and low energy, and happy with their “fight’’ in the fourth quarter.

A couple of minutes later, Andrew Wiggins was asked what Thibodeau told the team after the game.

“He’s honest,’’ Wiggins said. “He said we were flat but he likes the way we

fought at the end.’’If Thibodeau’s players had

tired of him, they probably wouldn’t be showing improve-ment . The Wolves have won six of their past nine. They had a three-game winning streak broken Thursday. Their defense has improved dramat-ically in the past month.

So, congratulations, Tim-berwolves fans. You have a playoff race.

Well, not exactly a race. More of a lurch, an attempt to trip up a small flight of stairs and stick the landing.

The Wolves haven’t made the playoffs since 2004, which is also the only season in which they have won a playoff series. Despite their typically horrid record, they

are three games out of the eighth seed in the West.

The Timberwolves could play meaningful games in April. This is progress.

Target Center remains underpopulated during Wolves games. The franchise has sold hope for so many years it may need a playoff series to reignite interest. For all of the losing for all of these years, a playoff series might not be far off.

Longtime Wolves employ-ees mull the possible curses that have befallen the fran-chise. With reason.

Thursday night, Crunch, the team mascot, rode a sled down an aisle and slammed into a patron, who had to wear an ice bag on his knee

in the second half.The patron: Karl Towns,

Karl-Anthony’s father.Strange things happen

in Timberwolvesland, so expressing optimism about the franchise is always risky.

I’ll go back to what I believed in October: Thibodeau’s relentless exper-tise and three 21-year-old wunderkinds should produce the most sustainable success in Timberwolves history.

As long as Thibs’ voice survives, and Crunch’s sled doesn’t ram into the wrong Towns.

Jim Souhan’s podcast can be heard at MalePatternPodcasts.com. On Twitter: @SouhanStrib. • [email protected]

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Pacers, Wolves each see streaks end

for years and years.Both ways, you can call it a

hard night after Towns’ father stayed to the very end, his iced leg propped up until the crutches came.

Before it was all over, the Wolves knew well why the NBA named Indiana’s Paul George an Eastern Conference All-Star Game reserve not long before the game’s opening tip. His 32-point, five-assist, four-rebound performance included 27 points scored in the first three quarters .

George is headed next month to his fourth All-Star Game and his second consecutive, less than three years after he hor-rifically broke his leg during a

Team USA summer scrimmage that Thibodeau coached.

“To overcome the way he has, I think he’s better now than he was then,” Thibodeau said. “And I thought he was great then. To get past that, I know he went through a lot.”

Before Thursday’s game was all over, they also knew well it’s difficult playing from behind on a night when Thibodeau used “low energy” and “slow” to describe his team, even if they almost rescued themselves with a flurry of four three-pointers late in the game.

“It’s too late to turn on the gas, five minutes left in the game,” Towns said. “It makes it very hard to win a game. We almost pulled it off, but almost isn’t

good enough.”They might have pulled it off

had the Pacers not made a cou-ple of desperate three-pointers near the end of the 24-second shot clock down the stretch, one by Jeff Teague with 1:55 left and the other C.J. Miles’ dag-ger with 47 seconds left after the Wolves had pulled within five points.

Still, when Wiggins scored on a driving layup with 15 seconds left the Wolves were within 106-103. When Wiggins pushed Teague to the right side-line as Teague dribbled the ball upcourt, Wiggins either fouled Teague or forced him over the sideline.

There was no whistle either way and Teague continued on,

until he fed Myles Turner for an alley-oop dunk and a 108-103 lead with six seconds left.

“Yeah,” Andrew Wiggins said, “he took about five steps out of bounds.”

Thibodeau didn’t like his team’s lethargic start, its uncommon 44-34 rebound-ing deficit or the loose balls it allowed the Pacers’ to turn into those two three-pointers.

“I did like the fight at the end,” he said. “To be down 10 and then you’ve got to find a way to claw back. Fifteen seconds to go, I thought he [Teague] was out of bounds. Then it was down three and a chance to tie.”

Instead, it was a five-point game and it was all over.

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JIM MONE • Associated PressIndiana’s Paul George was defended Thursday by the Timberwolves’ Andrew Wiggins. George had a big night, scoring 32 points.

KIM RAFF •Associated Press The Lakers’ Timofey Mozgov drove for a layup Thursday night against the Jazz in Utah.



Coaches of teams involved have mixed emotions.

By RACHEL [email protected]

News of the North Star Col-lege Cup’s demise didn’t come with a bang, or even much of a whimper. St. Cloud State coach Bob Motzko still hadn’t seen an official announcement Wednesday, two days before the tournament for Minne-sota’s five Division I hockey teams would be played for the last time.

“It had been in limbo for a long time,’’ Motzko said. “I kept asking, ‘Is anybody going to make a [press] release about it?’ And nobody had an answer. It was like a bad breakup, where you never get the phone call.’’

The University of Minne-sota quietly issued a statement Tuesday, saying that the North Star College Cup will end its four-year run this weekend. The Gophers, St. Cloud State, Minnesota Duluth and Bemi-dji State will play in the final edition Friday and Saturday at Xcel Energy Center. Tom McGinnis, a senior associ-ate athletic director at the U who helped create the tourna-ment, said a lack of fan interest — which translated to many empty seats — led to the deci-sion to discontinue the event.

The five coaches expressed

mixed feelings. Though they liked the concept, dropping the tournament frees up two dates on their nonconference schedules for home games. The Gophers’ Don Lucia, Bemidji State’s Tom Serra-tore, UMD’s Scott Sandelin and Motzko added that they remain deeply committed to playing each other regularly, which was the main impetus for starting the tournament after conference realignment divided the teams into three separate leagues.

Still, Serratore said he is disappointed the event did not last long enough to find an audience.

“I can’t speak for everyone,’’ said Serratore, whose team won the North Star Cup in 2015 and was runner-up last year. “But I know at Bemidji State, we loved the tournament. It’s a great weekend, and it’s too bad we couldn’t keep it going.

“I think we have an obli-gation to college hockey fans in the state of Minnesota to showcase those teams at one of the best venues in the world. A lot of people enjoy it. A lot of alumni enjoy it. It is what it is, but I don’t know if we gave it enough time.’’

The North Star College Cup began in 2014, after the state’s teams were dispersed from the old WCHA into the Big Ten, the National Collegiate

Hockey Conference and the newly reconfigured WCHA. The Gophers served as perma-nent host and were part of the field every year. St. Cloud State, Bemidji State, UMD and Min-nesota State Mankato partici-

pated on a rotating basis, with one sitting out each edition.

McGinnis said ticket sales for this weekend’s event are similar to last year, when attendance for the four games was announced at 23,584. The

tournament drew announced crowds of 28,906 in 2014 and 28,715 in 2015.

The five schools commit-ted to an initial four-year run. They hoped the North Star Cup might grow to be as popu-lar as the old WCHA’s postsea-son tournament, which packed Xcel with crowds of more than 17,000 per game at its peak. Since it began, they have tin-kered with the details to try to boost attendance, experiment-ing with different ticket prices and moving last year’s event to Saturday and Sunday.

That only made it worse. Following last year’s tour-nament — when only a few thousand people showed up for the championship and consolation games — McGin-nis said the schools discussed more ideas, such as moving the event to campus sites. After deciding there was no sure-fire way to improve things, they pulled the plug.

“There weren’t a lot of people at the championship game last year, even though St. Cloud was No. 3 in the coun-try,’’ McGinnis said. “That’s when it clicked for us that this isn’t the magic event we hoped it would turn into. All the schools certainly were dis-appointed, because we all had high hopes.

“If we’re playing in front of 6,000 or 7,000 people in a half-

empty building, that’s not the experience we want this to be for our student-athletes or our fans. … It just didn’t pan out the way we thought it would.’’

Though the tournament didn’t catch on, McGinnis said one of its central aims did not die with it. All five Minnesota programs have pledged to continue playing each other as much as possible.

The Gophers will play UMD in next October’s Ice Breaker tournament, followed by home-and-home series against the Bulldogs in four of the next five seasons. St. Cloud State and MSU Mankato, whom the Gophers played in nonconfer-ence series earlier this season, will remain on the schedule.

“In some form or fash-ion, we’re going to find ways to keep playing each other,’’ Motzko said. “It may not be annually, but it’s going to be pretty regular. It’s just com-mon sense.’’

Motzko and Serratore hope the North Star Cup can be revived in the future, perhaps on an every-other-year basis. Playing at Xcel for a trophy and in-state bragging rights, Ser-ratore said, is an experience worth preserving.

“I just think there’s a lot of upside,’’ he said. “And I think this weekend, we’re going to have an outstanding tourna-ment.’’

W E S T E R N C O N F E R E N C ENORTHWEST W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFUtah 30 18 .625 — 7-3 W-1 17-8 13-10 19-12Oklahoma City 28 19 .596 1½ 7-3 W-3 16-6 12-13 17-12Denver 20 25 .444 8½ 6-4 W-2 12-11 8-14 13-16Portland 20 27 .426 9½ 5-5 W-2 12-9 8-18 14-16Timberwolves 17 29 .370 12 6-4 L-1 10-14 7-15 10-19

SOUTHWEST W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFSan Antonio 36 9 .800 — 8-2 W-5 16-5 20-4 20-5Houston 34 15 .694 4 4-6 L-2 17-5 17-10 21-9Memphis 27 20 .574 10 5-5 W-1 16-9 11-11 18-9New Orleans 18 28 .391 18½ 4-6 L-1 12-13 6-15 6-19Dallas 16 30 .348 20½ 5-5 L-1 10-12 6-18 10-20

PACIFIC W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFGolden State 39 7 .848 — 8-2 W-1 20-3 19-4 24-5L.A. Clippers 30 17 .638 9½ 7-3 L-1 17-7 13-10 20-11Sacramento 18 27 .400 20½ 3-7 W-2 8-13 10-14 11-15Phoenix 15 31 .326 24 4-6 L-2 8-13 7-18 5-25L.A. Lakers 16 34 .320 25 2-8 L-3 11-13 5-21 8-23

E A S T E R N C O N F E R E N C EATLANTIC W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFToronto 28 18 .609 — 4-6 L-5 15-8 13-10 17-7Boston 27 18 .600 ½ 6-4 W-1 14-8 13-10 19-9New York 20 27 .426 8½ 3-7 L-1 12-11 8-16 12-16Philadelphia 17 27 .386 10 8-2 W-2 11-14 6-13 11-15Brooklyn 9 36 .200 18½ 1-9 L-3 7-17 2-19 3-24

SOUTHEAST W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFAtlanta 27 19 .587 — 7-3 W-1 13-9 14-10 20-9Washington 25 20 .556 1½ 8-2 W-2 19-6 6-14 18-13Charlotte 23 23 .500 4 3-7 L-2 15-9 8-14 15-16Orlando 18 29 .383 9½ 2-8 L-2 8-15 10-14 10-16Miami 16 30 .348 11 6-4 W-5 9-13 7-17 7-17

CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFCleveland 30 14 .682 — 4-6 L-3 19-5 11-9 20-6Indiana 23 22 .511 7½ 6-4 W-1 16-6 7-16 13-13Chicago 23 24 .489 8½ 4-6 L-1 14-10 9-14 16-15Milwaukee 21 24 .467 9½ 3-7 L-1 13-11 8-13 14-18Detroit 21 25 .457 10 5-5 L-1 12-10 9-15 13-14

THURSDAYIndiana 109, Timberwolves 103Denver 127, Phoenix 120Oklahoma City 109, Dallas 98Utah 96, L.A. Lakers 88

WEDNESDAYAtlanta 119, Chicago 114Boston 120, Houston 109Dallas 103, New York 95Golden State 113, Charlotte 103Miami 109, Brooklyn 106Memphis 101, Toronto 99Okla. City 114, New Orleans 105Philadelphia 114, Milwaukee 109Portland 105, L.A. Lakers 98Sacramento 116, Cleveland 112, OT

FRIDAYSacramento at Indiana, 6 pmBrooklyn at Cleveland, 6:30 pmCharlotte at New York, 6:30 pmMilwaukee at Toronto, 6:30 pmOrlando at Boston, 6:30 pmHouston at Philadelphia, 7 pmMiami at Chicago, 7 pmSan Antonio at New Orleans, 7 pmWashington at Atlanta, 7 pmMemphis at Portland, 9 pm

SATURDAYBrooklyn at Timberwolves, 8 pmSacramento at Charlotte, 6 pmDetroit at Miami, 6:30 pmBoston at Milwaukee, 7 pmL.A. Clippers at Golden St., 7:30 pmDenver at Phoenix, 8 pmMemphis at Utah, 8 pm

STANDINGS

DENVER 127, PHOENIX 120Phoenix 29 32 31 28 — 120Denver 35 22 39 31 — 127Phoenix: Warren 9-16 2-2 21, Chriss 2-3 0-0 5, T.Chandler 2-2 0-0 4, Bledsoe 9-19 7-9 28, Booker 9-17 5-6 24, Dudley 1-2 0-0 2, Tucker 4-10 0-0 11, Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Len 2-5 0-0 4, Knight 8-11 0-0 17, Barbo-sa 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 48-89 14-17 120.Denver: Gallinari 7-16 9-12 25, Faried 5-8 5-5 15, Jokic 12-21 5-6 29, Nelson 6-11 0-0 13, Harris 2-9 2-2 8, Barton 6-7 3-3 16, W.Chandler 2-6 4-5 9, Arthur 3-5 0-0 8, Murray 1-3 2-2 4. Totals 44-86 30-35 127.Three-pointers: Phoenix 10-24 (Tucker 3-4, Bledsoe 3-7, Knight 1-2, Warren 1-2, Chriss 1-2, Booker 1-6, Dudley 0-1), Denver 9-23 (Arthur 2-3, Harris 2-4, Gallinari 2-7, Bar-ton 1-1, W.Chandler 1-1, Nelson 1-4, Murray 0-1, Jokic 0-2). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Phoenix 28 (War-ren 8), Denver 46 (Jokic 14). Assists: Phoenix 21 (Booker 6), Denver 29 (Nelson 9). Total fouls: Phoenix 26, Denver 15. A: 12,231 (19,155).

OK. CITY 109, DALLAS 98Dallas 26 29 18 25 — 98Oklahoma City 23 30 34 22 — 109Dallas: Finney-Smith 3-7 3-4 11, Barnes 13-26 3-3 31, Bogut 3-5 0-0 6, Jackson 4-8 0-0 9, Curry 4-12 0-0 11, Brussino 1-3 0-0 2, Powell 2-5 0-0 4, Mejri 1-2 1-2 3, Harris 2-5 0-0 4, Anderson 5-11 4-4 17. Totals 38-84 11-13 98.Oklahoma City: Sabonis 3-4 3-4 10, Adams 5-7 5-6 15, Westbrook 16-29 9-11 45, Oladipo 7-14 2-2 17, Roberson 0-3 2-6 2, Grant 1-1 0-0 2, Singler 0-1 0-0 0, Kanter 1-3 2-4 4, Lauvergne 1-3 1-1 3, Payne 2-4 0-0 6, Abrines 1-3 2-2 5. Totals 37-72 26-36 109.Three-pointers: Dallas 11-26 (An-derson 3-6, Curry 3-6, Barnes 2-2, Finney-Smith 2-4, Jackson 1-1, Brussino 0-2, Powell 0-2, Harris 0-3), Oklahoma City 9-22 (West-brook 4-8, Payne 2-2, Sabonis 1-1, Abrines 1-3, Oladipo 1-4, Singler 0-1, Lauvergne 0-1, Roberson 0-2).

Fouled out: Brussino. Rebounds: Dallas 36 (Brussino, Mejri 6), Okla-homa City 44 (Roberson, West-brook 8). Assists: Dallas 17 (Jack-son, Curry 4), Oklahoma City 13 (Oladipo 4). Total fouls: Dallas 26, Oklahoma City 17. Technicals: Dal-las defensive three-second, Mejri. A: 18,203 (18,203).

