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87 NAU 80 Montana St Final

Mussman. It has to be Mussman's fault.......................

9 points for Traylor 6 for Wilmer 5 for Schuler

39 T-Birds 33 Non-Boxer-Outers Half

Nice steal by Webb, only to find himself on the receiving end of the 27th rejection of the half on the layup..............

Wow. SUU can't miss right now................

They are hitting everything. Wide open shots, contested shots, and circus shots.................

Playing ok offensively. Doing a good job with offensive rebounds and hitting free throws. Not having alot of luck down in the paint though. Luckily we seem to catch it every time they block our shots. SUU not missing much on their end either right now................

15 North Dakota 18 SUU 10:43 1H

SUU already has like 4 blocks against us......................... They've got a couple big'uns down low.............

10 North Daktoa 8 SUU 14:47 1H

Looks like there's about 300 people in the stands....................

NAU has a freshman point guard that looks very good.

Just about 15 minutes away from tipping off the Big Sky era of North Dakota basketball!

The Montana St. @ Northern Arizona game is on now on 695 on DirectTV. Fox Sports Arizona........

I see where South Dakota St. beat Montana in double OT in Missoula on Saturday night. The Big Sky is 14-57 vs DI opponents with non-conference play mostly wrapped up. Not very impressive.......................

Tough for me to pick against Fargo in the title game. Althought the Bearkats' road wins were pretty impressive.............

Actually, in the end, this may make it easier for any former NCC schools to one day land in the MVC down the road. I've long said that if any of the olnd NCC schools get into the Valley, it will look nothing like the Valley of today. This move could be the start of that. This is probably going to have a huge trickle-down effect, that likely will affect the A-10, MVC, Horizon, and Summit.

I used to be a proponent of Lacrosse. But I haven't been as excited about it in recent years. If baseball can't get into the WAC or Summit, I think it should be dropped and those resources diverted to basketball, football, or what-have-you.............. Actually, I feel it should be dropped regardless of conference affilitation. I just don't think it makes much sense in our locale. It was different in the NCC days when most of the opponents were a short drive away. Even Summit affiliation would provide questionable at best travel and weather conditions................

I see that Webb had 6 turnovers and 3 assists in 21 minutes..............

Coach Jones said in today's press conference, that Brekke is day-to-day and will not play tomorrow night. Hoping he gets cleared by Saturday because that is when they are leaving for SUU. I hope for Brandon's sake his OK, and for the program's sake that they're just playing it safe, and this will not be a Chay Genoway type situation...............

ESPN to drop BracketBusters event after 2013 season

Pretty much all schools at this level have one or two non-DI teams on their home schedule.

I think that North Dakota can be quite competetive in the Big Sky................. Evers seemed like "a project" coming out of high school, but she has really progressed and is playing very well right now. When Wall gets to 100%, UND could be a tough matchup in the paint with those two young ladies...................... Madi Buck is an excellent all-around player and seems to have a great work ethic. Megan Lauck has played quite well of late also. If the young ball-handlers of Williams and Mills play well, this team could be pretty good.........................

I place a bit more emphasis on the RPI ratings............................ Where we fall, or where any Big Sky team falls in the RPI ratings honestly doesn't mean alot in the grand scheme of things. You are right that the Big Sky is a one-bid league 99.9% of the time. However, I'd argue that last season, the Big Sky was on the cusp of getting two teams in the tourney. Montana got the autobid by winning the Tourney. Their final RPI was 74, while Weber St.'s was 71. They split in the regular season, and Montana won the Tourney championship against Weber. I felt that if Weber would have won the Big Sky Tourney, their was a miniscule chance that UM, who was the regular season champ, could have also gotten an invite to the NCAA Tourney. That would have been huge for the conference, although the chances were remote. Another reason RPI is important is for $$$$$$$$$............. The big-time schools won't offer big money to programs that have an RPI rating that hovers around 300. When the "money games" come around, those big schools want to schedule the low/mid-major teams that have RPI ratings in the top half of the NCAA, because that is what makes their RPI ratings go up, and that is what makes their chances for at-large bids to the NCAA tourney go up. I'm thinking that our 1-6 non-conference record thus far in 2012 has at least cost the program $100,000 in guarantee money for the 2013-14 season................ Teams at our level basically make or break their RPI rating in the non-conference season. Not much movement can occur during conference play.