Transfers

[undwbbdeservesbetter]

On 4/3/2026 at 3:29 PM, UND92,96 said:

Kinnebrew has committed to UNLV. 

u mean und lost out on a home state recruit to another team that offers rev share a 20 plus win every season proven coach with a multi-year extended contract??? im totally shocked

[homer]

45 minutes ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

u mean und lost out on a home state recruit to another team that offers rev share a 20 plus win every season proven coach with a multi-year extended contract??? im totally shocked

So did you regional peers you claim are doing it better in NDSU and USD.  You slipping in your complaining. 

[SiouxFan100]

Not very optimistic about the upcoming season. Looks like we will have a bunch returning.

[GoodGood]

43 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:

Not very optimistic about the upcoming season. Looks like we will have a bunch returning.

You’re pretty negative. What would you realistically expect in year 2 from a coach that took over a complete disaster? 

[Siouxphan27]

3 hours ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

u mean und lost out on a home state recruit to another team that offers rev share a 20 plus win every season proven coach with a multi-year extended contract??? im totally shocked

It’s almost as if you have no concept of how the monetary system works, and its direct influence on the ability to purchase goods and services. 

[NewUndFan]

2 hours ago, GoodGood said:

You’re pretty negative. What would you realistically expect in year 2 from a coach that took over a complete disaster? 

I think he was hoping that he cut or some of the girls went to the portal so he could recruit some D1 players. There is maybe 1 on last years team that could play D1 

[undwbbdeservesbetter]

11 hours ago, NewUndFan said:

I think he was hoping that he cut or some of the girls went to the portal so he could recruit some D1 players. There is maybe 1 on last years team that could play D1 

I think we went over this, d1 players don't want to play for a lame duck coaching staff, it's a glaring red flag that if the school administration doesn't think the coach deserves a vote of confidence from them by offering a multi-year contract why should they have confidence UND is a good choice to come and play, everyone gets their undies in a bunch about me saying it but it really matters to recruits, imigine you had a daughter with multiple offers, it's highly likely every other offer except UND comes from a coach with a multi-year contract, your lieing to yourself if you think that wouldn't effect your daughters decision, Noone is coming to UND unless their isn't a second option, in the same respect no one is entering the portal and risk losing a full d1 scholarship if they feel they may not be offered somewhere better and or sitting on someones bench if they do find a home when they think they can at least play here, even if it is a toxic environment

[UND1983]

What I am gathering is our roster is full of D2-D3 level girls that don’t want to give up their D1 scholarship.  
They would rather stay at UND, lose 25 games a year, and then complain about the coach being the problem.  

[Kab]

There are a few d1 players on the roster

need to fill in the spots with a few transfers, see how frickie does and see what the year brings 

those who watched ND high school basketball this year how many legit d 1 players are there 

[UND92,96]

13 minutes ago, Kab said:

There are a few d1 players on the roster

need to fill in the spots with a few transfers, see how frickie does and see what the year brings 

those who watched ND high school basketball this year how many legit d 1 players are there 

There's usually about two division I players per class in ND. This year, it's Bell and Fricke. I could see Passanante from Davies potentially having a shot to transfer to a division I program in a few years if she does well at UMD.

Next year's class has Marlee Falcon from Legacy, who has a bunch of offers, and Christofferson from Horace, whose parents both were UND athletes and has a UND offer, albeit from when Bernhard was coach.

[iramurphy]

11 hours ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

I think we went over this, d1 players don't want to play for a lame duck coaching staff, it's a glaring red flag that if the school administration doesn't think the coach deserves a vote of confidence from them by offering a multi-year contract why should they have confidence UND is a good choice to come and play, everyone gets their undies in a bunch about me saying it but it really matters to recruits, imigine you had a daughter with multiple offers, it's highly likely every other offer except UND comes from a coach with a multi-year contract, your lieing to yourself if you think that wouldn't effect your daughters decision, Noone is coming to UND unless their isn't a second option, in the same respect no one is entering the portal and risk losing a full d1 scholarship if they feel they may not be offered somewhere better and or sitting on someones bench if they do find a home when they think they can at least play here, even if it is a toxic environment

Ok pal enough is enough. You seem to be president of the toxic environment club. From your previous posts it seemed you and your daughter were disgruntled and were leaving the program. Now it seems that isn’t the case. Players are staying because they don’t want to give up their scholarship and don’t seem to have other options?

