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Minnesota basketball sinks wacky deflection shot to aid in beating Chicago State
By Ethan Stone
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers pulled off a ho-hum win over lowly Chicago State Thursday afternoon, winning 58-55 to secure their 6th win on the season.
Those 3 points are important. In the late stages of the first half, Minnesota sank perhaps the wildest 3-pointer of the season, one that deflected off a Chicago State player before banking in. At the end of the day it will go down as a made 3-point shot by Jamison Battle.
There’s no preparing for this shot. It was counted as a 2-pointer at first and later changed to 3 points for the Gophers.
The kind of thing that only happens to Chicago State. Minnesota won by 3 pic.twitter.com/WXrjAgYl1h
— NCAA Buzzer Beaters & Game Winners (@NCAABuzzerBters) December 22, 2022
That, sadly, is one of the most impressive things that has happened to Minnesota basketball all season. The Gophers are 6-6 and had lost 5 of their last 6 heading into Thursday’s win.
No time like the present to flip the script, though. Minnesota gets into the bulk of its B1G slate in January.
Ethan Stone was an editor for his student newspaper at the University of Tennessee and is now a News Manager for Saturday Tradition.