Men's basketball: Gophers’ free-throw struggles prove costly against San Francisco
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San Francisco controlled the glass and tempo Saturday evening at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., as the Dons led wire to wire to beat the Gophers men’s basketball team 77-65. A combination of frontcourt foul trouble, sluggish first-half scoring and inability to capitalize on free throws contributed to Minnesota’s second nonconference loss. Gophers coach Niko Medved said Jaylen Crocker-Johnson’s foul trouble hurt the Gophers (4-2), but touched on a familiar issue that’s haunted Minnesota. “The two stats I look at right now are they had 11 made threes and we were 15 of 30 from the free-throw line,”...