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11 NJIT 23 UND 10:20 left in first half

44 NJIT 69 UND final A very solid performance by the Sioux.

40 NJIT 56 UND 4:49 to go

21 NJIT 32 UND halftime

Wayne Nelson article on the early start time: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/152126/

That's what the Great West is--a haven for (mostly) new dI schools with no real conference yet. The general consensus is that UND will join the Summit league in a few years.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you saying that Taylor thinks NDSU can play an FBS game, AND two home non-conference games every year? Wouldn't that mean NDSU wouldn't play any non-conference FCS games on the road, other than in 12-game seasons?

She is--23.5 ppg and 19 rpg. Haven't heard anything about whether UND is showing interest, however (she's a jr.). Farroh's a bit on the small side for a post at the college level, but I'd much rather have a 6'0" or 6'1" center who can really score than a 6'2" or 6'3" player who is a project.

One thing I've noticed about the past few recruiting classes is that there hasn't been an abundance of kids who were really big scorers at the high school level. Smart was, as she averaged 25 ppg as a sr., and scored nearly 3000 career points. But most of the rest have scored between 10 and 14 ppg as seniors in high school, or perhaps slightly more, but in their state's smallest class, e.g. ND class B. Since obviously high school numbers generally go down rather than up once the player gets to college, it makes a person wonder exactly who is expected to develop into a double-figure scorer in the next few years?

From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, recognizing the top girls basketball performances of the week:

NJ Tech's game at USD was also re-scheduled. That game is now on Sunday, March 7. At least on a Sunday, you'll still get fans. But on a Tuesday afternoon? Wasn't it possible to swap so that USD and NJ Tech could play in the evening on February 23, and UND got the March 7 game? Or how about playing at night at Hyslop (I'm assuming this may be too short of notice to get the Al)? Anything is better than playing on a weekday afternoon.

Noon and 2 p.m. games on a Tuesday? Wow.

I know Roebuck has never been a big proponent of red-shirting, but it's really turning out to have been a good move to have red-shirted Youngblut her first year. She's really starting to come on lately (25 points last night), and thanks to her red-shirt season, she still has one more year to go.

66 UND 42 Seattle final

Softball has been dropped from the Olympics due to too much North American dominance. Hopefully women's hockey doesn't suffer the same fate: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver...o&type=lgns

Here are Anderson's stats: http://preps.startribune.com/stats.detail....playerid=105645

It's been a long time since I actually expected a true freshman to start, but I think the chances are good Anderson starts right away. He'll be the first true point guard Jones has had (hard to believe considering it will be Jones' fifth year), and he's also probably more athletic than the only other options--"combo" guards Haugen and Schuler.

I believe these are the five most recent recruiting classes which have at least one player still on the team: 2004-05 Kimbrough (graduated) Ledger Bagaason 2005-06 Bergan Seay Youngblut 2006-07 K. Gillett (left team) Lof LaFrance (injured--no longer on team) Brekke (juco transfer) (left team) 2007-08 Privatsky (injured) J. Gillett (left team) Thingstad (left team--may have been walk-on) 2008-09 Sharkova (juco transfer) (ineligible--may never play) Houdek (injured) Kuehl (injured) Smart Rothfusz Obviously the last three recruiting classes, for a variety of reasons, have done very little so far. Lof is the only player who could be considered a meaningful contributor at this point. I'm not interested in placing blame for the way things have worked out, but clearly things need to start turning around quickly in terms of recruiting if we want to avoid being at the level of most of the rest of the Great West, which as we've seen is pretty terrible.

Looks like the rebuilding project just got a little bigger. So next year we'll have sr.'s Youngblut and Lof, and...a lot of question marks: Privatsky, who's coming off two serious knee injuries, four sophomores who each have shooting percentages in the 20's at present, and who average between 1 and 3 ppg each, plus a bunch of true freshmen and (probably) two or three juco transfers. And it's been a long time since either a true freshman or juco transfer has made much of an impact. So in other words, things aren't looking too promising.

True, but my understanding is that Arizona is becoming more and more heavily recruited by FCS schools. I wonder what other offers Batten had coming out of high school? Who knows, maybe SDSU was his only dI offer. SDSU offered a handful of AZ kids this year, but didn't get any of them. I'm just wondering whether that was merely a fluke, or perhaps a sign of things to come? I honestly believe that if UND were still playing outside, we would not have gotten most (maybe any?) of the kids we've gotten in the past few years from CA, AZ, FL or TX.

Long-term, I wonder how much (if any) of a disadvantage it is for SDSU to be the only one of the four Dakota dI schools to still play outside? It may not matter that much when recruiting kids from the region who are used to playing outside in the cold, but for a kid from Arizona, for example, who may have offers from SDSU and at least one of the other Dakota schools, might playing inside be a factor in his decision? I wonder if it was for R.J. McGill?

You can download the football media guide for free at fightingsioux.com, and that should contain the info.

I certainly don't follow area juco basketball closely, but I know NDSCS has a sophomore guard averaging about 20 ppg. I believe her name is Megan Groen.

Games have been postponed due to the weather on the east coast causing travel problems: http://www.areavoices.com/waynenelson/.

Although I think most of us see that some lean years may be ahead for UND women's basketball, at our present level (which is almost certainly below average compared to other Roebuck teams), here's how our RPI compares to the current and future Summit teams: 127 Oral Roberts 129 SDSU 201 UND 218 Missouri-KC 219 Oakland 226 NDSU 238 IPFW 306 W. Illinois 315 USD 335 S. Utah 341 IUPUI 343 Centenary (leaving)