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I have watched about everyone but Denver and Omaha catching part all other teams in Summit of their games and I can tell you we have hard time equaling last years record. Second omethingwe have zero chance of beating SDSU this year. There freshmen look better than our freshmen and they are getting playing time against very good programs getting better. We will not be able to match up with them because they are bigger and deeper than we are and they are just quick or quicker than we are. I guess I don’t understand why we didn’t bring in front court player through the portal. NDSU did bring in number of front court people and they are looking like they could be second best team in Summit. USD will be very similar to us not very big in the front court and very young there. I am disappointed because end of last year with thought we would have Lane to build around our front court and the returning players I thought we were ready to start contending with thought we could go WNIT tournament. Now we’re just using up this above average back court talent because we didn’t address this glaring weakness on experienced front line. This is what I am seeing maybe I am missing something and don’t see something but it appears we’re having hard time constructing team to compete with the top teams.

UND will again have hard time stopping Bison and I suspect they again will open up the game with passing to their tight ends and then will open up the run. Offensively it will come down to Ol line because SU defense strength is in their secondary. If we can move the ball running and short passing game we then control the game. I think this game is winnable if we can get up on them making them have to move away from ball control game. Also this will take the crowd out of it. It will come down which team can expose other’s weaknesses

I heard USD offense and their defense will be returning large number but at same time their fans are calling for Nielson to be fired. The question then comes do more stay with the program if he.stays or let go. If they do have number of transfers would be interested in them or not . Just something I was thinking about after the game how this years transfer have been big addition to the team. I think transfer we lost on the defense has had impact on our defense this year.

I think from the first game we have some talented freshman players and I expect growth through the season but will they progress enough to catch up with the top teams. I watched SDSU in their game at Akron I was expecting them to to be looking for people to fill void after loosing Wilson and Schierman. But what I saw they have added two players both freshmen it appears they have added talent that compliment’s the experience talent they have returning. It also appears that other schools in Summit have added talented freshmen this year so it’s going to be interesting year in the conference. I think how we do for the coming year will be how well Sather and his coaching staff can develop this group of players.

VanderWal helped tonight but still a lot to work on. McCarthy only played a minute is she hurt or is she in dog house. Beal needs to get more minutes I think sh can become factor before the season is over. Hurst will need to continue to play. I don’t think we’re going to be able to contend relying on small line up in conference season we need to have some size on the floor. The South Dakota schools are just going to eat us alive with their size and especially Jack Rabbits will just control the boards if we don’t develop our big players. This is going to be interesting season if we can develop some players to make run at the end of the season.

Bernhard showed that she could become a good coach last year but If I had complaint or criticism is she has hard time playing young players and I believe she has not a lot patience with mistakes these players make. I look at SDSU where coach Johnson plays his talented freshmen each year and by the end of year they become factor for them giving them quality time. This years recruiting class having high end talent so i am hoping we see a change in her coaching. McCarthy didn’t get alot of playing time last year when she was called upon she showed potential of being good player and now this year with loss of Lane she is behind on playing and learning time. I see this happening again with other players again this coming year. We may not have these players for there full college careers so faster you develop them and getting them playing them quality time the better it is and maybe keeping them. I agree with other people on the board we are short on number of taller players especially experienced players. I am still looking forward to the season but am concerned if our taller players are not ready to play at this level then we should have been looking to the portal to shore up this weakness.

To shoot the three you still need to have inside game and without that it becomes easier to defend against the three. We don’t have more than couple of threats to shoot the three on floor at a time. If we have injuries to all tall players this does become immediate concern fort how long are they injured and how much playing time will they get. This is not how I thought the season would begin. Mallory and staff are going to need to figure how they are going to develop inside game in next few games. Without inside game we loose our advantages of quick and offensive guards because we can’t control the game on inside without help from these guards to help defend and rebound. I am still optimistic we can do this if our tall inside players are healthy and can play

I was looking at the live stats we played game with hardly any of our biggest players very many minutes. Hurst I believe played played 15 minutes, McCarthy played 1 minute wondering if she got hurt, and VanderVal and Jardine didn’t play. Then we had Bieniewicz did not play one of larger players and was brought in shoot the three. So what are we doing here in exihibition game I thought this would be a time to give our big players some playing time. I would like to see explanation on why we’re playing experienced players already 30 plus minutes in this game and we still lost I don’t see how this helped us any. We need to develop this team the players we played tonight is not going be a team that can be in the top of the league without getting some production from are big players. if these players are not ready to produce then we better be looking for transfer to bring immediately because we’re not going to be factor with this small line up. That’s my opinion I hope to hear what the plan is or it’s going to get worse with the fans because expectations expecting improvement over last season with highly reguarded recruits.

