The Gophers men’s basketball team flirted with an upset of No. 7 Nebraska on Saturday, but were run over in the second half of a 76-57 loss at Williams Arena.
The Gopher (10-10, 3-6 Big Ten) were up 36-30 at the half and were 20 minutes from its first win over a top 10 ranked team since taking down No. 7 Michigan in 2021. Nebraska snuffed out that dream, out-scroring 46-21 in the second half.
The Cornhuskers (20-0, 9-0) remained undefeated and sent Minnesota to its fifth straight defeat.
The U welcomed back more than 30 former players for Alumni Day at The Barn, but it was Nebraska fans chanting “Go big red!” in the final minute.
Minnesota couldn’t make it a trifecta of upsets over Top 25 teams this season. They previously upset No. 22 Indiana 73-64 on Dec. 3 and No. 19 Iowa 70-67 on Jan. 6.
Minnesota’s halftime lead came on the back of nine made 3-pointers to the Cornhuskers’ two. Jaylen Crocker-Johnson and Bobby Durkin each had a dozen points for Minnesota. Crocker-Johnson didn’t score in these second half. Durkin finished with 16.
Pryce Sandfort scored 20 of his game-high 22 points in the second half.
Guard Isaac Asuma dealt white foul trouble all game. He picked up two fouls in the opening three minutes and sat on the bench for the next eight minutes. He picked up his third early in second half and sat again.
Cade Tyson appeared to tweak his foot midway through the second half. The U’s leading scorer went to the locker room, but sat on the end of the bench to finish the game.
The Cornhuskers were without their third-leading scorer Braden Frager, who injured his ankle in the 76-66 win over Washington on Wednesday.
Minnesota remained without four scholarship players, including two starters, guard Chansey Willis Jr., and center Robert Vaihola.
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The St. Paul Winter Carnival Grande Day parade has been canceled.
The parade was to have happened at 2 p.m. Saturday. Organizers with the St. Paul Winter Carnival didn;t give a reaon for the cancelation but federal immigration officials earlier in the day fatally shot a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, prompting protests in that city.
“After careful consideration, today’s Saint Paul Winter Carnival Grande Day parade will be cancelled,” said organizers in an announcement. “We know this may be disappointing and appreciate your understanding as we prioritize the safety of our participants, volunteers, and attendees.
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“Thank you to everyone who makes the Winter Carnival such a special tradition. We look forward to coming together in community at the Torchlight Parade on Saturday, Jan 31st.”
Cold weather prompted organizers to cancel kick-off events for the carnival earlier this week.
There has been another shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis.
The city of Minneapolis wrote on X that there were reports Saturday morning of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in the area of 26th Street West and Nicollet Avenue.
“We are working to confirm additional details. We ask the public to remain calm and avoid the immediate area,” the city said.
The shooting follows the killing of Renee Good by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
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LONDON (AP) — Love is, famously, a many-splendored thing. It can encompass longing, loneliness, pain, jealousy, grief — and, sometimes, joy.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, the many facets of passion are going on display in “Love Letters,” a public exhibition at Britain’s National Archives that covers five centuries.
Curator Victoria Iglikowski-Broad said that the documents recount “legendary romances from British history” involving royalty, politicians, celebrities and spies, “alongside voices of everyday people.”
“We’re trying to open up the potential of what a love letter can be,” she told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “Expressions of love can be found in all sorts of places, and surprising places.”
They also take many forms. The exhibition ranges from early 20th-century classified ads seeking same-sex romance to sweethearts’ letters to soldiers at war and a medieval song about heartbreak.
There’s also “one of our most iconic documents,” Iglikowski-Broad said, referring to a poignant letter to Queen Elizabeth I from her suitor Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Written days before Dudley’s death in 1588, it conveys the intimacy between the “Virgin Queen,” who never married, and the man who called himself “your poor old servant.”
The missive, with “his last lettar” written on the outside — spelling at the time was idiosyncratic — was found at the queen’s bedside when she died almost 15 years later.
The will of British author Jane Austen on display during a preview of the Love Letter exhibition at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A 16th century letter written by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, to Queen Elizabeth I, on view during a preview of the Love Letters exhibition at the National Archives in London on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, shows two dots written above the word poor, a reference to the monarch’s nickname for Dudley: Eyes. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A general view of part of the Love Letters exhibition at the National Archives, with pictures of the writer Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A letter written by Lord Alfred Douglas to Britain’s Queen Victoria, petitioning for the release of Oscar Wilde from prison on display during a press preview of an exhibition entitled Love Letters at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, Wilde was imprisoned in 1895 for gross indecency. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
The Abdication document of Britain’s King Edward VIII on display during a preview of an exhibition entitled Love Letters at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, Edward abdicated on Dec. 10, 1936. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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The will of British author Jane Austen on display during a preview of the Love Letter exhibition at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Love, in the exhibition, doesn’t just mean romance. Family bonds are in evidence in Jane Austen’s handwritten will from 1817 leaving almost everything to her beloved sister Cassandra, and in a 1956 letter in which the father of London gangster twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray, implores a court to go easy on the brothers, because “all their concern in life is to do good to everybody.”
The letter writers range from paupers to princes. In an 1851 petition, an unemployed 71-year-old weaver named Daniel Rush begs authorities not to separate him and his wife by sending them to workhouses. It’s displayed alongside the Instrument of Abdication through which King Edward VIII gave up the throne in 1936 so that he could marry “the woman I love,” twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.
“There is a lot of connection in these two items even though on the surface they seem very different,” Iglikowski-Broad said. “In common they have just this human feeling of love … that the sacrifice is actually worth it for love.”
Other documents tell of love lost. There is a never-before-displayed 1944 letter from young British intelligence officer John Cairncross to his former girlfriend Gloria Barraclough, reflecting on what might have been. “Would we have broken off, I wondered, if we had known what was coming?”
Some readers may think Barraclough had a lucky escape — years later, Cairncross was unmasked as a Soviet spy.
Royal romance and tragedy
Some love stories tell of danger, heartbreak and tragedy. In one, Lord Alfred Douglas asks — in vain — for Queen Victoria to pardon his lover Oscar Wilde. The writer had been sentenced to two years in prison for gross indecency after Douglas’ outraged father revealed their relationship.
Nearby is a letter written in 1541 by Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII, to her secret beau Thomas Culpeper.
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Archives historian Neil Johnston noted that the tone of the extraordinary letter is “restrained panic. She is warning him to be very, very careful.”
Catherine signed off the letter “yours as long as life endures.” That turned out not to be long. The king discovered the affair and both Catherine and Culpeper were executed for treason.
A letter by Queen Henrietta Maria to King Charles I – “my dear heart” – is a rarity, since Britain’s royal family guards its private papers closely.
It was found among possessions left behind by the fleeing king in 1645 after a battlefield defeat for royalist troops in England’s civil war. Charles lost the war and was tried, convicted and executed in 1649. The letter ended up in Parliament’s archives, which last year was transferred to the National Archives.
“We don’t have very many intimate letters between monarchs like this,” Johnston said. “This is a little gem within the disaster of the English Civil War.”
“Love Letters” opens Saturday and runs to April 12. Admission is free.
