MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS #14/15 MINNESOTA (8-2) at ARKANSAS (6-2) 2017-18 Record: 8-2 GAME Saturday, December 9 – 5:45 p.m. CT • Fayetteville, Ark. (Bud Walton Arena) Big Ten Record: 1-1 11 AP Head Coach: 14 Richard Pitino (Providence, ‘05) 2017-18 SCHEDULE GAME INFORMATION Career Record: 101-77 (6th season) Record at Minnesota: 83-63 (5th season) Date Opponent Rank TV Time/Result Date: Saturday, December 9, 2017 USA Nov. 2 CONCORDIA-ST. PAUL (Exh.) 15/- BTN Plus W, 106-58 Time: 5:45 p.m. CT Today 15 STATISTICAL LEADERS Nov. 5 GREEN BAY (Exh.) 15/- BTN Plus W, 115-86 Location: Fayetteville, Ark. Points: Jordan Murphy (19.9) Arena: Bud Walton Arena (19,200) Nov. 10 USC UPSTATE 15/- BTN Plus W, 92-77 Rebounds: Jordan Murphy (12.8) TV/Live Video: SEC Network – Matt Schick (Play-by-Play); Pat Nov. 13 at Providence1 14/RV FS1 W, 86-74 Assists: Nate Mason (4.4) Bradley (Analyst) Blocks: Reggie Lynch (4.5) Nov. 15 NIAGARA 14/- BTN Plus W, 107-81 Radio: Learfield/KFAN 100.3 FM – Steals: Nate Mason (1.1) Nov. 19 WESTERN CAROLINA 14/- FS1 W, 92-64 Mike Grimm (Play-by-Play); Spencer Tollackson (Analyst) Nov. 21 ALABAMA A&M 14/- BTN W, 100-57 Sirius 137/XM 190 Satellite Radio: ARKANSAS Nov. 24 vs. UMass2 14/- Stadium W, 69-51 RAZORBACKS Nov. 25 vs. Alabama2 14/25 Stadium W, 89-84 Nov. 29 MIAMI3 12/10 ESPN2 L, 81-86 SERIES INFORMATION 2017-18 Record: 6-2 Series: Sixth Meeting (2-3) Dec. 3 RUTGERS 12/- BTN W, 89-67 SEC Record: 0-0 Series (Away): Second Meeting (0-1) AP Dec. 5 at Nebraska 14/- BTN L, 68-78 Head Coach: Mike Anderson (Tulsa, '82) Current Streak: W-1 - Career Record: 334-174 (16th season) Dec. 9 at Arkansas 14/- SECN 5:45 p.m. Richard Pitino vs. Arkansas: Third Meeting (1-1) Record at Arkansas: 134-76 (7th season) Dec. 11 DRAKE BTN 7 p.m. Minnesota vs. SEC: 19-14* USA Dec. 21 ORAL ROBERTS BTN Plus 7 p.m. Richard Pitino vs. SEC: 4-1 Today STATISTICAL LEADERS Dec. 23 FLORIDA ATLANTIC BTN 2:30 p.m. * - excludes vacated games - Points: Jaylen Barford (19.6) Dec. 30 HARVARD BTN 1 p.m. Rebounds: Daniel Gafford (5.8) Jan. 3 ILLINOIS BTN 8 p.m. Assists: Daryl Macon/Anton Beard (3.3) STARTING FIVE Blocks: Adrio Bailey (1.6) Jan. 6 INDIANA ESPN2 4:15 p.m. • The Minnesota men's basketball returns to the non-conference Steals: Daryl Macon (1.3) Jan. 10 at Northwestern BTN 8 p.m. schedule after a brief foray into Big Ten play, traveling to Arkan- Jan. 13 PURDUE ESPN2 11 a.m. sas on Saturday. The game is the second of a home-and-home series that began last year in Minneapolis, an 85-71 Jan. 15 at Penn State BTN 6 p.m. Gopher win. It is Minnesota's first road game at an SEC school since Dec. 7, 2001 (Georgia 77, Minnesota 55). Jan. 18 at Maryland FS1 7:30 p.m. • Jordan Murphy is leading the team averaging 19.9 points (B1G: 2nd) and 12.8 rebounds (B1G: 1st/NCAA: 2nd) Jan. 20 vs. Ohio State4 BTN 11 a.m. per game through the first 10 games. Murphy has posted 10 double-doubles (highest in the country) thus far this Jan. 23 NORTHWESTERN BTN 8 p.m. season, and the three-time Big Ten Player of the Week became the first Gopher to win the award in back-to-back weeks. Murphy is also just the second Gopher to win it three times in the same season. He is additionally leads the Jan. 30 at Iowa BTN 8 p.m. country in offensive rebounds (5.6) per game, as of Dec. 7. Feb. 3 at Michigan FOX 1:30 p.m. • Reggie Lynch leads the country with 4.5 blocks per game, and this week, Lynch moved past Jeff Hagen (2002-05) Feb. 6 NEBRASKA BTN 8 p.m. and Michael Bauer (2000-04) to take sixth on the Gophers’ all-time blocked shots list with 159. He needs just six Feb. 9 at Indiana FS1 6:30 p.m. more to tie Joel Przybilla for the most by any Gopher in two or fewer seasons of play in the Maroon and Gold (165). Feb. 13 MICHIGAN STATE ESPN/2 8 p.m. • On Sunday, the Gophers snapped a four-game losing streak in B1G openers, winning its first since a 76-63 victory Feb. 19 at Wisconsin FS1 8 p.m. against Michigan State on Dec. 31, 2012. Last season, the Gophers dropped a 75-74 overtime decision versus the Feb. 21 IOWA BTN 8 p.m. Spartans, and had previously lost conference-opening tilts at Ohio State, at Purdue during 2014-15, and