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Interesting that the last two wins have actually dropped UND in KenPom from 236 to 243.

I’m not suggesting bigger, I’m suggesting better. I really like the setup at USD.

I wish I had billions of dollars. I’d build a hell of an arena for UND basketball. Football too.

I’d love Bill to address this on his next pod or something. What’s the reason? I like the addition of the “court side” seats on the baseline though. I have this memory of similar court side seats on the base line back in the day at the Betty, maybe I’m making that up but I’d like to see that too although not sure how the walkway worked then.

5-1 best start in the D1 era along with 4 non-con D1 wins which is the most they’ve had too. Transfer portal was a killer.

I think defense?

Did he get a minute? I only caught the second half. He’s not hurt is he? Just a benching? Hope he takes this and learns from it and doesn’t just give up on it.

They didn’t get a shot off. WINNNNNN

Amar misses both

Makes the first. Misses the 2nd but Amar gets the board and goes to the line! 4 seconds.

Danielson to the line.

This Acuff kid is killing us. 71-70 UND with 13 seconds left. Get the ball to Eaglestaff and make your FTs!

71-67 UND 17.5 seconds left. EMU ball.

At some point do you go to a starting lineup of Eaglestaff, Brooks, Omot, Amar and T? As long as Brooks is playing plenty of minutes probably doesn’t matter but it seems he has been providing more than King so far.

Leading 69-67 with under a minute to play. Omot stepped up and Eaglestaff hit 3 FTs. UND ball.

Trailing 53-51 now. Nice little run there.

Trailing by 9 now. T just set a moving screen. Things are unraveling.

2nd half not going well. Trailing by 5 right now. Brooks about to go to the line.

Omot will figure it out. I just don’t want him to force it. That’s what it looked like he was doing a bit against Pacific. He can get to the rim and either draw a foul or make the bucket almost every time. I’m sure he’s trying to show he has an expanded game to get bigger looks but we can’t let it hurt winning.

I didn’t catch todays game at all but seems like we fought back from a deficit and won despite Omot not performing, again. Looks like Eaglestaff stepped up along with Brooks and Amar looked good again. He’s been consistent.

Cost me more to watch that pathetic showing.

This won’t happen, but if we want to be a contender, it has to.

UND (KP 235) heads to Arkansas for their MTE and takes on New Orleans (KP 288), the former home of everyone’s good friend Desean Allen Eikens. They are led by former Denver guard, Jordan Johnson. He’s averaging 23.3 and 4.5 assists. Doesn’t look like New Orleans has beat a D1 opponent yet. KenPom has UND winning this one 78-75. If BJ and/or Eaglestaff have a better game than against Pacific, I think we win this one by closer to 10 points. Let’s keep the winning streak going!

What have NDSU’s odds been during their championship years? -160 is kinda nuts.