I'll never ever accept the idea that UND is "The other university in North Dakota". No way.
Part of NDSU being in the news a lot of the year is the legal issues you see happening during the summer. I'm glad as hell I didn't see a video of one of our players drunk and ignorant sitting in the back of a cop car making an @ss out of himself. Or that one of our players was staring at 12 year old girls in a mall fondling himself. That stuff makes news on top of other news.
Someone already said it....it comes in waves. Ten years ago the Bison were on the verge of the DI transition, and for a few years nobody could have cared less about NDSU Football. Lots of blue seats open in the Fargo Dome those days. Now they're the coolest thing in Cass county and Travis Beck's home town since sliced bread.
As far as basketball goes.....best team in school history for SU a few years ago, and they went one and done in the NCAA tournament. No chance ever for a basketball championship for either school. Some day UND may beat a major conference team, but competing for a national championship is not reality.