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Great collection of Sioux fans watching at the bar in Tucson. Not even a planned watch party but I showed up at a local sports bar(which is packed for the Cats game) and there is 37 people wearing UND gear watching the game.
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Good luck to the ladies tonight. I'm looking forward to watching.
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Thanks for the updates jjensen.
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Weber ends up losing to 9 to Arizona. They cooled off after a hot start and couldn't close the gap.
Congrats on a good season to Weber. Definately will be a favorite in our conference next season with some of the young talent and experience they have returning.
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Ok cue, the pro Jones fans who want to keep him on so we can be at .500 and punch our ticket to the CIT which we were 1 loss from missing that tournament all together (losing to Sac St in the first round would have kept us out with a sub .500 record). NDSU is getting publicity not only for football but now for men's basketball and that will only get them better recruting choices, and what do we have to counter that? Can Jones go on the trail, look a recruit in the eye and tell them we can go to the Dance like NDSU. We can't beat Bowling Green, Cal Poly, and Nebraska Omaha. We gave SUU their only conference win of the year. Its going to be tough to get the good recruits (like you said wherever our recruting footprint is). I think Jones is a joke and I see this team going down in flames next season with a young team and poor coaching staff who can't stress teamwork.
Holy !@#$, I'm not ready to hang him up. I just feel he needs to execute his plan if he has one. There are plenty of good basketball players out there and I think he's found some. I'm in the minority when I think next years team will be better than this one.
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There is no doubt that Jones' seat got a little warmer last night.
My biggest concern with Jones' (is actually the same I had with Mussman) is he has created no identity to his basketball program. Tell me what his main recruiting area is? Tell me what his offensive philosophy is? Tell me what his defensive philosophy is? I don't feel that this team created an identity for themselves (besides inconsistent) and that is on the coach.
I look at the football team after Bubba took over, one of his first comments he made was we are going to be an attacking defense and a ball control offense. He also identified that he was going to get back to recruiting the upper midwest. Now that your identity is in place, you can recruit to that. It may not be easy to do but at least there is a plan in place. Someone has to tell me if Jones has that.
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Solid team basketball on both ends of the floor. Fun game to watch
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She's looking like its over. Congrats to FU on the W.
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I'm just ready to move on to the new staff and hopefully some fundamentally sound football on the field. The lack of fundamentals and some effort the last couple seasons was very, very frustrating.
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So, it's not a fact that USD had a Big Sky offer? I would have bet $5000 in 2010 that SDSU, USD, and NDSU would have received a quick yes to a request for Big Sky Membership in any 1, 2 or 3 combination along with UND. No question. But you can go ahead and bury your head in the sand and act like UND is in an exclusive club if you'd like to.
Likewise, in 2010 if UND would have pushed for a Summit/MVFC offer, it would have come. It would not have taken long for the Summit teams to apply the needed pressure to the MVFC, like they did for USD. That was just a matter of time,
90% of your post is speculation. The only thing we know for sure about UND and the MVFC/Summit is UND probably was a lock for the Summit. I'm not sold on MVFC being a lock.
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So it appears UND may be without four of what were expected to be its top six players coming into the season--Brekke, Webb, Schuler and Nash. Since I'm positive the trolls will be coming out of the woodwork should UND lose to the Summit's sixth-place team on Wednesday, let me ask this--who would you expect UND to be favored against, on the road, in the Big Sky with this short-handed lineup? Anybody besides possibly SUU (and there's no need to even bring up the result of that game from earlier this month)?
Great question. I wouldn't favor them against anyone if they are missing those 4. We saw we couldn't replace Brekke. The other 3, if they are out individually we would be ok. Having them all miss action as a group, we don't have the depth to replace all three of their scoring and other intangibles. Minus Nash, that is a ton of experience to try and make up.
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Trinity doesn't cap their enrollment. Believe me, everyone involved with Trinity would have loved to be at least the size of St Mary's and have 400+ students back in 1991 when the school dropped to Class B. You can't force people to send their kids to a school, especially with rising costs that cause tuition to go up.
