UND has to really ramp things up this weekend to get to the NCAA's. Had they taken care of business in non-conference against supposedly lesser opponents (Bemidji, Cornell, and Bobby Morris) we would be in a much better pairwise spot.
Current pairwise is 17. Change the loss against Bemidji to a win, split with Cornell instead of getting swept, and don't go to OT against Robert Morris and you're sitting at 13. The road is exponentially tougher now needing wins against Western and ASU/DU. It just emphasizes how important those early games really are.