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SERIES INFORMATION GAME 13th Meeting (8-4 all-time record) MINNESOTA (11-6, 4-6 B1G) at At Rutgers: 1-3 // Current Streak: L-2 Richard Pitino vs. Rutgers: 6-4 RUTGERS (10-6, 6-6 B1G) Minnesota vs. Big Ten: 778-859* Head Coach: Thursday, February 4 Pitino vs. Big Ten regular season games: 52-88 Richard Pitino (Providence, 2005) 8:00 p.m. CT Pitino vs. Big Ten (includes postseason games): 58-95 Career Record: 156-128 (9th) * - excludes vacated games 18 Piscataway, N.J. (The RAC) Record at Minnesota: 138-114 (8th) 2020-21 STATISTICAL LEADERS STARTING FIVE Points: Marcus Carr (20.0) BROADCAST INFORMATION 1. Minnesota heads to Rutgers for its sixth road game of the season Rebounds: Liam Robbins (6.9) on Thursday. The teams have met twelve times previously (Gophers Assists: Marcus Carr (5.1) TV: FS1 – Gus Johnson (Play-by-Play); Jim Jackson (Analyst) lead 8-4), which makes Rutgers the Big Ten team that Minnesota has Blocks: Liam Robbins (2.8) Tip Time: 8:00 p.m. CT played the least. The two teams met in 1973 and 1979 and have also Steals: Marcus Carr (1.1) Radio: Learfield IMG College/KTLK played 10 games since Rutgers joined the Big Ten. Mike Grimm (Play-by-Play), Spencer Tollackson (Analyst), Dan Rowbotham Minnesota just played four games in 21 days and played only six (Engineer) 2. games in January (fewest since U played six January games in 1972- 73 season under Bill Musselman). Starting Thursday, Minnesota (fingers crossed) will play four games in the next 11 days, five games 2020-21 SCHEDULE in the next 14 days and six games in the next 17 days. Earlier this year, Head Coach: DATE OPPONENT MN RK/OPP TV TIME/RESULT Minnesota had stretches of six games in 16 days and six games in 18 Steve Pikiell (UConn, 1990) 11/25 GREEN BAY BTN + W, 99-69 days. The Gophers are scheduled to play seven games in February, Career Record: 266-227 (16th) 11/28 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT BTN W, 88-73 which would be their second busiest month of the season. To dates, Record at Rutgers: 74-71 (5th) 11/30 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT BTN W, 67-64 Minnesota’s busiest months this season have been December (8 2020-21 STATISTICAL LEADERS 12/4 NORTH DAKOTA BTN W, 76-67 games), January (6 games) and November (3 games). Minnesota is Points: Ron Harper Jr. (17.3) 12/8 BOSTON COLLEGE + ESPNU W, 85-80 (OT) scheduled to play two regular-season games in March. Rebounds: Myles Johnson (8.8) 12/10 KANSAS CITY FS1 W, 90-61 Assists: Jacob Young (3.8) 3. Liam Robbins, who is a top-10 candidate for the Kareem Abdul- 12/15 at Illinois * -/13 ESPN2 L, 65-92 Blocks: Myles Johnson (2.3) Jabbar Center of the Year Award, had a season-high six blocks at 12/20 SAINT LOUIS -/RV FS1 W, 90-82 Steals: Jacob Young (1.8) Purdue. The 7-0 center averages 2.82 blocks per game, which leads 12/25 IOWA * -/4 BTN W, 102-95 (OT) 12/28 MICHIGAN STATE * 21/17 BTN W, 81-56 the Big Ten and ranks 12th in the nation. He is the first Gopher to 12/31 at Wisconsin * 21/6 BTN L, 59-71 total more than five blocks in one game since Daniel Oturu had five against Northwestern on Jan. 5, 2020. 1/3 OHIO STATE * 21/25 BTN W, 77-60 Robbins has 48 blocks this season and needs 19 more to crack the top 10 in school single-season history 1/6 at Michigan * 16/10 BTN L, 57-82 (Damian Johnson is currently tenth after recording 67 blocks in 2009-10). Robbins’ average of 2.82 blocks per 1/10 at Iowa * 16/5 BTN L, 71-86 game currently places him sixth in the school single-season record books, just behind Randy Breuer (3.0 bpg 1/16 MICHIGAN * 23/7 ESPN2 W, 75-57 in 1982-83) and ahead of Kevin McHale (2.6 bpg in 1979-80) and Breuer (2.6 bpg in 1981-82). 1/20 at Nebraska * Postponed 4. Minnesota made 10 three-pointers at Purdue, which is tied for the second-most that the Gophers have made 1/23 MARYLAND * 17/- BTN L, 49-63 this year. The most Minnesota has made this season is 17, which it did in an overtime win at home against Iowa 1/30 at Purdue * 21/RV BTN L, 62-81 on Christmas. The Purdue game was the third time that Minnesota has made 10 three-pointers this year. It also 2/4 at Rutgers * RV/RV FS1 8 p.m. did so against St. Louis and at Iowa. The school record for most threes in one game is 18 and was set against 2/8 NEBRASKA * BTN TBA Nebraska on March 8, 2020. 