Gophers women's basketball team looks to extend roll vs. Rutgers

GOPHERS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL GAME DAY

Vs. Rutgers, 7 p.m. at Williams Arena

Radio: 96.7-FM; Streamed on BTN Plus

Gophers update: Minnesota has won three of its past five games, including a 74-68 victory over Northwestern on Friday. The Gophers won at Rutgers, 62-49, on Jan. 6 in a game coach Lindsay Whalen missed after an emergency appendectomy. F Kadi Sissoko scored all 11 of her points in the fourth quarter in that victory, the Gophers' first in the Big Ten this season. F Laura Bagwell-Katalinich had a 19-point, 12-rebound double-double vs. Northwestern. G Gadiva Hubbard had 19 in that game as well. Minnesota is second in the Big Ten and seventh in the country in three-point shooting (37.9%). The team's 223 made threes is second best in the Big Ten and 12^th in the country.

Rutgers update: The Scarlet Knights (8-17, 1-12) are coming off their first Big Ten victory of the season, 71-62 , against Penn State on Sunday. Rutgers was down by eight early in the fourth but responded with its best final quarter of the season, scoring 28 points, including a 14-0 stretch late in the final quarter. In the game before that, Rutgers led at 23^rd-ranked Ohio State at halftime before losing 61-57. So the team is playing better of late. Still, Rutgers struggles to score. It is last in the Big Ten in scoring (56.0), 12^th in shooting percentage (39.7) and last in both three-point shooting percentage (28.9) and threes made per game (4.1). F Osh Brown, a graduate transfer from Ball State, has nine double-doubles this season. She is the only Rutgers player averaging in double figures (10.4). G Lasha Petree (8.0) and G Shug Dickson (7.4) are the team's second- and third-highest scorers.