It turns out Minnesota can win at Yankee Stadium in the postseason after all. 

The Twins still can’t, but the Minnesota Golden Gophers defeated Syracuse 28-20 in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl on Thursday in a record-setting day for running back Mohamed Ibrahim. 

Ibrahim set school records for touchdowns in a season (20), rushing attempts in a season (320) and career rushing yards (4,668). 

“I just took it week by week,” Ibrahim said after the win. “I’m just doing my job, executing the game plan. One game leads up to another and it just adds up.” 

Ibrahim ran for 71 yards on 16 carries, including a 4-yard score to break a scoreless tie in the second quarter. 

Minnesota QB Tanner Morgan came off the bench to throw a pair of touchdown passes to Daniel Jackson from 20 and 25 yards after Athan Kaliakmanis left in the second quarter with an injury. Morgan, who missed several games with a concussion, had not thrown a TD pass since Sept. 24. 

Ibrahim played in one game in 2021, running for 163 yards and two touchdowns against Ohio State before rupturing his Achilles. 

An unlikely star of the day was Coleman Bryson who intercepted a Garrett Shrader pass in the third quarter and returned it 70 yards for a touchdown as Syracuse looked like it was driving for a go-ahead score. 

For Syracuse (7-6), it was the sixth loss in seven games after a 6-0 start, but it was the school’s first winning season since 2018. 

“We’re not average,” head coach Dino Babers said. “We’re above that.” 

A busy Shrader was 32-for-51 for 330 yards and an interception, also running for an 8-yard touchdown on fourth-and-goal with 2:30 remaining. 

Syracuse was without star running back Sean Tucker, who declared for the NFL draft after back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. Tucker is the third-leading rusher in school history. 

There were 31,131 in attendance at Yankee Stadium, with the overwhelming majority pulling for Syracuse.