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Sports teams associated with the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota go by the Golden Gophers moniker. The Gophers are members of the Big Ten Conference and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in the NCAA. Minnesota is one of only 13 universities in the country offering NCAA Division I-A football, Division I men's and women's basketball, and Division I hockey.Most of the facilities that the teams use for training and competitive play are located on the East Bank of the Minneapolis campus. There are arenas for male and female basketball (Williams Arena) as well as hockey (Mariucci Arena and Ridder Arena). The school has held recent national championships in men's hockey (2002 and 2003), women's hockey (2004 and 2005), wrestling (2001, 2002), and men's golf (2002). The women's basketball team made it to the Final Four in 2004. Also in 2004, the Volleyball team made it to the NCAA championship game against Stanford. The University of Minnesota has a long tradition in football winning the National Championship 6 times (1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1960). Minnesota's Bruce Smith won the Heisman Trophy in 1941 as college football's best player. There used to be a football stadium on campus, but in 1982 the football team started playing at the Metrodome near downtown Minneapolis when that dome was constructed. Memorial Stadium was torn down in 1992 and the area has since been developed with other University buildings, though it is still known as "stadium village". On May 24, 2006 Governor Tim Pawlenty signed a bill that will provide partial state funding to construct a new on-campus football stadium near Williams Arena and Mariucci Arena. The stadium will be called TCF Bank Stadium and is projected to open on September 12, 2009.
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