petey23

Not to mention, the guys who rank the players will change their ratings....for example, if a 2 star recruit in the minds of the recruiting service gets an offer from a Duke or Kentucky, now all of a sudden he is a 4 star.

Really more concerned about conference performance in a 1 bid league. Do I want us to have a signature win...sure Would 20 wins be nice....sure Should have added, no less than reaching semi-finals in Big Sky tournament. In a round about way, my expectation is 18-19 wins at the end of the regular season so minimum expectations in the Big Sky tournament put us at 20+

I am not as focused on top 2 or top 3 this season as with the bottom of the league being down this year the records could be top heavy, so if we go 12-6 and that puts us in 4th---so be it. I do expect and I would hope the Athletic Department has the following expectations for basketball this season....not saying you have to check them all off but if a couple are missed, some others better not be. Big Sky Tournament Champions AND/OR Big Sky Regular Season Champions 13-5 or 12-6 in league at worst....take care of business at home and should beat SUU, NAU, and Idaho State anywhere you play them. Pick up another road win or 2 against the other 4(Montana, Montana St., Weber, UNC) 9-0 or 8-1 at home. Team is ready and prepared to play every night.

Correct. Michigan would have been the next logical choice from the Big 10. They really should just ask Vegas who should be in.

Throw out games against AHA gives a truer indication...especially when compared to HE and ECAC

So you are saying it was historic!

This^^^ I was looking forward to watching the game last night and even though my ears were bleeding from the announcer not even knowing which players were which or sometimes even what team they were on, I struggled through the first half and even had my hopes up when we cut the lead to 12 and then the feed started cutting in and out and they hit a couple 3's to stretch it to 21 and I gave up.

It has to be NCAA tournament or bust this season for Jones. I don't know that firing a coach during the season is very productive, however if this team has another effort like last night where they look totally unprepared and not ready to play and compete then I wouldn't see making that move as counter productive either.

They looked like they took a bus from Grand Forks to Portland and had 5 minutes to get loose. How can you not be ready to start off the conference season

My bad this is an all out grease fire

Nothing like a dumpster fire to start out the conference season

hate it

Kind of like the St. Cloud power play.

Bob Entzion told me there was 18000 UND fans in NY

Hope they both take care of business on Thursday to set that up

Wait. What? The University of Texas is one of our biggest rivals? Who knew?

The funny thing is that once Big 10 play begins Iowa is historically one of the chippiest teams to play against in the conference.

Would have loved to have been at the press conference. "So Fran, just to be clear...it is alright for your guys to still be playing defense and steal the ball with 7 or 8 seconds left but not for a UND kid to steal the ball with 4 seconds left?"

His players looked embarrassed

We are hanging in on the boards. It's the 7 or 8 extra possessions we have given Iowa by not taking care of the ball and the fact that turnovers often lead to an advantage going the other way. It would be one thing if most of our 12 turnovers were forced but 6 or 7 would have happened in a walk through with no defense on the court.

8 turnovers in 11 possessions...brutal

The biggest benefit for UND would be if Zimmerman came in and established himself as at least 1B which would allow UND to give Keaton the green light to run when the option is there more often as it was obvious they had him on a short leash this season due to the lack of a back-up qb they were confident in.

Well if the game is over then we could have quit pressing and fouling trying to extend the game as well.

Bad loss to a middle of the road Bison team at home. Outplayed, out efforts, and severely outcoached both leading up to game and especially in game.