From my experiences I have learned a number of things. At the top of the list is you need to understand that you are part of the problem. I would bet a lot of money that the other players, the coaches and other team’s coaches with potential offers are well aware of a player with a problem parent as baggage. You should be grateful that they think enough of your daughter to keep her at UND on scholarship and help her develop and reach her full potential. If she is unhappy, and doesn’t trust her coaches or teammates,  no scholarship is worth sacrificing her happiness. 
 

Athletes at the college level need to deal with coaches and teammates.  Parents need to be there for their kids and support them by listening and making sure their athlete is communicating with the coaching staff to develop an improvement plan as an individual and for the team and program. I doubt part of that plan is to have parents bash the coaches, administrators and support staff on a fan forum. 
 

I have been around UND WBB since the beginning. I’m not going to get into the nonsense about chartered flights, and what other schools offer, other than I have been on regular commercial flights with NDSU basketball teams. UND has the resources for our WBB to be successful. There is room for improvement and there are people in the Alumni office and Athletic Administration who are working to make that happen. If our players aren’t in the weight room and working with our training staff to get physically stronger and quicker then that’s on them. The staff and administrators are working to improve practice facilities but before bricks and mortar we need funds. Too many fans are waiting for someone else to step up. 
 

As far as recruiting, I believe we have 3 very good HS players coming in this fall. I’ve watched one on TV and one in person. The Arkansas girl is having a very good year and at 6’2” fills a need. They all chose UND despite other options. I didn’t know Hutter but I sent him an email about a 6’ 3-4” 8th grader. I received  a response less than 2h later. (He was already aware and had invited her to their summer camp). I met him briefly when he was at the Sonnenberg girl’s playoff game. He thanked me for the email and was very gracious to other fans. He is our coach so you can choose continue to be part of the problem or part of the solution.
 

As a former player, coach and parent of athletes at HS level and beyond I would recommend letting your daughter deal with her coach and you stop being the source of embarrassment for her by being her father instead of behaving like a disgruntled fan airing your frustration on a fan forum. 

Good luck. Go Hawks. 
 

 

 

[ND-fan]

Well said and needed to be said.  I do believe you that UND is addressing things needed to improve basketball programs and I thought these things have come to forefront when president Armacost started by assembling people to address infrastructure last fall. I also don’t believe we don’t have dI talent on this team we had youngest team in Summit conference let’s face it don't will at dI level with Freshman and Sophomores.  Hutter has been winner at place that have less that big resources when he was at Mayville but he found way to win there. Even there he struggled to begin with but he learned how to get to successful program there and that has been my hope here I think he has to be on large learning curve now jumping to DI level and I think we saw some of that as season went along because this team improved and finally they played hard as team and played together not what I hear from this disgusted parent so this is why I have had hard time buying in on his complaints.I like to hear what Iramurphy said about Hutter to me it shows he fully engaged.  This program was in very bad shape a year ago and if we were realistic seven game win season was probably better than we should of seen Mallory Berhard on her first year inherited much better team and she only two games and team got worse as season went along.

