Gophers Open 2022-23 Period Monday vs. Western Michigan

November 6, 2022

PROGRAM INFO
TELEVISION: BIG +
Suggestion Time: 8:01 p.m.
Radio: Learfield IMG: KTLK 1130 AM (Mike Grimm (Play-by-Play); Spencer Tollackson (Expert)

COLLECTION INFO
. First Satisfying in Program Background
. Gophers All-Time vs. Mid-American Seminar: 23-2
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. • The 2022-23 period notes the 128th year of Golden Gopher males’s basketball, going back to 1895-96 period. Minnesota has actually won the previous 7 period openers, with the last loss being available in 2014. The Gophers opened up the Ben Johnson age with a sway Kansas City in 2015 (Nov 9, 71-56).
. • On the debut of university basketball, Minnesota will certainly hold a real doubleheader with Gopher males’s as well as ladies’s basketball. The ladies’s group hosts Western Illinois at 5:30 p.m., adhered to by the males at 8 p.m. Guys’s basketball period ticket owners can show up very early as well as being in basic admission for the ladies’s video game at no extra expense.
. • 4 Gophers racked up in dual numbers, led by Joshua Ola-Joseph with 14 factors, as the short-handed Gophers uploaded a 71-55 event sway St. Olaf Wednesday evening at Williams Sector. Ola-Joseph was 6-of-9 from the area, as well as included 6 rebounds as well as 3 aids, while Ta’Lon Cooper had 13 factors, 6 rebounds, as well as 5 aids as well as Jaden Henley completed with 13 factors, 4 rebounds, as well as 2 takes. Pharrel Payne additionally got to double-digits, making 5-of-8 basket to do with 10 factors as well as 4 boards. Treyton Thompson paced Minnesota with 9 rebounds as well as included 7 factors. The Gophers lacked Jamison Fight (foot), Braeden Carrington (ankle joint) as well as Dawson Garcia (muscle mass pressure) for the video game.
. • The conference in between Minnesota as well as Western Michigan notes the very first in institution background. Nonetheless, there is a Huge 10 link in between the training personnels. WMU head train Dwayne Stephens remains in his very first year as head train after investing 19 periods at Michigan State under train Tom Izzo. A previous Spartan, Stephens finished from MSU in 1993.
. • Train Johnson called his captains for the 2022-23 period: Jamison Fight, Ta’Lon Cooper, Dawson Garcia as well as Taurus Samuels The honor notes the very first of their college occupations for Fight as well as Garcia as well as the 2nd for Cooper as well as Samuels as they were called captains at Morehead State as well as Dartmouth.

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CONCERNING WESTERN MICHIGAN
. • Western Michigan opened up the Dwayne Stephens Wednesday evening with an 82-59 sway Kalamazoo University.
. • WMU opens up the 2022-23 period with 6 video games in 2 week.
. • Elderly guard Lamar Norman Jr., was Preseason All-MAC First String. Norman was the leading marker in the Mid-American Seminar last period at 19.8 factors per video game, as well as 20.8 factors per competition in organization play. The Broncos additionally return their second-leading marker as well as leading rebounder in 2015 in Markeese Hastings, that balanced 9 factors as well as 8.8 rebounds per video game.
. • Western Michigan balanced 65.4 factors per video game last period, 33.1 rebounds per video game as well as 2.3 blocks per video game.

ON THE DOCKET
. • Minnesota hosts St. Francis Brooklyn on Friday, Nov. 11 at 6 p.m.
. • The video game will certainly be streamed on B1G +, while Mike Grimm as well as Spencer Tollackson will certainly offer the radio get in touch with KFAN 100.3 FM.
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