Minnesota Golden Gophers

• National Championships (3):

1956, 1960, 1964

• NCAA Tournament Appearances (32):

1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016, 2018

• Big Ten Regular Season Championships (24):

1933, 1935, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2016, 2018

• Big Ten Conference Tournament Championships (9):

1982, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2018

• Big Ten Regular Season Championships (8):

1906, 1907, 1911, 1917, 1919, 1937, 1972, 1982

• NCAA Tournament Appearances (10):

1972, 1982, 1989, 1990, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2019

• Sweet 16 Appearances (3):

1982, 1989, 1990

• Elite Eight Appearances (1):

1990

• NIT Appearances (12):

1973, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2014

• NIT Championships (2):

1993, 2014

Note: A 1997 Big Ten regular season championship, NCAA Tournament appearances in 1994, 1995, 1997 (Final Four), and 1999, as well as NIT appearances in 1996 and 1998 (Championship) were vacated due to NCAA sanctions.^[5][6]

• NCAA Tournament Appearances (10):

1994, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2018

• Sweet 16 Appearances (3):

2003, 2004, 2005

• Elite Eight Appearances (1):

2004

• Final Four Appearances (1):

2004

• Big Ten Team Championships (4):

1909, 1914, 1964, 1969

• Big Ten Team Championships (2):

2007, 2008

• National Championships (7):

1904, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1960

• Big Ten Conference Championships (18):

1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1915, 1927, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1960, 1967

• Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest Championships (2):

1892, 1893

• Bowl Games (20):

Citrus Bowl – 2015

Hall of Fame Classic –1977

Holiday Bowl – 2016

Independence Bowl – 1985

Insight Bowl – 2006, 2008, 2009

Liberty Bowl – 1986

MicronPC.com Bowl – 2000

Music City Bowl – 2002, 2004, 2005

Outback Bowl – 2020

Quick Lane Bowl – 2015, 2018

Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas – 2012

Rose Bowl – 1961, 1962

Sun Bowl – 1999, 2003

Texas Bowl – 2013

• Bowl game victories: 1962 Rose Bowl, 1985 Independence Bowl, 2002 Music City Bowl, 2003 Sun Bowl, 2004 Music City Bowl, 2015 Quick Lane Bowl, 2016 Holiday Bowl, 2018 Quick Lane Bowl, 2020 Outback Bowl

• The Little Brown Jug – Accidentally left in Minnesota back in 1903 by Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost, it is painted with the victories of the two teams.
• Floyd of Rosedale – Since 1935 the Gophers and the Iowa Hawkeyes have fought to win this bronze pig. The Gophers won the 2010 and 2011 match up for the pig, upsetting the favored Hawkeyes at TCF Bank Stadium.
• Paul Bunyan's Axe – Minnesota and the Wisconsin Badgers have passed this trophy back and forth since 1948, although it records the two teams' encounters since 1890.
• Governor's Victory Bell – The bell was created to commemorate the 1993 entrance of Penn State's Nittany Lions into the Big Ten.
• $5-Bits-O-Broken-Chair Trophy – The newest of the five trophies. From a 2014 exchange on Twitter, Goldy Gopher created a trophy with a parody account of the then coach of Nebraska Bo Pelini.

• National Championships (2 pre-NCAA, 5 NCAA):

1929,^[7] 1940,^[8] 1974, 1976, 1979, 2002, 2003

• WCHA Regular Season Championships (14):

1953, 1954, 1970, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013

• Big Ten Regular Season Championships (4):

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

• Big Ten Tournament Championships (2):

2015, 2021

• WCHA Tournament Championships (14):

1961, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2007

• NCAA Frozen Four Appearances (22):

1953, 1954, 1961, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2023

• National Championships (7):

2000 (AWCHA), 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016

• WCHA Regular Season Championships (8):

2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014

• WCHA Tournament Championships (7):

2002, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

• NCAA Frozen Four Appearances (15):

2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

• Big Ten Championships (1):

2007

• NCAA Champions in V2

2007

• Big Ten Championships (4):

1995, 1997, 2008, 2016

• Big Ten Regular Season Championships (4):

