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Herbst is the new Minot State coach.

UND has offered Samantha Voll, a 2026 guard from Monticello. Was a MN AAA all stater this past season.

I don't know him personally, but Josh Morton seems like an ideal candidate--UND football guy, has power 4 experience from his time at Michigan State and knows hockey from his time at UND, MSU and now Augie.

She’s going to San Francisco. Also, not sure it was ever reported here, but Owen is going to New Orleans.

UND women's basketball just posted a bunch of off-season workout pics on Twitter, and VanderWal is in them, so I guess that answers the question. It appears UND will have a 16-person roster next season, which is only possible due to the fact that they "opted out" of the settlement. Since UND is expected to "opt in" after next school year, the roster limit will be 15 from 2026-27 forward.

Anderson is pretty athletic. This was him in high school: https://x.com/slam_hs/status/1405693479422935041?s=51&t=NQ4Y5VjYNfnvoHS3ts4L3Q

Also Paris Bass, I think.

Has offers from Army, Air Force, Northern Iowa and Western Illinois.

Possibly Headings? He visited this past weekend and was mentioned by UNDFootball360.

Right now, I'd say Smith, King, the Curtis twins and somebody not currently on the roster at the 5.

One thing I expect UND to be better at next season is 3-point shooting. UND was 7th in the Summit in both makes per game and percentage last season, shooing under 30% as a team. Hughes, for example, made 57 3's and shot 33.7% this past season. And additionally Harvey, Hillesheim, Ohnstad, Klosterbuer and Harris should all be better shooters than most of the players who departed. Depth should also be much better, as UND was essentially six deep for most of this past season (five deep once Demers went down with an injury). Demers, Aumer and Hughes are all proven commodities at the college level, and I feel confident that between A. Miller, Ohnstad, Harvey, Hillesheim, Harris, Klosterbuer, H. Miller, Volmer and Mathern, you can find at least five more consistent contributors.

I don't think we know for certain one way or the other. I know Hutter mentioned something about seven returning players at his press conference, and it would seem that would have had to include VanderWal, since there was a 15-person roster and eight left in the portal, but it's certainly possible she's not actually coming back. I am assuming Hillesheim, Harvey, Harris, Ohnstad, Ava Miller, Hanna Miller, Hughes and Klosterbuer would all be on scholarship. If so, then there could only be five scholarship players coming back from this past season.

My understanding is that for schools that opted out of the NCAA settlement, the scholarship limit remains at 13, but the roster cap of 15 doesn't apply. So yes, UND could hypothetically have a roster with more than 15 next season, but at least three would have to be non-scholarship in that scenario. I don't see who the third non-scholarship player would be, unless somebody previously on scholarship agreed to come back as a non-scholarship player, which seems unlikely. I think the more likely explanation is that somebody who originally planned to return now isn't.

Since I really doubt UND will have a roster that exceeds 15, this presumably means that one of the seven hypothetical returnees must have had a change of plans.

I see Omaha just fired their coach. Interesting timing.