#9 St. John's (10-1) orchestrated a gift comeback to sneak past visiting #12 UW-Platteville (8-3) 32-31 yesterday in Collegeville to advance in the NCAA DIII playoffs. The Minnesota Gophers (8-3) topped visiting Northwestern (5-6) 29-12 yesterday at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

With the win the Johnnies advance to the second of the DIII playoffs to face UW-Oshkosh (10-1) next Saturday at Noon in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

The Golden Gophers will also be in America's Dairyland next Saturday, facing the Wisconsin Badgers (9-2) at 2:30 in Madison for both team's final regular season game.

Go Johnnies! Go Gophers!

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