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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.

Sicatoka i guess i don't understand eliminating mandatory number M/W sports but be compliant with title IX how you do that and still be compliant. I am assuming then we would be down to maybe three mens sports here at UND and still have half a dozen women's sports or maybe more to be compliant with title IX. I thought and I may be wrong its just not scholarship equality with title IX but isn't there component of also on total financial support for the sports per scholarship player. I thought i read that some where to have equality for men and women's programs. I may be all wrong here on what i was thinking and saying here so don't blast me but educate on what your thinking. My thoughts have been is that power 5 schools and certain number of g 5 schools are trying to align themselves up separately going back 50 to 60 years ago when they were division I schools and conferences like Summit, Missouri Valley, and Big Sky were what used to be what Division II schools. The reason is they could sign some big tv contracts for televising there sports and wouldn't have to split so many ways and keep overhead down to run much smaller tighter organization than it is today. Also would be easier for them support title IX because lesser number of schools sharing in the profits. Also the recent popularity of Women's basketball may in itself help pay for title IX if was limited to top tier of schools.

The question then becomes what are the advantages of being in division I sports for school in small midmajor programs like UND going into the future. We will be playing for conference championship only and them maybe not if we have like South Dakota State with top coach and high amount of success because of his ablility to recruit and retain players. I don't want to be pessimistic but goal before was recruit raw talent and coach them up to where you would have one year or two window to go to dance and prove yourself. Now you get talent ready for that run and big schools just come in and recruit that talent away. The division II schools will be playing for at least some national trophy and will have post season. The only sport this will happen in division I will be mens football with FCS level where there are two levels for that sport. I maybe should qualify this to major team sports this will be happening the most with transferring of players from small midmajors to large schools. These changes were sold as giving players freedom of movement but now it is being exploited by big schools to help increase revenue and name recognition. Then you add in now the paying of players and sports betting on college games we are heading for some major scandal in the near future.

This is going to be nice because we will be able to rotate many different lineups and be able to play who is hot at the time. This also should be that we will not playing players huge minutes and wearing them down and having bunch of injuries. Also we will be going from very small team on the floor to where we can be quite big. I suspect some of the older players on the team will see less playing time this coming year but i also think we should have much improved line-up. I am excited for this coming year and see hoe all these players develop and play important roles for UND Basketball.

I was just looking at portal and I see Evan Zars center is also going to Grand Canyon. Maybe Grand Canyon is loading up with talent to make a run next year in women's basketball. Like i say the Summit conference has had alot of experienced upper tier players transfer out this year and i wonder if it isn't these players want to improve their chances of playing in NCAA tournament or the WNIT tournament. Nearly all the teams but South Dakota State have lost one or two of their top players off their teams this year and question becomes are we becoming conference farm system for bigger conferences.

I am sad to see Olivia Lane leave i had hopes she might return with her sister going to play in Crookston. I thought she always played hard and gave full effort for us and i am sure she will be missed. I am surprised to where she is going but she must have her reasons and i wish her the best. I guess after the last couple of years maybe people just need to have a change with covid and now this past winter that has never ended. This then brings us to the question is how are they going to replace her and will it be another transfer or high school grad. We are definitely goiing to need another big girl for the coming season. We played last year with not alot of depth for height and we lost Leet to graduation and now loosing Olivia we have lost all our experience at the front line. This is not to mention the loss of Van Loo who also transferred this off season. I have to beieve this has got to be priority now and i sure would like to see how they are going to address.

I see Carlee Sieben is now in the transfer portal is this result of yearend performance appraisal for player by coaches and better for her move on to where she would get more playing time. I hate to see her go one of few North Dakota players left on this team. We will only have Manson left from North Dakota. I sure would have liked if we could have recruited one the North Dakota girls that went elsewhere. Has anyone heard what is their plan on replacing Olivia Lane for the coming year. They are going to need big girl that has experience playing if they are going to compete this coming year in the Summit Conference. With all the shake up in Summit this off season they have good chance to be 2 or 3 team in the conference and this would put them in position to for post season play. As it stands now i would say if they can replace O. Lane they would be competing with WIU and USD for these top positions in the conference and that is giving SDSU odds on favorite to be number one team in the conference. They are already getting predictions they could be 4 or 5 seed in next years NCAA tournament. It would be nice for us to be able to get WNIT bid this next year if this team can come together with what's returning and new recruits coming in.

I see ORU has two more girls in transfer portal the Moore girls which now brings them with 9 transfers since the end of the season and leaves them with 5 players on the roster. This is going to be total rebuild. This is not how to build up your conference with loss of talent that has transferred since the end of the season. I see Ezeudu is going to the Florida Gulf Coast University power in the Asun conference and has been to NCAA tournament frequently. I wonder if number of the top talent transferring has to do with the dominance the South Dakota Schools have had in Summit where they are moving on to where they have better chance to play in the NCAA tournament. The new commissioner will need to look into this i believe because its not healthy for the conference.

I did little research on men's basketball Denver, Omaha, and South Dakota have updated rosters but all the rest have not and on the Women's side its even split with Denver, KC, Omaha, ORU, and South Dakota have updated rosters on their websites. I wish they all had updated rosters so we wouldn't have to look elsewhere if they have signed players or not for their team next year. It will be interesting to see how we compare as the year goes along on how long it takes us to post updated information.