With the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament two days away, Gophers basketball coach Dawn Plitzuweit, for the first time, talked about Mara Braun’s season being over. Braun stepped wrong during a morning shootaround prior to Minnesota’s game against Eastern Illinois on Nov.

Minnesota guard Mara Braun will not return to play this season after breaking her right foot for the second straight season.

Gov. Mike Braun signed an executive order Monday to expand paid leave benefits for state-employed Hoosiers.

The order provides six weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave for women who give birth and up to eight weeks for those who deliver via C-section.