Minnesota defeated Oral Roberts 77-63 yesterday at Williams Arena. With the win, the Gophers move to 10-3 on the season. Jordan Murphy led all Minnesota scorers with 17 points.
To get this out of the way early, Oral Roberts is a bad basketball team that will win few games this year and yesterday’s game was a four point margin at halftime. Dupree McBrayer did not play yesterday because of a leg injury that is treated as day to day. As a result, the Gophers shuffled their starting lineup to insert Michael Hurt at the 3 and moved Amir Coffey to the 2.