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I agree with your assessment in loss of top talent and SDSU is still top team in the league. I think SDSU with senior graduation and loss through the portal are closer to rest of the conference this year than they have been in many years. They do have transfer from Evansville plus strong recruiting class but they will miss Page Myer at point guard will not replace her easily this year they have candidates but it’s going to take time. NDSU has Koenen returning and they number of other young players with her but they will need replace Draper to help in rebounding and free up Koenen inside. They have freshman guard highly recruited that was their early last year and then they have Schiller from us and there top Frost freshman guard that had good first season it will be interesting how playing time works out. Yes we do have two returning starters but if we’re going to move to next level it will depend if our new players can some them be top level talent in the conference. I am interested in if we see style of play we have this year and if our defense improves. I think we will see better shooting from the team Hutters teams always seemed to hit outside three before in his offenses when we played against Mayville. I am optimistic we are going see big improvement in our team but it’s going to take time to meld this together find what works best for us.

It’s been quiet on women’s basketball front on what’s happening for preparation this coming year. Do we have full team here this summer practicing and doing conditioning for this coming year. The Summit conference has such turnover in players and coaches this off season. We had coaching changes ORU, Omaha, and UND plus all these teams have had big player movement through the portal plus South Dakota, Denver, and KC have had significant to large transfer of players. NDSU has lost very few players to portal as well as ST. THomas but both have added players through the portal. But it will be interesting to see how these teams progress this year I think NDSU may have some difficulties team chemistry on who will be team leaders and if there is enough time and basketball to be shared with this group with no senior leadership. Finally SDSU did loose couple players through the portal but appear to have found help in portal but they will be missing loss senior graduation and finding new point guard. My guess one teams with big turnover may be sleeper by end of year to compete with latter three. My hope it’s us and we can finally be considered one of the top in the conference. I think that St. Thomas and SDSU are teams everyone will be chasing by end of the year with NDSU that could be there also but I have feeling expectations for this team in Fargo is going to fall short when all things are done.

I like it that Hutter is going after in state talent willing to compete against other Dakota schools and even bigger schools we haven’t done much of that recently. Hutter looks like he wants compete and win even if we don’t win this battle it show UND is back willing to compete and is becoming aggressive to win. I already seen it with football program and now with women’s basketball and now hopefully we can get support through NIL collective to help our programs compete..

I can’t imagine people will cheer for Schiller from Grand Forks if they are UND fans but I expect she will be treated with sportsmanship when she is here. Schiller ended her relationship here at UND and for many here in Grand Forks going forth she knowingly chose to move onto NDSU. She knowingly did this to her former team and community of Grand Forks because she thought it would improve her college career and received monetary compensation but it was sticking her middle finger up to the people that supporter her and gave her opportunity to show her talent to market her skills else where. If she and her family needed change then she have moved on to another school that would have given her fresh start but not insult to her local community by letting there major rival put this in the face of community. It will be interesting how this plays out but I wouldn’t have done this there is enough pressure to succeed in college sports without putting added pressure from local community and now expectations of fans from Fargo her new school.

I like that Hutter has aggressively put together roster that appears to have talent and is young yet in that they have time to develop that talent here at North Dakota. He also has added couple of veteran players that should help leadership and knowing what it takes in playing full college season.. He also at same time got his coaching staff filled so they are already to start on developing this team. Two years ago it took Mallory until late summer to put her coaching staff together and then fired all them after the year. I agree this aggressive approach is also show with the players in that getting themselves ready by using this off-season time to develop their skills and work on their fundamentals. It appears to me there is going to be competition among players fighting for playing time and each of them getting better because each of them will be pushing each other to get more playing time. Now we will see how well he did in putting right pieces together to be able to compete in the Summit but this is optimistic I have been in over 10 years we are finally have mentality that we want to win now and believe we can compete win not in couple years but right now..

Women’s basketball has been 15 scholarships where men’s were 13 scholarship but now that has increased to 15. I seen looking past rules you could have 15 scholarships and 16 players which I believe were at right now.. Demers, VanderWal, Volmer, pienky, Aumer, mathern, Flechter are seven, then Hillisheim, Harris, Ohnstad, Ava Miller, Hanna Miller, Hughes, Harvey, and Klosterbuer would be 8 giving 15 scholarships and Reardon would be walk-on getting us to 16 players. If this is the rules and women’s basketball had 15 scholarships where men had 13 never understood why difference. I haven’t seen any final rules on rosters and scholarships have read number of proposals but thought they were soon have meeting finalize whether schools were in out ncaa court settlement. The problem believe if impose any rule probably go back to court who know if it would be upheld. After going doing the numbers looks like we’re at old limits for the roster limits.

I still haven't seen the final rules on roster limits with walk-ons we had two walk-ons with Mathern and new recruit from Grand Forks Reardon as walk-on. This could mean we could have scholarships left to be filled. This could be our last scholarship available but we could be carrying 16 players or possibility as high as 17 players if rules allow this to be done if they are adding 5 years to the playing time anything may be possible.

