2025-2026 Season

[jdub27]

1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:

That is why Mallory isn't in charge anymore.

Portions of the fan base really need to learn to move on from coaches who have done the same. In multiple sports.

[UND1983]

1 minute ago, jdub27 said:

Portions of the fan base really need to learn to move on from coaches who have done the same. In multiple sports.

This is her roster and whatever Hutter had to do to attempt to fix it.  Not sure how she cannot be mentioned for at least a season.

[fightingsioux4life]

15 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

Portions of the fan base really need to learn to move on from coaches who have done the same. In multiple sports.

These are her recruits. Until they are gone, Mallory is fair game.

[jdub27]

24 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

This is her roster and whatever Hutter had to do to attempt to fix it.  Not sure how she cannot be mentioned for at least a season.

It was a general comment. People are still bringing up Rudy.

Hutter was also on staff for a season prior. The roster was going to have to be rebuilt by someone regardless of who the head coach was.

 

10 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

These are her recruits. Until they are gone, Mallory is fair game.

Half of them were. Hutter brought in the rest. Don't envy the position he was put in but this team was going to struggle regardless of who the coach was after half the roster graduated or transferred.
Hopefully it is a quick rebuild, UND should be an attractive place to play. 

Based on your logic, do Bubba and Berry get credit for how football and hockey are doing since those are "their recruits"? I'm guessing I know your answer, which is why the constant bringing up coaches who has moved on (in multiple sports) is pointless. Or is it just a one-way street on it?

[fightingsioux4life]

13 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

Half of them were. Hutter brought in the rest. Don't envy the position he was put in but this team was going to struggle regardless of who the coach was after half the roster graduated or transferred.
Hopefully it is a quick rebuild, UND should be an attractive place to play.

Given how much players move around now with the portal, this team may look almost completely different next year.

[UND1983]

We will find out soon if Hutter understands what it takes to win at D1 level

[coachdags]

It should be noted that Dennis Hutter was hired in 3/2024, took the Head Job in 3/2025. The 10 players who left the program in 2024 left Mallory, Hutter, and Teammates. 

They all should shoulder some accountability.  Some of these recruits, i'm sure he had a hand in, with 10 leaving, the team now is almost all his accomplishments and work. 

It is my opinion that we need someone with a D1 pedigree if we are serious about women's Basketball.

The AD has yet to hire that person in his last 2 attempts.  I do not believe we are currently a top 300 Team? (357 plays). A glaring Stat last year we ranked 339 in assist-to-turnover ratio, with 580 TO to 298 Assist.  Should be a focus?

We just had another 26 TO to 8 assists game with  Green Bay.

I'm losing confidence we will ever get there.

[Und Princess]

Check Out my story on both basketball teams if you haven't read it yet. https://ftstspotlight.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-volleyball-and-basketball-court.html?m=1

Und Princess 

 

[gfhockey]

27 minutes ago, coachdags said:

It should be noted that Dennis Hutter was hired in 3/2024, took the Head Job in 3/2025. The 10 players who left the program in 2024 left Mallory, Hutter, and Teammates. 

They all should shoulder some accountability.  Some of these recruits, i'm sure he had a hand in, with 10 leaving, the team now is almost all his accomplishments and work. 

It is my opinion that we need someone with a D1 pedigree if we are serious about women's Basketball.

The AD has yet to hire that person in his last 2 attempts.  I do not believe we are currently a top 300 Team? (357 plays). A glaring Stat last year we ranked 339 in assist-to-turnover ratio, with 580 TO to 298 Assist.  Should be a focus?

We just had another 26 TO to 8 assists game with  Green Bay.

I'm losing confidence we will ever get there.

Miss the days after games pack in to dagwoods 

[NewUndFan]

34 minutes ago, coachdags said:

It should be noted that Dennis Hutter was hired in 3/2024, took the Head Job in 3/2025. The 10 players who left the program in 2024 left Mallory, Hutter, and Teammates. 