UTAH 96, L.A. LAKERS 88L.A. Lakers 16 25 19 28 — 88Utah 23 21 26 26 — 96L.A. Lakers: Young 5-12 0-0 13, Deng 3-6 0-0 6, Mozgov 4-9 1-2 9, Black 2-6 0-0 4, Calderon 0-3 0-0 0, Ingram 0-6 0-0 0, Nance 2-4 0-0 4, Zubac 6-11 4-4 16, Clarkson 8-18 0-0 16, Williams 6-9 7-7 20. Totals 36-84 12-13 88.Utah: Hayward 7-14 9-10 24, Favors 3-9 2-2 8, Gobert 3-6 3-4 9, Hill 4-14 3-4 12, Hood 2-6 0-0 5, Ingles 2-4 2-2 7, Johnson 3-4 1-1 7, Lyles 2-7 2-2 7, Diaw 2-8 2-2 6, Burks 5-9 0-1 11. Totals 33-81 24-28 96.Three-pointers: L.A. Lakers 4-14 (Young 3-7, Williams 1-3, Clarkson 0-2, Ingram 0-2), Utah 6-26 (Burks 1-2, Ingles 1-3, Lyles 1-3, Hood 1-4, Hill 1-5, Hayward 1-6, Johnson 0-1, Diaw 0-2). Fouled out: None. Re-bounds: L.A. Lakers 48 (Zubac 10), Utah 44 (Gobert 13). Assists: L.A. Lakers 13 (Clarkson 4), Utah 13 (Favors, Hill 3). Total fouls: L.A. Lakers 24, Utah 10. Technicals: L.A. Lakers def. three-second, L.A. Lak-ers team. A: 19,911 (19,911).

LEADERS(Through Wednesday)SCORING G PTS AVGWestbrook, OKC ....46 1413 30.7Thomas, Bos ..........41 1194 29.1Harden, Hou ...........49 1403 28.6Davis, NO ................42 1181 28.1Cousins, Sac ...........44 1230 28.0DeRozan, Tor ..........44 1228 27.9Durant, GS ..............46 1206 26.2Lillard, Por ..............42 1099 26.2James, Cle ..............41 1049 25.6Leonard, SA ............41 1044 25.5Butler, Chi ..............45 1120 24.9Curry, GS ................46 1133 24.6

NBA

SUMMARIES

COLLEGE HOCKEY

TENNIS AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Friday: Bemidji State vs. St. Cloud State, 4 p.m.; Gophers vs. Minnesota Duluth, 7 p.m.Saturday: Consolation game, 4 p.m.; title game, 7 p.m.Gophers TV/radio: FSN (Fri. ), FSN-Plus (Sat. ); 1500-AM Gophers update: The No. 6 Gophers (14-6-2, 6-2 Big Ten) won the first cup in 2014 and face a strong field in the final edition. They are 9-2 in their past 11 games . Sopho-more forward Tyler Sheehy leads the Big Ten with 32 points . Senior forward Justin Kloos, second on the team in points (27) and goals (11), is on an eight-game point streak.Minnesota Duluth : Last weekend’s road sweep of North Dakota gave the No. 2 Bulldogs (15-5-4, 11-4-1-1 NCHC) a three-game win streak. The NCHC leaders are 7-1-1 in their past nine games against the Gophers . Bemidji State : The 20th-ranked Beavers (16-9-3, 16-4-2-2 WCHA) lead the WCHA and enter the tournament with the nation’s top defense. They are allowing 1.79 goals per game, and they also have the nation’s best penalty kill, with a success rate of 90 percent. St. Cloud State : The only unranked team in the field, the Huskies (11-12-1, 6-9-1-0 NCHC) have been plagued by inconsistency. The 2016 North Star Cup champions are led by forwards Mikey Eyssimont (10 goals/12 assists) and Blake Winiecki (10 goals/10 assists).

RACHEL BLOUNT

NORTH STAR COLLEGE CUP Xcel Energy Center

Three ranked teams in field

Empty seats doomed North Star Cup

EXPERIENCE NECESSARYThe Australian Open may be the Grand Slam that Ameri-can tennis audiences pay the least attention to, but this year something very special is going on. Early Thursday morning in the U.S., Roger Federer (age 35) advanced to the men’s final. Just a few hours earlier, Serena Williams (age 35) advanced to the wom-en’s final, where she’ll face her sister, Venus (age 36). See a trend? Three finalists with a combined age of 106.

W O M E N ’ S S I N G L E S F I N A L

Who: No. 2 Serena Williams vs. No. 13 Venus WilliamsWhen: 2 a.m. SaturdayTV: ESPN (repeated at 8 a.m. on ESPN2)Did you know? Serena can set an Open-era record with her 23rd Grand Slam title. Venus last appeared in a Grand Slam final in 2009 and last won a Slam title in 2008.The quote: “I just feel like, no matter what happens, we’ve won.” — Serena Williams on the ninth all-Williams Grand Slam final

M E N ’ S F I N A L

Who: No. 17 Roger Federer vs. No. 9 Rafael Nadal or No. 15 Grigor DimitrovWhen: 2 a.m. SundayTV: ESPN (repeated at 8 a.m. on ESPN2)Did you know? Federer will be seeking his 18th Grand Slam title and his first since 2012. A matchup with Nadal would make the finals an all-thirtysomething affair.The quote: “I’ll leave it all out here in Australia and if I can’t walk for another five months, that’s OK.” — Federer

NEWS SERVICES

CHRISTOPHER CLAREY New York Times

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – The sibling rivalry, at least on the tennis tour, started right here at the Austra-lian Open for the Williams sisters.

It was 1998, and older sister Venus beat younger sister Ser-ena 7-6 (4), 6-1 in a second-round match that surely drew more attention than any second-round match in history between a pair of Australian Open debutantes.

The fascination in their dynamic and their futures was there from the start. A picture of Venus consoling Serena after the match was on the front page of the New York Times.

Though it would be tempting to label their Australian Open final Saturday as a full-circle moment and to speculate that it might be their last meeting at this late a stage of a Grand Slam tournament, it seems best to resist the temptation.

“You must let the champions decide when the right moment comes,” said Marion Bartoli, a for-mer Wimbledon champion.

In this tournament, Serena has beaten two former members of the top 10 and one current mem-ber. Venus’ draw has been soft by comparison.

This will be Venus’ first major singles final since she lost to Serena in straight sets in the 2009 Wim-bledon final, and her first match

against Serena in Melbourne since the 2003 final, when Serena won her fourth Grand Slam title in a row, having defeated Venus in all four finals.

“It’s just amazing,” said Rennae Stubbs, an Australian star who first met the sisters before they joined the tour. “They came onto the scene at age 15 and 16 with the beads and the hair and the exuber-ance, and here they are: mature, remarkable young women at 35 and 36. No matter what anyone says to me, their story from start to finish is the greatest sports story ever.”

And if the Williamses have taught us anything along the way, it is that the story is not finished until they say it is.

It’s bonus Serena-Venus

By BEN ROTHENBERG New York Times

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – When Stan Wawrinka’s final back-hand return landed just long, Roger Federer raised his arms in a hesitant way that appeared to be a half-tri-umphant, half-disbelieving shrug.

Having not played a competi-tive tournament since Wimbledon last July because of a knee injury, Federer completed an improb-able run to the Australian Open final with a 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3 vic-tory Thursday over fourth-seeded Wawrinka, his friend and Swiss compatriot who won last year’s U.S. Open.

“I felt like everything happened

so quickly at the end; I was in dis-belief,” said Federer, the 17th seed.

On Sunday, Federer will seek his first major title since Wimble-don in 2012. It will be his sixth final in Melbourne and his first since 2010, when he won the last of his four titles here.

He awaits the winner of Friday’s semifinal between Rafael Nadal, the imposing lefthander who has been Federer’s nemesis through-out his career, and Grigor Dimi-trov, who has lost all five of his matches against Federer.

At 35, Federer is the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam singles final since Ken Rosewall played the 1974 U.S. Open at age 39.

In this tournament, Federer did

not always make it easy on his aging body; he also needed five sets to defeat fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori in the fourth round. This was only the third time in Federer’s career, and the first since the 2009 French Open, that he won two five-set matches in the same event.

Before the fifth set, Federer took an off-court medical timeout for what he described as a “leg thing,” which he said had been bothering him since early in the match.

In an interview with Swiss tele-vision after the match, Federer said he had been struggling with an adductor injury during the tournament. In his news confer-ence, he said he did not expect the injury to affect him in the final.

Federer wins five-setter in semis

S. Williams V. Williams

Federer

KIN CHEUNG • Associated PressSerena Williams followed sister Venus into the final with a semifinal victory over Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.



He was 6 over in a span of six holes, finished at 76.

By DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press

SAN DIEGO – The return of Tiger Woods felt like a celebration Thursday at Tor-rey Pines. For everybody but Tiger.

Thousands of fans turned up to watch Woods walk onto the first tee for his first PGA Tour event in 17 months, and they stood six deep around greens. No other player brings this much energy to a golf course.

Now he has to bring his game.Woods battled to save par

on the front nine, and then he fell apart during a six-hole stretch on the back nine, stum-bling to a 4-over 76 in the Farm-ers Insurance Open.

Starting with No. 12, Woods played six holes in 6 over.

“I hit bad tee shots and made a bad three-putt and laid up from the rough into rough,” he said. “I just kept compound-ing problems and mistakes.”

Woods wound up 11 shots behind Justin Rose, who opened with a 65 on the shorter North Course. Adam Hadwin of Can-ada, who shot 59 last week in the California desert, had the low score on the South at 66.

Woods had not played on the PGA Tour since Aug. 23, 2015, when he tied for 10th in the Wyndham Championship. Two back surgeries followed, and he missed all of 2016 until returning for an unofficial event in December.

Along with fighting his swing Thursday — he didn’t hit a fairway after No. 7 — Woods said he had a hard time adjusting to the pace of play in threesomes.

“It’s just weird to say this, but it was just we were playing so much slower than I’m used to,” he said. “It was just weird waiting that much.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS

As the NFL plays its first Pro Bowl in Orlando, wondering if it can be a long-term land-ing point for the beleaguered all-star game, Drew Brees can’t help but think about what was left behind.

The Saints quarterback understands the NFL’s decision to move the Pro Bowl from Hawaii t o O r l a n d o from a business standpoint. Still, the 10-time Pro Bowler feels for Honolulu and the loss of the game it had become synony-mous with.

“It’s tough that it’s not there, because we had a great fan base there,” Brees said. “I know those fans appreciated it.”

This will be just the third time since 1979 that the Pro Bowl has been played outside of Honolulu.

“It’s always a fun week no matter where it is, but guys as a whole would certainly rather have it in Hawaii,” said Browns left tackle Joe Thomas, who will make his 10th straight Pro Bowl

appearance. “Orlando has been a great host so far.”

If all goes well, Orlando and its 75,000-seat stadium have hopes of being the perma-nent home of the Pro Bowl. In addition to warm weather and beaches in the area, Orlando is home to Disney World and has three other major theme parks in the vicinity.

Etc.• Ty Montgomery is stay-

ing at running back with the Green Bay Packers. Montgom-ery will spend the offseason preparing to be in the backfield full-time, coach Mike McCar-thy said Thursday. The switch from receiver epitomized the scrambling that the Packers had to do all season to cope with a litany of injuries.

• The NFL said injuries decreased this season, includ-ing concussions. Emphasizing that players are doing more self-reporting of head inju-ries, the NFL released data that show overall concussions for the preseason and regular season were down from 275 in 2015 to 244 in 2016. That includes a drop of 16 in regular-season games to 167.

Pegasus World Cup will pit 12 horses entered at a cost of $1 million each.

By TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press

HALLANDALE BEACH, FLA. – The idea was most unusual: Put together the richest horse race in the world, and do so by getting 12 stakeholders to invest $1 million apiece just to have a spot in the starting gate.

Far-fetched as that sounded, it’s now reality.

The biggest purse offered in thoroughbred racing — $12 million — is up for grabs Satur-day at Gulfstream Park, where California Chrome and Arro-gate headline the field of the Pegasus World Cup. The win-ner’s connections will walk away with more than $7 mil-lion between purse money and a share of wagering on the race.

“You see owners putting their money where their mouth is,” said Eddie Olczyk, former hockey player and coach who is now an analyst for NBC. “That’s what makes this so intriguing. You have people taking a shot, and that’s what horse racing is all about.

You have an opportunity, you have a starting gate ... and you just don’t know what’s going to happen.”

That’s precisely what Frank Stronach envisioned when he and his group made this plan.

Gulfstream features a 110-foot-tall statue of Pegasus, one that cost around $30 mil-lion to build. So when it came time to come up with a name for this race, Pegasus was the logical choice. And once the idea was put on paper, the 12 starting spots were sold quickly

“We want to make things exciting,” Stronach said. “I think this is to tell the world, horse lovers, we can do great things if we work together.”

It is perhaps more of an event than a horse race. Celebrities have been invited, big-name musical guests are rumored, and it caters to an elite crowd. Gulfstream ordinarily has no charge for admission, but the cheapest ticket to get into the facility Saturday will be $100.

“This is like Mayweather-Pacquiao,” Arrogate trainer Bob Baffert said. “If you’re a real fan and you go to the Super Bowl, you’ll pay what-ever it costs.”

PREPS

T H U R S D AY

ADAPTED FLOOR HOCKEYPI DIVISION• St. Paul Humboldt 10, South Sub-urban 0

ALPINE SKIING • BOYSLAKEAt Buck Hill• Minnetonka 363, Edina 300, Hop-kins 246. Medalist: Soren Lindquist, Edina, 48.04.

ALPINE SKIING • GIRLSLAKEAt Buck Hill• Eden Prairie 300½, Minnetonka and Edina 297. Medalist: Becca Divine, Eden Prairie, 47.55.