1986, 1988, 1991, 2017

• Big Ten Tournament Championships (5):

1999, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018

• Women's College World Series appearances (3):

1976, 1978, 2019^[9]

Dance Team

• National Championships (13):

2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

• Big Ten Team Championships (15):

1910, 1911, 1912, 1918, 1932, 1933, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2015

• Big Ten Championships (3):

2002, 2015, 2018

• NCAA Tournament Appearances (21):

1989, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

• Sweet 16 Appearances (16):

1989, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016

• Final Four Appearances (5):

2003, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2016

• National Championships (3):

2001, 2002, 2007

• Big Ten Team Championships (12):

1910, 1912, 1913, 1941, 1957, 1959, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007

Minnesota rugby plays Division I college rugby in the Big Ten Universities conference against traditional Big Ten rivals such as Wisconsin and Iowa.^[10] Minnesota qualified for the national playoffs in 2008, and finished the 2008 season ranked 7th in the nation.^[11] Some of Minnesota's games have been well attended by fans, with the team drawing as many as 6,000 fans to watch the team play at TCF Bank Stadium.^[12]

The University Mascot is derived from a nickname for the state of Minnesota, "The Gopher State." The original design was based on the thirteen-lined ground squirrel. The state nickname derives from a political cartoon by R. O. Sweeny, published as a broadside in 1858. The cartoon depicted state legislators as gophers dragging the state in the wrong direction.^[13] The nickname was associated with the university as early as the publication of the first yearbook in 1888, which was titled "The Gopher".^[14] Other early yearbooks included depictions of gophers as well, and the University of Minnesota football coach Clarence Spears officially named the football team the Gophers in 1926.^[15] After the radio announcer Halsey Hall began referring to the team as the Golden Gophers due to the color of their uniforms, the team was renamed under coach Bernie Bierman.^[16]

School songs for the university include Minnesota Rouser, Minnesota March, Go Gopher Victory, Our Minnesota, Minnesota Fight, Hail! Minnesota, and the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

• Tom Lehman^[127]
• James McLean^[128]

• Newt Loken^[129]
• Marie Roethlisberger^{[citation needed]}
• John Roethlisberger^[130]

• Winny Brodt^[163]
• Natalie Darwitz^[164]
• Courtney Kennedy^[165]
• Gisele Marvin^[166]
• Noora Raty^[167]
• Jenny Schmidgall-Potter^[168]
• Krissy Wendell^[169]

• Yoav Meiri (born 1975), Israeli Olympic swimmer
• Justin Mortimer
• Bar Soloveychik (born 2000), Israeli swimmer

• Gabriele Grunewald

• Hassan Mead
• Buddy Edelen

• Ron Backes 1986 (Shot Put, 68–11¼)
• Martin Eriksson 1993 (Pole Vault, 18–0½)
• Vesa Rantanen 1998 (Pole Vault, 18–2½)
• Kaitlyn Long 2018 (Hammer, 76–05.50)^[170]

• Fortune Gordien 1946 (Discus, 153–10¾)
• Fortune Gordien 1947 (Discus, 173–3)
• Fortune Gordien 1948 (Discus, 164–0¼)
• Garry Bjorklund 1971 (Six Mile, 27:43.1)
• Obsa Ali 2017 (3000m steeplechase, 8:32.23)^[171]

• Shelton Benjamin — professional wrestler, 36–6 record in two seasons with the Gophers.
• Verne Gagne – NCAA champion, owner of the defunct American Wrestling Association and its former heavyweight champion (10 times), member of Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, and several others.
• Cole Konrad – 2 time undefeated, NCAA individual champion at 285 lbs; current mixed martial artist and the former Bellator Heavyweight Champion^[172]
• Nik Lentz, wrestler; current mixed martial artist for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (featherweight)^[173]
• Brock Lesnar – Former UFC Heavyweight Champion and current WWE champion.
• Dustin Schlatter – 79–2 record in two seasons with the Gophers
• Jacob Volkmann – 3-time all-American, former UFC fighter.
• Gable Steveson - Olympic gold medalist

Note: From 1974 to 2002, there were separate athletic departments for men and women's sports.

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