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It's unprofessional and rude. You're right, this won't have some drastic effect on recruiting, but it doesn't shine a good light on Coach Jones at all. It's the little things that matter sometimes, what's frustrating, is all it would take is a 10 second phone call to explain the situation. No problem. If it wasn't Jones, how he doesn't have the SID or someone with him handling this is completely inexcusable.

Really bad look, no reason to not have someone fill in, or at the very least, give KFAN a heads up that it will no longer work. I mean come on, what are they doing?

Definitely cheering for Western, (1) Lock for the tournament and great PWR (2) Although big difference in PWR, I don't think Western is that much more talented. In fact, I like how we match up better with Western. Other games today: Lowell & Clarkson. Besides if they play UND, I want to Top 8 who are locks for the tournament to keep winning. It does nobody any good to have UNH running around with a chance to take the auto bid.

I can see why the Iowa coach was pissed at the end of the UND game. I get playing hard until the end of the game, but full court pressing down by 20 with a couple minutes left and the other teams backups in? Really annoying.

Updated currently per ESPN. SDSU - 156 RPI Jacksonville St. (15 seed) - 152 RPI Mt. St. Mary's, SDSU, Jax St have all won their tournaments, so have no more games to play. Would it be possible for UND to climb 20 spots with 3 wins (except for East Washington all teams significantly below them in the RPI)? As it sits right now, the real disappointing thing was, I think UND was around 155 before the loss to Sac State, which had them tumble like 20 / 25 spots in the RPI.

Was @ Maine, not at home.

There are three conference championship games tonight that have a huge impact on potential NCAA seeding for the Big Sky winner. Right now, without any upsets in the conference tournaments, UND (if they win) would be in the play-in game. Tonight Northeast: Mt. St. Mary's (164) vs St. Francis (256) on ESPN 2 @ 6pm Summit: SDSU (168) vs Omaha (127) on ESPN 2 @ 8pm Horizon: Milwaukee (255) vs N. Kentucky (91) on ESPN @ 6pm Teams in bold either have worse RPI's than UND or would if UND won three in a row to win the conference championship. Let's hope a couple can pull off the upsets tonight. Edit: Added current RPI's according to ESPN

Dennis Wideman? That was really bad, got 20 games.

Caggiula didn't level, he got leveled.

Like you both said, wide open, anybody can win type of tournament. I still think that all things considered, if every team was playing their B+ basketball, UND would be the second best team in the conference. I do think Eastern is more talented. Like every other team, UND needs to get hot, no reason they can't win it all this year.

Over St. Cloud, yes. I'm not sure I'd feel confident betting that they will sweep this weekend, I'd feel very comfortable betting they'd win 2 out of 3 though.

They have a good d-core, that's for sure, but offensively, they don't have much. Calling them good (they are under .500) would be a stretch.

I probably shouldn't answer this, because I really have no idea. I would think though that to get in, they need to (1) Win series this weekend (2) Win 1 game in Minneapolis. Both should be very attainable.

Season ultimately comes down to this best out of 3 series for both teams. There's no doubt in my mind that UND is the better team. The last series at the Ralph, as bad as UND played, SCSU didn't look any better. I don't think SCSU is really good, at all. Not saying they can't win (as they proved earlier this year), but this is about as good of a matchup as you could hope for. If they can't beat SCSU at home best 2 out of 3, they don't deserve to make the playoffs anyway. As disappointing as Boeser / Poganski have been this year, they are a better team if they play. Hopefully both (& Shaw) are ready to go this weekend. Just get it done this weekend.

Not a surprise, given we are in the conference playoffs for most leagues, but this is make or break weekend for many teams: SCSU (18) @ UND (11T) Vermont (15) @ BC (18) Providence (11T) @ Notre Dame (13) Winner stays alive, loser most likely can call it a season. Not conference playoffs, but Ohio State (17) @ Wisconsin (13) Potential for a lot of movement this weekend in the PWR rankings.

My take: Win tonight Win first round series (regardless is it's 2-0 or 2-1) Go 1-1 in Minneapolis Lose tonight Need to win NCHC tournament (maybe leaving the door open if they sweep SCSU on the road and beat UMD the first night) Simply put, win tonight and I think they will end up making the tournament. Lose and I don't see it.

Pathetic, can't make a 3 or free throw.

This is a nightmare.

Anyone know why?

Agreed, my rankings were based on them coming in their freshman year. Bowen and Yon have definitely been a pleasant surprise, especially given how both didn't have great years in juniors prior to coming in.

I know this is completely subjective, but if you were to rank the Freshman forwards from this class and next, after Jost, I'd put Mismash, Kawaguchi and Adams before the 2nd forward of this years class (Hoff). all light years ahead of Bowen and Yon.

Next years Freshman class should be good at the forward spot, Mismash (potential late 1st Rounder), Kawaguchi (2nd BCHL) and Adams (6th USHL) are a nice trio of forwards.

Expenses, Expenses, Expenses should be how Kennedy makes cuts for everything not in the 5 "core sports". It doesn't matter how the other sports are performing, because nobody really cares. If S&D won the WAC, or finished 8th, it's all the same in the minds of the vast majority. That goes for every other sport not in the core 5. The cheaper sports stay, the more expensive sports get cut.

This. Get ready for an opinion that will get ripped, but I guarantee the vast majority of people that are UND fans would agree with. There are only 3 sports that truly matter to UND fans, those are Men's Hockey, Men's Basketball and Football, I don't buy it, but you can add Women's Basketball and Volleyball to the list if you want to get 5. Outside of that, it doesn't matter how any of the other teams do, because people don't care. Those 5 are the core, fill in whatever you need to get to 16 based on what's needed by the Summit / what's the cheapest. If Tennis is cheaper than Swimming & Diving, cut Swimming & Diving and keep Tennis.

This is what I'd think too, they have two losses the rest of the way (both can't be in NCHC first round of Playoffs). This would take one sweep over the next 3 weekends, which as inconsistent as this team has played, isn't exactly impossible. What gives me hope is it's not like the NCHC is murders row this year and the teams UND will be playing the next two weeks are average college hockey teams. So is UND right now, but, they have more talent than both Miami and SCSU.