At times Sunday the Gophers women’s basketball team was as cold as the freezing weather outside Williams Arena. Layup attempts were caroming off the rim or backboard, midrange shots weren’t falling, minutes of game clock were passing without points.

In an off-the-wall style only college football can present, Flavor Flav was revealed from under the Tubby mascot costume and helped dump the condiment on the Gophers head coach.

After the final whistle, players gave Fleck an early, traditional Gatorade bath to give his overshirt a blue tint

Moments before being doused with a five-gallon tub of mayonnaise, Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck shouted “make it a double!” Then the 44-year-old coach strapped on a Duke’s Mayo Bowl necktie and — with his players watching and chanting “Mayo!

The third-ranked Golden Gophers got multi-point outings from four players during a 5-2 men's hockey win over visiting Mercyhurst from 3M Arena at Mariucci Saturday evening.

Matthew Wood scored 9 seconds into the game and the Gophers men’s hockey team closed out the nonconference portion of its regular season schedule with a 5-2 victory over Mercyhurst on Saturday at 3M Arena at Mariucci.

Brody Lamb’s power-play goal less than two minutes into the second opened a scoring fest that saw Minnesota and Mercyhurst combine for five total tallies in the stanza. Matthew