Jerry

20 turnovers after 3 periods. Strand 0-7 from the field. Going to be a long year.

Nice to see we are expanding our recruiting area. SDSU and USD do well recruiting Iowa, Nebraska, and southern Minnesota. Some years the state of North Dakota just doesn't have any Division 1 recruits.

The game is on channel 790 on Direct TV.

Summit league played their softball tournament over 4 days while the Big Sky planned theirs over 3 days. I am not sure what the Big Sky conference was thinking about when they know weather, lack of lights, and a 6 team double elimination tournament is hard to pull off over 3 days. Tough way for UND and the other 2 teams to have their seasons end that way.

Jaycee Bradley of USD is transferring after her junior season. Rumor has it she might go to Nebraska. She was their 3rd leading scorer last year and hit 41% of her threes.

Matt Mooney posted this on his tweeter account after changing coaches at USD: I have been give my release from South Dakota. I am not for sure leaving USD, but I will be exploring my options as a grad transfer.

Nice win to take 2 of 3 over Portland State. We have gotten better over the past 2 seasons. We have 7 one run losses this year. With a little luck we would have a winning record.

Good point

Not a good sign when a junior who was starting and your second best player leaves.

We had 14 players on the roster this year and lose one senior in Franklin leaving us with 13 players. I am assuming Dooley is on a volleyball scholarship so that means we have 12 on scholarship now. We are bringing in 4 freshmen - Rachel Garvey, Clarie Orth, Tia Nicholson, and Jaclyn Jarnot - which brings us to 16 players with 15 available scholarships. It would appear to me some one is transferring out.

Looks like Jaclyn at 6-1 is a better prospect than the 5-7 Alaina(her shooting stats were not good at Monmouth). Alaina appears to be more of a pass first shoot second guard. My only concern is did we have to offer both sisters to get one(similar to the Dailey sisters). Was UND the only Division 1 offer to Jaclyn since most of the other top seniors declare after their junior high school season?

Shanks didn't play in either game. He has played in about 11 games this year for a total of 29 minutes. He would have played in 29 minutes at UND this year in one or two games with our lack of big men.

How does Keplin look on the defensive end of the court?

Nice final game for Dale Jones. After all of his injuries it was nice to see him healthy for most of the year.

Pluto is pretty bad. It never cuts out if you use the Watch Big Sky internet link.

Nice comeback. Stewart was great today. Some games he will hardly take the ball to the rim and settle for three point attempts. Love watching him taking it to the rack!!

The freshmen and sophomores at USD, SDSU, and even NDSU are much better than ours. We will be respectable next year in the Summit with Klabo and Freije but then it looks bleak.

Reinke never came back in the game after hitting her 2 three pointers. Franklin played the remainder of the second half and scored one point and got beat on a drive to the basket. Frustrating.

So down by 9 with over a minute to go and we don't press. We have been behind in the majority of our games and apparently we don't practice a full court trapping defense.

So Brewster takes out Reinke after she hits 2 three pointers and puts in Franklin. I don't understand that.

13 turnovers. With only 1 senior on this team we are stuck watching the same train wreck next year. We better hope the recruits coming in next year are better than what is on the floor now.

Not having Fallyn Freije playing due to an ankle sprain really hurts the offense. Sawatzke, Dailey, and Reinke took the ball to the basket in the first half and got some baskets but stopped penetrating in the second half. We tried to feed Klabo in the post in the second half and turned the ball over too much. We just physically do not have the athletes that USD and SDSU have. They can take the ball to the hole with either hand plus shoot from the outside. Our players are a bit too one dimensional. On the good side we did play decent defense for 3 quarters. The third quarter was a disaster, leaving open three point shooters. For some reason Brewster does not have us playing a zone full court trap or double teaming when we trail late in games. We just play a vanilla man to man full court which doesn't created any turnovers. Listening to the Northern Colorado announcer was painful on Pluto, he was complaining so much about the officials.

Just heard the announcer when the game was over that Jones was hurt.

Is Dale hurt or sick? I am trying to watch both the mens and womens games so I didn't hear why he didn't play.

The Pluto announcers said we expect her back for the tournament. We really need her for the Northern Colorado game.