BASKETBALL • BOYSMETRO WEST• Bloom. Jeff. 55, Ben.-St. Marg. 44• St. Louis Park 84, Bloom. Kenn. 57MINNESOTA RIVER• Tri-City United 88, LeSueur-Hend. 72MISSISSIPPI 8• Big Lake 70, Princeton 46• St. Michael-Albertville 61, Buffa-lo 48SOUTH SUBURBAN• Apple Valley 79, Eastview 54ST. PAUL• Johnson 60, Harding 58, OTTWIN CITIES ATHLETIC• Cristo Rey Jesuit 78, St. Paul Prep 58• Math & Science 78, Hmong Acad-emy 41WRIGHT COUNTY• New Lon.-Spicer 70, Wat.-Mayer 58METROPOLITAN AREA• Belle Plaine 66, Gibbon-F-W 33• Champlin Park 99, Hopkins 79• Fond du Lac Ojibwe 87, Learning for Leadership 70• Kimball 51, Howard Lake-W-W 33 • Northfield 71, Kasson-Mantor-ville 68 MINNESOTA• Ada-Borup 54, Barnesville 38 • Benson 71, Hancock 56 • Braham 71, Isle 39 • Breckenridge 74, Clinton-G-B 63 • Browerville/EV 88, Walker-H-A 59 • Cedar Mt./Comfrey 74, Sleepy Eye 49 • Cleveland 67, St. Clair 38 • Deer River 96, Northland 61 • Eden Valley-Watkins 68, Pierz 49 • Faribault 59, Rochester Mayo 51 • Hill City 81, Littlefork-Big Falls 53 • Holdingford 58, Belgrade-B-E 38 • International Falls 66, Warroad 46 • Maple Lake 68, Paynesville 54 • Nevis 59, Cass Lake-Bena 46 • Northern Freeze 68, Fosston 54 • Perham 75, Dilworth-G-F 44 • Red Rock Central 67, SW Mn. Chr. 57 • Rochester Lourdes 69, Hayfi eld 65 • Rush City 59, East Central 39 • Springfi eld 84, New Ulm Cath. 47 • Tracy-M-B 65, Lakeview 62 • Triton 62, Kenyon-Wanamingo 50 • Truman/ML/GHEC 66, Martin Co. West 56 • Virginia 99, Duluth Marshall 43 • Wrenshall 63, Two Harbors 52

BASKETBALL • GIRLSMETRO WEST• Chaska 55, Chanhassen 51• Cooper 80, Richfi eld 31• Bloom. Kenn. 54, St. Louis Park 49MCAA• Lester Prairie/HT 77, Legacy Chris-tian 42 MINNESOTA RIVER• Jordan 72, Mayer Lutheran 69• Norwood YA 74, Sibley East 37• Tri-City United 78, Belle Plaine 64MISSISSIPPI 8• Big Lake 61, Princeton 58, OTSOUTH SUBURBAN• Rosemount 51, Farmington 42ST. PAUL• Harding 56, Johnson 22SUBURBAN EAST• East Ridge 61, Cretin-D.H. 53 WRIGHT COUNTY• Orono 68, Delano 44METROPOLITAN AREA• Becker 66, Little Falls 43• CHOF 67, Spectrum 53• Eden Prairie 61, Roch. John Mar-shall 54• Eau Claire North (Wis.) 65, Burns-ville 64• Hopkins 78, DeLaSalle 32• Mounds Park Academy 61, FAIR 26• Northfi eld 66, Albert Lea 21 • St. Croix Prep 58, St. Agnes 56• St. Paul High. Park 67, Mpls. Hen-ry 38• Zimmerman 77, Milaca 45 MINNESOTA• Ada-Borup 83, Climax/Fisher 40 • Badger-Greenbush-Middle River 60, Kittson County Central 57 • Bethlehem Academy 60, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton 45 • Bigfork 79, Greenway 27 • Blue Earth Area 52, Waterville-E-M 50 • BOLD 62, Morris Area/Chokio-Al-berta 59 • Brainerd 65, Rocori 31 • Breckenridge 73, Hillcrest Luther-an 45 • Clearbrook-Gonvick 84, Bagley 26 • Detroit Lakes 60, Thief River Falls 52 • Dover-Eyota 54, St. Charles 39 • Duluth Marshall 49, Cloquet 43 • Esko 60, Floodwood 38 • Eveleth-Gilbert 75, South Ridge 39 • Faribault 30, Rochester Mayo 28 • Fergus Falls 55, Sauk Rapids-Rice 51 • Fosston 45, Waubun 38 • Gibbon-F-W 72, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 52 • Goodridge/G-G 47, Warren-A-O 21 • Grand Rapids 64, Crosby-Ironton 39 • Henning 48, Pillager 36 • Hills-Beaver Creek 66, Fulda 27 • Kasson-Mantorville 88, Triton 53 • Littlefork-Big Falls 58, Hill City 50 • Lyle/Austin Pacelli 79, Spring Grove 32 • Mankato East 62, Rochester Cen-tury 54 • Maple River 62, St. Clair 59 • Martin County West 46, Minnesota Valley Lutheran 40 • Montevideo 71, Lac qui Parle Val-ley 65 • Mountain Iron-Buhl 77, Deer Riv-er 38 • New York Mills 75, Wadena-Deer Creek 36 • Park Rapids 81, Nevis 25 • Parkers Prairie 66, Ashby 30 • Pine River-Backus 74, Laporte 33 • Randolph 60, Houston 39 • Red Rock Central 62, Mountain Lake Area 33 • Royalton 56, St. John’s Prep 38 • Sacred Heart 56, Crookston 50 • St. Peter 67, Mankato Loyola 52 • Stephen-Argyle 61, Warroad 13 • SW Minn. Chr. 77, Murray Co. Cen-tral 43• Two Harbors 70, Wrenshall 24 • Underwood 60, Battle Lake 33 • Upsala 61, Swanville 35 • West Central 57, Clinton-Gracev-ille-Beardsley 34 • Willmar 42, St. Cloud Tech 29

GYMNASTICSLAKE• Eden Prairie 139.225, Hopkins 123.35. All-around: Kenzi Kluge, Eden Prairie, 36.625. • Minnetonka 140.625, Edina 136.625. All-around: Megan Haug, Edina, 36.85.METRO EAST• Hastings 121.725, Tartan 114.825. All-around: Madison Hynnek, Hast-ings, 31.3.• Mahtomedi 142.065, Henry Sibley 134.15. All-around: Kasey Lenarz, Mahtomedi, 38.25.• Simley 125.05, South St. Paul 110.3. All-around: Morgan Johnson, Sim-ley, 33.3.MISSISSIPPI 8• St. Francis 136.875, Chisago Lakes 127.525. All-around: Summer Hel-land, St. Francis, 35.05.SUBURBAN EAST• East Ridge 137.1, Park 131.425. All-around: Hannah Walker, East Ridge, 34.8.• Roseville 143.90, Cretin-Derham Hall 58.575. All-around: Olivia Rose-now, Roseville, 37.775.• Stillwater 145.7, Forest Lake 139.425. All-around: Gretchen Sharp, Stillwater, 36.925.

• Woodbury 124.725, White Bear Lake 124.05. All-around: Makayla Mills, White Bear Lake, 34.55.

HOCKEY • BOYSINDEPENDENT METRO ATHLETIC• Breck 4, St. Paul Academy 1• Minnehaha Acad. 6, Prov. Acad. 0LAKE• Edina 6, Minnetonka 3 • Wayzata 8, Hopkins 2 METRO EAST• North St. Paul 4, South St. Paul 1• Simley 4, Henry Sibley 2• St. Thomas Academy 8, Hastings 2 MISSISSIPPI 8• Buffalo 4, Princeton 0• Monticello/A/ML 5, Camb.-Isanti 4• Rogers 6, North Branch 1• St. Francis 5, Chisago Lakes 2NORTHWEST SUBURBAN• Armstrong/Cooper 5, Irondale 1 • Blaine 4, Andover 2 • Champlin Park 4, Spring Lake Park 2• Elk River/Zimmerman 6, Anoka 1• Totino-Grace 9, Osseo 1SOUTH SUBURBAN• Apple Valley 8, Shakopee 3• Burnsville 6, Eagan 2• Eastview 2, Rosemount 1• Lakeville North 8, Farmington 4• Prior Lake 3, Lakeville South 2, OTSUBURBAN EAST• Cretin-Derham Hall 4, Roseville 0• Mounds View 2, White Bear Lake 2, OT• Woodbury 8, Park of C.G. 2WRIGHT COUNTY• Hutchinson 3, New Prague 3, OT• Orono 7, Litchfi eld/D-C 0METROPOLITAN AREA• Chaska 4, Minneapolis 3• Delano 8, St. Cloud Cathedral 4• Duluth East 4, Forest Lake 0• Mahtomedi 5, Holy Angels 2• Maple Grove 2, Hill-Murray 0• New Ulm 4, Waconia 1• Northfi eld 9, Winona 0• Red Wing 5, Roch. John Marshall 1• Tartan 4, East Ridge 2

HOCKEY • GIRLSMETRO WEST• Bloom. Jeff./Kenn. 4, Ben.-St. Marg. 3SUBURBAN EAST• Forest Lake 3, Cretin-Derham Hall 0 WRIGHT COUNTY• Orono 3, Litchfi eld/D-C 1METROPOLITAN AREA• Blaine 4, Hill-Murray 4, OT • Blake 1, Centennial 0, OT• Breck 3, St. Paul United 3, OT• Cambridge-Isanti 7, North Metro 2• Chaska/Chan. 7, Holy Angels 3• Holy Family/Wac. 5, Totino-Grace 2• Mounds View 6, Irondale 1• Northfi eld 10, Winona 1• Red Wing 2, Roch. John Mar. 2, OT• St. Peter/LSH/TCU 4, Fairmont 1

SWIMMING • BOYSMETRO EAST• South St. Paul 94, Henry Sibley 86NORTHWEST SUBURBAN• Andover 95, Champlin Park 85• Centennial 97, Osseo 81• Elk River 98, Anoka 80• Spring Lake Park 94, Park Center 61ST. PAUL• Como Park 91, Humb/Wash/OWL 73• Harding 97, Johnson 89METROPOLITAN AREA• Fridley 94, Mpls. Southwest 92• Northfi eld 95, Mankato East 86

WRESTLINGLAKE• Wayzata 69, Edina 6METRO EAST• Hastings 75, St. Thomas Academy 0• Mahtomedi 58, North St. Paul 20NORTHWEST SUBURBAN• Osseo 41, Park Center 0• Totino-Grace 49, Irondale 18SOUTH SUBURBAN• Lakeville North 49, Farmington 24ST. PAUL• Washington 55, Central 18SUBURBAN EAST• Forest Lake 36, White Bear Lake 27• Mounds View 68, Cretin-D.H. 6• Stillwater 63, Park of C.G. 9TRI-METRO• Fridley 66, St. Croix Lutheran 12WRIGHT COUNTY• Hutchinson 64, Orono 9• Water.-Mayer 34, Annandale 33METROPOLITAN AREA• Austin 36, Northfi eld 27• Big Lake 54, Alexandria 21 • Litchfi eld 53, Albany 15• Litchfi eld 28, Foley 26 • Little Falls 42, Big Lake 26• Northfi eld 39, Roch. Mayo 28• Minnehaha/DLS 63, Spectrum 14• Sibley East 57, St. Agnes 9 • St. Agnes 40, Kimball 36

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BASKETBALL • BOYSApple Valley 79, Eastview 54Eastview 20 34 - 54Apple Valley 44 35 - 79Eastview: Carpenter 18, Ibrahim 16, Bryan 7, Barr 6, Miller 4, Machacek 3. Apple Valley: Jones 22, Kone 13, Mar-tens 11, Possis 8, Hendrickson 6, Ko-rba 6, Morse 5, Totusek 4, Macho 4.

Belle Plaine 66, Gibbon-F-W 33Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop 17 16-33Belle Plaine 41 25-66Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop: Weber 7, Herrera 6, Ortiz 4, Albrecht 3, Roiger 3, Muñoz 2, Victorino 2, Schwarz-rock 2, Schroeder 2, Huiras 2. Belle Plaine: Curtiss 21, Bigaouette 17, Hunsader 12, Schumacher 5, Hast-ings 3, Otto 2, Nelson 2, Karl 2, Dik-men 2. Bloom. Jeff. 55, Ben.-St. Marg. 44Benilde-St. Margaret’s 16 28-44Bloomington Jefferson 22 33-55Benilde-St. Margaret’s: Whitmore 11, Battle 10, Drees 9, Dunn 5, Uphus 4, Miller 3, Whitmore 2. Blooming-ton Jefferson: Riemersma 18, Evens 14, Gathje 9, Lyons 7, Hird 3, Tillotson 2, Seymore 2.

Champlin Park 99, Hopkins 79Champlin Park 43 56-99Hopkins 32 47-79Champlin Park: Wright 27, Hill 16, Smith 16, Strong 14, John 12, Hunter 12, Dubois 2. Hopkins: Beauchamp 23, Wright 20, El-Amin 19, Davis 7, Nnaji 4, Hedstrom 3, Mayfi eld 3.

C.R. Jesuit 78, St. Paul Prep 58Cristo Rey Jesuit 36 42-78St. Paul Prep 23 35-58Cristo Rey Jesuit: Sims 21, Grego-ry 18, Doyle 16, Nwaokorie 9, Wil-liams 4, Burgess 3, George 3, Som-mer 2, Burgess 2. St. Paul Prep: Gill 19, Golden 13, Lewis 11, Jones 7, Ad-ams 5, Rangati 3.

St. Michael-Albert. 61, Buffalo 48St. Michael-Albertville 28 33-61Buffalo 20 28-48St. Michael-Albertville: Chomilo 18, Halverson 14, Thurman 12, Asbury 6, Mattson 5, Brown 4, Kartes 2. Buffa-lo: Johnson 16, Willert 13, Rohlin 10, Maatz 5, Evans 2, Rabusch 2.

BASKETBALL • GIRLSBig Lake 61, Princeton 58 [OT]Princeton 26 30 2-58Big Lake 24 32 5-61Princeton: Bjurman 23, Nierngarten 11, Shafer 8, Schepper 5, Radem-acher 5, Mattson 4, Dorr 2. Big Lake: Domyahn 15, Anderson 12, Poe 11, McClaflin 10, Donais 9, Nelson 2, Tighe 2. Chaska 55, Chanhassen 51Chanhassen 33 18-51Chaska 22 33-55Chanhassen: Bren 23, Tollefson 14, Brastad 4, Ragnow 3, Tritch 3, Gron-holz 2, Wall 2. Chaska: Althaus 20, VanEps 8, Robling 5, Peterson 4, San-chez 4, Bursch 4, Quinn 4, Goetz 2, Mattson 2, Willems 2.

East Ridge 61, Cretin-D.H. 53Cretin-Derham Hall 29 24-53East Ridge 39 22-61Cretin-Derham Hall: Hottinger 17, Moore 11, Mendez 10, Anderson-Manning 9, Edinger 4, Jackson 2. East Ridge: Sexe 26, Stoehr 13, Kenol 7, Sieffert 6, Rapp 5, Johnson 2, Ya-covella 2.

Eau Claire North 65, Burnsville 64Eau Claire (Wis.) North 28 37-65Burnsville 18 46-64Eau Claire (Wis.) North: Becker 19, Peplinski 10, Banks 10, DeSou-za 9, Klauck 6, Wagner 5, Kilboten 4, Steinmetz 2. Burnsville: Thomp-son 19, Fredericks 18, Cox 16, Fee 7, Diggan 4.

Hopkins 78, DeLaSalle 32DeLaSalle 20 12-32Hopkins 39 39-78DeLaSalle: Graham 9, Gardner 8, Travis 6, Weems 6, Cochran-Starr 3. Hopkins: Bueckers 28, Suggs 26, Chakolis 11, Adams 3, Bozicevich 3, Hammond 3, Kleist 2, Battle 2.

Jordan 72, Mayer Lutheran 69Jordan 27 45-72Mayer Lutheran 25 44-69Jordan: Johnson 21, Bendzick 17, Sievers 14, Brown-Erdal 9, Plechaty 7, Kes 4. Mayer Lutheran: Gustin 26, Hucky 19, Flucas 6, Quiram 5, Klaus-termeier 5, Chmielewski 4, Jopp 2, Strehlke 2.

Mounds Park Academy 61, FAIR 26FAIR 13 13 - 26Mounds Park Academy 39 22 - 61FAIR: Williams 15, Peterson 7, John-son 4. Mounds Park Academy: A. Goodno 27, Walker 16, K. Goodno 6, Hudock 6, Kunze-Hoeg 6.

Northfi eld 66, Albert Lea 21Albert Lea 10 11-21Northfi eld 33 33-66Albert Lea: Rehnelt 10, Skarstad 6, Schultz 2, Flaherty 2, Eckstrom 1. Northfi eld: Kelly 10, Hoff 10, Olson-Sola 10, Carlson 10, Touchette 9, Ern-ste 6, Noack 5, Salaba 2, Stromme 2, Nord 2. Norwood YA 74, Sibley East 37Sibley East 10 27-37Norwood Young America 38 36-74Sibley East: Wentzlaff 24, Brinkman 5, Stearns 4, Latzke 2, Perschau 2. Norwood Young America: Grimm 24, Ab. Mackenthun 12, Miller 11, Fox 11, An. Mackenthun 6, Zellmann 2, Geis 2, Klaustermeier 2, Erick-son 2, Fritz 2.

Rosemount 51, Farmington 42Farmington 25 17-42Rosemount 27 24-51Farmington: Blandin 16, Winston 8, Mogensen 7, Wiebold 7, Clayton 4. Rosemount: Olson 15, Essen 13, Elias 11, Derby 9, Staley 3. St. Croix Prep 58, St. Agnes 56St. Agnes 17 39-56St. Croix Prep 32 26-58St. Agnes: Lewis 24, Larkin 8, Murray 8, Gutzmann 7, Sandifer 5, Hughes 4. St. Croix Prep: White 17, Schulte 12, Ture 10, Davis 8, Fisher 5, Schul-te 4, Hangge 2.

St.P. Harding 56, St.P. Johnson 22St. Paul Harding 28 28-56St. Paul Johnson 8 14-22St. Paul Harding: Thomas 17, Ogit-chida 12, Poe 6, Gasterland 6, Gal-legos 4, Favors 4, Owens 3, Vang 2, Smith 2. St. Paul Johnson: Smith-Pugh 12, Monita 3, Ranson 2, Burton 2, Williams 2, Birkeland 1.

