UND (3-0) vs North Florida (2-3) (Men Vs Breast Cancer Classic Day 1 3:30 PM)

[SWSiouxMN]

I hope people are ready to feast on some Holiday hoops!  UND starts the Wright State tournament taking on the Ospreys of North Florida from the Atlantic Sun conference. This is an NIT team from last year. Although 2 of their wins were against lesser competition like UNDs, they did have stiff tests against Auburn, Miami and LSU.

This team does have some talented players at the 4 and 5 position.  Their center, Banks, is shooting an eye popping 74.7% from the field and grabbing 7.6 rebounds a game.  The straw that stirs the drink is senior Dallas Moore, who is averaging 17 ppg,  His FG% is a little lower than his career average, but his 3 point % is right around 40%.  Should be a great battle between Hooker and Moore.

For UND to win this game, they are going to have win the battle of the boards and get some inside presence on offense against two talented big men in Banks and Aminu.  Avants and Drick are going to need to play big and Shanks needs to be ready to contribute with some good minutes. Keeping Banks and Aminu from getting offensive rebounds is priority #1! Hooker needs to keep doing what he is doing, Geno, Corey and Cortez needs to step up today and take some of scoring load off of Quinton.

Its go time for this squad, time to see what they are made of early on. This will be a stiff test, but a not a game they cannot win.  I'd say they pull out a 72-67 victory.

This game is on ESPN3

[SWSiouxMN]

UND up 8-7 at the first media time out

[SWSiouxMN]

UNF takes a 17-16 lead at the under 12, both teams shooting well.  Banks has 9 points to lead all scorers, he has great touch in the post

[SWSiouxMN]

I think Drick needs to shoot his free throws underhanded, he can't do any worse

[SWSiouxMN]

Like the offensive set up to attack the zone by putting Shanks in the soft middle and letting him distribute. 

UND 0-5 from 3 and 1-4 from the line. 25-21 UNF at the under 8

[siouxfan512]

Been pretty sloppy so far. if we find a rhythm we could definitely win this one.

[UND Fan]

Crandall continues to play out of control!

We have scored 5 points in the last 7 minutes!

[SWSiouxMN]

TO UND, UNF pumped the lead to 11

UND looks unorganized right now

[SWSiouxMN]

0-7 from downtown now.

[SWSiouxMN]

now Hooker finally hits one

[SWSiouxMN]

awful inbound leads to a UNF transition 3.  Dallas Moore is taking this one over

[Cratter]

Playing some uninspired basketball right now.

[siouxfan512]

This is ugly to  watch

[SWSiouxMN]

40-26 UNF with 2:56 to go in the half

UND needs to calm the <bleep> down and play

[Dagger]

Crandall not good this half.  It looks like a team that only played D2 or lower teams.

[SWSiouxMN]

Shanks hasn't looked too bad out there today.

[Cratter]

Luckily we have Faison as AD, all that guy does is pick winning head coaches.

[SWSiouxMN]

UNF 47

UND 39

half

[siouxfan512]

Could be way worse the way we were playing. nice job closing the gap a bit. big second half here.

[SWSiouxMN]

2 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said:

Could be way worse the way we were playing. nice job closing the gap a bit. big second half here.

UNF shooting 62.1% from the field, including 54.5% from 3 doesn't help either.

[SWSiouxMN]

Shanks and Seales are having good games off the bench, need Geno and Corey to step it up.

Defense needs to tighten up, too many open looks. Rebounding is fine 

 

[SWSiouxMN]

oh you gotta be kidding me.....

that's a sportscenter NOT top 10

[SWSiouxMN]

UNF 52

UND 44

Under 16 TO

[gfhockey]

The gobc picks winning coaches

[Dagger]

Shanks's defensive self control reminds me a lot of last year.