2013-14 Season

[jdub27]

I believe tonight's win was number 1500 for the program if I read the prospectus correctly. Fitting way to get it

[sioux2013]

ESPN has our RPI at 47 after victory over NDSU. Very nice and lets continue to climb this weekend against 3 very good teams.

[WeAreNorthDakota]

We have a very tough slate of games out in Oregon this weekend. Oregon and Pacific both come in unbeaten and Cal Poly, though only 1-3, has lost to three quality teams including an 11 point loss to #6 Arizona. I think we have a chance to come back with two wins but I'll be in no way discouraged if we only get one.

[sioux24/7]

We are now 48 in RPI according to ESPN http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi

[WeAreNorthDakota]

I won't be putting a whole lot of stock into RPI ratings until the calendar turns but four of the five opponents on the upcoming road stretch are ranked ahead of us in ESPN's RPI.

#14 Butler

#23 Oregon

#33 Bowling Green

#44 Pacific

If we can knock off two of those teams along with a win over Cal Poly we could be very high in the RPI all season.

[darell1976]

We are now 48 in RPI according to ESPN http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi

UND is #2 in the BSC behind ISU, we would be #1 in the SL.

[jdub27]

Nice e-mail sent out by UND athletics to encourage fans to come out to more games this year:

On behalf of UND Athletics and UND Basketball, thank you for coming to the UND-NDSU game yesterday. Hopefully you guys enjoyed the game and the amount talent on the court for not only UND but NDSU as well. It’s great for the state to have two really talented college basketball teams like that in North Dakota. We were happy to get the win and to have our guys showcase their talents on a big local/national stage like that.

Other than e-mailing to just say thanks for coming we wanted to send you information about some of our other big home games on the basketball schedule. As you saw last night our men’s team is very talented this year and so is our UND women’s team. We need our crowd to help us win the Big Sky Conference and hopefully make the NCAA Tournament in March for the first time in school history. I’ve included links for both the men’s and women’s schedules below and listed a few of the bigger upcoming games. We hope you can make it back to the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center for more exciting basketball this winter as your schedule permits.

UND Men’s Schedule

http://www.undsports...388&SPSID=58565

UND Women’s Schedule

http://www.undsports...389&SPSID=58571

Some upcoming big home games

Dec. 14^th – NDSU (Women’s)

Dec. 21^st – SDSU (Men’s)

Jan. 2^nd – Southern Utah (Double Header & Big Sky Opener)

Jan 11^th – Weber St. (Men’s & Top 2 teams in the Big Sky)

Come help us win the Big Sky!

Dexter Albrecht | Director of Ticket Sales & Promotions

University of North Dakota

Direct: 701-777-4582 Cell: 701-213-6838

dexter.k.albrecht@athletics.und.edu

[newman]

Nice e-mail sent out by UND athletics to encourage fans to come out to more games this year:

If the Fans don't come it will be a shame. This team deserves to have a full house every night. Even against Presentation.

[sioux24/7]

If the Fans don't come it will be a shame. This team deserves to have a full house every night. Even against Presentation.

I agree completely I still don't see the fans showing up in large amounts this year unless we beat Oregon. I imagine they will show up for Weber State, SDSU and Montana though

[jdub27]

I believe that over 1,700 tickets have already been sold for SDSU (next D-1 home game), that should easily top 2,000.

[nodak651]

would help if we could get some basketball recognition on the front page of siouxsports.com.......

[Cratter]

It's early but with Montana losing at home to an average San Francisco team and Weber State having not won a game yet. Anyone could win the Big Sky.

Could very well be the two bad football teams: UNC vs UND.

[Cratter]

I believe that over 1,700 tickets have already been sold for SDSU (next D-1 home game), that should easily top 2,000.

I'm sure the big plan ticket package is a reason for that. And with the win yesterday I'm sure a large percent of those fans will probably show up.

[Cratter]

would help if we could get some basketball recognition on the front page of siouxsports.com.......

Would be nice to be able to read the articles about yesterday's game on the front page of this site.

This offseason I was at a table with Troy Huff so I know he reads this website.

