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Key losses: Trefz, Russell, Smed and Bohannon Returning difference makers: Munkeby, Parlich, Husfeldt, Robinson, Krueger, Ulrich and Turner Unknown commodities (other than true frosh): Kaci Miller (6'3" transfer from California), E. Asche ( former Red River standout), Naomi Dahl (libero)

A couple more versions of Bartels' recruiting tape from YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpau5Idp8f8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urmCf0PiBpY

Looks like a quality get for the Sioux after looking at his profile, albeit, a year old. Says he's 6'4 with good size. Vids that accompany show some good throws and runs. Should be good competition between him and Joe Mollberg down the road. http://www.ncsasports.org/football-recruiting/il/sycamore/sycamore-high-school/ryan-bartels

I bet the Mothersheds had a lot of friends and family at the games this weekend given the relative proximity to the Phoenix. Sounded like they gave 'em a show! Nice job, Ladies!!!

Free throw woes continue for the Sioux. Sioux with a 16-2 run in the last 5 minutes of the first half to close a 17-point deficit down to 3 at the half. Game could have gone either way. Payback will have to come in Macomb. Focus on Jamestown now and we'll get back on track. Go Sioux!

I love checking out future opponents Websites, message boards, etc. Here's a gem from the Western Ilinois Athletic Dept. game preview. I don't know if they just did a bad cut and paste job and forgot to omit old information from a previous opponent or what. A LOOK AT NORTH DAKOTA: The North Dakota Fighting Sioux, who will join the Big Sky Conference next season, enters the weekend with a 3-1 record...The Sioux most recently played host to Montana on Wednesday with sophomore Aaron Anderson scoring a career-high 20 points, and four of his classmates joining him in double-figures as UND (3-1) knocked off the Grizzles (3-2) 88-81 in overtime at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center...After their first four games, the Sioux are led by sophomores Aaron Anderson and Troy Huff who average 17.0 and 15.3 points per game, respectively...Anderson also leads the team with an impressive field goal percentage, having shot 62.5 percent from the floor...Huff leads the team in rebounds per game with a 8.0 average...As a team, North Dakota has outscored its opponents, 313-268...The Sioux have shot 44.2 percent from the floor so far this season, 29.9 percent from behind the arch, and 68.3 percent from the stripe...North Dakota is coached by Dr. George Barber (Asbury College ‘86) who is in his 13th season at the helm. who?

Back in the 80s, during that oil boom, some of the best youth/high school (Park and Rec high school leagues) hockey players in Dickinson, Watford, Sidney and Williston were kids from Alberta and the Range area in Minnesota whose families moved to western North Dakota for oil related jobs. I wonder if we will start seeing more of the same this time around, especially with the Williston H.S. team. Any western N.D. posters have any insight on any new talent that is immigrating into the area because of the oil boom?

Guess we'll just have to settle it on the field someday so we don't have to extrapolate and blow our stack on these statsistical and sometimes hypothetical comparisons that mean jack sh#t at the end of the day. I say, here we come. We are North Dakota! Bring it!

The point about hockey is that there is no competition in the area for it, so UND draws well. In North Dakota, football allegiences are split statewide and regionwide. If North Dakota (with a population 680,000) were like Minnesota (with its population 5-6 million) and had only one Division I football program, I could see either UND or NDSU, which ever it would be, draw 30,000-40,000 per game relative to the state population. But that's just not reality.

No smack intended for the many respectful SU fans on this board. Those who are not -- if the shoe fits, wear it. Grand Forks is the biggest hockey town in a 150-mile radius. It has a long established history as an NCAA Division I powerhouse in a conference that up until its eventual disbanding will have been equal in relative stature to the SEC of FBS fooball (for all the footballheads out there ). UND plays strong rivals week in and week out in a world class facility. Ocassionally, UND plays Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Yale, Ohio State, etc. With all that, it still amazes me that the Grand Forks' market can draw 12,000 people consistently night after night. But again, we are drawing from Bismarck, Minot, Devils Lake, Thief River Falls, Crookston, Canada and FARGO and all point in between -- not just Grand Forks County. There is no competition in the area for elite college hockey. UND hockey has a statewide, regional and even national following. That is not the case for FCS football in North Dakota. It is much more parochialized and divided as far as allegiences go. So all that said, I, too, am somewhat underwhelmed by attendance claims down south given the context of the size of the potential fanbase, the fact that they are not in a transitional conference and the fact that they are actually playing competitive teams for real hardware.

