2025-2026 Recruiting

[gfhockey]

A3 will be gone per source he hates getting benched 

[NewUndFan]

38 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

A3 will be gone per source he hates getting benched 

Don't blame him. We just gave an extension to a coach that doesnt know how to use him.  This isn't a day in age where coaches can make an example of a player to teach him a life lesson.  To easy to move on to a coach that will use his talent.  Reggie is gone next year.  Play A3 show we want him for the future! 

[wheelsup]

1 hour ago, sioux24/7 said:

This. I mean you can’t solely blame the staff if the players aren’t happy. They should have been able to do some self reflection sometime in the last 3 years and realized they weren’t D1 players. I don’t know any of them personally so don’t know if they are happy or not. 

There was a lot of delusion all the way around with respect to the Bismarck fellas.. the UND coaches were the only people in the country that thought they were D1 players.  It was quite the discussion at all of the high school games their senior year.   All of the NDSU fans were pumped. 
 

I really am amazed that they stuck around.. I would have assumed they wanted to play.    Maybe pre transfer portal era it would have worked out for them but most kids are better off going somewhere they will play even if they have eventual D1 dreams. 

[sioux24/7]

1 hour ago, gfhockey said:

A3 will be gone per source he hates getting benched 

 

[UND92,96]

Keep in mind that Kraft, Erikson and Doppler are all ND kids who came in the same year. Erikson and Doppler on scholarship, and Kraft as a PWO.  Kraft carved out a niche for himself, and the others haven't been able to. It happens. Hopefully they can succeed at the division II level at Mary or Minot or Jamestown.

[UND92,96]

Moore set the all-time MN record for career assists last night. I am really looking forward to seeing what he can do here.

[UND1983]

1 minute ago, UND92,96 said:

Keep in mind that Kraft, Erikson and Doppler are all ND kids who came in the same year. Erikson and Doppler on scholarship, and Kraft as a PWO.  Kraft carved out a niche for himself, and the others haven't been able to. It happens. Hopefully they can succeed at the division II level at Mary or Minot or Jamestown.

The problem was literally every single bb fan in ND questioned UND taking those two.  Bismarck fans were puzzled to say the least

[Kab]

A3 is good but his ego gets in his way

make a good play get back on defense and quit show boating 

remember smith from the Vikings, he would make a touchdown and hand the ball to the ref

he didn’t need to showboat in the end zone, he always said he would be in the end zone again 

[UND92,96]

18 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

The problem was literally every single bb fan in ND questioned UND taking those two.  Bismarck fans were puzzled to say the least

I get it. I didn't agree with it either. But I could kind of understand taking a flyer on a local big kid. 

[Kab]

Anyone upset with the 2 North Dakota kids coming in next year

I hope they make it big time 

[UND1983]

10 minutes ago, Kab said:

Anyone upset with the 2 North Dakota kids coming in next year

I hope they make it big time 

Honestly, Evanson has a shot to score some for us.  The big kid is a reach, again 

[Big Green]

3 hours ago, gfhockey said:

A3 will be gone per source he hates getting benched 

Anyone that likes being benched, I wouldn't want on my team.  Also anyone that would leave because their feeling got hurt by being benched, I wouldn't want on my team.  He's a great player with a great future and hope he sticks around, but if not than it is probably for the better.

 

[coachdags]

Players read too many messages boards and social media… 

They don’t like hearing the truth.

Players, Play, Coaches, Coach!

When they all get in same page we WIN! 
 

Never met a player yet that didn’t think he was better than he really was! 

[UND92,96]

55 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Honestly, Evanson has a shot to score some for us.  The big kid is a reach, again 

You think so? I think he's got some talent. Time will tell.

[sioux24/7]

8 minutes ago, UND92,96 said:

You think so? I think he's got some talent. Time will tell.

That’s what I was thinking. He’s playing against low level competition right now so hard to tell for sure but I was under the impression that if he would have stuck out at the prep school he went to for a bit last year, we likely wouldn’t have had a shot at him. 

[Kab]

Weight room and coaching can change a kid in a hurry also playing against players that have been here for awhile 

seen Evanson on tv and he looks the part, haven’t seen the big kid play,  Hanson ?

are they both scholarship players ? 

 

 

[UND1983]

38 minutes ago, UND92,96 said:

You think so? I think he's got some talent. Time will tell.

We will see, hope he pans out!  

[UND92,96]

12 minutes ago, Kab said:

Weight room and coaching can change a kid in a hurry also playing against players that have been here for awhile 

seen Evanson on tv and he looks the part, haven’t seen the big kid play,  Hanson ?

are they both scholarship players ? 

 

 

Yes. Both also had NDSU offers. I know the story out of Fargo is that they backed off Evanson when Max Iversen committed, but they offered Hanson shortly after UND did this past summer, and very shortly thereafter he committed to UND. So this is definitely not like the Erikson/Doppler situation in that regard. Evanson and Hanson played on the same AAU team this past summer.

[UND92,96]

Here's a recent article about Hanson, and it explains why his time at the prep school was cut short: https://www.kfyrtv.com/2026/01/22/servpro-athlete-week-tgus-sage-hanson/

[UND92,96]

19 hours ago, UND1983 said:

The problem was literally every single bb fan in ND questioned UND taking those two.  Bismarck fans were puzzled to say the least

Speaking of Bismarck, what is the word on the recruitment of Kinnebrew and Austin? I know UND offered Austin awhile back, and NDSU and USD have offered Kinnebrew. Not sure why UND hasn't.

[UND1983]

1 hour ago, UND92,96 said:

Speaking of Bismarck, what is the word on the recruitment of Kinnebrew and Austin? I know UND offered Austin awhile back, and NDSU and USD have offered Kinnebrew. Not sure why UND hasn't.

Not sure.  My first comparison thought - is Kinnebrew similar to Dissette in style?  Would defer to anybody else on that, but if he is Dissette's game didn't translate too well to D1 ball.  

[NDSU grad]

1 minute ago, UND1983 said:

Not sure.  My first comparison thought - is Kinnebrew similar to Dissette in style?  Would defer to anybody else on that, but if he is Dissette's game didn't translate too well to D1 ball.  

Shoots it better than Dissette. That was really Dissette’s only downfall. 

[UND1983]

4 minutes ago, NDSU grad said:

Shoots it better than Dissette. That was really Dissette’s only downfall. 

I am all for shooters!  Interesting that UND hasn't offered him yet. Stinging from the last two CHS kids?

[UND92,96]

19 minutes ago, NDSU grad said:

Shoots it better than Dissette. That was really Dissette’s only downfall. 

Have you seen Trueblood play for Minot? I'm curious whether he may have division I potential.

[UND69er]

Let's be realistic. In any given year ND will produce maybe 1-3 legitimate D1 MBB players. Having 1/3 of the team ND kids is nuts if you really want to compete at mid major level. Recruiting needs to focus on MSP area, Milwaukee and Chicago burbs and perhaps Iowa.  Otherwise nothing is going to change.