Gopher Women’s Basketball Face Huge Test at #6 Michigan Monday Night

The Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s basketball team will look to add another huge road Big Ten win to their past one when they head to Ann Arbor to face the #6 ranked Michigan Wolverines on Monday evening. Minnesota enters the game 1-1 in Big Ten action after blowing what should have been a home upset of then #7 Maryland at Williams Arena in December, and picking up a big road win at Indiana last Monday 71-48. They will have a huge task ahead of them ahead of the #6 ranked Wolverines who will likely drop in the polls when the new ones come out after Monday after a 64-52 loss at Washington this weekend.

Minnesota is off to a 10-3 start on the season. Minnesota has won their last four games after that double OT loss to Maryland including a dominant performance in Bloomington against the Hoosiers. Amaya Battle played her best game of the season leading he Gophers with 20 points in the win. While Battle has not been scoring on the same clip as the past few seasons, the rest of her game has picked up. She has picked up a lot of the slack from the loss to Mallory Heyer on the boards and in fact leads Minnesota in rebounds this season with 102 and is averaging 7.8 per game. Tori McKinney added 17 on her 20th birthday in the win as well. McKinney has made a significant impact during her sophomore season, improving her shooting percentage from .460 to .500. She is averaging 13.2 points per game and is the only Gopher to reach double figures in every game this season except two.

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How big was the win in Bloomington for the Gophers? It marked their first victory in Bloomington since Feb. 6, 2019, and the first time the Gophers have recorded consecutive wins over the Hoosiers since the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. In addition, it was Minnesota’s largest road victory in a conference game since a 78-50 win over Wisconsin on Jan. 17, 2019.

The win helped the Gophers move up in the NET rankings that helps determine the NCAA Tournament field. Minnesota now ranks #15 in the…

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