I wonder what happened here but it has happened. If there is any positive is that this deepest position on the team and what ever reason she leaving it’s probably better now than later during the season. I thought looking at her track record she was going to be addition to the team and was going to be player for the future. The other positive will be they can start looking for her scholarship now early. It also leaves possibility of bringing in transfer if they feel need another big girl for the season.

We definitely should be upper tier of the summit conference. Bernard Press conference I thought was pretty much spot on. How well we do will come down to our big girls McCarthy,Vanderwal, and Jardine if they can provide quality minutes playing defense and rebounding. They will have help from our guards playing in some of 3-5 positions at times but we do need their size if we are going to have successful season. I think offensively we’re going to be able take advantages with quickness and size of our guards as the season progresses but will we able rebound and defend our opponents. I am looking forward to the season.

I have been looking at UND picked to be last and i was thinking how you can come up with that with all the changes to the teams in the Summit. We have three schools that have coaching changes in South Dakota, Omaha, and KC and all these schools had losses to the portal and now made up new faces for the coming year expect these teams to just gel and be contenders. Then we have ST. Thomas that was heavily senior laden last year and will be made up freshman and sophomores for the coming season which spells for inconsistent season coming forward. Then we have NDSU hit heavily by portal but granted they have one best players in the Summit conference but my guess is they will be there by end of the season but there will number of losses along the way. I can see how you can pick SDSU, Oral Roberts as the top of the league but even they have few questions marks and here again if one major stars would go down it changes these teams. Denver seems to be team on rise and they are returning good nucleus and they they could move up. Then Western Illinois team made up portal recruits who knows how they will gel and perform history says sooner or later that will blow up on you. If I was doing preseason picks I would just pick top 4 or 5 and rest i would just give their strengths and weaknesses because who knows how they will shake out. My top four for Summit as it stands right now would be SDSU, Oral Roberts, Denver, and based on history NDSU. From there i wouldn't even want to make a pick until i see how they start playing in preseason conference schedule. But getting back to UND I think they will be close to 500 team in conference play if they are healthy i look at last year how close they played teams with total roster of 7 or 8 players for latter part of the season. They could even be better than that if couple of these recruits step up play big roles on this team. I wouldn't be surprised we again have the rookie of the year again on this squad especially looking at several of quality of players coming in and we will have openings to allow these players to play in games. Basing it off last years performance is not practical anymore when we have portal and rosters are remade each year by adding players but this how this preseason prediction we had is based on.

Any one know health of the team after last weeks game. We saw a number players get hurt last week and do we have depth at some these position where we have player. To me this will be big factor on the outcome of this game.

I believe Hurst will be given every opportunity to make big impact we need somebody fill Lanes roll on front line. Vanderwal will more likely be asked to fill Leets role on the team. From scoring impact I believe it will be Bieniewicz the transfer. Jardine will probably also get a look at for the front line in the preseason conference schedule. Beal is unknown factor and see where she will fit in the coming season. Also where does McCarthy and Gordon fit in the coming season and what roles they can play on the team. The other newcomers of Roach and Aumer I believe will be limited on playing time this year because being behind Davis,Danniger, Orth, and Manson being junior or senior/5 year players. The biggest opportunities will be on front line and that will be looked at Hurst, Vanderwal, Jardine and McCarthy to fill that roll. The guard play will come from Orth,Borociwz, Danniger, and Davis. The roll of small forward or large guard will between Gordon, Beal, and Hoskins. This should be fun season I believe we have more talent and depth for many years but again with loss of lane we are missing that talented front line person with proven ability to score and rebound plus play good defense down low.

Sioux fan 97 I have been a fan of UND football for long time and can remember when we were at very top of football but also when we were very bottom. The Pat Burns era was very bottom for UND football where we weren't even competitive. Then came Roger Thomas era where it took nearly decade to get to times you remember. This wasn't done over night but took years to reach that level where they were dominant and the people on this sight today would have wanted to change coaches numerous times. It takes time to build a program here to build relationships in the area to recruit top talent and people that want to come here and build a program. The people that have been here as coaches and present coach have done alot in doing this by promoting the facilities we have and ones were working on to get built at UND. This has been done when our college hockey team has sucked up much attention of und fans and supporters. Then not to mention how SU south has built program to suck most attention for most of the upper Midwest. I see a program that is getting better and we have made playoffs several times and last time two years ago we won playoff game and were competitive but lacked depth in personnel to make a deep run in the playoffs. These are things that i see improvement in now with this team now and the future.

I guess I missed something what happened to Jodi Anderson from last year I didn’t see her name in the portal. She had most minutes of last years freshman and I thought she would get more time this year. I guess this how they brought in bieniewiczs late last spring.

