2026-2027 SEASON

[ND-fan]

The 2025- 2026 season ended Sunday time to start new thread for coming season. We’re in portal season and roster construction which will start a lot opinions in next few weeks. We are in longterm rebuild here with number of people that are very impatient thinking we can turn this around in year or two but I believe is not possible anymore. The small mid-major programs like we are in very difficult position especially when we have couple of dominant programs with established programs dominating the conference where there recruits are almost now guaranteed post season bid helpful. In recruiting and retaining players.  Women’s basketball is different than men’s basketball depth of players is not as deep or finding girls that have physical abilities and maturity to build dominant roster.  NDSU has taken seven years to compete to win the conference and even there they still didn’t make the dance and they are far ahead of us with there NIL money.  There are positive things happening now with UND in infrastructure starting to be addressed and we have several new recruits hopefully that will turn out and past year we had couple players that made improvements. Also improvements training and dietary being implemented. Hopefully we are at low point and we start rebuilding this program.

[UND92,96]

Based on the picture posted on the UND women's basketball twitter today, it appears no more players are going to be entering the portal aside from the three we know about. So there should be eight returnees, plus the four signees from the fall, with three to-be-determined additions.

[Hambone]

So we have:

• Hillesheim
• Harvey
• Klosterbuer
• Mathern
• Reardon
• Ava Miller
• Piekny
• Harris

Add in Fricke, Kinley Smith, Sonnenberg as incoming Freshmen.  And we have Abby Duchscherer transferring in as well, right?

[UND92,96]

2 minutes ago, Hambone said:

So we have:

• Hillesheim
• Harvey
• Klosterbuer
• Mathern
• Reardon
• Ava Miller
• Piekny
• Harris

Add in Fricke, Kinley Smith, Sonnenberg as incoming Freshmen.  And we have Abby Duchscherer transferring in as well, right?

Correct.

[Hambone]

Let's hope that we have some good development before the start of next year.  Need a few to step up as high level players.....

[ND-fan]

Reardon was walk on last year wonder if she been offered scholarship. If not that would leave 3 scholarships available and if she has gone on scholarship then we have two remaining.

[NewUndFan]

3 hours ago, Hambone said:

So we have:

• Hillesheim
• Harvey
• Klosterbuer
• Mathern
• Reardon
• Ava Miller
• Piekny
• Harris

Add in Fricke, Kinley Smith, Sonnenberg as incoming Freshmen.  And we have Abby Duchscherer transferring in as well, right?

This will be another disaster season if we go into next year with the majority of last years team.   

[NewUndFan]

Does anyone know who we signed?  I am guessing by Hutter's tweet someone signed.  

[undwbbdeservesbetter]

where is the coach at UND multi-year contract at, oh thats right the Administration doesn't think he deserves one, why would a recruit pick usd over und, because their Administration has a vote of confidence in their coach to extend a contract to 2031, und confidence is so low in their coach they wont even take the interim tag off and give him more than a year

[UND69er]

3 minutes ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

where is the coach at UND multi-year contract at, oh thats right the Administration doesn't think he deserves one, why would a recruit pick usd over und, because their Administration has a vote of confidence in their coach to extend a contract to 2031, und confidence is so low in their coach they wont even take the interim tag off and give him more than a year

You need to go away. If you think anything you post is of benefit you are dead wrong and it's very tiring.

[DL Sioux]

11 minutes ago, undwbbdeservesbetter said:

where is the coach at UND multi-year contract at, oh thats right the Administration doesn't think he deserves one, why would a recruit pick usd over und, because their Administration has a vote of confidence in their coach to extend a contract to 2031, und confidence is so low in their coach they wont even take the interim tag off and give him more than a year

Where have you once seen the word interim before head coach??

[The Sicatoka]

Not interim: https://fightinghawks.com/sports/womens-basketball/coaches 

Definitely not: 

University of North Dakota head women’s basketball coach Mallory Bernhard announced the addition of Dennis Hutter to the North Dakota coaching staff as the associate head coach on Mar. 29, 2024. Hutter was elevated to Head Coach on March 24, 2025. 

https://fightinghawks.com/staff-directory/dennis-hutter/749