As Gophers fans boo refs, coach Niko Medved takes high road

Many Gophers fans had no problem sharing their opinion of the officiating late in Friday’s 70-69 overtime loss to Southern California at Williams Arena. Boos echoed inside The Barn many times down the stretch of the Big Ten game, but especially when Langston Reynolds was whistled for a foul call on Chad Baker-Mazara with 10 seconds left in overtime. Reynolds couldn’t believe it; Baker-Mazara went to the line and made the game-tying and game-winning free throws. Head coach Niko Medved, however, didn’t take that call as a scapegoat and primarily looked inward at his own squad’s defense on that final play. “I got to see it (again),” he said postgame. “I...