UND needed to get a big time win in Moscow last night to stop the 4 game slide and get some positive momentum, and with a 2nd half flurry they did. Now they take a short trip into Washington to take on the Eagles.
Eastern has been playing well all year, Tyler Harvey is a straight up baller and leads the nation in scoring (the man is shooting nearly 50% from behind the arc... 50!). Jois is a versatile big that can pull a double-double every night (status unknown due to injury). Drew Brandon is another guard that is very underrated for the Eagles, on several occasions this season he has been close to putting up a triple double.
UND is 4-0 all time verses the Eagles in Big Sky play.
UND cannot get into a track meet with these guys, they need to keep the score relatively low, take high percentage shots to have a chance. If they somehow pull off the road sweep, it takes a lot of the 0-3 home stand sting out (although the what if question will start to creep into my head... again) With a struggling Weber and ISU teams next week at home... going into the 2nd half of the schedule 4-5 doesn't sound that bad if they don't win here.
Other games:
Sac @ Weber
SUU @ Mont
UNC @ Idaho
PSU @ ISU
NAU @ MSU