What’s next for the Gophers women’s basketball team?

The Gophers women’s basketball team is one home victory from reaching the semifinals of the WBIT.

They will play host to Gonzaga at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The WBIT semifinals are Monday and the final is Tuesday at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on the campus of Butler University.The 97-year-old arena was featured in the movie “Hoosiers.”

Here are five takeaways for the Gophers after their 78-71 victory over Missouri State in a second-round game on Sunday.

The Gophers received a No. 2 seed in the second-ever WBIT. Because of a scheduling conflict with the state high school boys basketball tournament, Minnesota had to play its first two games on the road.

The Gophers beat Toledo 65-53 on Thursday, handing the Rockets their second home loss of the season.

Minnesota dealt Missouri State just its second home loss in two seasons. This appears to be a team getting more resilient by the game.

Gophers coach Dawn Plitzuweit liked how her team played defense at Toledo, holding the Rockets to 36.5% shooting. And despite a few more maddening misses around the rim, Plitzuweit was pleased with the offensive efficiency against Missouri State. To move forward, the Gophers will have to put both together.

Sophomore Grace Grocholski is becoming the Gophers' go-to player. In the two tournament victories, Grocholski has played 78 of a possible 80 minutes. She’s scored 33 points, hitting 12 of 24 shots and six of 14 three-pointers. She has scored in double figures in seven straight games, averaging 19.1 points, shooting 49.5% overall and making 20 of 45 threes (44.4%).

Graduate backup center Annika Stewart — a Wayzata graduate who transferred to Minnesota for her final college season after four years at Nebraska — is the key to the Gophers’ bench production. When she’s on her game, the offense has better spacing, too. She scored 18 points while hitting four of five threes against Missouri State. The Gophers are 10-4 when she scores 10 or more points. The Gophers got 26 points off the bench Sunday, their most in 19 games.

Of the eight teams remaining in the WBIT, James Madison is the only No. 1 seed, and the Gophers are the only No. 2 seed.

Gonzaga, the Gophers’ next opponent, has a roster that includes eight players from outside the United States. The Zags are 24-10 overall and 11-3 on the road.

The Gophers and Gonzaga have three opponents in common this year in Montana, Missouri State and Oregon State. Minnesota went 3-0 in those games, including a 73-38 win over an Oregon State team that won the West Coast Conference tournament to qualify for the NCAA tournament.

Gonzaga beat Montana and lost to Missouri State. Because they’re in the same conference, the Zags played Oregon State three times, including in the conference tournament. They went 1-2 in those three games.