Big Ten tourney challenge gives Pitino, Gophers last chance

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All those late-game lapses over the past month pushed Minnesota way off the NCAA Tournament bubble, forcing the Gophers to win five games in five days this week just to get in. Then there's the status of seventh-year coach Richard Pitino, whose record in regular-season conference play is 48-82. Pitino has taken the scrutiny in stride, exhibiting no tension when the subject of his job security has been raised by reporters, but the two-year contract extension he received after his first NCAA Tournament victory last season hardly guarantees his return for 2020-21.

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