Team preview: Minnesota
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Updated: October 30, 2005, 2:51 AM ET
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After years of struggling to recover from NCAA probation and numerous premature defections, the Golden Gophers finally broke through last year, posting the second-best Big Ten turnaround in the last 20 years and reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time under coach Dan Monson.
(Information in this team report is as of October 1.)
COACH AND PROGRAM
After years of struggling to recover from NCAA probation and numerous premature defections, the Golden Gophers finally broke through last year, posting the second-best Big Ten turnaround in the last 20 years and reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time under coach Dan Monson.
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