Gophers come back to defeat Penn State on the road
Although it looked for a while like a possible third loss in four games, it turns out Tubby Smith’s Gophers had a nice cat bed all made up for the Penn State Nittany Lions to fall asleep in during the second half. The Gophers, now 12-3 overall and 2-1 in Big 10 action, won a comeback victory, 76-73, after trailing by 16 points with only 13 minutes left in the game.
Blake Hoffarber led the Gophers with 19 points on six of 11 shooting, including five of eight from three-point land, and the Gophers as a team held Penn State to 15 points the rest of the way while scoring 34 themselves to produce the comeback win.
After the game, senior center Spencer Tollackson spoke to the press and said, “It wasn’t good enough to come out of here with a two-point loss or a one-point loss or an overtime loss. We wanted to win the game. Like Coach says all the time, ‘There’s no such thing as moral victories.’”
The victory handed coach Tubby Smith his 399th career win; he’ll attempt to reach his 400th win against Indiana on Thursday, at Williams Arena.
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