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I know ... you're preaching to the preacher on this one. I'm with ya.

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Well in the old days, it was bar-stool history or water-cooler history or, if someone felt strong enough, it was letters-to-the-editor history. Today, it's message board history or twitter history or any other venue where the losing team's fans can rant about how the traveling trophy should be up for grabs every time the teams meet regardless how many times they should happen to meet in a given season. These various histories have also shown us that these same fans' opinions would change once their team was in possession of said trophy. CMSioux was absolutely correct in what he/she stated. While you are trying to explain the way it works officially, CMSioux was simply pointing to the hypocritical way fans act depending on which team possesses the traveling trophy.

And splash. Almost on cue comes the cold bucket of half glass full. Thanks.

Thanks for the update!

Is that high school team in South Bend an ice sledge hockey team? Great, now UND lawyers can play hard ball and get all heavy handed on a bunch of kids with disabilities right in the NCAA's back yard. Rich. Just rich. We'll come out looking like the bad guy again. You can't make this stuff up.

Used to UND being on the losing end of those kinds of calls. Nice to see what comes around sometimes goes around. That's hockey. Now take care of business today, 'cause the Irish are going to be buzzing.

UNC is really good at sucking our players up close to the net and then hitting it hard to our backrow where we have one defender, if any, to make a futile attempt flail at the ball and save it. That leads me to the fact that we flail around way too much. UNC blocks and digs are very controlled and usually bounce high into the air and well within the boundaries. Finally, save Munkeby and sometimes Parlich and Robinson, why do so many of our kill attempts appear to be rainbow shots instead of low trajectory lasers? Maybe I'm being too hard on the girls but these things and the service and receiving errors have frustrated me all year.

Per Tom Miller of the Herald in regard to the Nash situation: "The NCAA is really trying to stick to 100 mile rule for family illness waiver." My opinion is that that is all fine and good unless you're a gifted athlete with Division I abilities and you just happen to hail from western North Dakota or eastern Montana or the likes. What would you need then -- a waiver to the waiver? Dumb.

Without the knowledge of additional near future recruits, am I right, that our arsenal of players that will be here after 2014 are (that we know of barring injuries, ineligbility issues, transfers, etc.): Nash, Hooker, Antwi, Benton, Salmonson, Hobaugh, and Blake Thomas?

What is the deal with all of the illegal screens? Does Jones just not understand something about the rules? Is it a difference of opinion on the rules between officials and Coach Jones? Are the players not understanding something fully? Are we tip-toeing to the edge of breaking the rule and sometimes slip over and get called? One is a mistake. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a trend. Four times is a breakdown in understanding at some level.

This ^^^^ All of it.

Yeah... I did hear that. But not until halfway into tonight's the game.

Now the post-game guys are being a-holes about "North Dakota having no business hanging around with Hawaii."

I heard that too. Just got me steamed knowing that we were already going into the game with two hands tied behind our back (Huff and Nash -- albeit Nash is still an unknown quantity).

So true. My how the tune of the Hawaii Play-by-Play and color guys changed in the second half. It was amusing to listen to them go from smoking and joking mode to Ok-this-is-serious-now mode.

Gutsy performance by UND tonight. This is encouraging, and almost, I stress, ALMOST feels like a win.

Just make it respectable. That is all I ask tonight.

With Huff in... this thing is withing single digits at this point. Who knows with Nash.

Bigs nailing threes with confidence. How do you compete with that?

Totally agree! Whose case has more merit in your opinion? Or were they both equally being screwed?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/ncaa-reinstates-ucla-freshman-shabazz-muhammad-effective-immediately-012746416--ncaab.html Must be nice to be a big powerful school like UCLA ..... OK, I'm officially starting the "Free Jaron" campaign. Think it will work like it did in UCLA? I didn't think so.

LOL, Yeah, to be honest, I didn't say it out loud, but I mumbled it under my breath. I've just seen it to many times this year. I should not be down on the ladies, though, they are doing fine. And, as I look to next year, wow, just wow...we should be stacked.

When I saw she was up to serve toward the end of the fifth set, I called the error before she did it. It was the turning point toward UND's doom.

Has Ulrich ever not service errored in crucial situations?