UND1983

Please explain reasons why/how NDSU's basketball team got any better as the year went on-didnt appear to get any better to me. Or the reason why they were no better last year than they were in 2009?

They were 8-6 that year and lost their bowl game. Pretty sad statement about your FBS SOS if that is the best team you scheduled to date. UND has already schedule two teams (out of 3) better than that.

What year did NDSU finish with the #1 ranking?

Well, USD sure as hell wasn't the 2nd best team - and UND wasn't either. So that only leaves two other teams.

Dan, are you understanding what we are talking about at all? SOS tells us how good each opponent actually was that season (which shows exactly how not all are created equal). Which then tells us that all schedules all not exactly comparative. If one school played a bunch of 0-11 teams it would not be the same as the other school that played 5 teams that were 8-3. I am lost as to your point-are you arguing against yourself?

If you look at Darrel's post, he accumulated FCS records of all 4 teams, not total records. Maybe I saw it wrong but he titled it "FCS OOC". Therefore, NAIA teams were not involved.

To further show how dumb Lakes/Sam is, he puts "SW" as the direction behind his made-up address that does not exist. Fargo does not use SW, NW, etc. They only have the main four directions in their street names. Who is going to buy advertising from that idiot after this came out? He is already selling ads for the worst TV station in the state, now he is threatening elected officials about UND. Also, go read the comments at the bottom. Lakes/Sam/Crisis is not happy about this.

Nobody said UND is the "team to beat". If you recall NDSU was 3-8 just two years ago and the only reason you got in the playoffs this year was because of an expanded field, money, and 3-4 other teams all losing on the last week of the year (Poly). You guys seem to have short memories. In a normal year you would have spent all winter chastising Bohl for getting shutout by the worst defense in the MVFC. But, to your credit you bought a home game against a dog and then went on the road and beat the Big Sky Champ. Just try and keep things in perspective. Also, as far as how UND would do vs. NDSU - the Bison are the exact type of team that UND does well against defensively. Run first and can't pass to save their lives. UND's offense wouldn't do a damn thing though against NDSU's D.

We don't need to keep going on about this but I know for a fact UND recruited him as a safety, not a QB. We will see how it plays out.

Put it this way Dan, if Esley is going to be your starting QB I am going to call Faison and beg / plead to start the rivalry up again...immediately.

UND didn't want him as a QB in the first place, they sure won't want him now.

LOL. They conveniently added 7 extra people to the previous record vs. UND so they can say SDSU was the highest attended game. How petty.

That stale atmosphere can be chalked up to Gene whoring out the game for money. He wanted the gate that only UND could bring so he put it in the Fargodome, which is awful for basketball. Plus, like other posters stated the EWU loss earlier in the day dampened spirits.

Gene Taylor was "amazed" at the atmosphere of the UND-NDSU volleyball game last year and expressed that to Faison. Even he didn't expect it to be that big.

I'll bet not even close. This isn't the cavernous Metrodome, NDSU will have about 3-4k fans at the game if they are lucky and overpay for tickets. I am fairly certain that 15k others won't just show up to hang around campus. Plus, the stadium isn't downtown.

If we lose 3-2 or 4-3 I would understand. But getting shutout by an inferior opponent is down right embarrasing and is a complete chokejob.

The part I love is how 740/790 is supposedly the home for Bison athletics. Yet, once the Sioux make the Frozen Four they immediately pick up the rights to broadcast the entire Frozen Four on their station.

yawn

It is pretty obvious they are trying to kiss the WCHA's ass bigtime so they can continue to schedule them. They know if the WCHA is to say 'good riddance' that their strength of schedule would be in the toilet and so would attendance. They are basically on their hands and knees begging.

Off topic but will Oakland ever learn to play defense? They are hanging around but are going to get beat every year at the NCAA if they don't at least attempt a defensive effort. Outscoring Summit league teams is great and fun but it obviously doesn't work when you actually play a good team. Also, Keith Benson is getting manhandled by Tristan Thompson. He has some work to do before the NBA.

I am the same way. Will have fun regardless. I hope some Sioux fans have noticed that USD has 3 lower level teams on their schedule next year also. We are both in the same boat as far as last year of transition scheduling (except you have Eastern Washington at home - good get!).

It is so embarrassing for your fan base, how Bison fans are showing up in this thread to try and tear down the accomplishment. A complete lack of class and obvious insecurity that you have to come on here and talk about your own program, unsolicited. Especially coming off a terrible year with a second losing season in a row.

Why would you want to derail this thread? What has happened that would lead Bison fans to have to come over and say anything? This is a nice accomplishment and reward for UND's Mens program that has struggled recently and should be viewed as such. All comments from other programs that do not have anything to do with the Great West are petty and simply come from insecurity. Let everyone enjoy this accomplishment.

This is going to be great exposure for the basketball program. Plus, the players will gain some extra tournament-type experience that will hopefully help for the future. Hoping it will be on TV somewhere - maybe DirecTV.