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A cold-shooting stretch doomed the Gophers men’s basketball team in the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Crown in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Minnesota made 2 of 19 shots across the halves as Baylor ran away with a 67-48 win in the second annual tournament at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The Gophers’ season ended at 15-18, while Baylor (17-16) earned at least $50,000 in name, image and likeness (NIL) money with the win and will play Oklahoma in a semifinal Saturday.
Baylor’s pair of NBA prospects, Cameron Carr and Tounde Yessoufou, had a quiet first half with a combined 10 points.
But they turned it on in the second half. Yessoufou ended with a game-high 19 points, while Carr had 15.
On top of the cold shooting stretch over those 17 minutes, Minnesota’s eight turnovers turned into 15 points for Baylor.
The Gophers endured more than eight minutes without a basket in the first half but didn’t trail by more than nine points as Baylor also was cold, managing only one field goal over a six-minute stretch.
Minnesota cut Baylor’s lead to 31-26 at the half. With 13 points, Cade Tyson helped keep the U in it, but no other teammate had more than four points before halftime.
Baylor went on a 15-1 run to start the second half and put the game away.
Tyson, in his final game at the U, finished with 19 points. The senior finished the year with 628 points, which finished third in program history in points in a season. Mychal Thompson (647) is first, followed by Kris Humphries (629) and Tyson now ahead of Quincy Lewis (625).
However, Tyson was 1 for 6 from 3-point range and Gophers were was 3 for 23 (13%).
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Minnesota made 2 of 19 shots across the halves as Baylor ran away with a 67-48 win in the second annual tournament at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The Gophers’ season ended at 15-18, while Baylor (17-16) earned at least $50,000 in name, image and likeness (NIL) money with the win and will play Oklahoma in a semifinal Saturday.
Baylor’s pair of NBA prospects, Cameron Carr and Tounde Yessoufou, had a quiet first half with a combined 10 points.
But they turned it on in the second half. Yessoufou ended with a game-high 19 points, while Carr had 15.
On top of the cold shooting stretch over those 17 minutes, Minnesota’s eight turnovers turned into 15 points for Baylor.
The Gophers endured more than eight minutes without a basket in the first half but didn’t trail by more than nine points as Baylor also was cold, managing only one field goal over a six-minute stretch.
Minnesota cut Baylor’s lead to 31-26 at the half. With 13 points, Cade Tyson helped keep the U in it, but no other teammate had more than four points before halftime.
Baylor went on a 15-1 run to start the second half and put the game away.
Tyson, in his final game at the U, finished with 19 points. The senior finished the year with 628 points, which finished third in program history in points in a season. Mychal Thompson (647) is first, followed by Kris Humphries (629) and Tyson now ahead of Quincy Lewis (625).
However, Tyson was 1 for 6 from 3-point range and Gophers were was 3 for 23 (13%).
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