I know hockey is and will always be THE sport at UND, but in my mind, WBB is rising fast, and frankly making a Big Dance is of national significance which puts us on the map for lots of recruits.
Not sure I've ever noticed the mid-major poll before. Probably because it's never been relevant. I suspect high placement in it would help, but winning Big Sky is an automatic bid to the Dance.
I was there too and agree with your points.
I'd also worry about a hack a Shaq strategy on Evers who missed a bunch of FTs.
The outside shots came from Lauck with some consistency, but you're right the 3 isn't a strong attribute of this team. Then again, it may not need to be with EE in the middle and Loyd rebounding like Rodman.
Exactly. How could Hanson be worse than this?
Prior to the game, we knew the season was a rebuild. No reason to waste a year of an allegedly promising kid by pulling the redshirt. So now they MUST stick with him otherwise he ends up crushed mentally.
The other choice-use Hanson! No way he's worse than this AND he doesn't cost you the RS.
This is not a good FB team, and as a fan i accept that but I have hope for the future. Why waste any freshmen this year?
I don't care what the reasons are, his title record speaks for itself. But, someone pointed out the talent level hasn't been the same as the Parise, Toews, Oshie years.
Why not? What's keeping that from happening?
You're right I do.
Thus I don't jump on the bandwagon when we lose a Friday night game v Bemidji State, nor do I find much consolation in sweeping CC in October though I'm very pleased with the result.