[undwbbdeservesbetter]

1 hour ago, ND-fan said:

Well said and needed to be said.  I do believe you that UND is addressing things needed to improve basketball programs and I thought these things have come to forefront when president Armacost started by assembling people to address infrastructure last fall. I also don’t believe we don’t have dI talent on this team we had youngest team in Summit conference let’s face it don't will at dI level with Freshman and Sophomores.  Hutter has been winner at place that have less that big resources when he was at Mayville but he found way to win there. Even there he struggled to begin with but he learned how to get to successful program there and that has been my hope here I think he has to be on large learning curve now jumping to DI level and I think we saw some of that as season went along because this team improved and finally they played hard as team and played together not what I hear from this disgusted parent so this is why I have had hard time buying in on his complaints.I like to hear what Iramurphy said about Hutter to me it shows he fully engaged.  This program was in very bad shape a year ago and if we were realistic seven game win season was probably better than we should of seen Mallory Berhard on her first year inherited much better team and she only two games and team got worse as season went along.

beating mayville bismark and dickinson can hardly be considered wins, he won 4 d1 games and he also lost a pre season scrimmage with d2 Morehead, oblivious

[YeahhhSiouxSioux]

I see Kiera Pemberton has hit the portal again after her season at Baylor. Looks like she barely played while there, mostly only in garbage time. Wondering if she will go to a different power 4 school or drop back down to mid-major. I think her skill set translates better to the mid-major level if she wants lots of playing time.

[Siouxphan27]

39 minutes ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

beating mayville bismark and dickinson can hardly be considered wins, he won 4 d1 games and he also lost a pre season scrimmage with d2 Morehead, oblivious

I’ll reply to you for the third time asking you this same question that you seem afraid to answer- How did Hutter go 26-3 his last year coaching Mayville?  

[UND1983]

30 minutes ago, YeahhhSiouxSioux said:

I see Kiera Pemberton has hit the portal again after her season at Baylor. Looks like she barely played while there, mostly only in garbage time. Wondering if she will go to a different power 4 school or drop back down to mid-major. I think her skill set translates better to the mid-major level if she wants lots of playing time.

She had no business going up to that level, other than to pad her checking account.  

[YeahhhSiouxSioux]

11 hours ago, UND1983 said:

She had no business going up to that level, other than to pad her checking account.  

Agreed. Money is money though, so i understand why she did it.

[homer]

13 hours ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

beating mayville bismark and dickinson can hardly be considered wins, he won 4 d1 games and he also lost a pre season scrimmage with d2 Morehead, oblivious

Which is why we need players to leave to free up some scholarships but it seems our coach is very loyal to his team and they all enjoyed their time here so much playing for him that they are in no hurry to portal. 

[Big Green]

49 minutes ago, homer said:

Which is why we need players to leave to free up some scholarships but it seems our coach is very loyal to his team and they all enjoyed their time here so much playing for him that they are in no hurry to portal. 

Because it worked so well last year when we had to build almost a full roster through the portal.

 

[UND1983]

Anybody who watched the team this past year knows they need a full reset 

[GoodGood]

I don’t think women’s basketball is the same as men’s where you can easily turn over a roster in a year. I’m sure there are a few examples but I think a slow rebuild is probably the more likely scenario 

[UND1983]

4 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

I don’t think women’s basketball is the same as men’s where you can easily turn over a roster in a year. I’m sure there are a few examples but I think a slow rebuild is probably the more likely scenario 

I would agree with that. Bad part is they need to keep so much average talent around to roster-fill.  Might as well give Hutter five years if it has to be that way.

[NewUndFan]

27 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

I don’t think women’s basketball is the same as men’s where you can easily turn over a roster in a year. I’m sure there are a few examples but I think a slow rebuild is probably the more likely scenario 

South Dakota did it this year and made the WNIT final four.  

[NewUndFan]

1 hour ago, homer said:

Which is why we need players to leave to free up some scholarships but it seems our coach is very loyal to his team and they all enjoyed their time here so much playing for him that they are in no hurry to portal. 

Or they know this is the only place they will get to play unless they moved down a level.  Hutter needs to cut some of these players loose.  

[homer]

35 minutes ago, Big Green said:

Because it worked so well last year when we had to build almost a full roster through the portal.

 

Can’t keep the roster as is either.  He should have a good feel for who is going to contribute in the next couple of years.   Sitting in a 7 win roster might get you 10 next year……which likely still puts us in the conference play in game.