UND @ Hawaii 11/28 11PM

[sioux24/7]

UND, sitting at KenPom 308, wrapped up their MTE in Western Illinois with a split and now heads to take on a really strong Hawaii squad ranked KenPom 102. Hawaii is 4-2 with their only losses coming in tight games against Oregon and Arizona State. KenPom has them favored in every remaining game this season, which tells you how solid this group is.

The Rainbow Warriors are led by 7 foot senior Isaac Johnson (#20) who is putting up 16.2 points and 8.8 rebounds per game while also showing he can step out and knock down a three. Behind him, former South Dakota guard Dre Bullock has been a reliable second option. He is averaging 12.0 points and 6.5 rebounds and gives them another steady scoring threat.

Hawaii’s defense is the real problem. They own the 25th best defensive effective field goal percentage in the country at 43.2 which makes them one of the tougher defensive teams UND will see all year. On paper, this has the potential to be a long night. KenPom projects the matchup as an 81-65 loss for UND.

Tip is set for 11 pm local time and the game will be streamed on ESPN+.

[gfhockey]

4 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:

UND, sitting at KenPom 308, wrapped up their MTE in Western Illinois with a split and now heads to take on a really strong Hawaii squad ranked KenPom 102. Hawaii is 4-2 with their only losses coming in tight games against Oregon and Arizona State. KenPom has them favored in every remaining game this season, which tells you how solid this group is.

The Rainbow Warriors are led by 7 foot senior Isaac Johnson (#20) who is putting up 16.2 points and 8.8 rebounds per game while also showing he can step out and knock down a three. Behind him, former South Dakota guard Dre Bullock has been a reliable second option. He is averaging 12.0 points and 6.5 rebounds and gives them another steady scoring threat.

Hawaii’s defense is the real problem. They own the 25th best defensive effective field goal percentage in the country at 43.2 which makes them one of the tougher defensive teams UND will see all year. On paper, this has the potential to be a long night. KenPom projects the matchup as an 81-65 loss for UND.

Tip is set for 11 pm local time and the game will be streamed on ESPN+.

Pretty cool to get a game in hawaii

 

remember when football was forever rumored to be going there

[UND1983]

What happened to the resident basketball experts that tell us how bad everything is, every game?  Quite the fall from grace

[McBuckets]

Really like what UND did with this part of the schedule. Hasn’t been the prettiest basketball but playing competitive games against UC Riverside & CSUN are massive instead of 4 non D1 games. Creighton & Hawaii are great chances for our guys to step up when you play a much talented group on paper

[SIOUXFAN97]

1 hour ago, UND1983 said:

What happened to the resident basketball experts that tell us how bad everything is, every game?  Quite the fall from grace

banned

[SIOUXFAN97]

hard to argue points/facts when one side is banned and the other side is free to downvote and talk trash without any consequences....

just saying

[UND1983]

11 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

hard to argue points/facts when one side is banned and the other side is free to downvote and talk trash without any consequences....

just saying

Which side downvotes and trash talks?  

[UNDhoops]

2 hours ago, UND1983 said:

What happened to the resident basketball experts that tell us how bad everything is, every game?  Quite the fall from grace

you can take kenpom, torvik, etc with a grain of salt because their models take preseason data into account for another couple months and i think that's really tough to do in this portal era but not much about this (https://barttorvik.com/team.php?team=North+Dakota&year=2026) screams anything other than it being bad. normally i would say there are some building blocks for the future but obviously any competent player is going to get snapped up in the portal

[Siouxperman8]

4 hours ago, gfhockey said:

Pretty cool to get a game in hawaii

 

remember when football was forever rumored to be going there

My wife still mad about that. Figured that would get us to Hawaii

[gfhockey]

3 minutes ago, Siouxperman8 said:

My wife still mad about that. Figured that would get us to Hawaii

It was bumming that f that game up wasn’t it

[Siouxperman8]

44 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

It was bumming that f that game up wasn’t it

I think that was a Faison thing. 

[NewUndFan]

6 hours ago, UND1983 said:

What happened to the resident basketball experts that tell us how bad everything is, every game?  Quite the fall from grace

Kind of sad we dont see those experts any more.  Tells us they dont even care about the program any more.  If they dont fix the coaching this year there will be even less people that care about the program.  To many down years and another one looks like ahead of us.