In the final quarter, Minnesota shot 4-15 (26.7%) from the field as a team, while Michigan State shot 9-12 (75%). A 29-4 difference in points off the bench and a poor fourth quarter were ultimately the difference in a game that the Gophers were competitive in for 33 minutes.

With just under eight minutes to go in a defensive-minded game at Michigan State on Saturday afternoon, Grace Grochoski drove for a score, putting the Gophers women’s basketball team up four points, and she was fouled.

The Gophers finished 13th in the Big Ten, earning one of the league’s 15 conference tournament spots in Indianapolis. They will likely start with a 2:30 p.m. tip against the No. 12 seed, probably Washington (17-12, 8-9), which whizzed past them last Wednesday at Williams Arena, 72-62.

The No. 23 Spartans used a 13-0 run to key a dominant fourth quarter in a 73-58 win against Minnesota on Saturday in the regular-season finale at the Breslin Center.

The Gophers are 0-5 vs. ranked teams this season. The program has lost 29 straight games to ranked teams. The last time Minnesota won such a game was against Arizona State in the

And Ayrault and the rest of the Michigan State women's basketball team fed off that energy down the stretch. That shot started a big fourth quarter run that helped propel the No. 22-ranked Spartans to a 73-58 victory over Minnesota on Saturday afternoon in their final regular season home game.