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This may be the worst the NCC has been in recent memory. Everybody has at least three losses except USD, who is playing their usual weak non-conference schedule. Duluth looked pretty good for awhile, but just lost at home to Southwest State. Aside from the obvious of losing teams to dI, what has happened to this league? I realize most teams were senior-dominated last year, but whatever happened to reloading? The NCC's record vs. the NSIC is basically .500 right now. Is the NSIC really getting better, or is it just a matter of the NCC getting that much worse?

That would be good news, as he's a nice player. Any word on Evan Sauvageau?

According to this, a Wisconsin kid who UND offered just committed to Minnesota.

It's on Wednesday nights at 6:30, usually on both 1440 AM and 96.1 FM. Glas, Roebuck and Hakstol are all on unless there's a bball game. Last night, the women were playing on 96.1, so the coaches's show was only on 1440.

Did UMC sit back in that tight zone again? I assume they did. That's why teams do it against UND. It won't work often, but once in every 10-15 games, the Sioux will shoot 30-something percent, and a clearly inferior team can spring an upset. But this would have been the biggest upset in local college basketball history IMO. Hopefully this serves as a wakeup call. Even shooting that poorly, if the Sioux had played with more fire, it still could have been a 20-plus point win considering the huge disparity in talent and depth between the two teams. What are the odds that Boese, Mahlum, Maffin and Guinn all have poor shooting nights at the same time like they did last night? Hard to believe.

That's disappointing, to say the least. This was in the same article:

I tried to listen to the coaches' show tonight, but I was in a location where reception came and went. In any event, I thought I heard Rich actually acknowledge for one of the first times about how the public is really down on his program. Did anybody else hear what he was saying in the last 5-10 minutes of his segment?

I found a Jeff Kolpack article from February of 2004 which included this: I'm not sure if this link will work or not, but you can access the article in the "Bison Zone" at the Forum website.

I imagine the possibility of UND getting her will depend largely on whether or not she's one of those kids who doesn't want to go too far from home for college. As we all know, UND has gotten some kids who clearly were/are dI players due to family connections, e.g. Jaime Pudenz, or proximity to home, e.g. Kimbrough. The facts that she's from Crookston, and that her brother is already at UND certainly won't hurt Roebuck's chances. I've heard Minnesota is very aware of her, and it's very unlikely UND would have much of a chance against the Gophers, but in a recruiting battle with dI schools from other states, I like UND's chances given what UND can offer in terms of facilities and attendance to go along with the opportunity for family to see all of her home games along with a number of road games which would be within a few hundred miles of Crookston.

New poll is out:

To the extent that was true--and I have no idea whether or not it was--I suspect it stopped being the case in 2001. Since the completion of REA and the corresponding increase in season tickets available, funds raised by the FSC have been well in excess of $1 million per year. Probably much closer to $1.5 million per year.

I agree. My numbers comment was directed as much to her assists as anything. I'm not sure there's anybody else on her team who can score, and hence, she probably won't have much in the way of assists even though she is a good passer. I do think she'll be more of an offensive threat than was Tonia Jones, although I agree that it won't be her role to shoot very often.

Impressive numbers. Hopefully she can step right in and contribute immediately next year. As for the other UND recruits, I believe Seay is averaging 21.5 ppg through two games. I'm not sure on Bergan, but she's playing on a very weak team this year so her numbers may be down from what they were last year.

Thanks. I could be wrong, but I think the Fighting Sioux Club raised $1.75 million or so last year. Anybody else recall the number? EDIT: I guess I can't find anything other than the fiscal year 2004 number, which was apparently about $1.5 million. I don't know what the fiscal year 2005 number was.

I'm just curious, how much did Team Makers raise last year?

Another opposing coach with a very high opinion of the UND women: (from the Duluth paper).

On Friday afternoon at the Alerus, Crookston plays GF Central. It should be an interesting matchup of Wahlin vs. UND recruit Seay.

Michael Arndt of LaMoure verbals to NDSU. [url="http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=111339

Of all the UND coaches, Roebuck would seem to have the most to gain by staying dII. With the talent he's assembled, he's looking at potentially multiple national championships over the next few years if UND doesn't move to dI. Not that UND wouldn't be competitive as a dI mid-major, but by the time we'd become tournament eligible, he'd be past retirement age. Even though it's not considered very "p.c." to hire a man to coach a women's basketball team in this day and age, I suspect his .850 winning % would have made it easy to have gotten a good dI job if that had been his goal.

I certainly don't pretend to know what he's thinking, but I've noticed a lot--and perhaps even an inordinate amount--of "next year" talk in his radio interviews. He definitely talks like somebody who fully expects to be back next year.

Unfortunately, Buning is going to have some decisions to make in that regard. On the men's side, basketball and track/cross country are not doing well at all. Certainly the lack of an adequate indoor track greatly hurts track, but it still needs to do better than it has been in recent years. On the women's side, volleyball and softball seem to be under-achieving, particularly in volleyball which has many of the same advantages UND basketball has in terms of funding and facilities.

I was thinking the same thing, but between the fact that Lennon and the rest of the staff are still here, that Tibesar left prior to most, and perhaps all on-campus visits, and that there are so many other Wisconsin kids on the team right now who can vouch for what kind of a program it is once they're on campus for a vist, we should be fine.

Clearly UND would have been better this year had Koenig and Lindahl been 100%. But it's still quite disturbing that two injuries have turned us into a team that would struggle to beat anybody aside from perhaps Trinity Bible College. My question is this: how does the state of the basketball program right now compare to: 1. The end of the Gunther era in the mid-to-late 80's? 2. The hockey program at the end of the Gino era? 3. The football program at the end of the Behrns era? My personal opinion is that things are worse right now than in any of the above situations. Injuries are a part of sports and you have to roll with the punches. I don't believe injuries even begin to explain or excuse the depths we've sunk to. Going back 10-20 years, who would have fathomed it would be possible we could lose to Mayville, Moorhead and Bemidji, and get pushed to the limit at home by Mary and Valley City, all in one season?

Some of this info is a little old, but here's some information on a few Wisconsin kids UND has shown interest in: link 1; link2.