Tri-City United 78, Belle Plaine 64Belle Plaine 29 35-64Tri-City United 45 33-78Belle Plaine: Narveson 18, Johnson 13, Johnson 10, Struck-Schmitz 8, Lenz 8, Lenz 4, Vinkemeier 3. Tri-City United: Vargo 21, Robinson 12, Ellingsworth 10, Trnka 9, Hellerud 9, Jindra 8, Dull 6, Simon 3.

HOCKEY • BOYSApple Valley 8, Shakopee 3Apple Valley 1 3 4-8Shakopee 0 1 2-3First: A-Jamison (Canaan), 3:41. Sec-ond: A-Lombardi (Jamison), 1:36. A-Michaelson (Messerich, Penz), 6:22. A-Messerich (Penz), 12:11, sh. S-Schmid, 14:57. Third: A-Jamison (Plagge), 0:28. S-Kratzke (Law-rence), 1:24. A-Penz (Michaelson), 6:16. S-Mcneil (Bode), 13:13. A-Penz (Plagge), 15:07. A-Zuelow (Kotso-nas), 15:15. Saves: A: Kapps 4-4-7-15. S: Bleess 14-13-2-29; Broome 0-0-7-7.

Armstrong/Cooper 5, Irondale 1Irondale 0 1 0-1Armstrong/Cooper 2 0 3-5First: R-Jacobson (Goergen, Kir-choff), 15:55. R-Goergen (Schneider, Jacobson), 16:22. Second: I-Cran-dall, 7:32. Third: R-Homme, 6:16. R-Goergen (Jacobson, Schreiner), 13:21. R-Waletzki (Kirchoff, Lucas), 16:56. Saves: I: Eilefson 14-11-10-35. R: Marsh 1-9-7-17. Blaine 4, Andover 2Andover 0 2 0-2Blaine 1 3 0-4First: B-Rynerson (Bautch, Erne), 10:07. Second: A-Robideau (Nelson), 3:02. B-Olson (Brodzinski), 3:28. B-Brodzinski (West, Ronn), 4:45, sh. B-Brodzinski (Erne), 9:10. A-Boettcher, 13:58. Saves: A: Fritsinger 24-0-8-32. B: Daninger 3-10-10-23. Breck 3, St. Paul Academy 1Breck 1 2 0-3St. Paul Academy 0 0 1-1First: B-Parrish (Conroy), 1:22. Sec-ond: B-Weigel (Machlitt), 2:52, pp. B-Weigel (Machlitt), 5:01, pp. Third: S-McCabe (Johnston), 13:21. Saves: B: Olness 3-7-5-15. S: Beran 7-12-12-31. Buffalo 4, Princeton 0Princeton 0 0 0-0Buffalo 2 1 1-4First: B-Ramsey (Rooney, Mueller), 2:49, pp. B-Habisch (Pearson), 11:52, pp. Second: B-Kuhlmann (Stensby, Welch), 11:15. Third: B-Ramsey, 1:23. Saves: P: Othoudt 7-8-15-30. B: Mueller 2-10-5-17. Burnsville 6, Eagan 2Eagan 1 1 0-2Burnsville 3 2 1-6First: E-Yetzer (Meiers), 4:18, pp. B-Pearson (Sandvig, Ahcan), 4:40. B-Smith (Bjork), 5:21. B-We-dan (Willmert, Bernhagen), 8:20. Second: B-Sandvig, 2:59. B-Ahcan (Sandvig, Engum), 5:35. E-Boor (Peplinski), 15:23. Third: B-Ahcan (Engum), 12:19. Saves: E: Toussaint 12-12-11-35. B: Kenney 9-9-8-26. Champ. Park 4, Spring Lake Park 2Spring Lake Park 1 0 1-2Champlin Park 1 3 0-4First: S-Bentfield (Reiman, Peter-son), 3:33. C-Snee (Ellingson, Grant), 6:28. Second: C-Roberts (Petersen, Schuster), 8:58. C-Swanstrom (Bau-man, Rylance), 15:32. C-Swanstrom (Bauman), 16:52. Third: S-Bentfi eld (McKusick, McMahon), 6:25. Saves: S: Robinson 6-4-8-18. C: Boynton 11-8-12-31.

Chaska 4, Minneapolis 3 [OT]Chaska 2 1 0 1-4Minneapolis 0 3 0 0-3First: C-Hanson (Starkey, Kuss), 7:13. C-Lavelle (Olmscheid, Barrett), 8:09. Second: C-Olmscheid (Lavelle, Bronson), 1:40, pp. M-Hale (Eisen-beis, Miller), 6:10. M-Murray (Ku-masaka), 8:12. M-Eisenbeis (Hale), 8:42. OT: C-Koster, 2:52. Saves: C: Bach 5-9-8-0-22. M: Holt 7-8-10-0-25. Cretin-Derham Hall 4, Roseville 0Roseville 0 0 0-0Cretin-Derham Hall 0 1 3-4Second: C-Gleason (Gimberlin), 7:01, pp. Third: C-Davison (Gimber-lin), 5:25. C-Castro (Gleason, Glea-son), 11:16. C-Buckingham (Kruse), 15:18, sh. Saves: R: Murphy 17-13-11-41. C: Magnuson 8-8-10-26

Delano 8, St. Cloud Cath. 4St. Cloud Cathedral 2 1 1-4Delano 2 2 4-8First: D-Ylitalo (Meyers, Pinoniemi), 4:37. S-VanHalbeck, 7:33. S-Speth-mann (Wedin, VanHalbeck), 9:50. D-Meyers (Keranen, Kruse), 16:13, pp. Second: S-Savoie (Motzko), 1:51. D-Pinoniemi (Ylitalo, Halonen), 10:07.

D-Ylitalo (Meyers, Halonen), 12:21, pp. Third: S-Garden (Motzko, Van-Halbeck), 6:46, pp. D-Halonen (Ha-lonen, Heikkila), 10:58. D-Meyers (Kruse, Halonen), 11:51, pp. D-Ha-lonen (Keranen, Kruse), 12:51. D-Meyers (Kruse), 16:51. Saves: S: Levinski 11-12-12-35. D: Hjelle 3-6-11-20.

Duluth East 4, Forest Lake 0Forest Lake 0 0 0-0Duluth East 1 2 1-4First: D-LaMaster, 1:01. Second: D-Lanigan (Robb, Ness), 14:21. D-Fitzgerald (Paine), 15:11. Third: D-Larson (Kucera, Hill), 15:20. Saves: F: Peterson 10-13-21-44. D: Meier-hoff 4-2-2-8.

Eastview 2, Rosemount 1Rosemount 0 1 0-1Eastview 2 0 0-2First: E-Bordson (Orman, Ander-son), 0:45. E-Buck (Fan, Herzog), 6:59. Second: R-Levandowski (Hor-sager), 11:56. Saves: R: Lovich 10-9-5-24. E: Herro 7-10-14-31. Edina 6, Minnetonka 3Minnetonka 1 1 1-3Edina 1 1 4-6First: E-Borst (Shoemaker, Brink-man), 0:37. M-Rogers (Docter, El-der), 15:35, sh. Second: M-Brink, 4:24. E-Chorske(Scheerer, Walker), 8:15. Third: E-Brinkman (Jungels, Walker), 0:13. E-Scheerer (Walker, Chorske ), 1:57. M-Hicks (Rogers), 2:23. E-Walker (Johnson, Scheerer), 6:02. E-Scheerer, 13:56. Saves: M: Muller 7-8-8-23. E: Mackay 14-8-4-26.

Elk River 6, Anoka 1Anoka 0 0 1-1Elk River 2 4 0-6First: E-Perbix (Michaelis, Maass), 7:04. E-Gacke (Maass), 14:43. Sec-ond: E-Perbix (Perbix, Murray), 3:43, pp. E-Bizal (Michaelis), 8:20. E-Si-mon (Rodgers), 13:00. E-Michae-lis (Bizal), 16:04. Third: A-Novack (Hans, Sutterer), 12:15, pp. Saves: A: Gschlecht 19-10-3-32. E: Wiest 3-3-6-12.

Hutchinson 3, New Prague 3 [OT]Hutchinson 0 3 0 0-3New Prague 2 0 1 0-3First: N-Reger (Cameron, Hanson), 0:33. N-Ruzicka (Davis, Marek), 5:00. Second: H-Arlt (Mraz), 7:26. H-Schintz (Jensen, Schintz), 9:30. H-Houseman, 13:34. Third: N-Witt (Woodson), 15:13. Saves: H: Telecky 19-6-8-4-37. N: Skok 3-4-6-1-14.

Lakeville North 8, Farmington 4Lakeville North 3 4 1-8Farmington 0 4 0-4First: L-Klans (McGlade), 0:53. L-Kohner (Dufon, Antonakis), 15:39. L-Klans (Brandt, Enebak), 16:45. Second: F-Trippel (Grengs), 0:36. L-Kohner (Pehrson), 8:13. L-Ene-bak, 9:27, sh. F-Trippel (Wolters), 10:30, pp. F-Enright (Wolters, Sun-dt), 11:18, pp. F-Westfi eld (Martin-sen, Lancaster), 11:21. L-Schneider (Draeger), 14:04, pp. L-Brandt (Ene-bak), 16:52, pp. Third: L-Brandt (Mc-Manus, Draeger), 16:18, pp. Saves: L: Springer 2-0-0-2; Eigner 0-2-7-9. F: Enright 11-9-11-31. Mahtomedi 5, Holy Angels 2Mahtomedi 2 2 1-5Holy Angels 0 1 1-2First: M-Posner (Hagstrom, Skill-ings), 0:19. M-Mireault (Bar-tholomew), 0:32, pp. Second: M-Lal-lier (Ayd, Huber), 1:34, pp. M-Ayd, 10:25, pp. A-Sylvester, 14:35. Third: A-Sande (Baron), 3:24. M-Posner (Bartholomew), 12:28, sh. Saves: M: Huber 9-9-8-26. A: Pasdo 11-8-9-28.

Maple Grove 2, Hill-Murray 0Maple Grove 0 1 1-2Hill-Murray 0 0 0-0Second: M-Kelley (House, Huff), 5:55, pp. Third: M-Kelley (Kelly), 16:59. Saves: M: Haider 8-7-9-24. H: Begley 6-7-6-19.

Monticello/A/ML 5, Camb.-Isanti 4Cambridge-Isanti 2 2 0-4Monticello/A/ML 2 3 0-5First: M-Anderson, 6:43. C-Konen (Wilkinson), 7:22, pp. M-Ward (Stib-ingr), 13:18, pp. C-Konen (Busse, Becklin), 16:00. Second: M-Zwack (Ward), 4:48, sh. M-Mros (Lanka), 10:08. M-Ward (Lanka), 10:45. C-Schlenker (Becklin), 13:24, pp. C-Becklin (Schlenker), 16:42, pp. Saves: C: Hyland 11-6-8-25. M: Klatt 5-11-7-23. North St. Paul 4, South St. Paul 1South St. Paul 1 0 0-1North St. Paul 2 2 0-4First: N-Smith (Larson), 6:47, sh. N-Kubiatowicz (Smith, Stokes), 9:45. S-Cunningham (Smith, Sten-gel), 10:00. Second: N-Vandell (Lar-son, Kubiatowicz), 0:52. N-Korng-able (Conroy, Pilarski), 5:39. Saves: S: Toensing 11-9-11-31. N: Rossman 4-6-11-21.

Prior Lake 3, Lakeville South 2 [OT]Lakeville South 0 1 1 0-2Prior Lake 2 0 0 1-3First: P-Jutting (Gackle), 8:35. P-Col-lins (Kashmark), 14:26. Second: L-Klein (Checco, Harvey), 16:21. Third: L-Bauer (Klein), 5:15. OT: P-Under-hill (Burggraaff, Kennedy), 2:07, pp. Saves: L: DiLaura 4-6-4-2-16. P: Long 8-5-4-0-17.

Red Wing 5, Roch. John Marshall 1Red Wing 1 1 3-5Rochester John Marshall 0 1 0-1First: RW-Defore (Cushing, Swan-son), 16:54. Second: RW-Blue, 1:20, sh. RJ-Hackman (Lamppa, Foy), 4:58. Third: RW-Ramstad (Cushing, Lilli-co), 3:37, pp. RW-Defore (Cushing), 12:47, sh. RW-Cushing, 15:39. Saves: RW: Harding 7-3-10-20. RJ: Paul Neu-mann 6-5-4-15.

Rogers 6, North Branch 1Rogers 2 1 3-6North Branch 0 0 1-1First: R-Fischer (Bauer), 2:33. R-VanStelten (Bauer, Libke), 14:31, pp. Second: R-Moss, 15:04. Third: R-Fischer (Becker, Moss), 1:05, pp. R-Bridell (Becker), 10:12. N-Fairbanks (Byrkit, Meyer), 13:11, pp. R-Timm (Becker), 16:57. Saves: R: Preusse 8-10-10-28. N: Turek 9-14-0-23; Mel-len 0-0-7-7. Simley 4, Henry Sibley 2Henry Sibley 1 1 0-2Simley 1 1 2-4First: H-Ohmes (Napier, Harrity), 5:26, pp. S-Carlson (Watson, Sher-ry), 10:48, pp. Second: H-Cooper (Li-narte), 1:46. S-Watson, 12:59, pp. Third: S-Schultz (Myers, Roitman), 12:04. S-Watson (Schultz), 16:55. Saves: H: Harrity 6-0-8-14. S: Royce 11-3-6-20.

St. Francis 5, Chisago Lakes 2Chisago Lakes 0 1 1-2St. Francis 0 1 4-5Second: C-Hanson (Caudill, Trels-tad), 14:08, pp. S-Barck (Kaehler), 16:57. Third: C-Overgaard (Swan-son, Sinkonnen), 1:24. S-Carroll (Schuhmacher), 1:49. S-Maroney (Hanson), 9:08. S-Barck, 12:36. S-Barck (Linson, McCargar), 14:52. Saves: C: Stangl 9-7-8-24. S: Garagh-ty 4-11-8-23.

St. Thomas Acad. 8, Hastings 2Hastings 1 0 1-2St. Thomas Academy 3 3 2-8First: S-Foley (Christy), 0:29, pp. H-Boogren, 5:44. S-Holmes (Chris-ty, Winkler), 7:10, pp. S-Foley (Ve-ga), 12:36. Second: S-Reim (Stuck-er, Matsui), 1:55, pp. S-Reim (Chris-ty), 3:06, pp. S-Holmes (Christy, Win-kler), 3:21, pp. Third: S-Christy, 0:26. H-Otto, 7:09. S-Matsui (Reim), 10:55. Saves: H: Greengo 19-12-22-53. S: Capezza 2-1-5-8.

Tartan 4, East Ridge 2East Ridge 1 0 1-2Tartan 1 2 1-4First: T-Acker (Lindahl, Olssen), 9:27. E-Dokken (Meyer, Edlund), 14:50, pp. Second: T-Tabaka (Lindahl, Ack-er), 4:39. T-Acker (Tabaka, Reither), 8:04, pp. Third: E-Pratt (VanDe-nEinde, Johnson), 6:14. T-Lindahl, 16:20. Saves: E: Ogren 3-15-0-18. T: DiMartino 8-2-2-12. Totino-Grace 9, Osseo 1Osseo 0 0 1-1Totino-Grace 3 2 4-9First: T-Pettijohn (Hentges, Fager-lee), 7:53, pp. T-Hentges (Fagerlee, Jordan), 14:19, pp. T-Fagerlee (Hent-ges), 15:15, sh. Second: T-Fagerlee (Hentges, Pettijohn), 0:16, pp. T-Mraz (Mueller, Forbord), 6:11, pp. Third: T-Hentges (Fagerlee, Jor-dan), 0:22. O-Timm (Braasch, Hill), 8:32, pp. T-Fagerlee (Sticha), 9:43. T-Cashill (Wacek), 9:43. T-Jordan (Hentges), 14:44. Saves: O: Kleine-schay 11-0-10-21. T: Bonfe 7-6-5-18. Wayzata 8, Hopkins 2Wayzata 2 5 1-8Hopkins 2 0 0-2First: W-Anderson, 0:36. H-Nel-son (Hoffman, Peterson), 3:23. W-Stevens, 6:38. H-Nelson (John-son, Giovanetti), 6:55. Second: W-Anderson (Urban), 2:32. W-Ding-mann (Cossette, Stevens), 5:04. W-Matthews (Schmidt), 5:52. W-Ness (Carlson, Schmidt), 9:17. W-Ander-son (Mulrenin), 14:41. Third: W-Ur-ban, 10:41. Saves: W: Waszczenko 4-6-3-13. H: Myers 12-14-10-36.