at home Feb. 25 at Purdue FS1 3 p.m. versus Michigan. Since 1980-81, the Gophers are 12-20 in Big Ten openers (excluding vacated seasons). Feb. 28- Big Ten Tournament • Head coach Richard Pitino won his 100th career game on Nov. 25 against Alabama. Pitino is one of five active Division I head coaches who have reached the 100 career victory mark in their sixth season or sooner. Mar 4 (Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.) MINNESOTA TEAM INFORMATION (STARTERS BASED ON PREVIOUS GAME) 1 - Gavitt Tipoff Games 2 - Barclays Center Classic (Brooklyn, N.Y.) 3 - ACC/Big Ten Challenge 4 - BTN Super Saturday (New York, N.Y.) PROBABLE STARTERS PPG RPG APG MPG FG% OTHER G 1 Dupree McBrayer 8.8 1.9 3.4 24.7 .400 0.8 spg all times central • schedule subject to change G 2 Nate Mason 15.7 4.0 4.4 29.7 .435 1.1 spg F 3 Jordan Murphy 19.9 12.8 1.3 30.9 .556 10 double-doubles (leads NCAA) G 5 Amir Coffey 13.8 4.5 2.9 30.8 .447 0.8 spg MINNESOTA ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS C 22 Reggie Lynch 11.6 8.6 1.5 27.3 .608 4.5 bpg - leads NCAA 275 Bierman Field Athletic Building, Minneapolis, MN 55447 RESERVES PPG RPG APG MPG FG% OTHER G 4 Jamir Harris 3.6 0.7 0.9 9.1 .458 0.1 bpg/spg DAN REISIG GopherMBB G 10 Brady Rudrud 0.7 0.3 — 1.0 1.000 2 pts vs. Alabama A&M Associate Director, Athletic Communications G 11 Isaiah Washington 8.1 2.0 2.6 19.5 .365 0.4 spg Work: 612-625-4389 • Cell: 612-419-6142 GopherMensBasketball G 13 Hunt Conroy — — — 1.0 — — Email: [email protected] F 20 Davonte Fitzgerald 2.9 2.2 0.4 10.2 .414 0.5 spg GOPHERSPORTS.com GopherMBB C 21 Bakary Konaté 1.1 2.2 0.1 8.1 .455 0.2 spg/bpg F 41 Gaston Diedhiou 3.0 0.5 0.5 5.0 .750 2.0 bpg F 42 Michael Hurt 2.4 1.2 0.7 12.5 .643 0.5 spg SCOUTING THE RAZORBACKS NEW SCHOOL RECORD list for the nation’s top point guard, while junior Jordan Murphy • Arkansas is 6-2 on the season including a perfect 4-0 mark • As a team, Minnesota dished out a school-record 32 assists earned a spot on the Karl Malone Award watch list for the best at home. The Razorbacks' two losses came vs. North Carolina against Niagara, while only committing four turnovers. Division I power forward. (87-68) in the PK80 Invitational in Portland, and at Houston • The total breaks the record of 30 assists, which Minnesota had • Both awards are given out by the Basketball Hall of Fame in (91-65) a week ago. versus Youngstown State on Dec. 2, 1991. Springfield, Mass. • Jaylen Barford leads the five Razorbacks averaging double • Minnesota is second in the Big Ten and ranks seventh in the • Mason also earned a spot on the 2018 Citizen Naismith Trophy figures with 19.6 points per game, a figure that ranks third in country in assist/turnover ratio at 1.7. Watch List and the Wooden Award Watch List, one of 50 players the SEC. vying for the top individual honor in the country. • Arkansas leads the SEC and ranks 23rd in the nation with a “O” MY turnover margin of +4.9. • The first five Gophers games featured offensive fireworks in the SIGNING DAY UPDATE second half by the Maroon and Gold. • Three standout student-athletes from the Twin Cities metro GOPHERS VS. THE SEC • The Gophers had their most productive offensive start to the joined the Gophers earlier in early November. • Minnesota has amassed a record of 19-14 against the current season in school history, with the 95.4 points per game average • Guard Gabe Kalscheur (Edina, Minn./DeLaSalle HS), forward membership of the Southeastern Conference. the highest in the first five games of any season. Jarvis Omersa (Orono, Minn./Orono HS), and center Daniel Oturu • That total includes the following individual opponent records: • In the Nov. 21 win over Alabama A&M, Minnesota shot 61.4 (Woodbury, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) signed their NLIs to join Alabama (1-2), Arkansas (2-3), Florida (1-1), Georgia (4-1), percent from the field (43-70), their best since Jan. 22, 2011 the team next season. Kentucky (1-3), Ole Miss (2-0), Missouri (2-0), South Carolina (63.4 percent at Michigan). • Kalscheur, a 6-4, 180-pound combo guard, averaged 18.1 (0-2), Tennessee (0-1), Texas A&M (1-1), Vanderbilt (5-0).