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    In a phone interview with the Chronicle on Monday evening Freije declined to give specifics as to why she’s leaving the Fighting Hawks but said MSU gives her the best chance to accomplish her goals.

    “I just felt it was in the best interests for what I dream to fulfill in my college career (to join the Bobcats),” said Freije, who was granted her release on March 19. “I just see that ... it was not going to happen at UND because of some of the circumstances that I was going through.”

    Freije was a four-time All-State selection and North Dakota Miss Basketball finalist for Lakota-Edmore High. She played club basketball for Northern Lites and was a teammate with former MSU star Riley Nordgaard.

    Freije said she developed good relationships with Binford and associate head coach Nate Harris through the recruitment process. That made games against MSU difficult.

    “After games I would say, ‘Good game.’ And that was tough,” said Freije, who visited MSU this past weekend. “After we played them I wanted to just hug (Binford) and say, ‘How have you been?’ and ‘How’s your family?’ But you can’t do that. When she first called me after I got released she said, ‘It feels good to be talking to you again, girl.’

    "That was cool because I felt the same way. I had a lot of coaches that wanted to reach out to me but I’m at the point where I didn’t want to make a new relationship with a coach.”

    From Bozeman Daily Chronicle article

  2. 5 minutes ago, cberkas said:

    The US and Canada have blown out everyone year after year and then at the Olympics this year, they never scored more then 5 goals in a game.

    Canada didn't score more than 5 goals in a game in 2014 either.  The US did, twice.

  3. The 2010 Olympic tournament was horrible (heading into the gold medal match, Canada had outscored its 4 opponents, 46-2; the USA outscoring their 4 opponents, 40-2) and as a result, they changed how the round robin was done. 

    Since 2010 the 4 highest ranked teams in the world go in Group A, the next 4 in Group B.  All 4 Group A teams make medal round, with top two (presumably Canada and US) getting byes.  Only the top 2 in Group B make medal round, playing quarterfinal games against teams 3 & 4 from Group A.   So the last two Olympics, US and Canada have played 90/100% of their games against teams ranked in the top 4 in the world.  It limits the number of bad blowouts.  They use the same system for the World Championships.

  4. On 2/15/2018 at 1:39 PM, jdub27 said:

     

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    • James Dean, Ph.D., former executive vice chancellor and provost, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    • Kelvin Droegemeier, Ph.D., vice president for research, University of Oklahoma
    • Suresh Garimella, Ph.D., executive vice president for research and partnerships, Purdue University
    • Venu Govindaraju, Ph.D., vice president for research and economic development, University of Buffalo
    • Mark Kennedy, president, University of North Dakota
    • James Weyhenmeyer, Ph.D., professor and vice president of research and economic development, Georgia State University
    • Dale Whittaker, Ph.D., provost and executive vice president, University of Central Florida
    • Matthew Wilson, JD, president, University of Akron

    Garimella, Kennedy, Whittaker and Wilson are the finalists.

  5. She hits at the same % as Merseli, .168.  

    It does seem odd but on the other hand, I could see someone in her situation looking at UND as a place to go.   With the exception of Wichita St, UND right now is a program on par with all the schools in the American.  So you move to a program that:  a) has similar, if not better, talent; b) schedules aggressively; c) has a strong chance to win its league; and d) plays before 4X the crowd that you do now.

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  6. 1 hour ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:

    Anyone know when to bond will be paid off for the Alerius?

    I looked this up for the sales tax vote thread.  The Alerus bonds are scheduled to be paid off in 2029 but the sales tax that funds the payments does not automatically sunset.

  7. A bit off topic, but a nice story.

    A Vikings' fan on Reddit, appreciating the guts of Saints' punter Thomas Morstead on continuing on after injuring his ribs in the 1st quarter, encouraged others to support Morstead's Foundation - What You Give Will Grow.  It went viral and donations are now over $170K; Morstead has stated the Child Life program at Children's Minnesota will be the beneficiary.

    Vikings Give to the Who Dat Nation

     

  8. On 1/1/2018 at 6:21 PM, SiouxFan100 said:

    I am a little concerned that it isn’t team underachieving but lack of talent. I see teams getting through to the basket when we defend one on one. Some players lack defensive quickness. Shooting is very streaky with many players  I thought if we just held our turnovers down we would dominate. Well, turnovers were way down and we still lost. This team doesn’t rebound like prior teams. I don’t know if we have enough smart basketball players Not giving up but they haven’t proven to me that they are that great of a team yet. Sorry to say

    After Klabo and Freije, this team has no forwards/centers, at least none that Brewster trusts.   Fleecs and Moton were getting minutes early on but are averaging only 4 the past 3 games.  2 years ago you had Loyd, Roscoe, Smith, Freije and Klabo all getting 15+ minutes; last year down to Roscoe, Freije and Klabo; now just the two.  That is on Brewster.

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  9. 16 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:

    Lose at sd 76-71 after being up by 16 in the first half. Turnovers turnovers turnovers 22 turnovers to sd having 7. Freije with seven turnovers- as many as the whole South Dakota team. We will never be more than average if we continue to give the ball away 

    Freije, Klabo and Strand all played pretty much the entire game.  Klabo missed her last 5 shots (she hadn't missed before that) and Freije had 6 turnovers in the 4th quarter.

    Fatigue?

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  10. STATS ALERT!!

    I think the biggest difference from last year to this year is Merseli.  She was on fire in November last year, hitting .233 with 4 kills per set, much better than she had been doing before that.  So they went to her more often, over 12 attacks per set when she normally got about 10.  And having that weapon from the back had to have made things open up for the front row hitters.

    This November, her numbers are pretty much what they have been all year, hitting about .170 with 2.8 kills per set. 

    FWIW, over the last 2 sets yesterday, Tamara had 8 kills with 2 errors on roughly 25 total attacks.  Hope it continues.

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