Wins at Purdue and at home against Ohio State have convinced the press enough for the Minnesota Golden Gophers to crack the AP men’s basketball poll, coming in at #24 for the week of January 9th, 2017.
This comes as little surprise to most tracking the poll, as the Gophers were the first team left out last week and on the back of two quality Big Ten wins were all but guaranteed a spot with several teams ahead of them losing this past week.
Coming off a season plagued with poor play and off-court incidents, the ranking is another step in one of the most drastic program about face in recent memory.