They all should shoulder some accountability.  Some of these recruits, i'm sure he had a hand in, with 10 leaving, the team now is almost all his accomplishments and work. 

It is my opinion that we need someone with a D1 pedigree if we are serious about women's Basketball.

The AD has yet to hire that person in his last 2 attempts.  I do not believe we are currently a top 300 Team? (357 plays). A glaring Stat last year we ranked 339 in assist-to-turnover ratio, with 580 TO to 298 Assist.  Should be a focus?

We just had another 26 TO to 8 assists game with  Green Bay.

I'm losing confidence we will ever get there.

I agree with what you say about out A.D not hiring a D1 coach with experience, but you cant argue his record at Mayville State.  You cant blame him for the recruits he got after Mal basically blew up the program and he was left at the end of the season trying to put a team together.  This is first off our A.D fault for EVER hiring Mal in the first place.  She got one year to prove herself and she did NOT do that and yet he hired her on.  Basically because she was a former player.  I believe at that time we did have some D1 coaches or assistants that applied.  Then after 6 years of her basically destroying the womens program she is still not fired but steps down herself because her entire team basically left her.  In comes Hutter to clean it up.  The girls for the first time in 6 years that I have watched them actually improved last year from the beginning of the year until the end. I dont believe that was because of Mal but because of Hutter. 

 I am very disappointed with how this year is going and what I am seeing on he court with the women, but I do believe Hutter deserves a shot now to right the ship.  Just not as long a leash as Mal had.   When will we ever be looking at firing our A.D before he destroys all our teams?  Mens basketball, womens basketball and volleyball.   If some alumni didnt get involved I believe we would still have Bubba as football coach, nothing to do with our A.D. 

[GDPritch]

On 11/12/2025 at 2:21 PM, Und Princess said:

Check Out my story on both basketball teams if you haven't read it yet. https://ftstspotlight.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-volleyball-and-basketball-court.html?m=1

Und Princess 

 

Just a heads up. It’s not the ‘23 - ‘24 season, it’s currently the ‘25 - ‘26 season.

[Und Princess]

2 minutes ago, GDPritch said:

Just a heads up. It’s not the ‘23 - ‘24 season, it’s currently the ‘25 - ‘26 season.

I will fix that!! Thank you for catching the error!!! I appreciate you @GDPritch

[UND92,96]

I would not be surprised if Kiera Pemberton is back in the portal after the season. She's playing three minutes per game for Baylor. Their game against UNLV was on CBS sports network last night, and she had one brief appearance late in the first half, but that was it as far as I could tell.

[gfhockey]

She didn’t want us we don’t want her

 

this is a family

[Kab]

Most players both men and ladies that transfer from what I see don’t play too much

whats with BJ ?

[gfhockey]

2 minutes ago, Kab said:

Most players both men and ladies that transfer from what I see don’t play too much

whats with BJ ?

Injured

[UND92,96]

1 hour ago, gfhockey said:

She didn’t want us we don’t want her

 

this is a family

I highly doubt there would be mutual interest anyway. But that is the type of player Hutter is going to need to add in the near future. We desperately need scorers. Need to maybe take a run at Bergan Kinnebrew from Mary, if she's willing to leave Bismarck. Not recruiting her out of high school was a major mistake. She is every bit as good as her high school teammate Logan Nissley (now at Nebraska) in my opinion.

[homer]

27 minutes ago, UND92,96 said:

I highly doubt there would be mutual interest anyway. But that is the type of player Hutter is going to need to add in the near future. We desperately need scorers. Need to maybe take a run at Bergan Kinnebrew from Mary, if she's willing to leave Bismarck. Not recruiting her out of high school was a major mistake. She is every bit as good as her high school teammate Logan Nissley (now at Nebraska) in my opinion.

Agreed.  Should have went after her last year.   

[GDPritch]

On 11/13/2025 at 9:37 PM, Und Princess said:

I will fix that!! Thank you for catching the error!!! I appreciate you @GDPritch

You’re welcome!

