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Shamiere Green, a 2 guard is currently visiting.

Shamiere Green, a 2 guard is currently visiting.

I think we are in more need of a 4, personally. I know people have their opinion of Kraft but I would put good money he’s our starter this year. Started all this past year and was one of the few to remain.

So as we currently stand, we are looking something like this: 1 - Winkel, Moore 2 - Kraft, Evanson 3 - Wagner, Ouse 4 - Parks, Hanson 5 - Jones, Ely Parks is a little small to be a 4 but that’s where I slid him for now.

Ely is the latest commit

Daemon Ely is one that I believe was visiting.

Maybe they’ll both play together

This one has to be Parks.

This sucks.

He’s going to be a good player.

lol

That’s my thought as well. There’s going to be examples that do succeed but I think I like the idea of guys the perform either at JUCO or D2 for the areas that UND should attack.

Eli King. NDSU got Tay Smith from D2, Trevian Carson from JUCO, Skytta from Sac State and Markhi Strickland from Western Michigan. No P5s until Robison.

For sure going to be never ending but at least in hockey we are generally the beneficiary of the portal whereas football and basketball that is not the case.

I don’t think Wylee ever would have been a starter here but I think he could have been a real solid role player the next two years. Showed flashes, see SDSU.

Sounds like we will have a few JUCOs on campus this week.

Bjerke! SDSU is pretty much the only team that hasn’t been gouged from it. Jaden Jackson is the main one they lost but Saylor, Wilkinson and Garry all haven’t hit, yet.

Yes.

I’m not sure there’s a perfect approach at this level, especially given UND’s situation. At the end of the day, you still want to bring in the best players you can and deal with the possibility of them transferring later. It does feel like building one-year rosters is the reality now, and I think that’s the direction UND is heading. The challenge is figuring out the right mix. Do you lean on older, experienced players from lower levels? Target P6 guys who haven’t found consistent playing time? Take shots on high school recruits who might not have been realistic options before the portal era? It’s probably some combination of all of that, and then some.

I’m stupid. Just completely left him off. My bad.

Portal officially opens tomorrow. As of what’s been reported, we have 6 players that either haven’t ran out of presumed eligibility or already entered the portal: Zach Kraft Karson Ouse Josh Jones Micah Curtis Anthony Doppler Ryan Erikson The last two, I believe won’t return but they could just be done with basketball, not sure.