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The Gophers, for better or for worse, will be playing in the NIT semifinals in New York for the sixth time.
1980: def. Illinois, lost to Virginia
1993: def. Providence, def. Georgetown
1998: def. Fresno State, def. Penn State*
2003: lost to Georgetown, lost to Texas Tech
2012: def. Washington, lost to Stanford
*-title later vacated due to NCAA infractions