Woodbury 8, Park of C.G. 2Park of Cottage Grove 1 0 1-2Woodbury 6 1 1-8First: W-Sweeny (Anderson, Won-smos), 1:25. W-Anderson (Sweeny, Wonsmos), 3:54. W-Erickson (Mey-er, Stuckert), 5:42. W-Lanz (San-chez), 7:04. P-Glazier (Strand), 8:08, pp. W-Erickson (Wahlin, Stuckert), 10:15, pp. W-Nelson, 16:59. Sec-ond: W-Meyer (Anderson, Wons-mos), 5:13, pp. Third: W-Meyer (Er-ickson, Wonsmos), 14:54. P-Oberd-ing (Foote, Buth), 16:54. Saves: P: Maul 6-11-4-21. W: Conlee 2-5-0-7; Horman 0-0-3-3.

HOCKEY • GIRLSBlaine 4, Hill-Murray 4 [OT]Hill-Murray 0 3 1 0-4Blaine 2 1 1 0-4First: B-Brown, 3:22. B-Rosvold, 8:28. Second: B-Beebe (Brown, Parent), 6:07, pp. H-Featherstone, 8:04. H-Steigauf (Featherstone, Boreen), 10:16. H-Keopple (Steigauf), 14:17. Third: H-Blinkhorn, 6:32. B-Brown (Parent), 13:58, pp. Saves: H: Bai-ley 16-12-9-7-44. B: Cin 1-2-0-0-3; O’Brien 0-3-7-4-14.

Blake 1, Centennial 0 [OT]Blake 0 0 0 1-1Centennial 0 0 0 0-0OT: B-Tix (Daniel, Wethington), 1:49. Saves: B: Kruesel 5-3-8-1-17. C: Stoterau 11-9-7-1-28.

Bloom. Jeff. 4, Ben.-St. Marg. 3 [OT]Benilde-St. Margaret’s 0 0 3 0-3Bloomington Jefferson 0 1 2 1-4Second: BL-Rea (Plaman, Burton), 11:56, pp. Third: BL-Rea (Burton), 4:36. BE-Sexton (Juckniess), 6:32. BE-Brown (Cornell), 8:30. BE-Ko-nowalchuk, 9:58. BL-Bianchi (Geist), 11:07. OT: BL-Burton, 6:07. Saves: BE: Greene 12-9-10-2-33. BL: McClain 6-11-3-3-23. Breck 3, St. Paul United 3 [OT]St. Paul United 0 0 3 0-3Breck 0 1 2 0-3Second: B-Zumwinkle (Billing), 6:39. Third: B-Billing (Riskevich, Zumwin-kle), 6:26. S-Phelps (Hoops), 7:17. S-Burke (Conners, Kobienia), 10:37. B-Williamson (Beniek), 12:49. S-Phelps (Burke, Kerin), 15:25. Saves: S: Oncay 12-9-9-4-34. B: Frantzick 5-9-10-1-25.

Camb.-Isanti 7, North Metro 2North Metro 0 0 2-2Cambridge-Isanti 3 3 1-7First: C-Skelton (Nelson), 0:16. C-Parnell (Price), 7:04. C-Smrekar (Niebur, Schintz), 14:40. Second: C-Skelton (Nelson, Nuebel), 0:25. C-Smrekar (Schintz, Athey), 5:18. C-Skelton, 9:01, sh. Third: C-Parnell (Shaw, Titus), 4:30. N-Shadle (Ball-weber, Fredrickson), 11:00, pp. N-Ehret (Ballweber), 11:42. Saves: N: Almquist 7-12-12-31. C: Belkholm 9-5-6-20. Chaska/Chan. 7, Holy Angels 3Chaska/Chanhassen 1 2 4-7Holy Angels 2 0 1-3First: A-Mans, 6:48, sh. A-Eiden (Rad-am, McGuire), 13:56. C-Passolt (An-derson), 15:03. Second: C-Snug-gerud (Kelly, Fiedler), 1:45. C-Kelly (Fiedler, Berg), 14:35. Third: C-An-derson (Hinze), 0:42. A-Eiden (Mc-Guire), 2:13. C-Passolt (O’Keeffe), 9:10. C-Kelly (Anderson, Pawly-shyn), 9:36. C-Bock (Kelly), 15:01. Saves: C: Hanson 7-5-4-16. A: Lood 9-8-13-30.

Forest Lake 3, Cretin-D.H. 0Cretin-Derham Hall 0 0 0-0Forest Lake 0 1 2-3Second: F-Kasel (Nolan), 8:50. Third: F-Kolbow (Rugland), 9:49. F-Kasel (Peterson), 11:38. Saves: C: Meyers 5-10-6-21. F: Bothun 8-4-11-23.

HF/Waconia 5, Totino-Grace 2Holy Family/Waconia 0 1 4-5Totino-Grace 1 1 0-2First : T-Scheneman (Zurbay, Kleszyk), 8:11. Second: T-Berto-las (Linders, Zurbay), 6:11, pp. H-McEnelly (Vacek), 8:28. Third: H-Hickey (Garin), 1:16. H-Garin (Rock), 4:42. H-Hickey (Garin, Rock), 5:18. H-McEnelly (Hickey, Garin), 9:01, pp. Saves: H: Neubert 7-9-10-26. T: Medved 8-8-8-24.

Mounds View 6, Irondale 1Irondale 0 1 0-1Mounds View 3 2 1-6First: M-Marvin (Anderson), 0:28. M-Brodt (Anderson), 8:06. M-Marvin (Anderson, Nadeau), 11:53, pp. Sec-ond: M-Marvin (Brodt), 2:07. M-An-derson (Brodt, Sventek), 2:07. I-Lyke (Cheney), 16:15, pp. Third: M-Brodt (Wolter), 7:27. Saves: I: Rupp 12-11-6-29. M: Johnson 4-3-6-13.

Northfi eld 10, Winona 1Winona 0 0 1- 1Northfi eld 4 1 5-10First: N-Goldsworthy (LaPanta), 3:58. N-Stowe (Keske, Boland), 8:54. N-Goldsworthy (Morsching), 13:13. N-Ruppe (Keske), 15:29. Second: N-Goldsworthy (Monson, LaPanta), 6:33. Third: W-Thompson (Thomp-son), 3:04. N-Puppe (Morsching), 3:35. N-Goldsworthy (Boland), 4:59, pp. N-Puppe (Fossum, Keske), 6:10. N-Boland (Puppe), 11:10. N-Keske (Stowe, Forster), 13:50. Saves: W: Markwardt 17-9-13-39. N: Bielen-berg 2-1-2-5. Orono 3, Litchfi eld/D-C 1Orono 2 1 0-3Litchfi eld/Dassel-Cokato 1 0 0-1First: O-Neuberger (Harrison, Nor-ton), 0:24. O-Sternberg (Marzolf, Schaible), 9:09. L-Keaveny (Keskey, Larson), 15:43. Second: O-Norton (Neuberger, Martini), 13:53. Saves: O: Schultz 2-3-5-10. L: Benson 13-20-15-48. Red Wing 2, Roch. JM/Lour. 2 [OT]Rochester JM/Lourdes 0 1 1 0-2Red Wing 1 0 1 0-2First: RW-Heise, 2:50. Second: RJM-Saltness (Montrose, Freed), 9:26. Third: RW-Heise, 2:22, sh. RJM-Salt-ness (Montrose), 10:14, pp. Saves: RJM: Hyke 12-12-14-7-45. RW: Mc-Grath 6-12-3-3-24.

RESULTS/SUMMARIES

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Brandon Eggum had a key word removed from his title — interim — on Thursday by the University of Minnesota, becom-ing the eighth head coach of the Gophers wrestling program. Eggum had served as the team’s interim coach since September, when J Robinson was fired.

“Brandon Eggum has been an incredible leader for our wres-tling program since he became the interim head coach prior to this season,” athletic director Mark Coyle said in a statement. “Anyone who knows Brandon understands his competitive spirit and his unquestionable passion not only for the sport but for our program here at Minne-sota. I have great confidence that Brandon and his staff will lead

our wrestling program to suc-cess at the highest level.”

Eggum joined Minnesota’s coaching staff in 2001 after end-ing his wrestling career with the Gophers. He was on the coach-ing staff for each of the program’s three national titles, as well as five Big Ten team championships.

The 40-year-old Montana native has the challenge of stabilizing a program that was rocked by a drug scandal last May, roiled by Robinson’s firing in September and depleted by the suspension of four wrestlers in October.

Eggum said last month that

he had made his ambitions clear with Coyle.

“I feel supported by [Coyle],” he said. “We’ve had conversa-tions. He knows what my plans and ideas are. ”

In his statement on Thursday, Eggum looked ahead: “Anyone who knows me knows this is my dream job and I’m thankful for the opportunity to live out that dream.

“ My staff and I work with our wrestlers every day to help them achieve their goals on and off the mat, and I’m happy that we will be able to continue that work for years to come.”

The Gophers (5-3, 4-2 Big Ten) are ranked 13th in the lat-est USA Today/NWCA poll.

STAFF REPORTS

STAFF and NEWS REPORTS

Indoor collegiate and high school baseball is coming to U.S. Bank Stadium with more than 135 games scheduled from late Feb-ruary through late April.

The University of Minnesota baseball team will host 13 games . The first three games will be against Seattle University, start-ing with a 6:30 p.m. game Feb. 24. The Gophers’ final indoor game will be March 13.

Sartell and Moorhead will be the first high school teams to play in U.S. Bank Stadium, at

12:45 p.m. April 4.There are between one and

four games scheduled, many involving area small college teams, most days between Feb. 24 and April 22.

Tickets for Gophers baseball games will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday and cost $11 for adults, $8 for children under 12 years old and seniors. Admission is free for University of Minnesota students.

For non-Gophers games, doors will open 30 minutes before the starting time and those attending must enter

through the Lower Pentair Gate. Admission is $5 .

ELLIS L. WILLIAMS

U loses recruitTexas defensive tackle Joshua

Croslen rescinded his verbal commitment to the Gophers on Thursday.

Croslen wrote on Twitter account that he has decided to “de-commit from the University of Minnesota and reopen my recruiting.” The 6- 1, 275-pound recruit originally committed last year .

Croslen, from Cibolo, Texas,

is rated as a three-star prospect by Rivals. He’s the second Tracy Claeys recruit to back out this week under the P.J. Fleck regime .

ANDREW KRAMMER

U women draw SCSUThe No. 4 Gophers wom-

en’s hockey team (17-5-3, 13-4-3 WCHA) plays at St. Cloud State (7-16-3, 5-13-2) this weekend, at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday.

Minnesota, which is 1-2-1 in its past four games, has a one-point lead over Minnesota Duluth for second place in the WCHA standings.

B A S K E T B A L L TIMBERWOLVES STATISTICS(Through Wednesday)Player G Min Pts Reb AstTowns ...............45 36.2 22.4 11.9 3.0Wiggins ...........45 37.0 22.0 4.3 2.4LaVine ..............42 37.1 19.2 3.4 3.0Dieng ................45 32.1 10.8 7.4 2.0Muhammad .....41 18.8 8.4 2.8 0.4Rubio ................39 31.7 7.9 3.9 8.0Bjelica ..............43 17.0 5.9 3.2 1.1Payne ...............10 8.8 4.8 1.8 0.4Dunn.................45 17.0 3.9 2.3 2.5Jones ................25 10.9 3.4 1.1 2.1Rush .................16 13.8 3.1 1.4 0.7Aldrich .............40 10.5 2.2 3.3 0.6Hill ......................5 7.9 2.0 2.6 0.0Lucas III .............5 2.1 0.4 0.0 0.2Totals ...............45 241.0 103.5 42.8 22.9Opponents.......45 241.0 104.5 40.0 22.2

G O L FPGAFARMERS INSURANCE OPENFirst round • San DiegoAt Torrey PinesPurse: $6.7 millionNote: s-Torrey Pines (South): Yards 7,698, Par 72; n-Torrey Pines (North): Yards 7,258, Par 72.Top 25 plus tiesJustin Rose .............................30-35—65n Adam Hadwin ........................ 33-33—66s Gary Woodland ......................34-33—67n Brad Fritcsh ............................ 33-34—67s Charles Howell III ..................32-35—67n Beau Hossler ..........................33-34—67n Trey Mullinax .........................33-34—67n Jonas Blixt ..............................35-33—68n Stewart Cink ..........................35-33—68n Brandt Snedeker ....................35-33—68n Graham DeLaet ...................... 35-33—68s Whee Kim ...............................33-35—68n Patrick Rodgers .....................33-35—68n Robert Streb ...........................33-35—68n Pat Perez ................................35-33—68n Brian Stuard ...........................34-34—68n Brian Harman......................... 33-35—68s Ryan Brehm ............................35-33—68n Marc Leishman ...................... 33-36—69s Kevin Streelman ....................36-33—69n Cameron Tringale .................. 33-36—69s Brendan Steele ...................... 32-37—69s Nick Taylor .............................32-37—69n Paul Casey..............................36-33—69n Will MacKenzie ......................36-33—69n Keegan Bradley .....................34-35—69n Cameron Percy ...................... 33-36—69s Bud Cauley .............................35-34—69n Ben Crane ...............................34-35—69n Billy Hurley III ........................37-32—69n Ollie Schniederjans ............... 34-35—69sOther:Troy Merritt ............................ 38-40—78s

LPGABAHAMAS CLASSICFirst round • Paradise Island, BahamasAt Ocean Club • Par: 73Purse: $1.4 million Yards: 6,625Top 25 plus tiesBrittany Lincicome .................. 30-34—64

Stacy Lewis .............................. 32-34—66 P.K. Kongkraphan .................... 32-34—66 Megan Khang ........................... 32-34—66 Simin Feng ................................ 31-36—67 Gerina Piller ............................. 33-34—67 Celine Herbin ........................... 34-33—67 Wei-Ling Hsu ............................ 34-34—68 Pornanong Phatlum ................ 33-35—68 Ryann O’Toole .......................... 36-32—68 Ilhee Lee ................................... 33-35—68 Marina Alex .............................. 33-35—68 Austin Ernst ............................. 35-33—68 Mo Martin................................. 35-33—68 Sandra Changkija .................... 32-37—69 Amy Anderson ......................... 35-34—69 Candie Kung............................. 34-35—69 Nicole Broch Larsen ................ 34-35—69 Laura Gonzalez Escallon ......... 33-36—69 Xi Yu Lin .................................... 35-34—69 Lexi Thompson ........................ 32-37—69 Sandra Gal ................................ 34-35—69 Laetitia Beck ............................ 34-35—69 Maria Parra .............................. 32-37—69 Mel Reid.................................... 33-37—70 Amy Yang ................................. 35-35—70 Chella Choi ............................... 37-33—70 Juli Inkster ................................ 35-35—70 Kim Kaufman ........................... 32-38—70 Ayako Uehara ........................... 33-37—70 Jacqui Concolino ..................... 35-35—70 Marissa L Steen ....................... 34-36—70 Gaby Lopez ............................... 36-34—70 Pernilla Lindberg ..................... 33-37—70 Jennifer Song ........................... 33-37—70 Kelly Tan ................................... 36-34—70

