For the second time in the teams’ last two meetings in the Barn, the Jackrabbits knocked off the Minnesota women’s basketball team, becoming the only non-conference team to do so since before 1996.

Riding an eight-game winning streak with one nonconference game remaining before Christmas break, the Minnesota women’s basketball team appears to be on a roll.

The Gophers hosted the Eagles of Boston College on Thursday night in another heated contest of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and with Minnesota down by 15 at one point, it looked as if the ACC opponent would provide a challenge.

Last season’s Big Ten/ACC challenge didn’t go the way of the Big Ten conference.

Coach Pam Borton has always liked to call her team a defensive team.

But after scoring 156 points in the last three halves it’s played, the Minnesota women’s basketball team may be adding an offensive edge to the usual defensive presence.

The Minnesota women’s basketball team had no trouble finishing up another successful tournament this weekend, coming up with a pair of big second halves to take home the championship at the Coors Classic in Colorado.

For Minnesota senior guard Emily Fox, a Thanksgiving tournament in Colorado sounds like a great plan.

Chalk up what coach Pam Borton called “hopefully the first of many championships this year.”

The Minnesota women’s basketball team will have its stamina tested this weekend as it plays games on back-to-back days while hosting the Subway Classic at Williams Arena.

If Wednesday night’s game had been a competition between former Gophers’ guard Kelly Roysland and current senior guard Emily Fox for the hearts of the Minnesota women’s basketball fans, it would have ended with mixed results.