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Too much common sense here, just like giving people who flop in basketball a technical

Half an hour to go I cannot hold back my excitment

Am I looking too much into this about how its been a quiet week on the women's hockey front in regards to the coach?

And looking at the Drake board and who is rumored, a Creighton assistant for 20 years, Smith and Jones. They dream of the guy from ETSU. With that said, we can all discuss this another time. Take care of business tonight, make life a living nightmare for a 2 seed, and we can discuss logistics later. They sure have.

If I were to odds it, I'd say 85% chance he stays. If Drake is serious about Jones, I bet he takes it and take Horner with him.

I'll throw this question out there If Kelley was still the president, does UND make this move?

UND once again got off to a hot start, survived an Idaho run, got one another one and hit a key 3 pointer to take down the Vandals 69-64 in the semis. Standing between them and their first ever trip to the dance? An old foe in BSC tourney play, Weber State. Who has ended their chances at the dance every year UND has been in the tourney. The old saying is that it is hard to beat a team 3 times in a row, UND is going to attempt to be the first team since I believe NAU in 2006. The all time record still swings in Weber's favor 9-3, including a 3-0 record against UND in the Big Sky tournament. Outside of a blowout in the tourney final (when UND was a skeleton) these games have been close and heartbreaking for UND in the conference tournament. In the two matchups, UND outrebounded Weber twice (37-22 in GF, 38-28 in Odgen), got big performances (Q and Geno in GF, Q, Geno and Seales in Odgen). Senglin and Hill have had decent games in both matchups against UND. This is UND's 2nd appearance in the tournament finals. In 2014 they got the doors blown off at Weber, but that was without Schuler and Webb in the lineup. UND is way healthier than that. Weber has their old standbys in Senglin, Braxton and Hill, but he has been getting help off the bench from Dusty Baker, who is lighting it up in Reno. Harding has also put us solid numbers in the 2 matchups against UND. UND also has a guard that has been lighting it up from downtown in Baldwin. UND has also gotten balanced scoring from the majority of their starters (4 of them are in double figures). UND has gotten off to blistering starts but have had moments where they have been cold as well. They are going to need a 40 minute effort in this one to get the job done. This isn't the Weber team from the 2nd matchup, this is much closer to the Weber team from the 1st go aound. UND has to be feeling pretty good too, but hopefully their bench will have a better game than they did against Idaho. This is by far UND best season in D-1 history and have lived up to my high expectation this year, they are 1 game away from making history. The fallen: Idaho: good chance for postseason play, but next year is very bright. Return all important starters and reserves and getting their 2nd best player back from injury. Idaho should come in as BSC favorites for 2017-18 Eastern Washington: CBI for sure, maybe NIT? We shall see, but an overachieving year for the Eagles. Lose Von Hofe and Wiley, but return Bogdan and a few guards. Could go a number of different ways next year depending on Wiley replacement. Hayford has done well in Cheney, does he take another job? The call: UND/Weber III will be a good game and match up very well against each other. Both have star guards, both have guards shooting well, and both have decent post games. Once again, the X factor in all of these games have been 1 Geno Crandall. If Geno plays well, UND is going to the dance. If he struggles, Weber is going to break UND's heart again. This to me has the feel of a 15 round heavyweight fight and will come down to the final shot. UND fans have been waiting for this moment for a while, and another solid team effort and another fast start and a dagger 3 will be the difference in this one. Get your dancing shoes ready. UND 77-74 Tourney MVP: Can make a case for either Corey or Geno, but I'd tip slightly to Geno on this one

Remember who one of the announcers used to coach for....

Go Spuds Go MAML* (lesser of two evils)

I need pepto... STAT!

69-64 UND FINAL

Geno to the line for 2

2 DOWN 1 to go

UND 69-64

UND 68-64 20.1 Drick goes to the line for 2

Idaho's big guy goes to the line for 2

2 missed free throws counts as a stop right?

get another stop

UND 68 Idaho 63 1:04 2nd

Corey! DAGGER 3!

UND gets a stop

UND 65-63 1:50 2nd Avants back out

Geno to the line for 2

tied 63 2:08 2nd

UND 63-61 2:58 2nd