The University of Minnesota basketball team had won a squeaker on the road, relying on a last-second shot to beat Big Ten Conference Rival Wisconsin, 67-65, in Madison. But after the game the celebrating apparently got out of hand. Three players were arrested on charges of raping an 18-year-old woman who had been enticed back to their hotel from a party. A shaken University President Kenneth Keller ordered the Golden Gophers to forfeit their next game and said he was considering canceling the team's entire remaining schedule. The forfeiture, the first of its kind in Big Ten history, prompted Basketball Coach...
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