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Huff is the difference.

Evers used her big body well inside and the payoff showed. Buck is emerging as a breakout player and the leader that she needs to be. However, she has to get a little better at shot-clock awareness... I think she decided to pass instead of shoot twice, if not, three times, yesterday against Air Force, resulting in a violation. Oh, and don't forget about Smart. She is nearly "money" evertime she puts up a 3. Wall is coming along but still not quite back to 100 percent after her injury. Brianna and Cy'erra are getting a lot better on and off the ball. I was especially impressed with Cy'erra's speed and defensive skills last night. Her quick feet and hands resulted in many TOs and near TOs I like Lauk's improved confidence on the floor, too. Same goes for Burck. We need to get Houdek back in the line up. Hopefully, whatever is nagging her is not too serious. Rothfuz still looks a little scattered out there and takes ill advised shots from long range. I like her tenacity inside, though. Josie Dillon is a work in progress but showed hints of an upside last night. Still looks a little nervous, but that is to be expected. Poor girl, after she completely botched one play that resulted in a turn over, it was dead silence in the Betty, except for Brew yelling at her at the top of his lungs, "Josie, what are you DOING???!!!" She looked like she wanted to crawl into a hole at that point.

Believe me we're dealing with it everyday... you guys won't let us forget it. I don't think there's a day that a dozen Bison fanatics don't drop by on here to exchange "greetings" and measure things. Maybe you just need to learn to moo-ve on if we're so lowly for you.

Has Huff been able to practice with his mouth wired shut? How ready will he be to step in right away and contribute?

I was at the game on Friday night (first UND vs. NDSU game I've attended in Fargo), and I must say that I didn't see two teams that "suck." I also didn't think that NDSU looked horrible, given that all of their bigs were sitting on the bench injured. If they would have had a stronger inside presence, they could have given Evers and Wall a run for their money, and the score would have been much closer throughout. Now I did see that Dani DeGagne couldn't hit from the field to saver her life, but that Linzy girl looked strong to make up for it. I guess what I am saying is that I think, this year, both teams might be underachieving and their records are deceiving. NDSU beat a strong Harvard team, with an Olympian at the #5 spot, who could hit consistently from 3. That same Harvard team walloped UND. I assume that NDSU had many of their bigs in for its game with Harvard. As for UND being winless going into the NDSU game: They had played some very strong competition (excluding the exhibition games) to start off the year and they played without one of their best inside players in Wall, who was injured. In fact, if you count the exhibition games, UND won every game it definitely should have, and everyone of its losses came against established Division I programs, that probably should have beaten them. Harvard was the only one that surprised me, given that we handled them pretty well last year at their building. So, I think the talk of the demise of either UND and NDSU in WBB is being greatly inflated. Both teams do seem a bit raw at times, especially, in the back court, but give both teams time to gel, mature and heal (especially at the Guard spots) and they'll come around. As an aside, I sat next to the Mothershed twins at the UND-NDSU game, and it took all I had to not lean over and tell them how much we missed them in the back court. That said, it was great to see the twins again and to know they're sticking around to lend their alma mater some support.

That's been happening for more than a decade, thanks to Fargo U's Uncle Joe, who's long gone now.

Why do you think people are anoiting Nash savior? No one has. We may be curious as to what a former Big 12 forward can do for us, but no one has crowned him the second coming. My big reason for wanting him in the line up has less to do with his box score than it does with the minutes he could provide to spell some of our other bigs who are continually getting knocked around in the paint and collecting 3 fouls before the first half is even over. That's why Nash's presence would be important IMHO.

Perspective. We lost a game that we should have won (by one point) against a very good team at home without arguably our best player on the floor, another big man in Traylor out with an injury, as well, and well, we know the story about Nash and the NCAA. The wins will come.

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.