Transfer Portal - 2025

[Nodak78]

The summit is AA minor league.  You have them until they are gone.

[GoodGood]

9 of the 15 players on the all conference teams were NCAA transfers INTO the Summit league. The portal goes both ways. Teams are also bringing in the highest rated freshman they ever have. The league was rated 17th in the country based on NET. It’s normally 23-25. The league is in a great spot 

[UND1983]

Maybe I am a rube but there is no way that Omaha should be able to get that good, that quick... and UND cannot.  They have no history and nobody cares about Omaha basketball.  

[sioux24/7]

26 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Maybe I am a rube but there is no way that Omaha should be able to get that good, that quick... and UND cannot.  They have no history and nobody cares about Omaha basketball.  

I think the best thing to happen to Omaha was Frankie Fidler. Both being there and then leaving. By him being there he did a good job of hiding the talents of say Marquell Sutton, JJ White and even Osburn. By him leaving, it allowed the offense to open up more and not just run through him. Hell of a job down there by Crutch and Kyan, of course. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

28 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Maybe I am a rube but there is no way that Omaha should be able to get that good, that quick... and UND cannot.  They have no history and nobody cares about Omaha basketball.  

Two words

Coach ing

[gfhockey]

Do you think the Betty could afford garbage cans tho

[HoopsFan03]

1 hour ago, GoodGood said:

9 of the 15 players on the all conference teams were NCAA transfers INTO the Summit league. The portal goes both ways. Teams are also bringing in the highest rated freshman they ever have. The league was rated 17th in the country based on NET. It’s normally 23-25. The league is in a great spot 

Bingo!

But old heads want to try spin the transfer portal as a mid-major killer or some terrible thing…..

[petey23]

1 hour ago, GoodGood said:

9 of the 15 players on the all conference teams were NCAA transfers INTO the Summit league. The portal goes both ways. Teams are also bringing in the highest rated freshman they ever have. The league was rated 17th in the country based on NET. It’s normally 23-25. The league is in a great spot 

I agree with 60% of your post but barring upsets most projections have our regular season champion and tournament champion getting a 16 seed which places our conference in the bottom 4 for all practical purposes.

[GoodGood]

11 minutes ago, petey23 said:

I agree with 60% of your post but barring upsets most projections have our regular season champion and tournament champion getting a 16 seed which places our conference in the bottom 4 for all practical purposes.

That’s because it took Omaha a while to gel and figure out roles. They didn’t play well in the non conference season and it killed their net ranking. I think most people agree they’re playing closer to the level of a 14 or even 13 seed 

[ND-fan]

Omaha is at best 16 seed and I am not sure where we could have play in game. They have no wins over any rated division I opponents other than in conference. I looked back 10 years highest summit conference seatings were 12 and 13 by ORU and SDSU  30  win teams even then they got first round games like Ohio State and Providence still traditional powers. If they add more teams I will bet number small midmajor will be in the play in games.  I may be old but I have been fan of UND basketball and my experience of getting fan interest yes winning is important but also people get involved with teams that they know the team players and this happens when players have played for school couple years. This turnover of players every year doesn’t create this interest look if this was case as juco players what kind of crowds they play in front of or media coverage they get. I am sorry that some of you don’t get it but it’s just more than numbers it’s about players and fans investing in these players it just doesn’t happen in few games.  We had this in past if you look we had better crowds watching basketball going back over 50 years than we do now. Do the research  and this when grand Forks were much smaller than now and school was much smaller this was case both for men’s and women’s basketball. Just my point of view  but I will still be fan going forward.