2/11 PURDUE * FS1 6:00 p.m. 5. Gabe Kalscheur made two three-point attempts at Purdue and has now made 173 threes in his Gopher 2/14 at Maryland * BTN TBA career, which ties him with Sam Jacobson (1995-98) for sixth-most all-time. The junior from Edina, Minn. has 2/17 at Indiana * BTN TBA attempted 498 threes, which ranks sixth in school history. 2/20 ILLINOIS * FS1 TBA 2/27 NORTHWESTERN * BTN TBA 3/3 at Penn State * BTN TBA 3/6 RUTGERS * FS1 TBA MINNESOTA TEAM INFORMATION (2020-21 STATS) MOST RECENT STARTERS PPG RPG APG MPG FG% NOTE + - ACC/Big Ten Challenge *- conference game C 0 Liam Robbins 13.4 6.9 0.8 25.5 .460 2.8 blocks per game all times Central • schedule subject to change G 1 Tre’ Williams 3.5 1.9 0.9 11.9 .417 First start at Purdue G 5 Marcus Carr 20.0 4.1 5.1 35.9 .411 Seven 20-plus games G 22 Gabe Kalscheur 9.1 2.6 1.9 30.5 .305 13 pts vs. Ohio State F 23 Brandon Johnson 8.2 6.1 0.6 23.7 .484 12 points in OT vs Iowa RESERVES PPG RPG APG MPG FG% NOTE F 2 Martice Mitchell 1.5 0.2 — 3.1 .500 — MINNESOTA ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS G 4 Jamal Mashburn, Jr. 5.2 1.1 1.4 15.9 .341 10 pts vs Ohio State PAUL ROVNAK G 11 Both Gach 9.1 4.9 2.5 27.2 .420 13 pts vs Iowa [email protected] • 651-592-5741 [c] G 13 Hunt Conroy 0.0 0.3 — 1.4 .000 — F 24 Eric Curry 3.9 1.9 0.8 12.5 .481 sat out last year to injury Bierman Athletic Center, Room 225 C 32 Sam Freeman 1.1 0.9 — 3.7 .600 — Minneapolis, MN 55455 F 35 Isaiah Ihnen 2.2 3.6 0.5 14.7 .277 first double-double vs SLU MINNESOTA BASKETBALL RUTGERS AT A GLANCE A RARE LOSS MEDIA CREDENTIALS • Rutgers is 10-6 overall and 6-6 in Big Ten play. The • Minnesota led Purdue 35-30 at the half, but Requests for working media credentials (newspaper, radio, TV, photo) Scarlet Knights have won their last three games after dropped the road contest. It was the first time this for Minnesota home games must be made on-line at gophersports. dropping five straight. Their three recent wins have season that Minnesota did not win when it was lead- com/media. All credentials for the 2020-21 season will be issued on a come against Indiana, Michigan State and Northwest- ing at the half. Minnesota is now 10-1 when leading single-game format. No season-long passes will be granted. Requests ern. Rutgers, which is 7-3 at home, is paced by Ron at the half and 1-4 when trailing. Minnesota’s lone for credentials should be made as early as possible due to limited pres Harper Jr. (17.3 ppg), Jacob Young (14.6 ppg) and Mon- win when trailing at the half came against Boston seating at Williams Arena. Please contact the Athletic Communications tez Mathis (10.8 ppg) who all average in double figures. College. The Gophers trailed the Eagles 31-30 after office for more information regarding credentials. Credentials can be Young leads the team in assists as he averages 3.8 per 20 minutes of play, but won 85-80 in overtime. picked up starting two and a half hours before game time at the Williams game, while Myles Johnson pulls down an average of 8.8 Arena media will call gate at the Oak Street Entrance. rebounds per game. DOUBLE DIGITS • Brandon Johnson scored 11 points at Purdue, hit- PHOTO AND FILM CREDENTIALS TEST DRIVE ting the double-figure mark in pointed for the fifth Only approved photographers will be permitted into Tier 3 photography • Marcus Carr scored only six points at Purdue, which time this season. Minnesota is 2-3 when the Western was his lowest output of the season. It also snapped an Michigan transfer scores 10 or more points. areas, which start in Row 5 and are in sections 112-114 and 118-120. 18-game streak for Carr scoring in double figures. His Please adhere to the physical distancing in those sections. last sub-10 point-performance was at Indiana on March TWO IN THE TOP 10 4, 2020. Carr scored less than 10 points in seven differ- • Marcus Carr and Liam Robbins were both recently MEDIA PASS GATE ent games last season and never in consecutive games.