Dustin

UND gets Minnesota in Minneapolis Friday at 7 pm.

My gut feeling is that he will be head coach after bubba.

Is this the thread where first round scores and updates will be posted?

Add to that - a leader, and tough as nails. What's been UND's record when Keaton plays the primary QB role? Isn't like only 3 losses since Nov. 2014?

Not trying to disprove your point that the football game should take precedence, but I'd have to say 2006 West Regional Hockey would qualify for that title.

I think the committee could have justified UND and SDSU at 7 and 8 in either order. My thought is that they wanted conference opponents to play to eliminate the possibility of one conference having two teams in the semifinals. Realistically right now, the semifinals should have one Big Sky, one MVFC, and the remaining two from the Southland, CAA, Ohio Valley, and Southern.

Attendance was just slightly higher, but the game very much had a tournament atmosphere. Hoping for big crowd tonight with no football, MH on the road, and WH done right before VB starts.

Hadn't seen it mentioned yet, but NAU punched its ticket to the championship game after finishing off a pesky Sacramento State team 3-1.

Which year?!

I put on his "Friday Morning Reading" for those who are going to the WH game against Minnesota to stop by the VB game first!

Also, RRHS lost in the Class A VB tourney, so that group of fans could be back tonight.

There was no hockey last night, but there is tonight, so it's possible the numbers could be less. We are putting on a first class tournament, though.

Easy solution - go the VB game first, which takes 1.5 hours roughly, and then you've still got plenty of hockey time left after that.

I agree, that I thought the actual number was low compared to the effectiveness of the crowd. It'd be great to pack a couple thousand in there for the championship if we make it. (even if we don't, I guess 2,000 watching a conference championship game would be a good thing)

Just to add to that, most HS teams' VB seasons are over, so no team bus coming to watch a game from a local high school, either.

Some of the area's volleyball fans could have been at the high school state volleyball tournament, which is also this weekend.

Sounds like a nice compromise. Really, how much difference could there be from 17 to 24? Regionalization makes sense after 16.

really cool link. It looks like were are direct competition with SDSU (which we kind of figured), so a UNI win would go a long way for a UND top 8 seed.

Only 727 attendance. The women's hockey game against the Gophers going on at the same time probably won't help matters tonight.

Bruggeman hit .294, which was better than Moser, Merselli, and Kaczorowska. She also had fewer attack errors (1) than all of the other hitters (except Griffin, who's not technically a hitter).

Vail and Griffin just could not get in sync. It was pretty embarrassing in some of those early games. Hopefully they can get that figured out for next year.

Without knowing statistics, I'd say Ashley Bruggeman was our best player tonight. Merselli was off. Just some high expectations jitters, I hope. They should be better tomorrow.

Idaho state wins a five set thriller over northern Colorado.

It actually was a 3-0 sweep. Sac St vs. EWU was a great 5-set contest.

Thanks. UND is actually #36 in accumulated attendance.