Gophers fans were getting restless in the crowd Friday, waiting to see when the scoring drought would end in the second half against Wake Forest, but this was an all-too-familiar sight. No matter what kinds of schemes Gophers coach Ben Johnson seems to come up with,

The Gophers men’s basketball team has endured a plodding offense so far this season, but it stopped dead in its tracks at the end of Friday’s game against Wake Forest. Minnesota managed only one bucket in the final five minutes of a 57-51 loss to the Demon Deacons in the ESPN Events Invitational third-place game in Orlando,

They played without Mike Mitchell Jr., who's still recovering from a high ankle sprain, for a sixth straight game.The Gophers have the fourth-slowest pace in all of Division I basketball, and they played their style of basketball once again on Friday.