The Gophers Beat: The University of Minnesota Cheating Scandal
About this episode
The episode discusses the University of Minnesota's basketball team's cheating scandal that overshadowed their NCAA Final Four appearance.
In 1997, a young out of town reporter moves from Los Angeles to Minnesota to cover the University of Minnesota Gophers. That year, the Gophers basketball team had made it to the NCAA Final Four in a stunning show of force. Two years later, the reporter broke a story that would throw the state into an uproad, and wipe that Final Four appearance from the history books. For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts
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