I watched part of today's game and part of Montana game we have improved from last year and i suspect we will get better but were still need improvement. You already can see improvement in coaching and we have more talent on the floor compared to last year. It was good for these players to get 29 game loosing streak ended. This program is not going to get turned around in year as far as it sunk in last three years and considering we are not that far removed from going back to back to NCAA tournament. It appears AD finally paid some attention to the this program finding quality coaching and abilitity to start recruiting better talent. I wish this team success.

I was wondering if anyone seen if new recruits are in for UND Women's basketball I think i have saw number of them in pictures but one i have not seen is Beal which is one of the four star recruits. They still haven't updated their roster for the new recruits for this season and i see men's basketball has updated their roster with new recruits.

I watched some of this and my take this is based on past history and top teams hard to argue with because they are top teams in Big Sky and MIssouri Valley and our history in Missouri Valley has been very inconsistent last two years. Second last year we lost some very close games that we should have won but didn't for number of reasons. We have very tough schedule this year again but we do get to play number of teams we lost too this year at home which i believe will be a big difference. I don't think were number 37 team but only way to prove that is just play the games. My guess were around number 25 to number 15 team as we stand now. The big difference between us and alot of the teams in top 10 is we are just not as deep with players ready to step up across whole team as we should be and i see improvement but its going to take time to build the program to that level. That said i believe if we play up to our potential we can beat these top 10 teams but can we do it through whole season when we need to go next level of players across the team. Thats has been difference i believe but that may be changing with total shakeup in college sports and transfer rules we may see where the NDSU's and SDSU's players will be poached by FBS in the coming years.

I am sure others have been there this summer i did see picture of some other recruits. I just think the UND athletic department needs to work on their promotional of their sports to the public. Like release of their schedules, rosters, and getting promotional pieces out on their players and coaches to the public to keep their fans interested and updated. I see this with other schools. To keep interest and build a following you need a presence in your community and social media involved with the school that is the way it works today. I only see this with the hockey team but it needs to happen with other sports at UND and my guess reason we see it with hockey that is Ralph Englestad Arena people are involved for hockey but we need athletic department needs to start stepping up promoting other UND sports. This will not only help for fans but also for the various sports in recruiting and retention of players in the future. That is my opinion and i may be wrong but then why we do it for hockey and not the other sports.

I was looking at the women's site has 2022-2023 roster but has none of the signees listed wondering why that is now shouldn't they be enrolled for this fall by now so they can be listed. I sure hope we haven't had any loss of signees over the summer. I still think this could be year where we step forward in the conference and become a factor to be one of the top 3 teams in the conference. If we could have year like that we could see us playing after the conference tournament. This is will how we rebuild this program to become a factor in the Summit League.

If all these changes happen pretty much ends either the pac 12 or the mountain west conference because whats left of Pac 12 and Mountain West would make for one stable conference that could be market to the west coast for broadcasting rights. The Big Power conferences are soon going to leave the NCAA make their deal on broadcasting for big name sports in football, basketball, and baseball. The only chance for the Summit , Big Sky and Missouri Valley would be merger to move up in football to FBS and hopefully upgrade enough in the other sports that they may be considered to be apart of big power conferences when they make there deal to leave the NCAA. I think NCAA could become NAIA college organization for all small midmajor conferences and Division II and Division III. This looks like beginning of the end of how we know division I sports in the US and it all being basically under one organization for all levels of schools. If i am missing something i would like to see how others see this plays out.

Any news how summer practices are going and if any of the newcomers are making impression to coaches or team as whole. Also is everyone there and if all are healthy now for the coming season. My hope this is productive off season because i really believe if everyone lives up to their billing we could become one of top three in the conference this coming year. Jackrabbits are going to be preseason favorite and probably will win the conference if they stay healthy. I really believe we can surpass South Dakota this year and next few years be playing for conference championship if this team develops and stays together.

I agree none those schools want to travel that much especially to norther Midwest. If schools up here are wanting to move up FBS football it will need to be creation of new conference of teams from the area. That would be NDSU, UND, SDSU, USD, Northern Iowa, Montana State, Montana, Northern Colorado, Then possiblility of IDaho's, Weber, Southern Illinois, Missouri State, and i am probably missing someone but i think this is how schools now move up to FBS football. I think it will take initiative of schools from Summit and Big Sky to get this done.

Do we have scholarship available yet for this year? I thought with Darcy Jardine inked last week we would have used up our last scholarship.

I thought we would have heard who they have picked up for the coming season. I was looking at transfer portal sight large number of large forward and center girls have been picked up by number of schools so i am curious who we picked up. The site looks like musical chairs with number of teams loosing players and picking up players.