H O C K E YWILD STATISTICS(Through Wednesday)Player GP G A TP +/- PIMGranlund ..........47 11 29 40 24 6 Staal .................47 16 24 40 8 20 Coyle ................47 13 24 37 13 26 Koivu ................46 14 20 34 24 16 Niederreiter ....47 14 19 33 17 14 Zucker ..............47 14 18 32 27 20 Suter ................47 7 23 30 27 20 Pominville .......47 8 16 24 -2 2 Dumba .............47 7 14 21 19 39 Parise ...............38 8 13 21 -3 22 Spurgeon .........43 6 15 21 25 16 Brodin ..............43 3 13 16 2 16 Haula ...............37 9 7 16 7 10 Stewart ............47 10 3 13 -1 56 Schroeder ........17 3 5 8 3 0 Eriksson Ek .......9 2 3 5 2 2 Folin .................34 1 4 5 10 20 Scandella .........36 2 3 5 -2 18 Dalpe .................9 1 2 3 0 9 Graovac ...........38 3 0 3 1 4 Prosser ............20 0 2 2 -2 4 Bertschy ...........5 0 1 1 0 4 Gabriel .............13 0 1 1 0 29 Pulkkinen..........9 1 0 1 -1 2 Cannone ...........3 0 0 0 0 0 Mitchell ...........10 0 0 0 -1 0 Olofsson ...........1 0 0 0 1 0 Reilly ................12 0 0 0 1 2 Totals ...............47 153 259 412 0 403Opponents.......47 106 189 295 0 405Goalies W L OT SO Sv% GAADubnyk ............26 8 3 5 .935 1.91Kuemper ...........5 3 2 0 .901 3.28

Totals ...............31 11 5 5 .926 2.23Opponents.......16 26 5 2 .889 3.22

COLLEGE • MENBIG TEN W L T SW Pts GF GA Gophers 6 2 0 0 18 32 27 Penn State 5 2 1 0 16 31 21Wisconsin 5 2 0 0 15 29 18Ohio State 3 3 1 1 11 26 21Michigan 1 6 1 1 5 16 33 Michigan State 1 6 1 0 4 16 30 Overall: Gophers 14-6-2, Penn State 16-3-2, Wisconsin 12-8-1, Ohio State 12-5-6, Michigan 8-12-2, Michigan State 5-15-2.Result ThursdayWisconsin 3, Ohio State 1Games FridayNonconferenceGophers vs. Minn.-Duluth, 6 pmPenn St. vs. Princeton, 5 pmGames SaturdayWisconsin vs. Ohio St., 6 pmNonconferenceGophers vs. Bemidji St./St. Cloud St., TBD

NCHC W L T SW Pts GF GA Minn. Duluth 11 4 1 1 35 55 35 Denver 8 3 3 2 29 37 26 W. Michigan 7 6 1 1 23 39 40 Omaha 7 6 1 0 22 48 49 North Dakota 6 7 1 1 20 43 36 St. Cloud St. 6 9 1 0 19 42 48 Miami (Ohio) 4 6 4 2 18 35 43 Colorado Coll. 2 10 2 0 8 25 47 Overall: Minn. Duluth 15-5-4, Denver 16-6-4, North Dakota 13-9-3, Neb.-Omaha 14-8-4, W. Michigan 13-6-3, St. Cloud State 11-12-1, Miami (Ohio) 8-10-6, Col-orado College 6-16-2.Games FridayW. Michigan at Miami (Ohio), 6 pm Omaha at Denver, 8:30 pm N. Dakota at Colorado College, 8:37 pmNonconferenceSt. Cloud St. vs. Bemidji St., 4 pmMinn. Duluth at Gophers, 6 pmGames SaturdayW. Michigan at Miami (Ohio), 6:05 pm Omaha at Denver, 8 pm N. Dakota at Colorado College, 7:07 pm NonconferenceSt. Cloud St. vs. Gophers/Minn. Duluth, TBDMinn. Duluth vs. St. Cloud St./Bemidji St., TBD

WCHA W L T SW Pts GF GA Bemidji St. 16 4 2 2 52 56 32 Michigan Tech 12 3 5 2 43 56 34 Bowling Green 11 10 1 1 35 67 53 MSU Mankato 10 7 3 1 34 60 50 Lake Superior St. 8 9 3 1 28 58 60 Alaska 7 10 3 3 27 50 66 Ferris St. 7 10 3 2 26 54 58 Ala.-Huntsville 7 11 2 0 23 51 68 Anchorage 4 11 5 2 19 36 55 N. Michigan 5 12 3 1 19 45 57 Overall: Bemidji St. 16-9-3, Michigan Tech 15-9-6, MSU Mankato 14-9-3, Bowling Green 13-14-2, Alaska 8-15-3, Ala.-Huntsville 7-17-2, Ferris St. 8-15-4, Lake Superior St. 11-12-3, Anchorage 5-16-5, N. Michigan 7-17-4.Games FridayL. Superior St. at MSU Mankato, 7:07 pm Mich. Tech at Ala.-Huntsville, 7:07 pm Bowling Green at Ferris St.,; 7:37 pm

NonconferenceBemidji St. vs. St. Cloud St., 4 pmGames SaturdayBowling Green at Ferris St., 6:07 pm L. Superior St. at MSU Mankato, 7:07 pm Mich. Tech at Ala.-Huntsville, 7:07 pmNonconferenceMinn. Duluth vs. St. Cloud St./Bemidji St., TBD

COLLEGE • WOMENWCHA W L T SW Pts GF GAWisconsin 17 2 1 1 53 79 18Gophers 13 4 3 2 44 60 37Minn. Duluth 13 4 3 1 43 62 34North Dakota 9 7 4 2 33 49 34Ohio State 5 12 3 1 19 25 51Bemidji St. 5 13 2 1 18 32 56St. Cloud State 5 13 1 1 17 26 58MSU Mankato 3 15 1 0 10 19 62Overall: Wisconsin 22-2-1, Gophers 17-5-3, Minn. Duluth 16-4-4, North Dako-ta 12-9-5, Ohio State 11-12-3, Bemidji St. 9-13-1, St. Cloud State 7-16-2, MSU Mankato 6-18-2.Games FridayGophers at St. Cloud State, 7:07 pmMSU Mankato at Wisconsin, 7:07 pmNorth Dakota at Bemidji State, 7:07 pmOhio State at Minn. Duluth, 7:07 pmGames SaturdayGophers at St. Cloud State, 3:07 pmMSU Mankato at Wisconsin, 3:07 pmOhio State at Minn. Duluth, 4:07 pm

T E N N I SPRO • MENAUSTRALIAN OPENSemifi nals• Roger Federer (17) def. Stan Wawrinka (4), 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3.

PRO • WOMENAUSTRALIAN OPENSemifi nals• Serena Williams (2) def. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, 6-2, 6-1.

W R E S T L I N GCOLLEGENSICMSU Mankato 25, Upper Iowa 13SW Minnesota St. 22, Minot St. 16UPPER MIDWESTLuther 27, Dubuque 14St. Cloud State 51, St. John’s 0

T R A N S A C T I O N SBASEBALLAMERICAN LEAGUECleveland: Designated 1B Jesus Agui-lar for assignment. Claimed 1B/3B Rich-ie Shaffer off waivers from Cincinnati.Detroit: Assigned OF Anthony Gose out-right to Toledo (IL).Seattle: Designated RHP Jonathan Aro for assignment. Claimed C Tuffy Gos-ewisch off waivers from Atlanta. Ac-quired LHP Dillon Overton from Oakland for C Jason Goldstein. Designated C Je-sus Sucre for assignment.

NATIONAL LEAGUEAtlanta: Claimed OF Adam Walker off waivers from Baltimore. Chicago: Agreed to terms with LHP Brett Anderson on a one-year contract. Cincinnati: Agreed to terms with RHP Scott Feldman on a one-year contract. Washington: Agreed to terms with INF Stephen Drew on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALLNBAMemphis: Assigned F Troy Williams to Iowa (NBADL).

FOOTBALLNFLCincinnati: Re-signed PK Randy Bullock to a two-year contract. Jacksonville: Named Mark Collins line-backers coach.

HOCKEYNHL Carolina: Activated G Eddie Lack from injured reserve and assigned him to the Charlotte (AHL). Assigned G Michael Leighton to Charlotte.Colorado: Re-assigned F Jim O’Brien and G Spencer Martin to San Antonio (AHL). N.Y. Rangers: Assigned G Magnus Hell-berg to Hartford (AHL).Tampa Bay: Acquired D Jonathan Ra-cine and a 2017 sixth-round draft pick from the Montreal Canadiens for D Ni-kita Nesterov.Vancouver: Re-assigned D Jordan Sub-ban to Utica (AHL).

T O D AY ’ S L I N ENFLFAVORITE ....... LINE (O/U) .... UNDERDOG SUNDAY, FEB. 5Super Bowl • HoustonNew England .... 3 (58½) .............. Atlanta

NBAFAVORITE ....... LINE (O/U) .... UNDERDOG FRIDAYPHILA. ..............OFF (OFF) .........Houston INDIANA ................4 (212) ...Sacramento TORONTO ........OFF (OFF) .....Milwaukee CLEVELAND .....14½ (226) ........ Brooklyn BOSTON ...........OFF (OFF) ..........Orlando Charlotte ...........1 (212½) .....NEW YORK ATLANTA .........3½ (211½) ...Washington CHICAGO ...........6 (204½) .............Miami NEW ORL. ........OFF (OFF) ...San Antonio PORTLAND... pick (207½) ........Memphis

COLLEGE BASKETBALLFAVORITE .............LINE .......... UNDERDOGFRIDAYDETROIT ...............OFF ...........Milwaukee COLUMBIA ............. 8½ ...........Dartmouth Harvard..................... 6 ............. CORNELL YALE ..................... 12½ ...................Brown VALPARAISO .......... 10 ............ Wright St. ILL.-CHICAGO ........ 1½ .........N. Kentucky OAKLAND.................. 9 ...Wis.-Green Bay VA. COMMON. ....... 2½ ................. Dayton Note: Home teams are in CAPS.

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OTHER SPORTSGOPHERSMen’s gymnastics: Saturday at Illinois, 4 p.m.Women’s gymnastics: Saturday vs. Ohio State, 4 p.m.Men’s and women’s swimming and diving: Friday-Saturday vs. Northwestern and Purdue at West Lafayette, Ind. (5 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. Saturday).Men’s tennis: Saturday vs. W. Michigan, 10 a.m.; vs. Green Bay, 4 p.m.Women’s tennis: Saturday vs. Marshall, 4 p.m.Men’s and women’s track and fi eld: Friday-Saturday Jack Johnson Classic at U of M FieldhouseWrestling: Sunday at Purdue, noon

ON THE AIR FRIDAYBASKETBALL TIME TV RADIOCollege men: Quinnipiac at Monmouth 6 p.m. ESPNUNBA: Houston at Philadelphia 7 p.m. ESPNCollege women: DePaul at Creighton 7 p.m. FS1H.S. boys: Eden Prairie at Edina 7 p.m. 1440-AMCollege men: Dayton at VCU 8 p.m. ESPN2College men: Green Bay at Oakland 8 p.m. ESPNU

EXTREME SPORTSX Games: Skiing; snowboarding 9:30 p.m. ESPN

FIGURE SKATINGEuropean Champ.: Men’s short program 11 a.m. NBCSNEuropean Champ.: Women’s free skate 1 p.m. NBCSN

GOLFLPGA: Bahamas Classic 10:30 a.m. GOLFPGA: Farmers Insurance Open 2 p.m. GOLF

HOCKEYCollege men: W. Michigan at Miami (Ohio) 6 p.m. CBSSNCollege men: Minn. Duluth vs. Gophers 7 p.m. FSN 1500-AMCollege men: Omaha at Denver 8:30 p.m. CBSSN

SOCCERFA Cup: Derby County vs. Leicester City 1:30 p.m. FS1

TENNISAustralian Open: Men’s semifi nals 1 p.m. ESPN2

ON THE AIR SATURDAYAUTO RACING TIME TV RADIOIMSA: Rolex 24 1 p.m. Ch. 9

BASKETBALLCollege men: Texas A&M at West Virginia 11 a.m. ESPNCollege men: Florida St. at Syracuse 11 a.m. ESPN2College men: Notre Dame at Georgia Tech 11 a.m. ESPNUCollege men: Wisconsin vs. Rutgers 11 a.m. BTNCollege men: C. Michigan at Kent State 11 a.m. CBSSNCollege men: Davidson at Fordham 11 a.m. NBCSNCollege men: North Carolina at Miami noon Ch. 4College men: C. Florida at Tulsa 12:30 p.m. ESPNEWSCollege men: Florida at Oklahoma 1 p.m. ESPNCollege men: Kansas St. at Tennessee 1 p.m. ESPN2College men: LSU at Texas Tech 1 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: Northern Iowa at Drake 1 p.m. CBSSNCollege men: St. Bonavent. at Rhode Island 1 p.m. NBCSNCollege men: Providence at Marquette 1 p.m. FSNCollege men: Maryland at Gophers 1:15 p.m. BTN 1500-AMCollege men: DePaul at Creighton 1:30 p.m. FS1College men: E. Carolina at Memphis 2:30 p.m. ESPNEWSCollege men: Texas at Georgia 3 p.m. ESPNCollege men: Iowa State at Vanderbilt 3 p.m. ESPN2College men: Arkansas at Oklahoma St. 3 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: New Mexico at Nevada 3 p.m. CBSSNCollege men: St. Louis vs. G. Washington 3 p.m. Ch. 23College men: Illinois at Penn State 3:30 p.m. BTNCollege men: Baylor at Mississippi 5 p.m. ESPN2College men: Auburn at TCU 5 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: Colorado St. at San Diego St. 5 p.m. CBSSNCollege men: Mississippi St. at Alabama 5 p.m. SECNCollege men: Kansas at Kentucky 5:15 p.m. ESPNCollege men: Ohio State at Iowa 7 p.m. ESPN2College men: Tulane at Connecticut 7 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: Georgetown at Butler 7 p.m. CBSSNNBA: L.A. Clippers at Golden State 7:30 p.m. Ch. 5College men: South Carolina at Missouri 7:30 p.m. SECNNBA: Brooklyn at Timberwolves 8 p.m. FSN 830-AMCollege men: Gonzaga at Pepperdine 9 p.m. ESPN2College men: Temple at Houston 9 p.m. ESPNU

FOOTBALLCollege: Senior Bowl 1:30 p.m. NFLN

GOLFPGA: Farmers Insurance Open noon GOLFPGA: Farmers Insurance Open 2 p.m. Ch. 4LPGA: Bahamas Classic 2 p.m. GOLF

HOCKEYCollege men: North Star Cup TBA 4 p.m. FSN+NHL: All-Star skills competition 6 p.m. NBCSNCollege men: Wisconsin at Ohio State 6 p.m. BTNCollege men: North Star Cup TBA 7 p.m. FSN+College men: North Dakota at Colo. College 7 p.m. Ch. 45

HORSE RACINGPegasus World Cup Invitational 3:30 p.m. Ch. 11

TENNISAustralian Open: Women’s fi nal 2 a.m. ESPNAustralian Open: Women’s fi nal (tape) 8 a.m. ESPN2

ON THE AIR SUNDAYBASKETBALL TIME TV RADIO College men: Michigan at Michigan St. noon Ch. 4College men: Virginia at Villanova noon Ch. 9College men: Colgate at American 1 p.m. CBSSNNBA: Oklahoma City at Cleveland 2:30 p.m. Ch. 5College men: Washington at Arizona 2:30 p.m. Ch. 9College men: Wichita St. at Bradley 3 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: S. Florida at Cincinnati 3 p.m. CBSSNCollege men: Purdue at Nebraska 3:30 p.m. BTNNBA: Washington at New Orleans 5 p.m. NBATVCollege men: Xavier at St. John’s 5 p.m. FS1College men: Boston College at Va. Tech 5:30 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: Indiana at Northwestern 5:30 p.m. BTNCollege men: Stanford at California 7:30 p.m. ESPNUNBA: Golden State at Portland 8 p.m. NBATV

FOOTBALLNFL: Pro Bowl 6:50 p.m. ESPN

GOLFPGA: Farmers Insurance Open noon GOLFPGA: Farmers Insurance Open 2 p.m. Ch. 4LPGA: Bahamas Classic 2 p.m. GOLF

