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Why can't I get this song out of my head?: I'm just a bill yeah I'm only a bill and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill...

Speaking of athleticism and women's basketball, I happened to catch about half of the SDSU-Oral Roberts Summit tournament championship game today, and it really didn't appear to me that SDSU (who won in OT) was especially athletic compared to what they were in their NCC days. They are a good solid team to be sure, but it's not like they're vastly superior to what they were 8-10 years ago IMO. If UND could somehow get back to where we were four or five years ago, I really think we would be a very solid mid-major dI team. Of course, that may be easier said than done.

71 UTPA 68 UND final UND finishes 5-7 in the Great West, and likely locks up a spot in the bottom 10 of the RPI.

61 UTPA 101 UND final What a beatdown. I guess there's a slight gap between the top two teams in the Great West.

43 UTPA 74 UND 12:30 left.

31 UTPA 49 UND halftime UTPA is in second place in the Great West with an 8-3 record.

Our RPI is around 200. I haven't looked closely, but I'm assuming there will be a lot more than 32 teams who don't get an NCAA bid who have winning records and a much higher RPI than UND.

Allyssa Wall scored 20 points and had 24 rebounds to lead Dakota Valley to a state tournament berth: http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/sports/hig...7d0b373b76.html

Now that this season is finally almost over, does anybody really think next year will be any better? Bledsoe has really carried the team in the second half of the season, and he'll be graduating. Mitchell has shown flashes of being a big scorer, but lacks consistency. Based upon what I've seen, Haugen is really the only other player who might have the potential to average double figures in scoring any time soon. I'm just not seeing a light at the end of this tunnel.

57 Houston Baptist 42 UND about 15 minutes to go. This has been really, really ugly...

66 Houston Baptist 80 UND final

46 Houston Baptist 73 UND a little over 7 minutes to go.

36 Houston Baptist 35 UND halftime

Sweden's Olympic coach hired as UND assistant: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/arti...056/group/home/

Update on Standing Rock petition.

73 UND 91 NJIT final Sioux now 8-20.

59 UND 49 NJIT final Not much help from the Sioux bench--16 minutes and 0 points.

JBB? That guy's been getting kicked off message boards since the 1990's. Anybody remember the old egroups dII football board, which was kind of the predecessor to d2football.com? I believe that was his original stomping grounds. He didn't last too long, but that was where his legend began...

I think what it boils down to is that the Al is very sensitive to criticism right now because of how much it's received. It will get criticized far less for not booking concerts than for booking concerts that lose money. I don't see Simon and Garfunkel drawing very well here, just as Neil Diamond didn't. John Mayer? No thanks. That guy's a tool. Bon Jovi has a good track record already at the Fargodome. It's not surprising they're going to stick with what's worked well in the past. So that leaves Carrie Underwood. I think she would have drawn well here, but if it comes down to a bidding war situation, you have to be aggressive and willing to take a risk in order to have much of a chance to book a big concert. That's just not the political climate right now in GF.

Check out the comments section. Brad indicates she's looking at colleges out east.

UND lost tonight 71-61, and now has the dubious distinction of having lost two games this year to a team which, at the time, had an RPI of 347--the worst in dI (Houston Baptist being the other loss).

78 NJIT 90 UND final Mitchell had 33 points.

71 NJIT 80 UND 2:31 to go

53 NJIT 68 UND just under 9 minutes to go. Mitchell having a huge game with 27 so far.

31 NJIT 44 UND halftime