the green team

Isn’t the PFW game Thursday night?

Actually, I will add to my Coyote criticism. Perhaps the reason we fouled more last year, was that USD actually had the far better squad. I can admit that. USD had a incredibly talented squad last year and they do again. There, I just paid a USD team a compliment. I have been following UND Womens & Men's Basketball since the 70's and not once have I ever heard a USD fan give one of our teams a compliment..so already I'm ahead in that category. Usually, if a team is over matched they have a tendency to commit more fouls, that's just a reality. But the fact that you insinuate that we a "bruising team"That's insinuating that we were in a sense "dirty". I don't like it, but it doesn't surprise me, coming from the Coyote faithful. Toughen up a little. I'll put it this way. For example, Lexi Klabo, was never going to try avoid contact in her career. Why should she? She was very good finishing through contact.

I was just curious to see how the teams that North Dakota Women have played, have fared with the rest of their games. If you throw out the non-d1's, and the game against Arizona 13-1. I think the record Women's Basketball opponents is close to 50wins against 75 losses. Including getting 2 wins against 2 teams with only 2 wins. South Carolina State and Charleston Southern. Now one of their losses was to a very good 10 and 3 Illinois State team, and to their credit, I thought that actually was one of the Fighting Hawks best games even in a loss. Honestly, you can only play who you have scheduled. But I will have to say this staff, has set its schedule up very well this year, with some of the opponents it went out and got. It may be for the innocuous reason that they knew they had a lot of young and youthful players on the roster that were going to need some seasoning, but a person can hypothesize that there may have been a little bit of.. lets go out at get a good non-league record". It certainly can't hurt. I can't really blame them...I would do the same thing. But I'm also keeping things in perspective. That's why it's always so difficult to compare the Women's and Men's Programs because, most years the Men, from my understanding usually take on 3 to 4 money games. Even though they won, one this year (Nebraska). You don't often count on it. I believe the Arizona game was a money game for the Women, but I can't imagine it was anywhere near the amounts the Men pulled in from even say Valpo, let alone an Oregon St/Minnesota or Nebraska. Of course I could be wrong, as someone may have more definitive knowledge. Bottom line, this freshman class has some very nice pieces, local at that, which I enjoy, and I hope they can continue to thrive and grow. I was not even going to begin to respond to the Kiyoat fan above who claimed we were a hack fest last year... but I just can't let it go unchecked so allow me to retort. USD has a reputation from several in the conference for their tendency to flop and make more out of contact that what there actually is. Credit it to them, as they seem to have a lot of the officiating crews snowed into responding to the often time overreactions. Our players don't goon anybody. Certainly not this year, not last year or any year prior to that. That has long been the USD "company fan line" any time one of their players get bumped, going all the way back to the NCC days.

Umm, didn’t we win big on the road at Denver last season?

They lost to Cedar Rapids I think in the opening round last year. Not sure it was even their U18 team, as they may have been at U18 IIHF. Might have had to utilize their U17s at that point

I have been very lukewarm on Marlon for much of his career. But I do tip my cap to him for a good portion of the non conference season as he seems to at least to this point be making fairly good decisions. 8 assists to 2 turnovers. If he is able to bring a lot of these performances with him into Summit League play the team will have a good shot at beating some of the preseason expectations at the very least.

Disagree. He was our best player on the floor on Sunday against Campbell. There is more to the game than making shots which he has to do, no doubt, he was finding ways to effect the game in other ways, but he has a lot teammates that are giving the ball away at an epic rate that are costing the team several possessions. Everyone has to improve, Billy included. I just think that assessment is harsh

Did you see them lose to Florida Gulf Coast yesterday?

UND has been fortunate in its recent history to have teams that had a number of players that relieve pressure. For example, the Jamal Webb, Aaron Anderson, Troy Huff team, all three could come get the ball if a team was taking one ofthe others away in the backcourt. And if any of the 3 of them was being pressured on the perimeter in the front court...those 3 would drive that defender to the hoop. Same could be said of Hooker, Crandall, and even Bernstine. Now, the way I see it is that a team will take away Stewart in the backcourt but everyone is trying to get the ball back to him, because we don’t have too many good ball-handlers, and we get into our sets way late in the clock. And it’s even worse if we haven’t got him the ball early in the front court. We just don’t have many guys that handle pressure particularly well in the above mentioned situations and it’s causing serious problems. Not sure there is an immediate easy answer other than get better at handling the ball against pressure. But our team is kind of is what it is, at this juncture

Middle-outside...is not a setter...yet

Maybe he’ll do push ups, after TD’s?

