It perhaps wasn’t the way the Gophers women’s basketball team drew it up, but it was an absolutely perfect finish.
No. 24 Minnesota rallied from a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat Northwestern 87-82 on Sunday in Evanston, Ill.
It looked all but over for the Gophers (17-2, 5-2 Big Ten). After a strong first quarter, the Wildcats (7-10, 0-6) outplayed them over the next two frames, taking an 11-point lead into the fourth quarter and scoring the first five points of the final frame to go up by 16, their largest lead of the afternoon…