The Summit will have 3 new coaches next year with Hutter at UND, Anderson at ORU, and now Omaha. Then we have one and two year coaches at South Dakota and KC and then we have Collins and Woods with 5 plus seasons of coaching and finally deans of coaching Johnston and Sinn. The strength in the Su’s and St Thomas lies in these teams and they have strengthened themselves both in recruiting now through the portal. The question now remains for us with our new additions and our returning players have we put together team and rooster to finish strong enough to possibly finish third in the conference. The positive that I have liked about Hutter’s approach is he constructed roster quickly to get prepared for next season. I would like to see if he replaces his position on coaching staff quickly because like to see when program is place for the summer where preparations are being done by players and coaching staff. This where everyone works on the fundamentals also down to perfecting skills to system is going to be run this team. Also gives extra time for players to bond and also coaches to bond together with players as well as other coaches. I also wonder if we can have more than 15 players by adding couple Walk-on or two that can be part of the team or are we held to hard number 15.

I see SDSU has even gone to portal signing up Maggie Hartwig from Evansville 6’1” front court player with two years remaining and has started primarily for them past two seasons. Averages 16 pts. A game adding her to Brooklyn Myer now makes this team power house again with depth at front court position. The changes in player personnel and coaches for next year is going to be hard to figure who are contenders with exception of SUs returning most talent but even these two are not locks to win the conference as it has been last several years.

Iramurphy what perfect statement this why we have coaches for and it’s not us putting a team together. Time will only tell how successful these choices on recruiting talent and I hope they are mote successful than failures on new recruits. Yes we’re moving on from our transfers but our former players are being recruited by other notable schools in division I showing we were not getting or developing this talent to play together become winning team. What impresses me is Hutter trying put together roster with enough talent size to compete for Summit to compete and win the conference with returning players. I may be optomistic but I look at the Summit the amount of turnover on most teams I think we’re going to see very even conference. SDSU will be favorite but they will not be dominate team they have been in past, NDSU has most returning but I think they will still be beatable a lot of questions on who will lead team loss of two seniors will put pressure on other players perform. St Thomas graduated quite bit but they seem find talent and are well coached. The rest of conference has big turnover so we will see who has put together competitive teams for next year. I am excited about Hutter his enthusiasm II. He has plan for this team, he cares about players on team that are committed, is constructing roster to play type of basketball he wants to play, and is communicating some of this to public create interest in women’s basketball. I think we have turned a corner but AD is going to need to step for women’s sports and Men’s basketball.i am so looking for next season.

Hughes eligibility has been used up with four completed seasons at Mayville State NAIA playing time for most part is same as NCAA plying time. We have fourteen players for the roster but questions are is Mathern on scholarship and Reardon was recruited it was reported she was walk on. This could mean.we could have up 3 scholarships available but what are rules on roster limitations can we go above the 15. We have opted out college settlement on new roster limitations and I have heard nothing if we have hard numbers on rosters or are exceptions like for Walton’s. It will be interesting on final roster positions who he fills these positions.

I was looking at Schillers stats which is impressive in playing time and her scoring average but if you look closely her shooting percentage was not outstanding or even her three point shooting outstanding. Second for her being point guard her assists were. Half of othertop point guards. I also think her size limits her both on offense and defense. Frost numbers were comparable if not even better percentage wise in offense. NDSU has another freshman guard they were raving about that practiced early with them year so I wonder if Schiller is going to be in shock her playing time maybe reduced and she will not be primary offensive weapon for NDSU offense. Like I say who ever wins out in this battle at SU there are going to be unhappy players with there roll on this team. Hutter looks to be old school where he wants kids that buy in and if not play some place else. I can see this principal in that everyone who is on team have committed to goal of winning together and you have treated everyone equal basis. Men’s basketball tried this with Ihenacho he did give us another year but then he left for money again something that was right for him but what about others team members they are left with broken roster and lack of trust buying into team concept. I don’t know why number of these girls left some I believe were thinking they needed to do this to get change in the program they had been putting effort in. Only Hutter and players know exact details but I am afraid number of these players have made poor decision and waited to long to correct this decision. The result may mean their colllege careers being paid for by basketball is over or they are playing somewhere they might have no other choice if they want to play.

We have 12 girls on roster and not sure of Mather if she is on scholarship and Reardon was listed as walk on so we could have 3 to 5 scholarships but not sure of the rules number rosters positions available with final rules since we opted out the college agreement and number proposals on roster limitations. I sure. Would like us get at least another post player and experienced number 3 to add depth to our young players. I like it he putting team together finding players that we need in our roster construction to compete.

This appears to be good recruit that has size and listed at guard should be able to play in 3 or 4 spot.Hutter is looking for talent that can step in play right away like it that he wants to compete right away. It will be interesting who he bring in next to round out this roster.

I can’t resist Forum guys(Izzo and Kolpack) already talking how they are going to be team that dethrones South Dakota State for next year with addition of Schiller and keeping of Koenen. They look like they could be greatly improved but my gut feeling is let’s see how this plays out. I still think team chemistry is going to play in this before next season there are some awfull big egos on this team and team Fargo is going to play up some these players see how this plays out with the rest of the team. If Jory can hold it together it may mean his break to move on to bigger program but it could get to be rocky if he can’t. They are still at least one or two players away from being dominant t they need big girl inside and three that can score in transition which you only get by developing player. Maybe I am just wishing but this past year and year before SU starts off looking strong but they fade as season goes along and I bet this happens this coming year again they become predictable and always look to their key players. If they make next step Jory going to need to get more creative with his teams.