She’s not a setter. In high school she’s an outside hitter. She may be coming here as a setter but their will be a fairly steep learning curve I’m sure for someone who isn’t asked to set on a regular basis.

I know I'm very much in the minority. But I love early games. Noon, 11am- the earlier the better. I guess, I'm used to some of that Big 10 start times where one of my kids went to grad school. But probably around here- I bet that attitude would only be shared with 1 out of every 1000 people here or so. I'm a weirdo

I'm looking at the calendar of Midco "properties" and was a hectic day for them. I believe they had UND-Montana State on a Midco, NDSU-SDSU at 230 on another Midco, USD-SIU at 4 immediately following UND-Montana State and UND v BSU in Hockey following NDSU-SDSU.

This is exactly the challenge. It's absolutely a no win situation. Especially when someone considers how reliant UND is with student fees towards athletics in the division 1 era.

It did if they wanted the game to be televised

The Denver Match was a rescheduled match due to weather. Once a match has postponed its up to the 2 institutions to figure it out. Denver wanted to get in on Monday Night, play Tuesday and get home Tuesday night. If they play Tuesday night. They miss school on Wednesday...potentially 3 days of school. The way it was scheduled was that they really missed 1.5. Out of class time matters to every school and every athletic department. This was very apparent when they tried get that match rescheduled due to weather.

How about the coin toss they won in Huntsville last year. Just wondering what they chose in that instance?

and Ratelle is a strength and conditioning disciple of? Whom did he work with to change his body?

https://www.learfield.com/sync-my-game/

Jeepers, I don’t worry about their announcers. I listen to our radio broadcast on the app and just turn down the tv. Takes care of that.

This is the harsh reality. But it is one none the less. People who live in surrounding communities that I work with and would consider friends and acquaintances are a perfect example. I use to visit with these people on the concourse at Alerus during halftimes frequently in the early 2000's. These same people who I run into for work today, have been heading to Fargo on Saturday's and only started doing so within the last 5 or 6 years. That's just a product of these people some would say "bandwagon jumpers" just want to identify with the most successful program of the time. There is enough of them that it definitely can effect the numbers. Let's just say I know of 4, off the top of my head. If others know of people like this...it can start to add up in a hurry. And if UND Football starts getting really good again. I would expect to see many of these people back. That's not how I operate, but how a fair amount do and it can have an effect.

Don't they play enough money games already as compared to their peer institutions within the conference? If anything they may play a couple too many, imho. Those are important for experiences for players---just like it is for the Northlands or Mayvilles when they come here to play, but you also have some games at home. Also, I'm not sure that all the money from those games, goes directly to Men's Basketball. Don't get me wrong, some does. I visited with the former staff at functions. I may be mistaken but I think a portion goes into the general Athletics budget to help fund all the sports. I'm sure there are others on here, way closer to it and have more knowledge of it than a few of my brief visits at different events.

NSIC has very few non conference game availability. They are such a large conference they start playing conference opponents as early as November & December. Curious as to what type of $’s NSIC teams would command to bring in. I’m assuming considerably more than NAIA or DIII’s.

The only problem is that since this program has been division 1, that has been a common refrain. Yes, the plan may to have better scheduling, but it will never work out that way. Even when there is conference v. conference scheduling (Big Sky v Summit, Summit v WAC, Summit v. Horizon) other teams can just buy it out and not come here which will leave us with a steady diet of Nothland/Mayville State/Crown/Presentation Colleges. And maybe a 3 for 1...which if you ask me is ridiculous unless it’s a real big timer. -UNI doesn’t qualify for me...at worst 2 for 1 with them. Non appealing home non conference contests is what I’ve come to expect and to be quite honest, I have made my peace with it. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to go to games. It’s the reality of where we are. Promising in the future schedule really means nothing. nearly all schools have the ability to buy things out...except us. That’s the reality of where we are at, for the foreseeable future. I hope I’m wrong...but I’m guessing any school that says they will come here in 2 years time etc...will be nowhere near the schedule when we finally get there: