Brad Rempel—Gophersports.com
The Minnesota Golden Gophers softball team will host the Michigan Wolverines this weekend at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium in the second to last week of the Big Ten regular season. The conference regular season title will come down to one of these two teams, and this weekend’s four-game series will go a long way to determining who will take home the crown.
The Gophers are coming into this weekend after an unscheduled weekend off, one that may keep Minnesota from winning their first Big Ten regular season title since 2017, and allow the Wolverines to make it three titles in a row, not counting the non played 2020 conference season. Minnesota was set to play a four game series at Wisconsin last weekend, but the series was cancelled due to COVID issues with the Badgers. Thus, heading into the final two weekends of the season the Gophers have played two fewer games than the Wolverines, and trail Michigan by two games in the loss column. Michigan is in first place with a 29-5 record while Minnesota sits in second with a 25-7 tally.