Happy Pres' Day. Just got done with a big weekend.

Starting with the home team: our Gophs got a very important win over Illinois. Playing without Whalen, everyone else had to show up. Surprisingly, it wasn't McCarville that took the scoring load, but rather Bolden, Roysland, and Schonrock.

"This is huge for us because we needed to know we could win without her," said Bolden, who scored a career-high 18 points. "It just gives us confidence going into the last four games of the season and the Big Ten and NCAA, that we know we can play without her and we know people are going to step up and have big games."