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UND currnetly sitting as a 7 point favorite. Thinking the final score ends with UND up by right around that.

1A. Head to head record. If UND loses to SUU, they will be 1-1 against each other. Move to next tiebreaker. 1B. Only applies if more than 2 teams are tied. 1C. Only applies if more than 2 teams are tied. 2. Start from the top of the standings and work your way down. Compare UND/SUU's records against what would be the #3 team (behind UND/SUU). That is currently Montana. UND and SUU are both 1-1 against them. Move to #4 team, currently EWU. Against them, UND is currently 1-0 and SUU is 1-1. If UND beats them Saturday and EWU still remains #4 overall at the end of the season, UND would win on that tiebreaker.

Also he is a JuCo guy, not a high school senior, guessing that plays some part in it.

Wild Hog gets a pretty decent crowd some nights as well.

For the 2012-2013 season, here are the rankings of the 4 Dakota schools plus the Montana schools and Minnesota for comparison. Not sure what 2013-2014 numbers look like. 33. UMinn - 3,277 36. UMont - 3,048 65. SDSU - 2,029 79. MSU - 1,644 92. UND - 1,469 127. USD - 1,094 175. NDSU - 791

Hosting the Big Sky tournament and of course winning it would go a long way into bumping up the base number of fans the women draw.

I guess I would want to leave out a niche sport that produces more revenue than your number one sport does as well if I were you.

Standard results? Might want to compare Hak's 10 year history with pretty much every coach outside of Jerry York and see how standard they are. It doesn't have the cherry on top, but outside of that (which is admittidly a big piece), his results far exceed standard.

Depends if NDSU tells them if it is OK to do. Though McFeely beats to his own drum and with the ratings he's had recently, he has to do something to stir the pot, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him do it. I thought Kolpack had an interseting comment in their Sunday chat that when DeHoff was hired, only female applicants were considered. If true, and with how he said he must have been pretty confident in it, how does something like that not become public information and you know, kind of a big deal? Edit:

Apparently you don't even get a medal for that.

Well that is a really inconvenient truth for some people's arguments.

I believe they would be named co-champions in the event of a tie, the tiebreakers are used for seeding purposes.

Agree that they have a good model that puts emphasis on the regular season, even if you aren't going to be the 1 seed.

NDSU will be rewarded because UNO is not eligible and there are only 7 eligble teams. Summit's tournament won't move days either, unless they don't want it televised I suppose.

I won't argue the stability point and convenience of the Summit's setup (again, mainly for SDSU and USD fans), but for a one bid league, it makes the regular season almost pointless. Other than for seeding purposes, the Summit regular season means absolutely nothing, in fact every (eligible) team makes the tournament. What is NDSU's reward for winning the regular season this year going to be? Playing in front of a hostile crowd in South Dakota. Sounds like a great deal! I guess Saul is guaranteed a spot in the NIT if NDSU performs in Sioux Falls like they have the last 4 years, so we don't have to worry about him whining about it this year, so I guess that is a benefit. Bigger conferences have no problem setting their tournaments at neutral sites because if the number one seed loses, they are likely going to the tournament regardless. There isn't as big of a downside nor backlash because it is unfair. As for the rankings and bracketology, again, it is one year. Get multiple bids or win a game, then get back to me. You're saying the past doesn't matter, but until either of those two things happens, the Summit autobid will continue to be ranked in the 13-16 range as it has in the past.

Minus the previous ones you have been banned under, but yeah, other than that.

A few points: -UND has already beat those schools for recruits, this year and in the past. By no means every battle, but with how UND has performed the past few years and the lack of emphasis that was put on those states, more than they should have. Why is it going to change all of the sudden to no recruits? -The Summit has been up the last few years, but they have historically been the same. Not sure where your confidence of them remaining where they currently are forever comes from. And until either one of them gets more than one bid or consistently gets ranked higher than the other in the tournament, you're blowing hot air. Oh, and the Summit has a losing record in the head to head match-ups against the Big Sky this year. -The new SF arena will probably draw very well, but it will be 90%+ SDSU and USD fans. Will NDSU even have 500 fans? Maybe if they make it to the championship game, but otherwise, I'd take the under.

Always the victim, conveniently forgetting what actually happened. Patented gfhockey letdown.

But open season on the current coach, who falls into similar categories, is perfectly fine? Hak hasn't won the big one yet, but has been incredibly successful. Confused why criticism of one is not only fine but more or less encouraged but the other is off limits.

75-63 final, UND wins. Glad they made me look smart with my prediction. Missed the first half, but they looked good from what I saw. If only they could do that with some consistency...

71-59, under a minute to go. Antwi at the line for 2.

Schuler in street clothes tonight?

64-53 UND with 3:45 to go.

Trying something new, going to see how it works out. Don't blame you though.

Rocco