SWSiouxMN

Another opportunity for a road win slipped away from UND, but this one hurt a little more against a less than stellar MSU squad. UND looks to turn their fortunes around at home against Idaho. It was going to be their year last year. With a great 1-2 punch at guard and a team coming off back to back runs to the BSC Semis, there was the believe that their time had come. The start wasn't great but then the rally. A 2nd place finish the Big Sky. It was right there for the taking..... Then SUU happened in the BSC Quarters How does SUU keep ruining these dreams.. seriously? Now with their superstar guards gone, its a rebuild mode for Idaho... and it hasn't been pretty this year so far with a loss to D2 Northwest Nazarene on their resume. While there might be some good pieces on this team, it might get worst before it gets better for Idaho. Key player: Cameron Tyson (6'3 Freshman) Could this kid be the next great guard for Idaho? He certainly has lived up to the filling so far, averaging 17 ppg so far and is shooting an eyepopping 57% from 3. It appears that is really all he does for this squad is hit 3s and hasn't done a whole lot else but do that. Going to be a person that UND keeps an eye on X-Factors: Scott Blakney, Jared Rodriguez, and Marquell Fraser You must be thinking, wait.. why do you have 3 people on as your x-factors, that seems a lot. Well it is, but there is a reason for this. Blakney and Rodriguez are the post that are currently averaging around 10 points and 6 rebounds a game. Fraser is a 6'4 guard that has returned and is the teams reading rebounder! UND cannot have a performance like they did against MSU if they want to win this one, they need to be at worst dead even at the board. Avants, Rebraca, Jal, Walter, and Marko need to be on their games. Numbers: 13 - number of 3 pointers than UND made against MSU -12 rebounding margin against MSU 27 - Points away that Avants is from 1000 in his career Keys Questions 1) Can UND win the rebounding battle? 2) Can UND duplicate their shooting performance? 3) Is this a blip or a trend for Billy Brown? 4) Can the freshman posts get going again? The call: I think it will be home sweet home for UND, I expect a rebound performance (no pun intended) from Rebraca and the rest of the post players and another decent shooting performance from the team. Still winnable ball games left in this stretch and can get some good feeling back going. Keep Idaho off the board and they should win by ten UND 81-71 Game is on FSN North+, ESPN+ and the FoxSportsGo app

I thought he would after the Milwaukee game... been clunkers and injuries ever since. Blevens owned him last night. I don't think he lasts long as the starter.

I'll give you one more... Billy Brown is figuring this thing out. That's going to be huge going forward.

You cut those O-boards in half, UND wins this game.

outrebounded 38-26, gave up 13 offensive rebounds Look at this as the number 1 reason why they lost... period

MSU 78 UND 76 4.5 seconds Hall missed the first

and the 2nd TO UND MSU 78 UND 76 16.7 2nd

Cortez gets the first

MSU misses two UND has a chance at the line to cut it to 2

3 by Seales MSU 78 UND 74

MSU 78 UND 71 32.3 seconds

MSU 76 UND 71

Bad loss no two ways about it

1:29 left 72-69 MSU

Avants to the line for 2

MSU 72 UND 67 1:40 2nd

are they about to let another one slip away?

come on!

come on Walter. Knock these down

bad gamble

Lets see if this young squad can finish the task.

awful rebounding effort. Worst of the year without question UND 67 MSU 65 3:16 2nd MSU ball

in and out for Davids

UND 67 MSU 63 4:23 2nd

Brown to the line a 1 and 1