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His son is graduating, so it wouldn't surprise me. I believe Central absolutely has to have a "name" coach in order to remain competitive, which generally means an ex-UND player. Without getting south end kids through open enrollment, Central hockey likely won't be much better than Central football and basketball, which have been among the worst in the state over the last five to eight years.

I think it's pretty safe to say that nobody is going to be hiring Miller again, ever. Which I'm sure she knows, and is presumably part of the reason she's engaged in such a scorched-earth policy on her way out of Duluth. I read yesterday how she thinks it's a Title IX violation that Sandelin gets paid more than she did. If a court agrees (which I highly doubt), I don't even want to think about the ramifications at pretty much every athletic department in the country.

I think Yanku from NAU and Hooker are the two best sophomores I've seen, but then again I haven't seen everybody in the conference play in person.

UND has one more chance to beat a 300-plus RPI team at home--Omaha. The bad news is that Omaha has won their last two road games.

Depends on the source. Realtime has us as 283. ESPN at 299.

This was UND's third loss of the season vs. a team with an RPI in the 300's.

I don't know how much, if any bearing this has on the current situation, but for what it's worth, Rich Glas was 13-15 in his final season at UND. Perhaps more interestingly, he was 20-10 in his second-to-last season.

She must be. I also don't know what's going on with Lauck, as she only played three minutes last night. About the only good news that came out of this weekend is that Sawatzke seems to be stepping up, as she had 10 points in 22 minutes last night.

UND loses. Finishes 2-7 on the road in the Big Sky. Not good. Not good at all.

UND struggling yet again on the road, down 36-26 at the half at SUU.

I'm not sure what Brew is doing with the starting lineups lately. At NAU, Roscoe started instead of Evers. Tonight, Szabla isn't starting.

I'm sure they'll be better, but SUU returns pretty much everybody, too. Somebody has to finish in the bottom few of the conference. Besides Idaho St., I'm not sure I'm very confident that UND is going to be better than any other teams next year, UNLESS the two aforementioned freshmen are really, really good.

Assuming that the two years left on Jones' contract buy him another year, is there much question that his future at UND is pretty much dependent upon Crandall and Seales being difference-makers immediately? And by difference-makers, I mean being clearly better than Tyler and DeRouen were this year. I just don't see much hope that the other returnees' improvement is going to be enough for UND to rise all that much in the standings.

UND finally finishes off Ohio St. in triple OT, 2-1.

UND now 4-13. And while a person could emphasize the fact that a lot of the losses have been pretty close, conversely you could also say that of the four wins, only one of which would UND likely have much of a chance if the game were to be replayed today, and that's the home win over Idaho St. And even that's probably not better than 50-50.

I just saw a pic on twitter. I also recognized Dave Rettker and Burke Barlow. There was one or two I did not recognize. Hey, it's been 20 years.

Which players are there?

Women's basketball can offer 15 scholarships. There are currently three seniors. UND signed six players in the fall, and I have to assume Grace Coughlin will be on scholarship, as well. So I'm not sure whether that means not all underclassmen on scholarship right now will be returning next year, not all of the 15 scholarships were actually used this year, or not all of the signees are going to be on scholarship? Keep in mind that unlike in division II, there is no splitting of scholarships.

I have been hearing about this kid as a basketball prospect for a few years, but he really hasn't put up the kind of numbers I'd expect from a division II prospect, let alone a borderline division I prospect. Does he have any basketball offers yet?

The following is each school's overall Big Sky record over the last almost three full years, minus Idaho. 43-13 Montana 38-17 Weber St. 31-24 Northern Arizona 30-25 Sac. St. 29-26 Eastern Washington 29-27 Northern Colorado 28-28 UND 24-31 Portland St. 23-33 Montana St. 16-39 Idaho St. 14-41 Southern Utah

I'm guessing you've seen Freije play before. Is her game at all similar to Madi Buck's?

Let's just say I cared a lot more back then. Where are they now?: Tom Brown--remained as an assistant at Winona State for eight more years, before finally getting a head coaching job at division II West Texas A & M this past spring. Steve Weemer--continued to coach high school basketball in Illinois until 2013. Apparently out of coaching altogether now. Randall Herbst--went on to a pretty successful two-year stint as head coach at University of Mary, before leaving to take an assistant coaching job at Omaha, where he remains today.

I was pretty opinionated back then. Guess I've mellowed a bit in the past decade.

I wouldn't mind if Jones could find a guy like Kaluna (sp?) from NAU. He has done O.K. finding taller skinny guys who hopefully will eventually gain weight/strength, but it would be nice if he could find an offensive tackle type once in awhile, too, even if he's only 6'6" or so.

I too would like to see more playing time for Shields and possibly Coleman, but Antwi is actually playing the best basketball of his career right now, and I would hate to see him play any less than what he has been.