We now know who the Gopher Basketball team will play when they will travel to Brooklyn for the 2017 Barclays Center Classic over Thanksgiving weekend. Minnesota will have a Friday game against the UMass Minutemen, and then will follow it up with a Saturday tilt against the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Minnesota will not face the fourth team, the BYU Cougars, on the weekend.
UMass went 15-18 a season ago finishing just 4-14 in the Atlantic Ten Conference. The Minutemen were a young team and will return their top seven players from the 2016-17 season for next year.