UND92,96

6. Plus 9 points and 11 boards. I wouldn't be surprised if she gets a triple-double or two this year.

UND wins 71-54.

UND up 59-44 after three quarters.

UND up 38-24 at the half over NDSU. A big second quarter for the home team after being down 2 at the end of the first quarter.

Of UND's top nine scorers right now, only Hooker played in last year's NDSU game. It's pretty incredible how dramatically UND's roster has changed for the second year in a row.

Clearly UND late season was far better than UND early season. Of course, I guess you could say the same for USD, at least until the Illinois St. game. Looking forward to the Sept. 17 matchup. Traditionally, USD has done quite poorly when playing in Grand Forks.

This is what SFI had to say about recruiting and the quarterback situation:

USD looked good at times, and awful at times. I saw them play Youngstown St. in Vermillion, and USD couldn't seem to do anything right. They did have a really nice five-game stretch, but then laid an egg at Illinois St. to finish the season, losing 46-0. Losing at Illinois St. is no shame, but losing that badly isn't exactly the way you want to head into the off season.

Yes: http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=210574777

Bernstine? Or maybe Collins?

When you consider how much the program was struggling 10 years ago (sub-.500 record and home losses to both Mayville St. and Minot St.), that's a sad commentary on the state of the program, but the attendance numbers don't lie.

Murray has committed to UND.

SFI just confirmed that it is Hartford.

Per a Maurice tweet, there is a new commitment. I'm guessing Hartford?

USD beat the Gophers today. That Craig Smith guy can coach a little bit, huh?

Football Scoop is now reporting that Babers is headed to Syracuse.

Here's an outside-the-box suggestion--Dave Thorson. I imagine formerly working under Clem Haskins is problematic for many, but he's a ND native and has had incredible success at the high school level. He's also sent several players to UND over the years, including current players Crandall and Collins. I believe he could recruit the twin cities area very well. Not sure he'd even be willing to leave the cities after all these years, though.

My fear with a hypothetical Brian Faison-led search for a basketball coach is that he'd simply wait for people to apply unsolicited, and let the now infamous "process" play itself out. While I certainly don't know this to be true, there were some allegations that Faison did not reach out to anybody after Mussman was let go. If true, a similar inaction in the search for a new basketball coach likely wouldn't end up as well as the football search did. Somebody like Walthall probably isn't going to simply apply. He needs to be convinced by the a.d. that this is the right move for him.

Depends on the language in the contract. Lennon was making over double what Jones is, and his buyout, with one year remaining on his contract, was $55,000. I would guess that a hypothetical buyout of Jones' contract would be considerably less than his present yearly salary.

I don't expect Smith to come to UND. We had our chance and Buning blew it. But I do think the next coach gets $150k.

It's a problem for them. Similar to ND's open records law, which discourages many presently employed people from applying for high-profile public jobs such as coaches, a.d.'s or university presidents.

One-year contracts in South Dakota.

Even Tom Miller acknowledged Jones is on the hot seat during the Herald's live chat going on right now.

If we assume that certain coaches have been kept around for purely financial reasons, wouldn't it have been even more cost-effective to simply wait until they were going into the final year of their contracts, and then maybe offer a one-year extension? I guess I've just never understood the rationale behind offering multi-year extensions for coaches no other schools are pursuing?

As I recall, Dale did pretty well against all those "powers" in division II. Last time I checked, UNC and the xDSU's were still around in 2001, and only UNC had left by 2003.