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If you put $5 in a jar every time you thought about or mentioned the CIT tournament, you'd be able to fund Jones' buyout yourself and have your way.

Say what you want about Jones and his ego, the way he has built his team the past few years by doing the smart and sure thing instead of the flashy or vogue thing is pretty strong proof that he gets it, regardless of what the critics say. His approach is not what it used to be a decade plus ago and he won't mortgage all that to trade for Peterson.

Well that ruins all those hot takes!!

Interesting tactic out of Nebraska. Coach Miles is banning his players from their locker room and lounge.

You are correct on 2008, I had forgot about that. 6 WCHA teams qualified and 5 of them were 2 or 3 seed so there was no other way to do it without penalizing a number 1 seed with a tougher matchup. Still, that was a pretty rare occurrence, I don't see it happening again especially with where the NCHC teams are currently ranked.

It's written into the rules that there are no conference matchups in the opening round. They can put two in the same regional (and they will) but they can't meet in the first game. Same thing used to happen to the WCHA.

What's your solution then?

Can't have conference matchups the first game.

No surprise this year was going to be frustrating but damn....

Trying to focus on positive things. The more I see Shields, the more I am excited for the for the future. Q just continues to impress.

Sounds like I missed an interested halftime show.

I checked and it looked like 4 of the 6 actually started and a fifth on did play the first game. The second game, 5 started and the third and fourth game 5 started and all 6 played (2 of the 6 are pitchers). The two freshman have pitched 22.1 out of 25 innings with a sophomore throwing the other 2.2 innings. Definitely a youth movement. Coach Stevens definitely seems to have one of the more outgoing personalities within the athletic department.

Yeah I agree. Referenced that particular one more for what they did in Italy while they were over there I guess. If Shields, Cashman, Bernstine and possibly Crandall are going to be contributors next year, it will be helpful.

Not sure whether he'll still be playing over there by then. Yep. They get something like 10 extra summer practices plus the games and workouts on the trip. Can do it once every 4 years. Not sure if Italy is the right answer every time due to costs, but definitely something the men's and women's teams need to take advantage of just for the practice time, even if it is just up to Canada. Here's an article on Michigan's Italy trip they took before this season. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/08/06/mens-hoops-set-for-august-italy-exhibition-trip/

With it being a part-time gig, it isn't like there was a whole shelf of new tools to choose from. Not a chance the league could afford to put a full roster of referees and linesman on the payroll and train them the way people want it done. The idea of trying to be a feeder system is intriguing, but again, I think you are going to run into the same issues.

Brekke getting injured played a big part in the issues with big men. Low and mid-majors have to take some risks at that position whether it be undeveloped high school guys or JuCo transfers. Traylor and Salmonson were brought in to replace Mathison and Mitchell, don't think they thought Wilmer would contribute all that much his senior year. I don't think Calceterra gets recruited last year if Brekke doesn't get injured and his status wasn't questionable. I think Nash was a no brainer, guessing Jones had some insight from his Iowa connections on that. Shanks was a no brainer as well Tyler had to sit out a year and bridge the gap and they knew he could score. Both him and Shanks are from the MSP area which helps. Hobaugh transferred as a walk-on, he wanted to get an ATC degree. Not even sure he was recruited. Has earned playing time though. Not 100% sold on the transfers brought in this year though. Guessing the offense needed to come from somewhere especially with them not knowing about Nash. The classes needed to be balanced out a little better at some point as well. If Jones does show some improvements and get an extension, I don't think there'd be much for transfers going forward outside of a big guy here or there or possibly an impact player who wants to transfer back to the area. Though I guess Bernstine is coming in next year but I think UND recruited him out of high school (maybe not?).

Coleman is such a mixed bag. Seems like he does some nice stuff and then a poor shot, bad pass and gets T'd up. Nash's shot was terrible too. That was the kind if thing he had quit doing recently.

So close. Impressive effort to fight to get back in it, just need to get over the hump.

Had it to one. Coleman called for getting pushed. UND at the line down 4.

Heh.

Down to three. Keep it rolling.

Down to 9 halfway through the second.

Liked how Shields played in the first half. Shutting down Wiggins in the second half would probably be a good idea.

Was there a sniper in the stands? What a flop.

Women looking good tonight and doing what they should against Portland State. 46-21 at the half.