Watertown-Mayer’s Janning Is AP Player Of The Year
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Watertown-Mayer senior guard Marissa Janning has been named the Minnesota Associated Press Player of the Year for high school girls basketball. The award was announced on Tuesday....
View ArticlePrep Blog: Local Prep Stars Nominated For National Showcase
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The best high school basketball players, boys and girls, will take over Chicago, Ill., in early April for the McDonald’s All-American Game. When the final rosters are announced for...
View ArticleASPIRE Athlete Of The Week For Jan. 24, 2014: Carlie Wagner
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20140124233529300AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Carlie Wagner is a hooper and a hunter. She is also the biggest name in the senior class of girls basketball...
View ArticleICYMI: High School Sports Rally For Jan. 24, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Although Minnesotans are enduring bitter blast after bitter blast, the Rally makes everything a bit warmer. On Friday, we had cameras at all the big winter sports match-ups,...
View ArticleNew Richland-H-E-G Beats Kenyon-Wanamingo In 2A
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carlie Wagner didn’t want to take her jersey off for the last time, but she conceded. She tried to hold back the tears, but they flowed. New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Gevena’s...
View ArticleStollings Era Begins For Gophers Women
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Gophers women’s basketball team will start the season at home against Southeastern Louisiana. This won’t be just another opener. Friday night will be the first game for new head...
View ArticleGophers Embrace National Ranking, Prep For Maryland Sunday
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The University of Minnesota women’s basketball team has taken a strange journey to the top 25 in the national polls. There is irony in the next game on the Gophers’ schedule, and...
View ArticleNo. 12 Maryland Beats No. 23 Minnesota 77-73
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brene Moseley came off the bench to score 15 points, including the go-ahead free throws with 2.8 seconds left to give 12th-ranked Maryland a 77-73 win over No. 23 Minnesota on...
View ArticleNo. 23 Minnesota Sneaks Past Indiana 65-61
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carile Wagner’s jumper with 37 seconds left lifted No. 23 Minnesota over Indiana 65-61 on Sunday. Wagner’s 3 with 1:18 left in the game gave Minnesota a 60-59 lead. Indiana’s Jenn...
View ArticleNo. 25 Rutgers Women Beat No. 21 Minnesota, 66-61
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Tyler Scaife scored a season-high 28 points, on 12-of-21 shooting, to lead No. 25 Rutgers women past No. 21 Minnesota 66-61 on Saturday night. After Betnijah Laney missed the...
View ArticleGophers Women Hold Off Penn State, 75-64
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Amanda Zahui B. collected her second triple-double of the season Wednesday night to lead the University of Minnesota women’s basketball team to a 75-64 win over Penn State at...
View ArticleGophers Women Fall At Northwestern, 70-49
MINNNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Despite having two players score in double figures, the University of Minnesota women’s basketball team lost 70-49 at Northwestern Sunday to fall to 6-4 in Big Ten play. The...
View ArticleGopher Women Use Big Second Half To Beat Spartans, 86-79
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The University of Minnesota women’s basketball team was in desperate need of a win Sunday, having lost four of its past five games before hosting Michigan State. The Gophers...
View ArticleWagner Named Big Ten Freshman Of The Week
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Big Ten Conference announced Monday that Minnesota guard Carlie Wagner was named the league’s Freshman of the Week. Wagner, of New Richland, Minn., was one of the Gophers top...
View ArticleKelley Leads Gophers Women Past Wisconsin, 93-82
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Shae Kelley scored a career-high 33 points Wednesday night and added 14 rebounds to lead the Gophers women’s basketball team to a 93-82 win over Wisconsin at Williams Arena. Kelley...
View ArticleGopher Women Shoot Past Penn State, 85-77
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Shae Kelley and Shayne Mullaney combined for 41 points as the University of Minnesota women’s basketball team won at Penn State 85-77 on Sunday. The Gophers (20-6, 9-5) got 23...
View ArticleGophers’ Shae Kelley Named Big Ten Player Of The Week
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – After a big week leading the Gophers women’s basketball team to a pair of wins, University of Minnesota senior Shae Kelley was named the Big Ten’s Player of the Week. Kelley...
View ArticlePODCAST PAGE-2-18-15 The WCCO Morning News With Dave Lee
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View ArticleZahui B. Has Record Night As Minnesota Beats No. 13, Iowa 93-80
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Amanda Zahui B. scored a career-high 39 points and grabbed a conference-record 29 rebounds as Minnesota upset No. 13 Iowa 93-80 on Tuesday night. “I just decided that I had to step...
View ArticleGophers’ Zahui Named Big Ten Player Of The Year
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Big Ten Conference announced Monday that Minnesota sophomore center Amanda Zahui B. was named the league’s Player of the Year by the media. Zahui B. is fourth in the league in...
View ArticleGopher Women Suffer First Home Loss, 72-53 To New Mexico
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The University of Minnesota women’s basketball team suffered its first home loss of the season on Wednesday, 72-53 to New Mexico. Senior Rachel Banham scored 22 points in the loss....
View ArticleGopher Women Top Penn State, 98-85
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The University of Minnesota women’s basketball team got big games from Carlie Wagner and Jessie Edwards to beat Penn State, 98-85, on Sunday at Williams Arena. Wagner scored a...
View ArticleBanham Scores 29, Gophers Fall At Michigan
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Senior Rachel Banham scored 29 points, but it wasn’t enough as the University of Minnesota lost at Michigan 92-76 on Sunday in Big Ten play. Banham added nine rebounds and eight...
View ArticleBanham Sets Big Ten Record, Gophers Fall At Michigan State
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Aerial Powers scored a career-high 40 points and No. 25 Michigan State withstood Rachel Banham’s 52 points that made her the Big Ten’s all-time leading scorer to take a...
View ArticleBanham, Minnesota Inch Past Ohio State, 90-88
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rachel Banham scored 35 points in her final game at Williams Arena and Carlie Wagner scored with 0.8 seconds left in overtime to lift Minnesota to a 90-88 victory over No. 5 Ohio...
View ArticleGopher Women Top Seton Hall, 90-57
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The University of Minnesota women’s basketball team improved to 4-0 on the season with a 90-57 win over Seton Hall on Sunday at Williams Arena. The Gophers out-rebounded the...
View ArticleGopher Women Fall To Maryland, 83-72
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With an undermanned opponent hanging around deep into the game, Maryland’s only two seniors took charge. Brionna Jones scored 27 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, Shatori...
View ArticleWagner’s 38 Not Enough, Gophers Fall To Michigan 84-69
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Junior guard Carlie Wagner scored a career-high 38 points Sunday, but it wasn’t enough as the Gophers women’s basketball team lost at Michigan 84-69. The Gophers fell to 10-8...
View ArticleWagner Leads Gopher Women To Big Ten Tourney Win
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Carlie Wagner scored 26 points and pulled down 10 rebounds and No. 10 seed Minnesota defeated No. 7 seed Penn State 70-64 on Thursday night at the Big Ten Tournament. Wagner, who...
View ArticleGophers’ Carlie Wagner Named Preseason All-Big Ten
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — University of Minnesota senior Carlie Wagner has been named to the Preseason All-Big Ten Team by both coaches and media covering the conference. Wagner, a native of New Richland, has...
View ArticleGopher Women Shoot Past No. 10 Maryland, 93-74
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Maryland had worked its way into the nation’s No. 10 ranking by beating teams by an average of 20.3 points heading into Sunday. Minnesota is showing with its wins over ranked teams...
View ArticleGophers’ Wagner, Pitts Earn Big Ten Weekly Awards
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Two University of Minnesota women’s basketball players earned Big Ten weekly awards after the Gophers won consecutive games over top-25 opponents. Senior guard Carlie Wagner was...
View ArticleGopher Women Beat Illinois 84-75 To Close Out Regular Season
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The University of Minnesota women’s basketball team closed out the regular season with an 84-75 win over Illinois on Sunday. The Gophers finished 22-7 overall, 11-5 in the Big Ten...
View ArticleGopher Women Fall In NCAAs At Oregon, 101-73
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sabrina Ionescu had 29 points, nine assists and seven rebounds and the second-seeded Oregon Ducks advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 101-73 victory over No. 10 Minnesota in the second...
View ArticleLynx Draft Former Gophers Star Carlie Wagner
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Former University of Minnesota star guard Carlie Wagner is staying home. With the final pick in Thursday night’s WNBA Draft, the Minnesota Lynx drafted Wagner. She just finished...
View ArticleCarlie Wagner Goes From Small-Town Star To Lynx Training Camp
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — There are always interesting stories that come out of local professional training camps. For the Minnesota Lynx, it is Carlie Wagner. We first became aware of her when she was...
View ArticleLynx Cut Former Gophers Star Carlie Wagner
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Minnesota Lynx are getting game ready for their season opener on Sunday. It’s a 4 p.m. start at Target Center against the team they beat to win last year’s WNBA title. But one...
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