HOCKEYNHL: All-Star Game 1:30 p.m. Ch. 11

TENNISAustralian Open: Men’s fi nal 2 a.m. ESPNAustralian Open: Men’s fi nal 7 a.m. ESPN2

135-plus baseball games set for U.S. Bank StadiumMINNESOTA SCENE

Eggum named eighth U wrestling coach GOPHERS WRESTLING

U WRESTLING COACHESThe seven previous Gophers wrestling coaches since the program started 98 years ago:Name Seasons Years RecordFrank Gilman 1919-22 3 1-7-0Blain McKusick 1922-35 13 20-40-2Dave Bartelma 1936-42, 1946, 1948-52 13 82-32-5Stanley Hanson 1943-44 2 6-5-0Clarence R. Osell 1945 1 3-1-2Wally Johnson 1952-86 34 392-209-11J Robinson 1986-2016 30 440-145-4

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MENBIG TEN Conf. Overal W L W LMaryland 6 1 18 2Wisconsin 6 1 17 3Purdue 6 2 17 4Northwestern 6 2 17 4Indiana 4 4 14 7Michigan 4 4 14 7Michigan St. 4 4 12 9Gophers 3 5 15 6Illinois 3 5 13 8Ohio State 3 5 13 8Penn State 3 5 11 10Iowa 3 5 11 10Nebraska 3 5 9 11Rutgers 1 7 12 9Michigan 90, Indiana 60Northwestern 73, Nebraska 61UPPER MIDWESTNorth Dakota 91, S. Utah 89TOP 25#3 Gonzaga 79, San Diego 43#7 Arizona 79, Washington St. 62#9 North Carolina 91, Virginia Tech 72#10 Oregon 73, Utah 67#19 Cincinnati 86, #24 Xavier 78#21 St. Mary’s 66, San Fran. 46MIDWESTCS Bakersfi eld 75, Chicago St. 59Mo.-Kansas City 83, Grand Canyon 77EASTDrexel 81, Hofstra 80, OTElon 51, Northeastern 49Fairleigh Dickinson 79, St. Francis Bkn. 73LIU Brooklyn 60, Sacred Heart 57Manhattan 70, Niagara 69

Mount St. Mary’s 48, Robert Morris 47St. Francis (Pa.) 72, Wagner 67St. Peter’s 81, Marist 65Towson 83, Charleston 77, OTSOUTHAla.-Birmingham 79, Louisiana Tech 70Campbell 78, Radford 61E. Kentucky 57, Jacksonville St. 52Florida Atlantic 83, Florida Int’l 65High Point 72, Chas. Southern 69, OTLiberty 93, Longwood 62Marshall 92, Texas-San Antonio 71Middle Tennessee 72, S. Mississippi 56New Orleans 75, McNeese St. 56N.C.-Asheville 73, Presbyterian 47N.C.-Wilmington 87, James Madison 76SE Missouri 75, Murray St. 74Tenn.-Martin 85, Austin Peay 79Tennessee Tech 76, Morehead St. 73W. Kentucky 65, Texas-El Paso 62William & Mary 82, Delaware 58Winthrop 72, Gardner-Webb 70SOUTHWESTCharlotte 82, North Texas 81Houston Baptist 83, Nicholls 80Incarnate Word 82, Abilene Christian 79Old Dominion 80, Rice 72WESTCal Poly 79, UC Irvine 66Colorado 85, Oregon St. 78E. Washington 72, Montana 60Long Beach St. 76, Cal St.-Fullerton 65Loyola Marymount 79, Pacifi c 73Montana St. 94, Idaho 91, 2OTNew Mexico St. 71, Seattle 56N. Arizona 63, N. Colorado 50Pepperdine 78, Portland 60Santa Clara 76, BYU 68UC Riverside 70, Hawaii 64Utah Valley 92, Rio Grande 81

WOMENBIG TEN Conf. Overall W L W LMaryland 8 0 20 1Ohio State 8 1 18 5Michigan 6 2 17 5Purdue 5 3 14 8Northwestern 4 3 15 5Indiana 4 3 14 6Iowa 4 3 13 7Michigan St. 4 4 14 7Penn State 3 5 13 7Illinois 3 5 8 13Rutgers 3 5 6 15Gophers 2 6 11 10Nebraska 1 8 5 16Wisconsin 0 7 5 15#15 Ohio State 88, Gophers 76#3 Maryland 94, Illinois 49Purdue 88, Nebraska 45UPPER MIDWESTNorth Dakota 75, S. Utah 70South Dakota 80, North Dakota St. 48TOP 25#5 South Carolina 62, Georgia 44#6 Florida St. 69, Georgia Tech 63#8 Notre Dame 62, #14 Duke 58#9 Louisville 60, Clemson 46#17 Miami 100, North Carolina 88#18 N.C. State 55, Pittsburgh 42Virginia 76, #19 Virginia Tech 27#24 Green Bay 84, Youngstown St. 51

F R I D AYMENNSIC Conf. OverallNorth W L W LMSU Moorhead 12 2 17 3Northern St. 10 4 14 6St. Cloud State 10 4 14 9Minot St. 6 8 10 10Mary (N.D.) 6 8 8 12Bemidji St. 5 9 7 12Minn. Duluth 3 11 4 16Minn.-Crookston 2 12 6 14

South W L W LSW Minnesota St. 11 3 16 3Upper Iowa 11 3 14 6Augustana 9 5 14 6Sioux Falls 9 5 13 9MSU Mankato 8 6 13 7Winona St. 5 9 8 10Wayne St. 4 10 6 14Concordia (St. Paul) 1 13 4 17Augustana at Minn. Duluth, 8 pmConcordia (St. Paul) at Bemidji St., 6 pmMary (N.D.) at Upper Iowa, 8 pmMinot St. at Winona St., 8 pmMSU Moorhead at SW Minn. St., 8 pmMSU Mankato at Minn.-Crookston, 8 pmNorthern St. at Sioux Falls, 8 pmWayne St. at St. Cloud State, 8 pm

UMAC Conf. Overall W L W LNorthwestern (SP) 9 1 13 5St. Scholastica 7 3 10 8Bethany Lutheran 6 3 10 7Northland 6 4 9 9Minn.-Morris 4 5 9 9Crown 4 5 6 11Wis.-Superior 4 6 5 13North Central 3 7 5 10Martin Luther 0 9 1 16Crown at Bethany Lutheran, 7:30 pmMinn.-Morris at Martin Luther, 7:30 pmSt. Scholastica at Northland, 7:30 pmUPPER MIDWESTWis.-Superior at Finlandia, 7:30 pm

WOMENNSIC Conf. OverallNorth W L W LMSU Moorhead 13 1 16 2Northern St. 9 5 13 5Minn. Duluth 9 5 11 7Minn.-Crookston 6 8 6 12St. Cloud State 6 8 8 10

Mary (N.D.) 5 9 10 12Bemidji St. 3 11 6 12Minot St. 1 13 3 17South W L W LSioux Falls 11 3 15 3Winona St. 11 3 16 4Augustana 10 4 15 6Wayne St. 9 5 14 5Concordia (St. Paul) 9 5 13 7MSU Mankato 6 8 10 8SW Minnesota St. 2 12 2 16Upper Iowa 2 12 2 16Augustana at Minn. Duluth, 6 pmConcordia (St. Paul) at Bemidji St., 6 pmMary (N.D.) at Upper Iowa, 6 pmMinot St. at Winona St., 6 pmMSU Mankato at Minn.-Crookston, 6 pmMSU Moorhead at SW Minn. St., 6 pmNorthern St. at Sioux Falls, 6 pmWayne St. at St. Cloud State, 6 pm

UMAC Conf. Overall W L W LWis.-Superior 10 0 14 4Minn.-Morris 8 1 13 5Northwestern (SP) 7 3 11 7Bethany Lutheran 6 3 8 9Martin Luther 4 5 6 11St. Scholastica 4 6 5 12Northland 3 7 7 11North Central 1 9 3 13Crown 0 9 1 17Crown at Bethany Lutheran, 5:30 pmMinn.-Morris at Martin Luther, 5:30 pmSt. Scholastica at Northland, 5:30 pmUPPER MIDWESTWis.-Superior at Finlandia, 5:30 pmTOP 25California at #7 Washington, 8 pm#10 Stanford at Washington St., 10 pm#11 Oregon St. at Oregon, 10 pm#16 Arizona St. at #13 UCLA, 10 pm#21 DePaul at Creighton, 7 pm



By MICHAEL RUSSO [email protected]

On Friday morning, two private charter flights will take off from the Twin Cities for Los Angeles carrying members of the Wild for All-Star Weekend.

One will carry defenseman Ryan Suter, his wife and son, as well as some of Suter’s friends. The other will transport coach Bruce Boudreau, his wife and one of his children; goalie Devan Dubnyk, his wife and two children; and other Wild staffers.

“Nothing but first class for me,” said an excited Boudreau.

Boudreau is bringing an auto-graph book, as is his son, Brady, whose dream is to get an auto-graph and picture with each living honoree named to the 100 greatest NHL players on Friday night.

The one condition ? Boudreau forced the 18-year-old to get a hair-cut Thursday.

Sunday will be Suter’s third All-Star Game but his first since the league implemented a 3-on-3 tournament and $1 million win-ner-take-all prize pool.

“I told Bruce he needs to make sure to talk to some of these guys and let them know this is serious,” Suter said, laughing. “This is big money. He said, ‘Oh yeah, don’t worry. I want the money more than you.’

“We’re going to try to win some money. You may as well, right? If you’re there, you may as well try to win it. In the past, you’d just throw some saucer passes and joke around with your buddies. But this will be fun, too, because it’s competition.”

Boudreau said the goal is to put on a show and grow the game, but in too many previous All-Star Games the laissez–faire attitude of players made for a poor display and fans were turned off.

“So I’m hoping, as I always do when I’m watching it on TV, that there’s a great effort out there and they put on a great show and people say this is a game that they can’t afford to miss,” Boudreau said

before Thursday’s game against St. Louis.

Sunday, after the game, the Bou-dreaus and Suters will head back to the Twin Cities for Monday’s practice. Dubnyk will spend Sun-day night with his parents, brother and sister in L.A., then fly com-mercial Monday to Edmonton, where the Wild opens a four-game road trip Tuesday.

Hot prospectKirill Kaprizov, the Wild’s fifth-

round pick in 2015, has become the highest-scoring under-20-year-old in the history of the Konti-nental Hockey League, which was founded in 2008. He has 42 points in 43 games for Salavat Yulaev Ufa, passing Washington’s Evgeny Kuznetsov, who had 41 points in six more games in 2011-12.

“He’s had a tremendous sea-son,” Wild assistant GM Brent Flahr said. “It’s a very good league, and to have success like this as an 18- and 19-year-old, it’s commend-able. We’re excited about him.”

Kaprizov is under contract another year in the KHL.

“Hopefully then he’s ready to step in and help,” Flahr said.

Asked if that means he’s unin-terested in playing in Iowa, Flahr said: “His goal isn’t to play in the American League. He wants to come over and play in the NHL. I think he’s pretty close. Probably another year playing over there get-ting stronger and a touch quicker, he’ll have a good chance to do that.”

Flahr met with Kaprizov’s agent and girlfriend, who speaks English well, during the world junior championships. They told Flahr that Kaprizov wants to play in the NHL, and he’s working on his English. Nobody from the Wild brass has physically met Kaprizov, and Flahr delivered his 2015 draft jersey to Kaprizov’s girlfriend.

Etc.• Teemu Pulkkinen won’t play

in the upcoming AHL All-Star Game for personal reasons. Alex Tuch, slated to return to Iowa’s lineup from a shoulder injury Fri-day, will replace him.

• Defenseman Christian Folin was scratched a third game in a row.

STANDINGS

SUMMARIESARIZONA 3, VANC. 0

Vancouver ...................0 0 0 — 0Arizona ........................0 1 2 — 3First: None.Second: 1. Ari—Crouse 3 (White, Ekman-larsson), 12:56.Third: 2. Ari—Burmistrov 1, 4:29, pp. 3. Ari—Rieder 11 (Vrbata, Hanzal), 19:26.Shots: Vancouver 12-7—19; Arizo-na 6-12-13—31. Power plays: ; Ar-izona 1 of 3. Goalies: Vancouver, Miller 14-12-3 (30-28). Arizona, Smith 11-13-5 (19-19). A: 11,203 (17,125).

BOSTON 4, PITTSBURGH 3Pittsburgh ...................2 0 1 — 3Boston .........................0 3 1 — 4First: 1. Pit—Schultz 8, 7:37. 2. Pit—Kessel 15 (Crosby, Schul-tz), 11:26, pp.Second: 3. Bos—Marchand 20 (Miller, Bergeron), 1:38, sh. 4. Bos—Marchand 21 (Carlo, Pas-trnak), 6:27. 5. Bos—Nash 3 (Krug, Moore), 10:25.Third: 6. Bos—Bergeron 11 (Pas-trnak, Spooner), 0:51, pp. 7. Pit—Hornqvist 12 (Kunitz), 10:35.Shots: Pittsburgh 13-4-6—23; Bos-ton 13-16-8—37. Power plays: Pittsburgh 1 of 5; Boston 1 of 5. Goalies: Pittsburgh, Murray 17-6-1 (37-33); Boston, Rask 24-12-4 (22-19). A: 17,565 (17,565).

CALGARY 3, OTT. 2 (OT)Calgary ..................0 2 0 1 — 3Ottawa ...................0 0 2 0 — 2First: None.Second: 1. Cal—Ferland 6, 9:39. 2. Cal—Monahan 16 (Gaudreau, Hamilton), 17:08.Third: 3. Ott—Wingels 6 (Claes-son), 2:01. 4. Ott—Wideman 2 (Hoffman, Smith), 18:58.Overtime: 5. Cal—Gaudreau 11 (Backlund), 4:29.Shots: Calgary 6-10-8-2—26; Otta-wa 6-8-10-3—27. Power plays: Cal-gary 0 of 2; Ottawa 0 of 4. Goalies: Calgary, Elliott 9-12-2 (27-25); Ot-tawa, Condon 14-7-5 (26-23). A: 16,263 (19,153).

DALLAS 4, BUFFALO 3Buffalo .........................2 1 0 — 3Dallas ...........................1 3 0 — 4First: 1. Buf—Kane 13, 3:44. 2. Buf—Moulson 10 (Gionta, Kane), 9:30, pp. 3. Dal—Sharp 5 (Korpikoski, Klingberg), 10:59.Second: 4. Dal—Benn 13 (Eaves, Spezza), 0:42, pp. 5. Dal—Sharp 6 (Shore), 13:16. 6. Dal—Seguin 18, 15:24. 7. Buf—Kane 14, 18:55.Third: None.Shots: Buffalo 5-6-16—27; Dallas 17-19-2—38. Power plays: Buffalo 1 of 2; Dallas 1 of 5. Goalies: Buffa-lo, Nilsson 8-7-4 (37-33); Dallas, Ni-emi 10-7-4 (5-3), Lehtonen 10-13-6 (22-21). A: 17,856 (18,532).

FLORIDA 2, T.B. 1 (OT)Tampa Bay .............1 0 0 0 — 1Florida....................1 0 0 1 — 2First: 1. Fla—Jokinen 5 (Yan-dle, Trocheck), 9:55, sh. 2. TB—Kucherov 19 (Drouin, Killorn), 11:33, pp.Second: None.Third: None.Overtime: 3. Fla—Marchessault 14 (Yandle, Jokinen), 1:49, pp.Shots: Tampa Bay 8-12-12—32; Florida 12-10-12-3—37. Pow-er plays: Tampa Bay 1 of 4; Flor-ida 1 of 3. Goalies: Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 11-11-3 (37-35); Flori-da, Reimer 8-6-4 (32-31). A: 14,248 (17,040).

