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Kind of my feelings as well. It is unique and North Dakota ties, two things I'm a fan of. Other than finding them or following a link a while back, I can't take any credit for them, whoever hettinger_rl at sportslogo.net is the one who created them. Link to the UND thread here. Guessing they'd have to be a little careful on adding some feathers as it would start to get the NCAA all worked up by them claiming it to be Native American imagery (see William and Mary's issues). I kind of like how the colors were incorporated into the mane, seems like a work-around of sorts on that.

I thought UND's positioning was better than it has been (doesn't take much) but with Sac St shooting 3's and long range jumpers, there were a handful of long rebounds and weird angles that gave Sac St some second chances. Those are frustrating.

A couple mock-ups that someone did a while back kind of incorporate the feathers at least in the coloring of the mane. By no means a finished item or anything like that but the guy said when he did it, he tried to incorporate the Bennett Brien logo. I've seen a few other mock-ups that don't use that but when you talk about paying homage, I think these do a pretty good job.

I checked, you were correct and they did have two timeouts remaining. My mistake on that. Personal opinion is that taking a one after the basket doesn't really help you but if you do have two it likely doesn't hurt that much. If you rewatch it (thanks Big Sky TV!), the second the ball went through the hoop, Sac St was sprinting back to prevent anything crossing half court. If you take a timeout, you are going to run into them playing the same defense, with the added bonus of someone probably guarding the guy inbounding the ball as well. Neither scenarios are high percentage but I don't think an open half-court shot is much worse than hoping to catch a baseball pass on the other side of the halfcourt line when that is the only thing being defended and then adding in you hope you can get a shot off the ensuing inbounds.

Pretty sure you can't advance the ball with a timeout. You are still going to get a halfcourt shot at best and you're give the defense a little more time to set up along with making sure the guy inbounding the ball is guarded. Not sure UND gets a better shot off taking a timeout. I'm more surprised about not pressing for a 2 for 1 when UND got possession with 52 seconds left. That was disappointing. Had the projected #4 team beat and couldn't close it out.

That's pretty funny. They really started off with a doozy on the satire part too!!

Personal opinion - I keep being intrigued Nokotas or Wild Nokotas. Can be a little bit of a mouthful when saying the whole thing but I like the options that I've seen for logos and it is definitely unique along with having ties to North Dakota. Can also be shortened up "Nokes" to fill in for where "Sioux" was used in various chants/cheers/etc.

Nice recovery by Nash. Called for a questionable over the back on a tip in. Comes back with a steal and a dunk.

Hooker's passing with Shanks' size and moves down low is a fun combo to watch.

Looking good pretty good this half. Launched a few poor shots though. Defense looking good. Shanks is a presence down low. Sac has hit some mid- range jump shots. Let them keep shooting those, I can live with getting beat by what is normally a less than ideal shot.

Sac St not adjusting well to the touchy reffing. Free throw shooting will be big down the stretch.

Right, wrong or indifferent, the way the rule is currently written, it is not an automatic penalty. I wouldn't be surprised to see an alteration of the rule in the off-season.

Still wasn't an automatic penalty per the rules.

Uhhhh, those guys miss calls too. If you think college officials would come in and automatically be better, you don't understand how the refereeing hierarchy works. Refs are graded on every game. The good ones get more assignments and playoff games. None of them are going to catch everything especially with how fast the game happens. And while there were no D-1 refs, the replacement guys sure did an excellent job during the referee lockout a few years ago didn't they?

You lose a lot of credibility by making things like this up.

Honestly, I would think that isn't that far out of the ordinary. Per the article, teams send in a list of plays every week for review, but it usually is never made this public. But what better way to "prove" you aren't rigging the games than missing calls that benefit the team you have already decided is going to win. Brilliant!

Wait, what?? NFL tells Cowboys they missed seven penalties on Lions as well

I assume along with uniforms, the deal includes training clothes, travel clothes, coach's attire, etc?

From the "Not This $%!# Again" file: Anyone from Minot want to have a few words with their Representative?

Per Sioux Football Insider, UND will be wearing adidas gear next year. New home and away uniforms starting the upcoming season.

Friday - O'D Saturday - Drake

Unless they made it so expansion was possible and simple for the future, renovating for 18,000 at Memorial would be a colossal waste of money. I know that numbers right now are nowhere near that demand and having a half empty stadium doesn't look good but it would be a giant waste to spend that much money on that few of seats.

Yeah, I was just looking back at the 2014 Recruiting thread and it looked like there was a couple different versions of what might of happened.

I believe UND (Bubba's staff) did offer Parks out of high school last year.

Because it is a flat out insult to the people who a lot of work and their own free time into digging up information and actually putting names and solid information out there, sharing it for everyone. Throwing generalities with absolutely nothing concrete out there and then coming back after the fact and saying "I told you so" is just mindless clutter and all about "Look at me". There are quite a few people on here that actually have some very good insider info but for one reason or another can't make it public. That's fine but they aren't parading around pretending they do or don't know something. And if they do bring something up, they actually provide some sort of tidbit that can at least give a clue.