2023-2024 Season

[NewUndFan]

12 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

This is my first women’s game I was able to make this year. Not sure I’ll be coming back to another one this season

Didn't come today. Said that at the last game I was at. I had free tickets and could have went but can't watch this garbage ball in person.  I'll watch at home and take a nap now before the mens game 

[Kab]

No amount of coaching can fix this team 

talent isn’t there 

[NewUndFan]

1 minute ago, Oxbow6 said:

41-19 half 

This is fun!

Close game today ! Other then Pemberton get rid of the entire team including coaches next year 

[F'n Hawks]

What year does Mal’s contact expire?

[Oxbow6]

4 minutes ago, NewUndFan said:

Close game today ! Other then Pemberton get rid of the entire team including coaches next year 

If you're Kacie and you have given so much to this program and came back this season and get this mess do you just say "2024......no thanks" and clear out your locker? Definitely not an advocate of that behavior but in this case I'd totally understand.

 

[UND1983]

Good thing they brought back Mo to keep that recruiting pipeline flowing

[SiouxFan100]

Just sad all around 

[NewUndFan]

12 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

If you're Kacie and you have given so much to this program and came back this season and get this mess do you just say "2024......no thanks" and clear out your locker? Definitely not an advocate of that behavior but in this case I'd totally understand.

 

I think this year is all about chasing records for Kacie 

[SiouxFan100]

Mal practice

[Oxbow6]

Just now, NewUndFan said:

I think this year is all about chasing records for Kacie 

And it should be with what was placed around her. You, me, Kab and 1983 would be a better supporting cast.

[Oxbow6]

Down 27

Later........

[sioux24/7]

There’s an ugly trend happening across campus right now….. wasn’t too long ago that I was delusional enough to think the university could see a similar year of success as that 2016-17 year…. 

[SiouxFan100]

Start Pendleton, Horne and Abrahim and kacie 

[fightingsioux4life]

56 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:

There’s an ugly trend happening across campus right now….. wasn’t too long ago that I was delusional enough to think the university could see a similar year of success as that 2016-17 year…. 

When you run the athletic department like a high school, this is the result.

[F'n Hawks]

2 hours ago, sioux24/7 said:

There’s an ugly trend happening across campus right now….. wasn’t too long ago that I was delusional enough to think the university could see a similar year of success as that 2016-17 year…. 

The thing with UND athletics is… they will never continue to build off of momentum.

[Oxbow6]

One stat from last game tells you a lot about this team. They gave up 19 offensive rebounds. Ridiculous.  Rebounding on the defensive end comes down to two things....effort and want to. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.

[UND1983]

They aren't tall enough at the forward and guard positions.  Ever.  Look at USD and SDSU and then look at our 2-4 positions.  Plus ours aren't any good to begin with.  

[ND-fan]

I disagree with you that SDSu and USD are bigger than us 2-4 when we play Horne, Pemberton, and Beal at these positions but we are terribly young and inexperienced this year at these positions. We are also bigger at 5 position with Ibrahim and VanderWahl  when we play these girls but again very little experience. The problem has been Bernhard has played a lot of minutes with Hoskins playing out of position for her size because of her experience and also played a lot of minutes with Hurst in these positions but she been slow on defense and doesn’t want to play type offensive role we need inside. Pemberton is 6’1”, Horne is 6’2”, and Beal is 5’11 and is lanky and jumps real well we should match up with these teams but all of these players are young and not played huge minutes and this year only have Kacie and Hoskins with experience to play with them. SDSU players in these roles are juniors and sophomores with a lot of playing time. Also the one and five positions are players with a lot of experience. USD players in these positions are not as big but most of them have a lot of experience playing and they can shoot the three very well. Then they have Larkins very dynamic player that can score in many different ways. Getting back to we have one senior and no juniors and then we have three COVID extra year players not very balanced squad in experience.

We have had a lot of turnover in past few years and have not retained players we have recruited in several of the classes for various reasons. If had any fault with Bernhard she has not played these younger players in preseason before conference a lot of minutes because her having players making mistakes on the floor. This works when you have balanced roster for each of your classes but doesn’t work very well we have the roster we have now.  I also think Berhard weakness is that she doesn’t have built rappor with coaches yet in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa to recruiting local players and her recent assistants have been not local either. She has relied on coach Moe contacts but that’s back in Michigan. Hopefully coach Bledsoe will help in Minnesota. This being case we’re at now our hope the above players develop this season and we can compete in the coming years and more talent again next year.

[UND1983]

You're right man, we are definitely big enough. Not sure why we get bullied and outrebounded and look smaller vs them.  

[ND-fan]

The reason is our girls are young and they have not gone through couple of years being built up by strength and conditioning people. Second we have change in strength and conditioning coming and I wonder what effect it will have on various sports programs at UND. I believe Horne wasn’t here this summer and I think several other  were not either which has put us back in development. I believe both the men and women could use a coach on developing shooting with their players based on last several years  performances. I believe we have talented enough players we should be shooting better than we are but like playing defense there are techniques that should be taught to help improve performances. I believe person just working on this could improve us.

[gfhockey]

Who is the strength and conditioning coach for women women’s basketball

[SiouxFan100]

Up eleven over Idaho state at the half

we have somewhat balanced scoring - wow

[Oxbow6]

Good win vs Idaho St. 78-72

[sweetsioux22]

didnt get to see the game, pretty surprised to see the score, nice win

[ND-fan]

I watched the game it was a good win but Idaho is pretty much like us in record and we matched up well against them. Pemberton played and she makes such a difference she can score and rebound for us. She also quick and she moves well to get herself open with the ball or without the ball. VanderWahl had good game and she matched up well against there post. Ibrahim played only a few minutes but did make impact on defense. Hurst started game and made a pair of threes right away but then missed next  three and then late when she was driving for the basket she was fouled several times leading for 6-6 free throw shooting. Cottingham played a few minutes I think she can become a good guard she quick and plays defense. Horne played some but didn’t get many minutes Hoskins played 37 minutes leaving very few minutes for Horne. Beal only played 2 minutes.

The future of the team I believe lies in Pemberton, Horne, VanderWahl, Ibrahim, Cottingham, Beal, and maybe Hurst. I hope we can put a few wins together yet this season but we need to shoot better and run offense as team, if we’re going to do this. But last night was a step forward.