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If we play like we did in the first period and sustain that for an entire game, I like our chances. Minnesota is a very good team. They are fast and skilled. We matched that and maybe surpassed it in the first period but looked sluggish the second and third. Too many turnovers and odd man rushes given up after the first and just lacked the intensity and team play we saw in the first. Our goalie looks legit and we do have some high level talent. Maybe I’m overly optimistic but I expect we will be a much better team this year and hope by the second half we will find our consistency and our chemistry. There were glimpses in the first of how good we can be.

Jackrabbits are very good. Manhandling our defensive line and showing why we had concerns with linebackers and secondary going into this year. We give too much room, don’t come up hard to meet the play, and have some tackling deficits. That results in giving them 5 to 10 yards almost every play. They are really good, but scares me for the next several weeks with how weak we have been defensively. We also have to get our receivers PAST the line of scrimmage for a pass. They are absolutely daring us to beat them more than 5 yards downfield and we won’t do it.

Just once I would love to see us throw past the first down marker on 3rd down rather than always 3 to 5 yards short of it.

Still befuddles me to see CJ and Bo taking kick returns in a 28 point game with 6 minutes left…

Eliodor absolutely pancakes his defender after driving him back 15 yards to give Skokna room to run. He deserved the td pass after that block…

Three god awful calls in a row all against us in the last 30 seconds. Terrible charge call on Gordon after 5 for Omaha has knocked down players continually without a single charge all game long.

Found a little life here. Have to get Davis out of there through. Too small and can’t shoot outside to save her soul. They will just give her the shot…. would really like these officials to make one three second call and one travel call sometime today. That has been horrible. 00 for Omaha walks and Carrie’s it every time she touches the ball…

Kacie is heating up but the turnovers are killing us. Just dumb turnovers that are unforced. We have to have someone hit the wide open 3 on omahas big girl. She barely leaves the lane and we won’t take the shot.

If we get over our turnover fest, we will be fine. Haven’t shot well at all, have had way too many turnovers and are still right in this.

One other game that really should be in the top 5 was the win over Emporia in the Elite 8 in Pine Bluff Arkansas - which is kind of a misnomer saying anything is elite in Pine Bluff. Despite being number 1 in the polls literally all year long, the announcers were giving us no chance whatsoever. The Kurscaite twins were twin towers destined for the WNBA and would eat us alive. Jenny Crouse ended that story and Jamie Pudenz and Katie Richards were incredible. Emporia brought a nice crowd to the game as did UND and the place was electric, unlike the other games where each team brought 20 people to the game. The game was the semifinal but truly was the championship. I remember doing the Conga with Gene Roebuck in the hotel bar attached to the arena afterwards. Truly one of the best UND women’s games I have ever seen.

Sather and crew made major strides forward at the end of the year. Hope we can build on that and keep our young players for next year. Would love to see Norman back. He developed into a serious 3 point threat at the end of the year.

Trey has done a nice job today. Made a couple of perfect back door feeds which are there all day with their overplay on the outside. We seriously need to learn to talk on picks though. Can’t figure out switching or not switching and someone is left wide open. Half the reason that everyone shoots 50 to 60 percent against us…

I can’t remember if he was last year but he was not out with the rest of the seniors this year. Just Brady, Nero, and Norman…

Still listed as a junior but was one recognized as a senior and Seuker was not…

Congratulations and thank you to the seniors and Mal. They have been a big part of turning around a program where we were praying for a win - any win - a couple of years ago to a culture where we expect to win again every night. It’s great to see the program as a contender again. Now let’s finish this out and get into the post season.

Is there a benefit to dumping the puck out of the defensive zone to let DU bring it back in while down 4 goals that I am not understanding? Would it be possible for us at least try and connect a pass to one of our own players for a change???

Can certainly see how that one was called, but not after they didn’t call Caponi for his tear after someone who was nowhere close to the puck and hit high and leveled him blindside. It’s no wonder that every coach in the NCHC hates the officiating that occurs with Denver - especially when they appear to teach diving and holding their head after any contact.

Got a beautiful feed right in front of the net but couldn’t connect to put it away. It was one of the first nice looks we have had though…

Followed by a big play by Brady…. And one!!!

Huge and one for Trey!!! Big play at a critical time for a freshman…

Every possession they drive in to an automatic foul called. And they have been almost automatic at the line…. Don’t seem to have a charge in their list of calls tonight…

Trent has had an awesome game, but fouling the shooter on the 3 with 4 seconds left will not be a highlight for him today…

Trent has been great today. If we could develop him a shooting touch at all, he would be incredible…

Omaha taking hard show at top of the key on picks taking away the 3 and leaving T wide open in the lane as a result. U fortunately, we haven’t made them pay by getting it to him yet so they continue to overplay the 3 - hence our 25 percent shooting from the arc…

Exactly. Our goalies haven’t always been great either, but most of the goals have been point blank shots left wide open by terrible defense. Or utterly stupid turnovers right in front of the next that the goalie has no chance on.