TIPSHEET

Compiled by Ken Chia

KNOW THIS

This viewer is here to say there was no way the Gophers men's basketball team was going to lose Saturday 5-on-3 against Alabama. Credit to the Crimson Tide for making it close, but the Gophers were content to shoot open jumpers the last 10 minutes.

WATCH THIS

After playing four games on the road last week — one in Tennessee, three in California — the Winnipeg Jets return home Monday to face the Wild (7 p.m., FSN) … before going back on the road again. NHL scheduling!

RANDOM FANDOM

"Yes, this has been a discouraging year. But the true measure of Fleck will be the next couple years. Man, I hope he works out. I long to see Gophers football success again."

"mnflguy47" — a Gophers football fan for 65 years — on startribune.com.

TWEETED

"Road to State. Enjoy the process and finish the drill Bulls!"

— Teddy Bridgewater, who spent Friday night with his high school team, Miami Northwestern, helping out QB Tutu Atwell, the son of the former Gophers receiver of the same name. The younger Atwell is headed for Louisville, where Bridgewater played.

@teddyb_h2o