Very interesting....

We weren't interested in playing a shell game and raping our academic budgets in order to do it like Wild Joe "Take it to the next level at all cost" Chapman was. Where is he now? We were ready when we were ready. I must say, when you look at athletics as a whole, our transition went quite swimmingly. I like where we are at right now. Oh, in regard to attendance.... NDSU better be drawing bigger raw numbers by comparison.... your base population area (those within relatively short driving distance of the dome) is nearly four times that of UND's. Not an excuse, just facts, man.

Wish I could be there... I definitely would if I could, but I have military duty in Fargo this weekend. I will be there in spirit, and will be stealing away every chance I get for score updates. Go Sioux!

Interesting tidbit: UND is 0-11 vs. Bradley all-time. However, the two teams have not met head-to-head since 1969. Before that they played fairly regularly, with the first meeting played in 1941. Source: Last year's media guide. Time to start a new trend!

Bradley with a 1-point victory tonight 66-65 over S.E. Missouri State of the Ohio Valley Conference. Next up: UND! Let's get ready, boys!

Let's hope.... a lot of tradition at Bradley and another 7-footer at center to contend with.

Check out the dateline in the online version of the Sioux-ISU MBB game story from the Idaho State Journal (primary newspaper in Pocatello). "Sioux Falls, N.D." !!! http://www.idahostatejournal.com/sports/local/article_44a696da-0f4d-11e1-ae58-001cc4c03286.html

Fixed your post. And I'm not a pothead. Far from it.

Ditto. Anderson is catching up quickly.

Not to get ahead of ourselves and please don't get me wrong.... I know we have A LOT of work to do... but the fact that the nucleus of this team comprises mostly frosh and sophs (with solid role-playing upperclassmen) has not been lost on me either. IMHO, beating down a lower tier Big Sky program by double digits (16 points ), and one that took Oklahoma to the wire, is a sign of good things to come. This young team is only going to grow and get better over the next three years. There's a lot to this story that still needs to be told and a lot of those questions could be answered this season. I have a dream, my friends, that in couple years this team might have an autobid within reach. Please don't wake me!

I have not seen the statististical breakdown from the last night's game, but having been there, I can tell you that I have not seen the Sioux women rebound, block shots, fight for loose balls and play as agressive on defense the whole game on both sides of the court (full-court press) as they did last night. They looked really inspired last night, especially, the Mothershed twins and Brianna Williams. Buck was incredible and was clearly the best offensive player on the floor, and the post play was agressive but controlled for the most part. Nice job, ladies!

Holy cow! ISU Bengals have a center on their roster that's listed at 7 feet 4 inches. Wonder if he's athletic enough to play with that kind of height. Might have to show up at the Betty just to see that spectacle. http://www.isubengals.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball

Team USA beat Canada today in the 4-Nation's Tourney in Sweden 4-3 in an overtime shootout. JoLam had 2 assists and MLK had an assist in the victory, which avenged USA's only loss in the prelims. Way to go, USA! Sweden took bronze, defeating Finland and UND's Michelle Karivinen 2-1 in overtime. Karvinen was held scoreless in the game. There's a big drop off talent-wise between USA-Canada and Sweden-Finland, and an even bigger landslide from the aforementioned four to the rest of the international women's field. Need more parity or this sport will go the way of women's softball and will be dropped from Olympic competition. One radical proposal might be to divide Teams USA and Canada into four teams (Team USA West, Team USA East, Team Canada West and Team Canada East), at least, until the rest of the world can catch up. Team USA West would comprise players who hail from hometowns west of a predetermined meridian that runs down the eastern border of Ohio, i.e. players from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, etc. Team Canada West would comprise players from Manitoba to British Columbia.

And while were at it, bus the students there and then ankle chain them to their seats so they can't leave at halftime for whatever more-important gad they've got going on at 2:30 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon.

Was at the game, too. The assessments posted so far are spot on. Sioux women are closing the gap, though. Last year, they lost to this same team by 40. Tonight they cut it by more than half. They are young... good recruits coming in next year. Life goes on.