And this recruiting lie in the other post really is getting annoying. People that spread this stuff around need to provide more proof. Name one player that you question that you think was recruited and let people respond to it. Post it on a site like the northdakotapreps.com and let the high school posters have at it. I can tell you that almost all of the players that I can think of that were on Trinity's state championship teams were kids with Catholic families with multiple ties to the school. How is that recruiting when those kinds of kids go there?
I don't believe I said they recruit. I'm actually in agreement with you.
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How often is there a clear cut, heads and shoulders above the pack, great team at the top of the league every year? If that's the case most years, I could see wanting to protect that team (forgetting for a moment the validity of a quality team actually needing protection if you think they have a shot at winning a first round tournament game). I just don't think protecting a team should be the point of the league tournament. Putting on a quality league tournament is an end in itself. Plus, usually the teams that get the 1-2 seeds are usually only separated by a couple of games at the end of season standings. I have a big problem with a stated or unstated goal of tournament organizers of protecting a regular season champion that might have won the league by a game or two, or even a tie breaker. If that's the case, then why engage in the charade of a league tournament? Award the bid to the champion and be done with it.
In a lot of the one bid conferences the difference between the regular season champ and some team that gets hot for 3 or 4 games can be pretty substantial. It can be the difference between the conference tourney champ getting a 12 seed or a 16 seed. One of those at least gives you a chance.
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I don't like the conference winner hosting. The advantages for the hosting team are just too numberous in my opinion. Also makes it more difficult for the fans of the rest of the teams in the tournament field to plan travel.
That said, I don't think it would matter at all where Weber played this year.
I agree with your point on fan travel. Outside of it ever being hosted in the state of Montana or Greeley I don't know how many UND fans will ever attend a conference tournament.
To the point of lower seeds having to overcome a lot to win the tourney, there are other low- to mid-major conferences questioning what they can do to make it easier for the regular season conference champ to advance to the tournament. WIth more conferences getting only one bid, those top teams are the ones that give the conference the better chance at the higher seed and the better chance at winning a game.
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FU won't be outsized as Oklahoma only plays about 3 forwards they will roll 5 guards that are pretty good so Braugn will have to defend as well as score.
All in all it's a good matchup. Bjorkland could have a good day and as usual will be key to FUs chances
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Looks like you guys are going to Omaha....
Might only have about 8 healthy for the trip
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Best of luck to both Weber and FU in the tourney. Both well deserved.
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BSC is lucky they are auto bid conference - Selection comm. had to have held their nose for even a 16 seed.
It must suck to have to constantly compare yourself to UND to feel good about FUs accomplishments. Anytime something good happens to FU you post here before your own fan board.
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Didn't even know he still had that possibility. Would be great to see him back though!
It's probably a long shot to get granted. Still, Tyler will be a huge addition at guard and Shanks might be a good addition mid year. I also expect big improvements from Hooker and Calceterra. I think we'll be more balanced next season.
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I do give them credit. I said they played terrific last night. I am saying they didn't carry it over to tonight. You are correct they played a dominant team in a hostile place, though playing the butt off .. Not quite. Bad shooting percentage, not great D, playing tough they could have kept it closer than the final score. What was frustrating was missing the easy layups, even with their O rebounds which actually seemed pretty good. Even down 2 players they still missed a lot of opportunities. Glad they made it to the championship, just wish we saw high level team that they can be. Like I said inconsistency has been pretty evident this season. Too bad we will lose so much talent this year, could be a while until we're back in this game, but who know.
If Nash truly does apply for a 6th year and gets it we could be equally as good next season. Without him I still think by years end we have a solid team. Just depends on what type if depth we develop
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They did, but like you said brekke has been gone all season. We moved on from him a long time ago, and we still had plenty of talent to compete.
We had zero post defense all season. I'm stating a fact, not using it as an excuse.
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This team missed Brekke all season
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Let's start off on a good run.
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D up guys.
Thanks for the updates
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Great season for the ladies. Thank you seniors for showing the leadership to get the program back on track.