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It wouldn't surprise me if Lennon hired Behrns.

In some ways, this doesn't surprise me. UNO has a huge problem with being non-compliant with Title IX. There are more women students than men, but men receive 66% of the scholarship money. And they don't even have women's hockey (how can a school with men's hockey get away with that these days?). They were always a lawsuit waiting to happen.

UND lost 74-66. I believe this is Roebuck's first losing season as a college coach.

UND down 39-30 at the half. I guess Chicago State is just a bad matchup for the Sioux this year. Hard to believe considering CSU has virtually the identical personnel as last year, when UND swept the season series. CSU only plays seven players, so hopefully UND's depth can wear them down in the second half.

It's going to be interesting to see whether Gentry and/or Benton red-shirt next year. It seems that both have very nice athleticism, which is something UND could use more of. On the other hand, red-shirting would mean they'd have four chances at post-season play rather than three. I have nothing to base this on, but I kind of look for Gentry to play right away, and back up Huff. Not sure about Benton, but it seems he could potentially back up Schuler nicely.

I heard about that, also. Hard to believe some tv announcers apparently don't do basic homework before they call a game.

Hard to believe that USD pulled this one out considering their leading scorer (Westbrook) is injured and didn't play, and they were just 3-15 from the free throw line!

Not sure. I guess the attendance for the UVU-USD men's game was decent last night, but with no local teams playing tonight, it's likely going to be really bad.

Championship game tomorrow is apparently being televised on fox college sports at 8:30.

I think that if possible, the tournament should have been in GF or Vermillion. I'm pretty sure there wouldn't have been any games with 50 people there. And that's not an exaggeration, from what I've been told about some of the games in Orem.

That's quite an operation they have going on at the Great West Conference. And nice job to the conference on choosing Orem, Utah as the host. Apparently the attendance has been pretty embarrassing, even for UVU's first round games.

24 bench points for UND in first half! Smart and Buck are leading scorers. 30 of UND's 37 points scored by freshmen and sophomores.

23 UND 15 HBU 3:12

19 UND 13 HBU 7:47

14 UND 8 HBU 11:41 left in first half

I used the 6/13 ratio assuming a juco transfer is brought in, as it sounds like that is the direction the staff is leaning for the 13th scholarship. It's a tough situation. On the one hand, I agree that it's difficult to not renew a scholarship based solely on lack of progress on the court if the kid has tried hard and has met all expectations in the classroom. But on the other hand, it's not exactly fair to the current freshmen if they're not given the help they need to make contending for a Big Sky title attainable because there are three or four scholarships being used by upperclassmen who aren't capable of playing at the dI level. We really need to hope that there are no recruiting "misses" in the next two classes, because there is almost no margin for error at present if all the red-shirt sophomores stick around for two more years on scholarship (unless a couple of them improve tremendously).

I just read Vandrovec's live chat at the Argus Leader site, and he said Douple did make a comment along the lines of the Summit would still be interested in UND. Apparently this was part of a radio interview last week.

It sounds like UND is actively recruiting one or more junior college players for the last currently available scholarship. So assuming a juco transfer is brought in, and nobody leaves from the current red-shirt sophomore class, that would mean that 46% (6/13) of the scholarships for next year would be accounted for by one class. And barring one of the current starters being demoted, getting injured or leaving early, none of next year's juniors is likely to start, and realistically three or even four of them may not even be in the regular rotation. Regardless of whose fault it is, such a situation would really seem to hamstring the program for the next two years. I think the classes will be evened out to some degree. Exactly how that might happen is an open question, but it seems like a fairly strong possibility that it will happen.

The football issue will be huge. If the MVFC is willing to expand again, I suspect UNO would go that route. If not, they're in the same situation UND was in, and I imagine they might choose the Big Sky. And of course, this would all be contingent upon the Board of Regents even agreeing to allow UNO to go dI.

You have to wonder whether Fullerton has been in contact with Alberts, also.

From the Herald:

Actually, through the first three years of the dI transition, it appears UND has done better than SDSU. In their first three years, SDSU had 25 total wins, with 17 of them being against dI opponents. UND has 40 total wins, with 23 being against dI opponents.

For a team with an RPI of 345, yes they are.

Times have really changed the past year or so. It seems now any halfway decent dII school is a sought-after commodity by at least one, and in some cases multiple dI conferences. A few years ago, it was obviously a whole different story.

It's now 42-33 UND with 15:50 to go.