[YeahhhSiouxSioux]

It is going to be a looooong season

[EternalOptimist]

27% shooting with 18.5% from 3 along 27 turnovers. It's a miracle the game wasnt a 30pt blowout. This one was ugly.

[ND-fan]

I didn’t get to watch last two games but what I have seen so far this is very inexperienced team I have seen . Demers has experience but what I call betweener she plays center but little undersized and from last year she plays defense and rebounds well enough but she struggles offensively when she matched larger number 5s. Aumer works hard in all phases of game and is streak shooter but she is sometimes half step slow playing defense. Hughes is quick, smart player but again little undersized. Piekny and Mathern look to develop into better players but both need to develop both are sophomores. The other two playing significant minutes are true freshmen not good scenario but show a lot of talent. Same can be said for transfer most were highly regarded recruits but don’t have significant playing time. Then there is Miller girl appears to have talent and experience it showing up in the box scores. What I am seeing now from box score we are controlling boards and playing some defense, and they are hitting there free throw.The next step is for the team to cut turnovers can’t win games giving ball like we have. Finally these players are going to need to step up find shots they  can make and gain some confidence in there shooting. From last years team that competed in summit conference tournament we have only one starter back in Aumer she was not star of that starting group. Demers was injured at end of the season so she was not part of last years run of team in tournament. Bernhard lost that team last year because we heard rumblings on team chemistry and administration didn’t address so we lost those nine players and then Bernhard resigned after we lost all those players this all left to Hutter trying to keep what you have left and find players for next year. Hutter had very little input on players that were here on last years team majority were recruited or committed before he signed up last year. What I saw his impact last years team was most prepared team Berhard ever at UND had but it still Bernhard team in she had her favorites not creating team concept or team chemistry. This is going to be long season and we will see how Hutter develops these young players if we progress and he is able to recruit more talent to add to this team he deserves chance to build a program even at Mayville his first three seasons we’re not that great but after that he had very good 11 seasons. Bernhard was given better program to start with and never came close to getting us better than little better than 500 seasons. In fact her tenure her winning percentage around 35% and nothing was done about it.

[UND92,96]

USD is currently 5-0, including a win at Kansas State, and they actually returned less scoring from last year's team than UND did. The difference is that USD's portal additions have been extremely productive. Their top seven scorers are from the portal, all averaging between 8 and 16 points per game. Aside from Ava Miller, we're just not getting close to that kind of production from our portal additions.

Ultimately, I think high school recruiting dictates how successful long term a program is going to be, and that's going to take awhile for a new coach. But assuming there's another major roster shakeup after this season, he's going to need to do better in the portal to turn things around in the next few years.

[gfhockey]

17 minutes ago, UND92,96 said:

USD is currently 5-0, including a win at Kansas State, and they actually returned less scoring from last year's team than UND did. The difference is that USD's portal additions have been extremely productive. Their top seven scorers are from the portal, all averaging between 8 and 16 points per game. Aside from Ava Miller, we're just not getting close to that kind of production from our portal additions.

Ultimately, I think high school recruiting dictates how successful long term a program is going to be, and that's going to take awhile for a new coach. But assuming there's another major roster shakeup after this season, he's going to need to do better in the portal to turn things around in the next few years.

Will gutter run this like d2 and get hs playas to stay all 4 years or will he adapt to todays world and portal

 

i feel like that’s one Sather’s fault

 

tryint to old school it too much

[gfhockey]

18 minutes ago, UND92,96 said:

USD is currently 5-0, including a win at Kansas State, and they actually returned less scoring from last year's team than UND did. The difference is that USD's portal additions have been extremely productive. Their top seven scorers are from the portal, all averaging between 8 and 16 points per game. Aside from Ava Miller, we're just not getting close to that kind of production from our portal additions.

Ultimately, I think high school recruiting dictates how successful long term a program is going to be, and that's going to take awhile for a new coach. But assuming there's another major roster shakeup after this season, he's going to need to do better in the portal to turn things around in the next few years.

Yeah but assume as he get a good one sdsu will play her $50k to com there