L.A. 3, CAROLINA 0Los Angeles .................0 0 3 — 3Carolina .......................0 0 0 — 0First: None.Second: None.Third: 1. LA—Gaborik 5 (Kopi-tar, Doughty), 15:17. 2. LA—Lew-is 7 (Setoguchi, Mcnabb), 15:55. 3. LA—Clifford 5 (Martinez, Pear-son), 17:36.Shots: Los Angeles 8-9-12—29; Carolina 7-9-6—22. Power plays: Los Angeles 0 of 1; Carolina 0 of 4. Goalies: Los Angeles, Budaj 22-14-3 (22-22); Carolina, Ward 18-16-6 (28-26). A: 10,486 (18,680).

NASH. 4, COLUMBUS 3Columbus ....................1 0 2 — 3Nashville ......................0 2 2 — 4First: 1. Clm—Saad 16 (Jones, Fo-ligno), 9:25.Second: 2. Nas—Jarnkrok 7 (Wil-son, Fisher), 5:41, pp. 3. Nas—Zol-nierczyk 1 (Sissons, Mcleod), 9:01.Third: 4. Nas—Smith 8 (Ekholm, Subban), 6:03. 5. Clm—Werenski 8 (Dubinsky, Jones), 9:12. 6. Nas—Smith 9 (Ekholm, Fisher), 11:18. 7. Clm—Murray 1 (Werenski, Karls-son), 17:09.Shots: Columbus 14-8-11—33; Nashville 9-15-8—32. Power plays: Columbus 0 of 2; Nashville 1 of 3. Goalies: Columbus, Bobrovsky 28-9-2 (32-28); Nashville, Rinne 19-12-6 (33-30). A: 17,113 (17,113).

N.Y.I. 3, MONTREAL 1Montreal ......................0 1 0 — 1N.Y. Islanders ..............1 0 2 — 3First: 1. NYI—Ladd 9 (Leddy, De haan), 13:07.Second: 2. Mtl—Weber 12 (Shaw, Beaulieu), 14:09, pp.Third: 3. NYI—Ladd 10 (Leddy, Ta-vares), 7:20. 4. NYI—Bailey 8 (Lee, Tavares), 15:13, pp.Shots: Montreal 4-9-9—22; N.Y. Islanders 14-16-12—42. Pow-er plays: Montreal 1 of 3; N.Y. Is-landers 1 of 4. Goalies: Montre-al, Price 22-10-5 (42-39); N.Y. Is-landers, Greiss 14-7-3 (22-21). A: 12,019 (15,813).

PHIL. 2, TORONTO 1Toronto ........................0 1 0 — 1Philadelphia ................1 0 1 — 2First : 1. Phi—Simmonds 21 (Konecny), 12:15.Second: 2. Tor—Nylander 10 (Kadri, Komarov), 15:35.Third: 3. Phi—Lyubimov 4 (Gudas, Streit), 17:23.Shots: Toronto 9-10-9—28; Phila-delphia 6-13-15—34. Power plays: Toronto 0 of 3; Philadelphia 0 of 1. Goalies: Toronto, Mcelhinney 3-2-2 (34-32); Philadelphia, Neuvirth 7-4-0 (28-27). A: 19,723 (19,537).

WASHINGTON 5, N.J. 2Washington .................2 2 1 — 5New Jersey ..................0 2 0 — 2First: 1. Was—Ovechkin 23, 6:14. 2. Was—Burakovsky 10, 18:28, pp.Second: 3. NJ—Noesen 3 (Za-cha, Josefson), 3:19. 4. Was—Eller 8 (Burakovsky, Orlov), 8:29. 5. Was—Kuznetsov 8 (Orlov, Ovech-kin), 10:19, pp. 6. NJ—Henrique 12 (Cammalleri, Parenteau), 18:16, pp.Third: 7. Was—Kuznetsov 9, 18:07.Shots: Washington 9-17-10—36; New Jersey 11-9-9—29. Power plays: Washington 2 of 4; New Jer-sey 1 of 3. Goalies: Washington, Holtby 24-8-4 (29-27); New Jersey, Schneider 14-15-7 (18-18), Kinkaid 6-6-2 (17-13). A: 13,428 (17,625).

WINNIPEG 5, CHICAGO 3Winnipeg .....................2 0 3 — 5Chicago .......................1 2 0 — 3First: 1. Win—Laine 22 (Ehlers, Lit-tle), 6:16, pp. 2. Win—Matthias 7 (Trouba), 6:58. 3. Chi—Keith 4 (Seabrook, Anisimov), 13:07, pp.Second: 4. Chi—Schmaltz 3, 4:00. 5. Chi—Kero 4 (Kane, Van riems-dyk), 16:37.Third: 6. Win—Copp 8 (Morrissey, Scheifele), 15:57. 7. Win—Little 13 (Laine, Trouba), 16:29. 8. Win—Scheifele 22 (Copp, Wheeler), 17:57.Shots: Winnipeg 8-12-13—33; Chi-cago 18-14-9—41. Power plays: Winnipeg 1 of 5; Chicago 1 of 5. Goalies: Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 17-13-1 (41-38); Chicago, Darling 12-5-2 (32-28). A: 21,746 (19,717).

EDM. 4, SAN JOSE 1Edmonton ....................1 1 2 — 4San Jose.......................1 0 0 — 1First: 1. SJ—Couture 17 (Boedker, Marleau), 4:05. 2. Edm—Sekera 6 (Mcdavid), 19:54.Second: 3. Edm—Sekera 7 (Drai-saitl), 17:09, pp.Third: 4. Edm—Caggiula 4, 11:31. 5. Edm—Mcdavid 17 (Draisaitl), 18:08.Shots: Edmonton 10-8-3—21; San Jose 9-8-16—33. Power plays: Ed-monton 1 of 2; San Jose 0 of 4. Goalies: Edmonton, Talbot 26-12-7 (33-32); San Jose, Jones 25-15-2 (20-17). A: 17,562 (17,562).

NHL

LEAGUE ROUNDUP

WILD NOTES

W E S T E R N C O N F E R E N C E

CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVWild 48 32 11 5 69 160 109 17-6-0 15-5-5 11-4-2Chicago 51 30 16 5 65 142 132 18-7-4 12-9-1 10-8-1Nashville 49 24 17 8 56 138 130 13-5-6 11-12-2 11-8-1St. Louis 49 24 20 5 53 138 152 16-7-4 8-13-1 9-8-2Dallas 50 20 20 10 50 135 157 13-7-6 7-13-4 8-9-4Winnipeg 52 23 25 4 50 150 161 13-11-1 10-14-3 11-4-1Colorado 46 13 31 2 28 93 156 5-18-1 8-13-1 5-13-0

PACIFIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVSan Jose 50 31 17 2 64 135 116 17-7-1 14-10-1 9-7-2Edmonton 51 28 15 8 64 152 132 13-8-3 15-7-5 11-4-3Anaheim 51 27 15 9 63 133 129 16-6-3 11-9-6 11-3-4Calgary 52 25 24 3 53 134 149 13-13-0 12-11-3 9-8-2Los Angeles 49 24 21 4 52 123 121 14-8-1 10-13-3 7-6-0Vancouver 50 23 21 6 52 119 140 17-6-3 6-15-3 8-6-1Arizona 48 16 26 6 38 108 152 11-11-2 5-15-4 5-9-5

E A S T E R N C O N F E R E N C E

ATLANTIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVMontreal 50 29 14 7 65 150 125 17-5-3 12-9-4 10-2-5Ottawa 47 26 15 6 58 127 123 14-7-6 12-8-0 7-6-1Boston 52 25 21 6 56 131 135 12-12-0 13-9-6 13-5-1Toronto 47 23 15 9 55 145 133 12-8-3 11-7-6 11-4-2Florida 50 21 19 10 52 116 137 12-9-3 9-10-7 8-7-5Tampa Bay 50 22 22 6 50 136 146 12-8-2 10-14-4 9-3-3Buffalo 48 20 19 9 49 118 136 11-8-3 9-11-6 6-9-3Detroit 49 20 20 9 49 123 144 10-11-4 10-9-5 6-9-5

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVWashington 49 33 10 6 72 160 106 19-5-1 14-5-5 10-5-5Columbus 48 32 12 4 68 160 114 18-5-1 14-7-3 8-4-0Pittsburgh 48 30 13 5 65 172 141 20-3-2 10-10-3 12-5-0N.Y. Rangers 49 31 17 1 63 167 129 14-10-1 17-7-0 10-6-0Philadelphia 50 25 19 6 56 140 155 15-7-3 10-12-3 6-6-1N.Y. Islanders 47 21 17 9 51 136 136 15-8-5 6-9-4 5-6-3Carolina 48 21 20 7 49 126 140 15-6-1 6-14-6 4-11-2New Jersey 50 20 21 9 49 113 144 10-9-3 10-12-6 6-5-2

THURSDAYWild 5, St. Louis 1Arizona 3, Vancouver 0Boston 4, Pittsburgh 3Calgary 3, Ottawa 2, OTDallas 4, Buffalo 3Edmonton 4, San Jose 1Florida 2, Tampa Bay 1, OTLos Angeles 3, Carolina 0Nashville 4, Columbus 2N.Y. Islanders 3, Montreal 1Philadelphia 2, Toronto 1Washington 5, New Jersey 2Winnipeg 5, Chicago 3

WEDNESDAYEdmonton 4, Anaheim 0Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Rangers 0Toronto 4, Detroit 0Vancouver 3, Colorado 2

FRIDAY-SATURDAYNo games scheduled

SUNDAYAll-Star Game at L.A., 2:30 pm

MONDAYNo games scheduled

All-Star caravan readies for L.A.

Boudreau

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Heading into the All-Star break, the Washington Capi-tals are in the same position they were at the end of the regular season last year — leading the pack in the NHL.

Evgeny Kuznetsov scored twice, Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist and the Capitals beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Thursday night to go into the break with a good shot at a sec-ond straight President’s Trophy.

“For the first 20-something games, I thought we were try-ing to re-establish our identity,” Capitals defenseman Nate Schmidt said. “The last 20, we have found our way back to what we want to do, and get back to the style we want to play.”

The Capitals are on a roll heading into the break. They went 13-1-2 in their past 16 and they have 72 points in 49 games.

Stefan Noesen and Adam Henrique scored for New Jer-sey, which has lost six straight at

home. The Devils are tied with Detroit for the fewest points in the Eastern Conference.

“Obviously, not where we want to be,” said goalie Cory Schneider, who stopped all 18 shots after taking over for Keith Kinkaid in the second period. “The way we started the year, we had some pretty lofty aspi-rations. I still believe we have a team that can play well and win games.”

Los Angeles 3, Carolina 0: Marian Gaborik and Trevor

Lewis scored 38 seconds apart late in the third period, sending the visiting Kings to victory over the skidding Hurricanes.

Winnipeg 5, Chicago 3: Andrew Copp and Bryan Little scored in a 32-second span in the third period, and the Jets beat the host Blackhawks for the fourth straight time this season. Little, Copp, rookie Patrik Laine and Mark Scheifele each had a goal and an assist.

Boston 4, Pittsburgh 3: Brad Marchand scored two second-

period goals after avoiding a suspension by the NHL earlier in the day, lifting the host Bru-ins past the Penguins. March-and was fined $10,000 and not ordered by the league to sit out any games for slew-footing Detroit defenseman Niklas Kro-nwall on Tuesday.N.Y. Islanders 3, Montreal 1: Andrew Ladd scored twice to lead the host Islanders, ending a seven-game losing streak to the Canadiens. Josh Bailey also had a goal and Thomas Greiss

stopped 21 shots as the Islanders beat the Canadiens for the first time since April 10, 2014.

NotesTortorella out: Columbus Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella has returned to Ohio because of a family emergency, keep-ing him out of both Thursday night’s game with Nashville and the NHL All-Star Game this weekend. Assistant coaches Brad Larsen and Brad Shaw took over in Tortorella’s absence.

Capitals rough up New Jersey; NHL’s points leader carries momentum into the All-Star break

awesome birthday present for his dad, Tom.

“Tonight goes to show that if we have four lines going we’re a really hard team to stop,” Graovac said.

Devan Dubnyk, who now leaves for the All-Star Game with teammate Ryan Suter and Bou-dreau, made 24 saves for his 27th victory. He’s 18-2 in his past 20 starts and leads the NHL with a 1.88 goals-against average and .936 save percentage.

“That was the guy that played the first 40 games,” Boudreau said.

Zach Parise created Haula’s goal 23 seconds into the second period of a scoreless game, and Boudreau lauded Parise as Min-nesota’s best player. “He was all over the ice,” the coach said.

Vladimir Tarasenko tied the score, but after Niederreiter’s exceptional cut to the net crafted Graovac’s goal, the Wild took over.

“The temperature went up and we didn’t respond the right way,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said.

“We just turned so many pucks over. You can’t do that against this team. They’ve got too much speed, they’ve got too much tenacity.”

The Wild is 21-3-2 since Dec. 2 and 9-2-1 in January. Last sea-son it took until March 3 and the 65th game to surpass 69 points. It is 17-6 at home and 15-5-5 on the road, including a franchise-record 13-game point streak. It leads the NHL with seven 30-plus-point scorers and eight 10-plus-goal scor-ers. It leads the Western Confer-ence with 160 goals and 107 goals against and has the league’s best home power play (28.1 percent). It has scored four or more goals in 20 of 48 games and five or more goals in nine of the past 21 games.

It has lost consecutive games in regulation once, and its 11 regula-tion losses are fewest in the West.

“We have four really good lines,” Haula said. “We’ve been really good at picking each other up. Even if it’s not going for some-body, you don’t have that pressure this year, I feel like. Especially for

our top guys, we just keep playing and we’re getting a lot of produc-tion from all around.”

Boudreau said of the balance, “It’s a different kind of team than I’ve had in the past, but it’s a very enjoyable one to coach.”

The Wild, which opens a four-game road trip after the break Tuesday in Edmonton, doesn’t return home until Feb. 8 when it opens eight consecutive games at home.

“We’ll go enjoy the weekend and step back a bit,” Dubnyk said. “This is fun. I think everybody will say the same thing, there’s no rea-son to stop what we’re doing, it’s nothing magical. We’re playing the right way and we can continue to do that.”

It’s business as usual for the Wildø WILD from C1 GAME RECAP

S TA R T R I B U N E ’ S T H R E E S TA R S1. Nino Niederreiter, Wild: Scored a goal and had two assists for his second three-point game in the past five.2. Mikael Granlund, Wild: Extended his point streak to a nine games with a goal and assist.3. Mikko Koivu, Wild: Gave Min-nesota a two-goal lead with 12 seconds left in the second .

B Y T H E N U M B E R S 4-plus Goals by the Wild 20 times in 48 games (20 times all last season).

MICHAEL RUSSO

WILD 5, ST. LOUIS 1St. Louis ....................................................0 1 0 — 1Wild ...........................................................0 3 2 — 5First: None. Penalties: Stewart, Wild, (slashing), 8:38; Hutton, StL, served by Jaskin, (delay of game), 16:39; Parise, Wild, (hooking), 17:59.Second: 1. Wild—Haula 10 (Parise, Pominville), 0:23. 2. StL—Tarasenko 21 (Lehtera, Schwartz), 4:47. 3. Wild—Graovac 4 (Dumba, Niederreiter), 12:19. 4. Wild—Koivu 15 (Niederreiter, Granlund), 19:48, pp. Penalties: Bouwmeester, StL, (hooking), 18:19.Third: 5. Wild—Niederreiter 15 (Staal, Coyle), 1:29. 6. Wild—Granlund 12 (Zucker, Spurgeon), 2:11. Pen-alties: None.Shots: St. Louis 10-7-8—25; Wild 8-18-7—33. Power plays: St. Louis 0 of 2; Wild 1 of 2. Goalies: St. Louis, Allen 17-12-3 (3-3), Hutton 7-7-2 (30-25); Wild, Dub-nyk 27-8-3 (25-24). A: 19,064 (18,064). T: 2:31. Refer-ees: Tom Chmielewski, Tom Kowal. Linesmen: Ryan Galloway, Brian Mach.

CARLOS GONZALEZ • [email protected] goalie Devan Dubnyk made 24 saves for his 27th victory of the season. He’s 18-2 in his past 20 starts.



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