[newman]

I agree completely I still don't see the fans showing up in large amounts this year unless we beat Oregon. I imagine they will show up for Weber State, SDSU and Montana though

Here's some news that may get the fill the seats juices flowing.

I believe Oregon is the only Top 25 team playing on Saturday. Oregon vs. UND becomes the most interesting game of the day by default.

If they compete and they will. Sportscenter highlights and more than a simple score recap with a couple of Ducks baskets before wrapping up with the NHL.

Could be analysts talking about the surprising North Dakota team. Jay Bilas or Bobby Knight may be scrambling to find out who they are surprised with.

It's gonna be a great year. This NDSU win was nothing! We will barely remember it in January.

[sioux24/7]

Here's some news that may get the fill the seats juices flowing.

I believe Oregon is the only Top 25 team playing on Saturday. Oregon vs. UND becomes the most interesting game of the day by default.

If they compete and they will. Sportscenter highlights and more than a simple score recap with a couple of Ducks baskets before wrapping up with the NHL.

Could be analysts talking about the surprising North Dakota team. Jay Bilas or Bobby Knight may be scrambling to find out who they are surprised with.

It's gonna be a great year. This NDSU win was nothing! We will barely remember it in January.

Just looked it up and that is in fact true. Good catch newman!

[WeAreNorthDakota]

Upcoming opponent Butler just tipped against #5 Oklahoma State on ESPN.

UPDATE: Butler fell to OK St 69-67. Gonna be a tough game on Butler's home floor.

[sioux2013]

I have watched Butler play a couple of times on TV and even though they are not ranked they should be. They are solid at every position and play together extremely well. On their home court this game could get ugly for us unless we take good shots and are hitting our shots. Outside Montana and Weber this will be our last extremely tough road game. We still have a good shot at finishing our non league schedule at 5-5 and with the competition we have face I'd say that would be very good. In fact, it will be the best I believe Jones has had in the D1 era. I expect us to go around 13-5 to 14-4 in league play this year from last years 10-8 record.

[sioux24/7]

When is the last time that we have had solid non-conference win on the road?

[UND92,96]

When is the last time that we have had solid non-conference win on the road?

I believe this group of seniors has only one non-conference road win period, and that was at Longwood two years ago. I am referring to true road games, and not neutral site ones.

[sioux24/7]

I believe this group of seniors has only one non-conference road win period, and that was at Longwood two years ago. I am referring to true road games, and not neutral site ones.

I was going to say I don't even remember winning any recently. Disappointing to say the least.

[bincitysioux]

Big Sky Basketball Blog

North Dakota has played a tough schedule, the fact that they sit at 2-6 is not really the issue here. The issue is that they haven't even been all that close to winning a game in the last few weeks, and that their defense resembles a sieve at the moment. That can change - they literally have the talent to win the Big Sky - but they need to find some answers before the start of conference play.

[sioux2013]

Big Sky Basketball Blog

His blog hit the nail right on the head on several issues. First we have no offensive or defensive presence from our post players. They seem totally lost on offense and defense and do not know how to box out. The only player that boxes his *ss off is Schuler and he is about 6" too short down low. Next he mentioned ball movement which in most of our offensive sets when one or several players get the ball there is no longer any movement except to the rim with 2-3 guys guarding that player. With the lack of anything from our post players Jones needs to go with the small team cause in the Big Sky we won't face the size we have so far this year and the 4 guard offense should work just fine cause we have the players and talent to play with anybody in the Big Sky. The outside shooting woes should disappear with Anderson, Stefen and Schuler hopefully taking most of the outside shots. To date we have played the 7th toughest schedule in the nation and have been very competitive for 2/3 of most of the games we just have 4-5 minute lapses in each that destroy us, fix these and we were in every game with no post play.

[NODAK13]

South Dakota State is up 18 on Belmont who a few weeks ago beat North Carolina in North Carolina. Belmont is a very good team who has many big wins over the past few years. Thought the game next week against South Dakota State would be kinda easy but they must be putting things together after a slow start.

[sioux24/7]

I don't think there is any chance we win the Big Sky until we get a big man that can compete down low. Last year we at least had Mitch Wilmer who was heads and shoulders above the posts we have now. Traylor is alright but he is undersized and gets into foul trouble quickly.